TERRIFIC TESTIMONY
Apart from supplying the clothes, I did the bride’s makeup and stayed for the wedding. The wedding was done by 3 pm but I came back close to 6 pm. By that time, Joseph had become very restless.
“You are very late. Is it because of this morning incidence?” he asked when I came home.
“No. I began to vomit immediately I ate the food I was served at the party. So, I was rushed to the hospital,” I replied.
“What happened? Is it the food?” he asked and I shook my head.
“Are you not feeling well?” he asked and I shook my head again.
“Why are you not saying anything? Are you enjoying my guesswork?”
This time, I gave him a big smile and nodded my head. He too began to smile as he asked, “Are you serious?”
I nodded again while he danced around and said, “You know that my mother said that you cannot carry a child. I will tell them right away about the good news.”
“I prefer that it is kept a secret from them. See all that I am suffering now. The villagers want to beat me up for marrying you. What if they kill me when they hear that I am with child? And please, do not act differently with me. I will keep on with my business while you do yours. That reminds me, how did your meeting go?”
“Great. They have released the money for the contract. We were given six months to complete their project,” he replied.
Surprisingly, Joseph agreed to keep the pregnancy secret from everyone including his family and close friends. The villagers did not come to beat me up again. However, six months later, my husband went to work early while I was cleaned up the house. As I swept, I opened the front door to see a wrapped charm in front of the door. I pleaded the blood of Jesus a couple of times, then, I packed the charm and put into the dustbin and I continued my duties. Hours later, my husband came back but I did not tell him anything. Instead, I listened to him as he excited told me that the Agrofrutas contract had been completed. As usual, he gave me a large sum of money to keep.
“We need to start preparing for the baby’s arrival,” he said.
While we were discussing, a woman came to meet us with her teenage daughter. I was quite weak at that time, so, I greeted them while I was still seated while my husband went around to make them comfortable. No one but my husband ever saw me without a loose-fitted dress in order to hide the pregnancy. As such, even though my stomach was bulging, they did not see it. But they could have noticed that I had put on some weight and my feet were a bit swollen.
I noticed the woman’s eyes were fixed on my legs as she said to my husband, “Eiya. I heard that your wife is very sick.”
At first, I felt that she must have seen the signs that I was pregnant, but she had said, “I heard.” That meant that she came for a condolence visit. No one but those at the wedding knew I went to the hospital, so, who told her that? After sympathising with me earnestly, she went on to sing the praises of her daughter.
“Is she saying all these so that my husband would train her daughter in school? No, it is impossible, nobody here wants his or her daughter in school,” I thought.
It was that moment that I looked at the daughter closely. She had some makeup on, which was a sorry effort to look nice because it made her so ugly. She also wore modern clothes which made me wonder who was wicked enough to let her wear that dress outside. As the woman spoke, I noticed her right leg had slowly begun to swell up. My legs were swollen because of pregnancy, so what was her own excuse?
“I can see that you are here for a favour and I am sure that I know what that is. Your daughter needs some clothes so that she won’t wear these rags anymore. I will see what I can do,” I said and the woman glared at me angrily because of my words.
“Oh, that is so noble of you, Darling. You may give her some of your old clothes,” Joseph said, oblivious of everything. “But Madam, what is wrong with you? Why is your right leg swollen? We need to take you to hospital immediately. Darling, is there any first aid we can give?”
“Yes, there is. Please, can we see inside?” I said.
Immediately I entered with my husband, I heard the two women speak in low frightened tones.
“I need to show you something which is why I called you inside,” I said to Joseph as I led him to the dustbin.
“Is that a charm?” he asked.
“Yes. I saw it in front of our house. This is obviously the kind that makes legs to swell. That woman there came to see how the charm affected me which is why she was telling me ‘sorry’. She did not realise my legs are swollen for a good reason and n
ecause of a stupid charm. Then, she brought her daughter to convince you to marry her daughter instead when I finally died. Unfortunately, she stepped on the spot her charm was and it went back to her. You see, you and her daughter stepped on that same spot and nothing happened. Why her?”
“She wants me to marry her daughter,” Joseph asked construing his face.
“That dressing that made her to look like a monster was a sorry attempt to look like me. Your people don’t wear makeup but that girl did.”
It was at that point that Joseph finally made sense of all the drama.
“What do we do? If she enters our house whole and leaves with ochaere, people will say that we are ritualists and that is how we earned money.”
“The first aid that I talked about is anointing oil. This is a spiritual issue and not a physical one,” I said.
When both of us came back to the sitting room, I went straight to the woman and said, “I can see that you made a covenant with death. The Bible says that everyone that troubles us gets tribulations and whoever curses us will be cursed. You just touched the apple of God’s eye and received immediate judgement. You are lucky that you came to the house of light and you cannot leave without that light.”
At that moment, the woman’s leg had already quadrupled in size and pus had begun to come out from about five spots. I made both of them to renounce all their wicked deeds and to surrender to Jesus. Then, I prayed for the woman, pouring anointing oil on the leg. Instantly, the swellings began to reduce. I kept praying for complete healing but Joseph stopped me and stretched his hand for the bottle of oil. When I did, he poured the oil at one of the spots that pus had come out from.
“Your leg will definitely return to its original form and will be completely healed apart from this spot. This spot will never heal all the days of your life. It will not give much problem but it will remind you never to go back to your vomit,” he said and she nodded.
Then, we sent them away to their house. No other person came to try us. However, many people misunderstood that encounter and they spread rumours I used great charms such that people’s lower charms could not compare. They said that my husband could not leave me because of the charms I caged him with.