The power of darkness

"Train up a kid in the manner he ought to go and when he is old, he won't withdraw from it" (Proverbs 

22: 6). 

This is an account of God's works - powerful, great and strange - in compliance to the order of 

JESUS CHRIST to me saying: "Proceed to affirm how I have helped you." 

One ordinarily considers mishap a demonstration of destiny and that we can never really modify the occasions of our 

lives. To a degree this is valid. On account of an offspring of God, his life is planned1 (Proverbs 16: 9). 

If that arrangement is satisfied relies upon various variables, the person's closeness to 

God, his view about a definitive motivation behind life, and the socio-otherworldly climate he finds 

himself. 

The course of your life is tested by some outside factors. The emergency is arrived at when you give 

over your WILL without a doubt, for great or wickedness. You can adore or abhor. You can wish to 

comprehend or misjudge. The will to obey is the best power of another conceived Christian, while the 

will to defy is the most obliterating power of the miscreant. 

A kid when left alone on the planet is constrained by one of two forces: fortunate or unfortunate, correct, 

God or Satan. Everybody is tested by these two powers of life, and each should pick which life 

he should live. Also, I accept that is the thing that the Bible says: "Train up a youngster in the manner in which he ought to go and 

at the point when he develops he won't leave from it." You will concur that the dearest and nearest individual to any 

kid's heart is his mom. A vagrant is an awful youngster and more presented to assaults of Satan 

than kids with guardians. A mother is a defender of body and soul yet it turns out to be twofold misfortune 

at the point when the two guardians are lost and all the more so in many secretive conditions. 

My story began 22 years prior in a little town called Amerie Iriegbu Ozu Item in Bende Local 

Government Authority, Imo State. My folks were not grouped among the rich however my father was 

special to acquire 42 hectares of land from my granddad, a gift which has today brought the 

most noteworthy incident at any point recorded throughout the entire existence of the family. My father was significantly begrudged by his 

far off and close to relations for reasons I don't have a clue, maybe for his huge land legacy. 

We were a cheerful family, my folks having got four of us: Love, Margaret, Emmanuel and 

Chinyere. In the wake of having the initial two girls, my folks sat tight for a very long time prior to having me (the 

just child) and later my more youthful sister Chinyere. This carried genuine joy to the family however this 

bliss was fleeting as the principal misfortune struck. My dazzling and caring mother kicked the bucket. She was 

asserted to have passed on attributable to black magic, and after four years my dad kicked the bucket, again through an 

asserted work of juju required against him. Two years after the passing of the two guardians my oldest sister, 

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Love, vanished strangely and Margaret, the second little girl of my folks, went mental. It 

was a chain of misfortunes in the existence of a modest and in any case glad family. My more youthful sister 

Chinyere and I were shipped off our grandparents. There I finished my rudimentary schooling and was 

later conceded into Item High School. I read up to Class III and exited school because of 

absence of asset for expenses and so forth Soon after that, my grandparents likewise passed on. After every one of the services that 

go with entombments, an obscure connection gathered my more youthful sister Chinyere, and up to this date I do 

not have the foggiest idea about her whereabouts. I was constrained by serious abuses to return to my dad's home, 

furthermore, there to live alone at 13 years old years. How does an offspring of 13 years feed himself in the middle 

of his dad's foes and thusly his own adversaries? How exceptionally apprehensive I was! These occasions 

appeared to have carried me to the furthest limit of beneficial living. Was there any individual who minded? Was there 

any individual who was worried about "a young man's mishap?" 

One day I met a companion I knew during my grade school days named Chinedum Onwukwe. 

Chinedum adored me without question and having heard all that happened to took me to his folks who promptly 

gotten me and accepting me as a subsequent child. Life returned to ordinary once more. I was very actually enjoyed. I 

was cheerful once more: at that point I realized that the God my mom implored when she was alive was alive 

some place consequently He had furnished me with unseasoned parents, so I thought to me. I delighted in this 

goodness for around two years and afterward Satan struck once more. 

Chinedum and his folks were venturing out to Umuahia and their vehicle ran into a tipper conveying laterites. 

Chinedum and his folks passed on the spot! On hearing the news I fell. My distress could better 

be envisioned. I figured out how to get by through the internment service, providing those cooking with 

kindling and getting things done: toward the finish of which I returned to my dad's home and continued the 

modest tasks to have the option to take care of. 

I kept doing unspecialized temp jobs on the ranch, in gardens, going a fishing with older folks until one day, a man 

from my compound employed me to work in his ranch for 50k. At the homestead he exposed me to a progression of 

questions. In the first place, he requested that I show him my dad's properties; also, to surrender such terrains to a 

man, regardless of how firmly related he was. Regardless I protested and he was insulted. He at that point 

promised to slaughter me in the woodland. I got apprehensive and ran and yelled for help. Shockingly, on the grounds that 

the region was far into the thick woods, nobody came except for help came from God. He sought after me with his 

blade yet being more youthful I was excessively quick for him and fell into a pit of about 1.82 meters down and was 

shrouded by the grass in it. He looked for me and inevitably he surrendered. I later battled out of 

the pit and through another course got back to the town. I revealed the episode to the seniors in the 

compound however no move was made - the basic predicament of vagrants. This episode made genuine contempt 

in my young heart; nobody adored me, nobody minded. I reflected to me why anybody would need to 

execute me realizing I had no guardians. Life was loaded with wretchedness. Presently I realize that God in His affection 

controlled Satan from recommending self destruction to me. I went to the Church and turned into a full part 

of the Assemblies of God church in my town (I actually am) however lamentably nobody minded in any event, when 

a portion of the individuals thought about me. Note that I turned into a full individual from the 

church without knowing Jesus Christ. I never understood what it intended to be BORN AGAIN. On the off chance that you are in 

the Church of Jesus Christ and end up in the circumstance I got myself, give your life to the Lord 

Jesus Christ. The Scripture says: "Let Him have every one of our concerns and cares, for He is continually thinking 

about you and watching all that worries you" (1 Peter5: 7 - Living New Testament). 

Amidst every one of these difficulty and enduring ALICE showed up! Alice was a young lady I knew during my 

grade school days. She was five years more established and from a similar town. We were in something very similar 

class, sat on a similar seat and turned out to be cordial. With this present youth's 'relationship, we 

guaranteed 'getting hitched' when we would be old. Crazy! An offspring of 11 years at that point, without 

guardians, no training, no food to eat, promising union with a young lady of five years his senior! Alice later 

left for Akure for her optional schooling and sent me many 'love' letters. 

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The following time I met Alice, I was 15 years and she was 20. She had completed her auxiliary school 

instruction and was working with the Standard Bank Lagos (presently First Bank), where her folks lived. 

Alice having known my experience and my predicament exploited it. She advised me to join her at 

Lagos and given me her home location with N50 (Naïra: National Currency of Nigeria)! That was a 

fortune for a little youngster of 15 years who had never acquired up to N2 every day! This was sustenance from 

paradise and this implied that Lagos should be a great spot with a lot of cash and the great 

things of life for all to appreciate. At that point I should go to Lagos to bring in my own cash and get wealth as well. 

Going to Lagos to my psyche was my lone method of getaway. Break from my dad's adversaries, escape 

from my adversaries, escape from craving and ALL my issues. Break! Break! Indeed, escape from 

All that is shrewd!!! 

Section 2: The Initiation 

« There is a way which seemeth ok unto a man, yet the end thereof are the methods of death. » 

Axioms 14:12 

« But the evil resemble the disturbed ocean, when it can't rest, whose waters cast up soil and earth 

There is no harmony, saith my God to the evil. » Isaiah 57: 20-21 

Also, life outside Jesus Christ is actually as expressed in the above Scriptures. I left my town furnished with 

N50 and the location given to me by Alice, running away to opportunity, freedom, satisfaction and all that go 

with them: yet as you will see later it was a long way from what I had considered in my young heart. At the point when I 

shown up in Lagos, it was so delightful in my eyes and I contrasted it and Heaven, whatever Heaven is 

like. I saw every one of those tall and lovely structures and on each face I could see joy (so I thought). 

Individuals showed up exceptionally bustling every one disapproving of his/her business. I was energized and said to myself, 

"Presently I realize I am free! 

I showed up at Akintola Road, Victoria Island and was generally welcomed by Alice and her folks. The 

guardians knew me and my experience as we came from a similar town however never knew about my 

relationship with their girl. Alice at that point acquainted me with them as a man she has 'decided' to 

wed. The guardians were stunned yet after certain conversations with her, conceded to the condition that 

they would promote my schooling. Alice dismissed their offer and mentioned that I be permitted to live 

with her in her own level. The guardians couldn't acknowledge this yet she demanded. They suffered a heart attack 

contention for four days and under some unexplained impact they concurred and I moved in with Alice. 

Alice, a delightful young lady, revealed to me that she was a bookkeeper with the Standard Bank and that she 

would make.