Culled from Living With Eternity In View narrated by Gbile Akanni
"I have learnt not to struggle with men for anything. I remember one incident when I was a lecturer. The Registrar of my college decided to allocate the house where I was living to another colleague of mine, without even notifying me. I was sitting in my living room when the man came in with his wife. He was very arrogant. He said they had come to inspect the place. I showed him round the house. He said he wanted to see the bedroom. I took him to my bedroom and he nodded his head as he looked around. When they were through, I served them some beverages for refreshment. They were surprised because they expected me to be hostile to them.
After they left, I went to God in prayer and He told me that my time in that particular house was over. I asked Him what to do about it and He told me to do nothing. He said I should go and take a meeting for Him in another town that weekend. He told me that by Monday, a house would be ready for me. When I came back, it happened just as the Lord told me. By Monday, the Registrar called for me. He apologized to me that they have to move me from my present residence. He said he knew I must be very upset. He called for the Estate Manager and directed him to look for another place for me. I told him I was not upset at all.
I don’t know how the Lord blinded them all. They had planned to move me to an inferior house. But the house the Estate Manager gave us was far better than the one I was leaving. The sitting room was very large, very suitable for my Bible study classes with some of the disciples. It had three bedrooms and a study. The furniture was new and also very good. If they had taken a good look at that house, I know they would not have given it to me. But they were not the ones who gave it to me. God used them to give me the house. Their intention was to victimize and humiliate me. But the Lord used them to promote me instead."
