Stories of Faith - Episode 25

Story by by Joel Oluyemi: "This happened one fateful night in the month of November 1995.

I was on my way (alone) to the staff quarters in Lagos State University (LASU) which is quite some distance from the University Auditorium where a Christian musical programme was taking place at about 2.30am. At a junction I saw a set of people along a foot path which I was meant to pass through.

Immediately the Holy Spirit told me they were cult members and that they just finished an initiation ceremony. Though there was an alternative to change my route, I didn't even think about it. I headed straight on for the same foot path.

The boys were almost fifty in number wearing black trousers and black T-shirts and they were coming in two's They were well arranged from the beginning of the foot path to its end. The word fear didn't cross my mind. I didn't speak in tongues, neither did I pray. I was just consumed with boldness and I just walked in between them looking into their faces but they could not behold mine. I knew it was not me they were seeing, the Holy Spirit had either made me invisible to them or covered me with a glory that can't be beheld. I walked with my shoulders held up high, looking at their faces shaking my head. After I left them, then the thought came into my memory that I'd just passed between about fifty cult members without being hurt or harassed.

It was then, it dawned on me that it was beyond the physical. There was something extra ordinary about me. The answer was not far fetched, it was not me but the Lord that blind folded the cult boys as He did for Elisha in 2 Kings 6:18.

There was another night that I encountered another set of cult members, about eight in number. This time I challenged them and asked where they were coming from at that time (it was about 2am). Of course, evil must bow at the gate of the righteous. They were mesmerized by the presence of the Holy Spirit in me. If only we Christians could recognize who we are in Christ, we would have taken our world for our Master, but our world is full of fearful Christians who cannot trust their Father to deliver them from carnal weapons like guns, sword, cutlasses and charms etc."

Culled from Holy Spirit, Best of all Friends