[STORY] AYOMIDE (Episode 05)

Episode 05.

Adenike was never late or absent on Saturdays for rehearsals yet she noticed how the choir mistress would assign roles to choristers who didn’t even attend rehearsals. Most times they mess up on the stage. She never complained to anyone yet she felt the choir mistress was punishing her for something she didn’t know. Notwithstanding, she wasn’t deter by their actions and attitude towards her. Whenever any of the chorister was leading, she will tune her antenna to heaven and sing joyfully. This was going on for long until Sis Martha, the pastor’s wife visited them during rehearsals one Saturday. Without wasting time and talking too much, she told the choir mistress that she was obeying an higher authority. Sis Adenike should be allowed to minister on Sunday or nobody else should minister.

“Are we not singing well mummy” the choir mistress asked.

“I never said you’re not singing well. What I am saying is that an higher Authority sent me here today and I will be doomed if I dare disobey.” The pastor’s wife said. “Moreover, sis Adenike had joined this department for almost a year now but I have never seen her minister. Does she not sing well?”
“She’s okay ma”

“Anyway whether she is okay or not is not for me to determine. May God forbid that I should disobey his instructions. I want to sis Adenike to her minster tomorrow”
“Alright mummy” she said with a big scowl on her face”
The pastor’s wife was about going out when she paused at the door.

“One more thing, treat everyone equally with love. It’s not nice to discriminate. One day someone else will be in this position where you are. Last week, I was driving into the church when she ran into the church” she said pointing at one of the choristers. “You were almost through with rehearsals when she rushed in, yet you gave her the lead role the following Sunday. Even if I didn’t see, God sees. Let’s be careful” she said again walking out.
Immediately the pastor’s wife left, all eyes looked accusingly at sis Adenike. The choir mistress accused her of reporting issues pertaining to the choir to the pastor’s wife. They insulted her and one of them called her an “empty barren” who can’t even produce any sound in her home.

“You dare report us again, you will see the other side of me” the choir mistress threatened. “As the choir mistress, I have the right to assign role to anyone. Why are you causing us problem sis Adenike?”
For Adenike, rehearsal’s had closed. She picked her Bible and hymn book and walked out of the church. She got home and explained what transpired at the church to her husband. She begged him not to act based on their actions. She told her husband she will never listen to them but will develop a tough skin.
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Ministering through songs wasn’t a big deal for Adenike. During her University and NYSC days, she do minister in the church. Here, she has never handled the microphone because she wasn’t assigned any role. She knew some of the church members hated her. It wasn’t her fault that her husband married her. Why are they blaming her? She had always prayed for a good man and God answered her. Why are they so envious of her? It has been almost 2 years of marriage yet no child and they mocked her already. Doctors said she and her husband are fit medically. She always believe God will not disappoint her.

This very Sunday, she will use her God given voice to worship God and no hatred is big enough to stop her. Sis Adenike dressed to kill. She hurried her husband out of the house. She never liked going late to church and it will not start on the day she was to minister.

Immediately after Sunday school, she went to the section allotted to the chorister. She noticed that apart from the instrumentalists, only the choir mistress and two other choristers were present. When it was time to minister, she stepped out and handled the microphone. It didn’t take the pastor’s wife long to know why God instructed her that sis Adenike should minister. Sis Adenike has one of the most beautiful voice. As she sang, the glory of the Lord descended upon the church. Depression was lifted. People were falling under the anointing of God. Only few could be seen standing. Some were rolling, screaming. Tears were falling.
” In nine months time, you’re going to testify. You will carry your twins, she told the choir mistress”
Adenike was no longer singing. The Heaven was open upon her
” I see angels giving out Children. Yes, God is healing your breast. He has taken away the cancer” she told a woman in her mid forties.

For the few minutes sis Adenike ministered, miracles, healing and deliverance that has never been recorded in that church happened. By the next Sunday, the church was packed full. Chairs were not enough to accommodate people. Some stood outside just to see the woman God was using.
Bro Kola laid on the church altar one Sunday after church and started praying.
” Father, I have come to return all the glory to you for the great wife you gave me. Indeed she’s a blessing to all of us. She’s is more than I asked father. You gave me a full and complete package. She’s too loaded. Thank you for not allowing me even in my stubbornness to miss her.”
To Be Continued… . . .

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