By Ojo Oluwasegun
Ayo enters the visitor’s room)
Ayo: Mummy, you are welcome. How is daddy? Hope everyone is doing fine?
Ayo’s mother: My husband! The one that throws wealth around in recognition of abundance. The son of the unbeatable lion. The one that abhors ideas in his heart at the expense of gold. We are all fine. Thank you.
Ayo: Mummy! You and this your praise names. We are called by Jesus’ praise name and not idolatry praise name again. I am not the son of a lion which is an ordinary animal but I am related with Jesus, who is the Lion of Judah.
Ayo’s mother: I am only reciting the praise names of your forefather. Well, just help me thank your wife. She has been very accommodating. She has been taking care of me lavishly since my arrival.
See, thank your stars for marrying your mother as your wife.
(Nifemi come in)
Nifemi: Hope you enjoyed the food ma? (she faces Ayo) Dear, your own food is in the bedroom, let Mama eat her own food.
Ayo’s mother: Thank you my wife, I really enjoyed the food. In fact, I am already filled to the brim. It is my son that will use you to the last.
You will bear all the children in your womb for my son.
Anybody that attempts to separate you will be struck down by thunder.
Nifemi: Amen!
Ayo: Mama, what has thunder got to do with this matter? A child of God never curses.
Ayo’s mother: I am not cursing. I am only praying. Well, I need to be on my way back to the village before the sun sets.
I pray once again that no Jupiter will succeed in separating you by the power of my ancestors. Thank you
(Ayo’s mother rises to leave. Nifemi rushes to her and takes her bag and luggage in order to accompany her out. Ayo gives his mother transport fare,
Thank you my husband! May your purse never run dry in the name of my ancestors.
Nifemi: (faces Ayo) Dear, I want to accompany mama to the motor park. You can go ahead and take your leave). (She turns back and uses her hands and eyes to speak to Ayo to go back to the kitchen if he does not want trouble)
Nifemi
my deceitful wife episode 8
(In Pastor’s office)
Ayo: pastor, that is the fire burning in my bosom. She warned me not to tell anybody. She said if I dare tell any human being, I will die. May be I will die anytime from now, I don’t know. But pastor, help me. Please pray for me.
Pastor: Hun-un! This is serious! If not that I heard this story from you, I wouldn’t have believed it. No wonder! No wonder you no longer attend church services regularly. It has been long since sister Nifemi attended singing practice. The choir master reported her absence to me few weeks ago. Hun-un! You mean Sister Nifemi the sister with that wonderful voice and a fervent prayer warrior can be doing all these!
Ayo: Will I lie against my wife? Sir, sister Nifemi is a pretender. She is a deceit.
Devil in the house and angel outside that is Nifemi for you. In fact, when I vowed to tell the whole word, she just seized my voice that I became dumb for a whole day. I was barking like a dog. I had to prostrate and beg her before she loosed me. She goes to her cult meeting every night and I must not talk if I don’t want trouble. Ha! There are other countless acts of Nifemi that cannot be mentioned now. I want you to even separate us. I need a divorce. I am tired of this marriage. I want to call it quit now. Please, assist in breaking this unholy marriage. I am tired of it.
Pastor: I am surprised by what is happening in your family bro Ayo. But, it has been written that thosec that God has joined together must not be separated by anybody. We have joined the two of you together in holy matrimony that was witnessed by heaven and earth.
You only need to intensify prayers that God should touch her and make her turn over a new leaf.
Ayo:
Ha! Pastor. This matter is beyond prayers. The home is hot on me. Please deliever me. Please separate us!
Pastor: Hun-un! Okay! You can be separated if you can do something. Just one thing.
Ayo: What is that thing? Say it. There is nothing you want me to do that I will not do. Just say it and it will be done without delay.
Pastor: if you can do all within your power to see everybody that witnessed your joining without anyone of them missing. The people (both young and old) must witness your separation ceremony, then we can conveniently separate the tvbwo of you.
Ayo: Pastor! You too know that , that is not possible! Some of the people that attended our wedding are dead already. Some of them are no longer in this country. What of those that were friends to our parents and relative whom we don’t know? How do we contact them? Pastor, let us be frank with ourselves, it is not possible.
Pastor: That means it will be impossible to separate the two of you because anyone that witnessed the joining must also witness the separation
Ayo: Pastor! Pastor! Help me. What should I do now? Don’t allow me to die like this. Please, don’t allow me to continue in this marital journey.
Pastor: you must move forward in this journey because you were both joined together in a holy matrimony. Christian marriage does not give room for separation or divorce. You will continue to pray. You cannot divorce her. That is your own cross. Can you recollect that I asked you then, and you said it was the Holy Spirit that told you that Sister Nifemi is your wife.
When I went further to persuade you to pray more, you said you have just concluded a seven-day marathon prayer on the mountain where the Holy Spirit gave you a confirmation that she is your wife. But, Bro Peter, before God and man, tell me the truth, was it the Holy Spirit that really led you to Sister Nifemi?
Ayo: En-hen! It was not the Holy Spirit. I was infatuated by her gift and beauty. Now, I am regretting my action.
Pastor: You know I always tell you that you need to pray serious prayers as regards choice. You have forgotten the word of God that says “ Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.” (Proverbs 31: 30). Well, you will continue to endure it. You have allowed sight deceit to destroy your marital life. The prayer band will be praying for you. There is no divorce in Christian marriage. Just continue to pray may be God will touch her heart.
Ayo: Ha! I’m finished! I have allowed gift and beauty to deceived me into unholy marriage.
(The end)
Story by CC