My pastor Stephen Mukulu often declares that, “Some of you are about to witness miracles that will make you howl like babies, but for joy”.
I had a front seat last week to this, as a sister in Christ who has suffered most of her life, got a huge miracle that sent her to her knees in tears of joy. Ah, what a beautiful sight to behold.
This woman has had a huge share of challenges all her life, most of them to do with finances and rejection. Hers has been a life of begging and depending on the mercy of others to put food on the table or even get her children through school.
But she, nonetheless, threw herself into serving God in Sunday School, come rain, come shine, and indeed one cannot serve the living God and be put to shame! A couple of years ago she unexpectedly unearthed details about her inheritance, left behind by her mother who died when she was barely two years old.
Last week, after a protracted process that at one point seemed impossible, she received the first batch of that inheritance, and when the money hit her account, she was in a salon braiding her hair and she marched out like a mad woman without paying, and with the hair half done.
She came to my home in a beautiful frenzy and soon started bawling and crawling around the sitting room, tears of joy flowing down her face. I remembered what the pastor had said.
This was actually happening! This woman went to bed broke and hopeless, then woke up a serious millionaire the following morning. I love being a witness to such miracles.
And when she tearfully testified in church on Sunday, half the church was in tears, because her struggles have been very public; it was only fair that also her triumph be just as public, to edify someone going through similar or harder challenges.
With God, all things are indeed possible. It is surreal watching her now with a different set of ‘problems’ such as, where to buy genuine land. What kind of home to construct. Which business to go into. Etcetera. Ah, this my God!
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