Encounter with the seer

One certain time, about early 2000, when I served as a house-help (maid) in a chief’s palace I encountered a seer. The chief married at least three wives and I was living with one of the wives in the same big compound, even though each wife lived in their different chambered houses there. A time came when one of the wives invited “a (young) man of God” who came and conducted night vigil with the members of the family. The night vigil was meant to be a family deliverance. But before the man came, I got to know about it from mama, the wife who invited him. Perceiving in my spirit that the “man of God” is not a genuine one, I told her, “I am not sure the man of God is real, it is better for us to seek God by ourselves and we would find Him.” When you call out to me and come and pray to me, I'll hear you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart Jer 29:12-13(ISV). Knowing that I am a Christian and have sometimes called them for family prayers, she rebuked me, may be because I am just a maid.

        When the ‘man of God’ actually came, we gathered for prayers that night. He began conducting, talked about somebody who died recently in the house, that his spirit is not at rest because of his kind of death, a young boy. They told him, “It is true, he died recently.” He also said, “There were animals that were buried alive at the compound sometime ago”, they echoed “Yes!” He said that those things should be excavated and they should show him the place. They did so also. Moreover, when he came back from the place they showed him, he began to pray. A time came when he began to touch everybody with olive oil on the foreheads. I noticed an unusual thing, that whenever he approached a young lady, he would say one thing or the other such as, “Something is hindering your flower, you’re under an attack, it needs to be broken, therefore, you need to come and see me in my ministry for prayers.”He also told me so when he approached me. On my own I did not want to see him for any reason because the spirit of God within me was telling me, “He is not real.” My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him because they do not recognize the voice of strangers Jn 10:27, 5(ISV). Then I was a young Christian. One day, after the night vigil, I was mandated with one of the young lady living with us to go and see the man of God. Lo, as a servant girl I had no option than to obey. 

 When I reached there were other females waiting and we entered one by one to see him privately. He said I wouldn’t marry and have children but die before my 3oth birthday if I didn’t have special prayers. He noted however I was very uneasy with him and allowed me to leave without any harassment. I stood firm in faith and never went back to him nor had such deliverance done on me. I am over 30 years of age and married with a son, expecting our second baby. I believe God Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son Col 1:13(KJV)                                Chika is a teacher in Enugu