Saturday 12th June 2021 Devotion
Scripture:- Acts 10
Topic:- Reverend Dr. Uma Ukpal Real Life Story
Truly, he slept with the lady several times …
Later, the lady wanted more, but he had moved…
And told her he was done with sin and sinning…
But perhaps, his approach infuriated the lady…
And she felt used and dumped…
If you were the one, maybe, you will even feel worse…
The same person that used to sleep with you now calling you the devil…
Just because he has encountered revival…
Whatever happened next, I know not, but all I know is that…
She went straight to the Church and told the Pastor the young man of God was under…
How his youth Pastor was sneaking into her room in the night to sleep with her…
How after night vigil, she would hide at the back of the rusted water tank behind the Church to ‘finish work’…
Perhaps, if she was sure that the guy had encountered God afresh, she would have taken it easy…
But she thought the guy had used her and dumped and started doing it with someone else…
Don’t blame her so much…
Her pride was on the run…
Nobody would want to be in the number of the census of ladies a man has slept with…
With the help of Satan, her pride got a voice…
And the young man was suspended publicly and disgraced…
He sat in the Church back seat for many months…
His head Pastor ejected him from his house where he was given a one-room apartment…
With the fear that he will someday see his young daughters appealing and defile them…
He had no place to go…
When he gave his life to Christ, he went straight to the Village shrines and destroyed all of them…
The Villagers gathered began to worship the living God…
The village Elders passed judgment on him and banished him…
His parents didn’t want you set their eyes on him again…
When they heard that his Church has ejected and suspended him for fornication, they jubilated…
That the gods of the land have caught up with him for distracting them…
The only place he could stay was inside an old uncompleted building, without a roof…
Any night it rains, he will be soaked…
All he had there was his Bible and few clothes…
But he was there looking for God…
He had failed both men and God…
God had forgiven him, but men didn’t want to set their eyes on him…
The Villagers will gather every day mocking him…
Some of his close pals abandoned him…
But whenever we passed that old building, we will be hearing his voice…
Crying, “Lord, give me power…If truly You have forgiven me, give me Your anointing…”
Months rolled by, he was still praying that same prayer…
My late mum would cook every day and give me to go and send to him…
Sometimes, when I come to bring another food, I would see that he has not eaten the one we brought previously…
He was always fasting and praying and crying…
Later, the Church restored him…
But the stigma refused to go…
Nobody called him Pastor again…
In Church, they were avoiding him like a disease…
Some of those sympathizing with him didn’t come open…
Because he has failed them…
One December period, A great man of God was supposed to preach in that community that Christmas period …
Everyone was waiting for him…
The sick, the blind, and the lame had gathered, waiting for him…
But news came that he wasn’t coming again…
All the Pastors in that community were disappointed because no one could do what they expected God to do through this great man of God…
The Crusade was on…
The Choir was ministering, yet, they did not have anyone to preach…
The crowd was much and their expectations were high…
No Pastor felt adequate to step into that shoe…
Someone was moved to call this young man Rev Dr. Uma Ukpai to come and preach…
Not because they believed in him…
But so that if he preaches and nothing happens, the shame will go to him alone…
The young man didn’t know what to do when they told him to go and preach…
How can he face everyone that knows how he failed…
Everyone there knew that he was just suspended and released for fornication…
He was crying…
But he gathered courage and climbed the stage…
When people saw him on the stage, they started leaving one after the other…
The man that was supposed to do the interpretation dropped Microphone and went down from the Podium…
All the crowd almost left…
Because they could not imagine what a fornicator had to offer…
I was there…
Few of the people reading this now were there too…
No matter how I arranged this story for it not to expose the identity of the person, they will still remember …
The young man was crying as he was watching the crowd leaving and even some of the Choristers climbing down the stage the moment they saw him on the stage…
Tears began to roll down his tears…
He started a song and nobody, including the Pastors joined him to sing…
But about 10 minutes later, something happened…
One of the known crippled that came for the crusade began to shout…
Every attention went to that side…
Lo and behold, he had stood up from his wheelchair…
Jumping all over the place.. God had healed him…
People were still surprised…
A few seconds later, a known blind woman started shouting from the other side…
“I can see… I can see… I can see…”
Yet, the young man on the Pulpit had not opened the Bible…
It was only the songs he was singing with tears…
A few minutes later, noise filled the whole place…
People with Chronic diseases started shouting that they have been healed…
The Pastors there could not understand what was going on…
“How can God use this small boy?”
But More miracles were being recorded…
The crowd that left started hearing the shout from the crusade ground and began to run back…
Some thought the great man of God had finally come…
But when they got there, they saw the young man on the stage, crying…
The Interpreter that came to interpret for him was crying…
As he wanted to start preaching, the noise of more miracles could not let him preach…
As he wanted to get close to tell the Interpreter let them climb down and start preaching to people, the power of God hit the Interpreter…
And he fell under the power of God…
He laid slain like a dead man…
As the Organiser of the Crusade who is also reading this now wanted to climb the stage to take the Microphone that fell down from the Interpreter, he too fell under the power of God…
The young man was just standing and looking at the salvation of the Lord…
The crowd had increased more than those that came to listen to the big man of God…
People had rushed home to bring their people…
That something was happening in the Market Square…
Many Pastors that had sick people started sending messages to their members to bring all the sick people in their Churches…
And without this boy laying hands on anyone, they were being healed…
Some Villagers who were chronic idol worshippers saw the mighty works of God and ran to the Altar for repentance…
He didn’t preach from any verse of the Scripture…
But the power of God was present to heal and to deliver…
As he was standing there, not knowing what next to say, with tears all over…
Some Pastors began to run to him…
Some holding his shoe….others dragging his shirts…
Crying: “Lord, we are sorry…”
Some were crying: “We need this anointing…Please, give it to us…”
I was their friend…
The crusade that was supposed to end by 8 pm ended around 12 Midnight…
Healings and incredible miracles…
After that Crusade, God restored that young man of God…
He became Theost sought for…
Every man of God wanted to host him…
Nobody Remembered he was suspended…
That was how God introduced that young man…
And till today, he is still one of the most sought men of God in his Denomination…
Please stop calling yourself Apostle so, so and so, Prophet so, so and so, if you are yet to pay the price.
Dr. Umai Ukpai paid the price, Benson Idahosa paid the price, Apostle Babalola paid the price.
So many of us are in this kind of situation, that was why I wrote this article to encourage those who lost their faith in God.
They are dedicated to making a change in their environment, they don’t just want to be ordinary men and they paid the price for that.
Sometimes you need to switch off that T.v of yours, sometimes you need to delete social media, sometimes you need to lock yourself until Holy Spirit takes over your body.
Prayer Point:-
Oh Lord God, use me like holy men of old, and also like Jesus henceforth by fire, in the name of Jesus.
Have A Wonderful Saturday!
