Mrs Gad threw herself on the floor and shouted with a loud voice, “God have mercy on me. Jesus the son of David have mercy on me. Have mercy on your daughter. Even in the face of judgment, mercy can still be obtained. Your daughter is involved in this matter, please, show mercy.” As she kept weeping and pleading for mercy, the man of God came back.”

“It’s okay stop weeping. Get a car and take your husband to your pastor. Let him apologize to the pastor. If he accepts and pray for him, his healing process will start immediately. Please do not take bring him back to the hospital. If you do, they will amputate the legs. He will still be in pain but the Lord will give you a sign concerning his healing.

The swollen legs will keep reducing. The only medication you will apply on the legs is the one that the pastor will give you. Make a request that he bless either an oil or water for you. Be applying it on his legs. The Lord will heal him.”

“Please talk to my husband, let him allow me to take him to the pastor. Another is that let him agree to apologize to Pastor when we get there,” Mrs. Gad pleaded with the man of God.

“Don’t worry yourself. At this point, he has no choice.”

“I will go. The pain is too much. I want to apologize to Pastor,” elder Gad informed his wife.

Arrangement was made for him to be discharged from the hospital. Afterwards, he was taken to the church to meet Pastor. The sight was a pitiable one that tears escaped from Pastor’s eye when he saw him.

Though he was in excruciating pain, elder Gad tried to imagine and rehearsed the scene of meeting Pastor but immediately he sighted him, he realized he didn’t have the courage to face him.

“What happened to him? Why was I not informed till it got to this point?” Pastor asked.

Elder Gad lifted his face and looked at Pastor, his emotions mixed with inexplicable remorse and apology. He wanted to talk, it was boiling inside him but the sound could not form. He gently lifted his hand and waved to Pastor who grabbed it quickly. He sucked in breath and attempted to talk again, thankfully he was able to form a sound.

“Pastor forgive me and pray for me. The pain is unbearable. I am sorry for joining other elders to fight you. I have realized my mistakes. Please forgive me. Do not allow me to die.”

He kept looking at Pastor, not sure of how he would respond to the apology. However, Pastor gave him a positive surprise.

“You will not die in Jesus name. I break the power of death and pain over your life. The mercy of God will speak for you. The Lord sent me here to shepherd you, not to bury you. Therefore I decree that you will live in the mighty name of Jesus. Whosoever the son of man has set free is free indeed. I declare you free in the name of God the father, the son and the Holy Spirit.”

Pastor was quite for a while then he addressed Mrs. Gad.

“Please ma, I just got a ministration that you should not take him back to the hospital. Take him home I will bless an olive oil and give you which you will be rubbing on the leg. The healing has started. Angels of God will fix the broken bone while he is sleeping. This is a spiritual matter. I will be visiting every morning to pray for him. If possible please avoid visitors for now.”

Mrs. Gad knelt down, lifted her hands in worship even as tears of joy was flowing from her eyes.

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When the woman that Mama Ephraim sent to call Mrs. Femi delivered the message to her, she started querying the woman.

“Who do you say is calling me?” she asked in a stern voice.

“I have already told you that Mama is the one calling you. Why do you ask again?”

“If I like, I can ask you countless number of times, and you must answer me.”

“What gave you the impression that I am under obligation to answer you?” The woman asked Mrs. Femi.

“It is because you are jobless. If not, you will not be looking for who to run an errand for. She sent you to me and you ran like a cockroach to come and call me. Now I ask you just a simple question and you are forming rubbish. When it comes to age, I’m I not older than her?”

“If you like, you can be older than Methuselah, it is not my business. You are not my pastor’s wife. Any way, you can go and pray to God to call your husband or he can call himself because both of you are desperate.”

“May thunder fire your generation for saying that me and my husband are desperate,” Mrs. Femi cursed her.

“Same to you ma,” the woman retorted. She quietly walked back and informed mama Ephraim that Mrs. Femi was coming.

Mrs. Femi was full of anger for the way the woman behaved to her. She started reporting to a woman nearby.

“Ah! Iya Tobi, I have suffered. Look at this one we were contributing rice and garri for the other day that her husband died. She too has started insulting me. Stella did you see what just happened.”

“I saw everything that happened. I was sitting here.” Stella answered her.

“Did you really saw the level of insult she heaped on me? Have you seen why it is not good to help people? When her husband died, she would have died too if not for me . I organized the women to contribute food and money for her. I regret everything I did for her. I should have allowed her to die.”

“But this is your fault,” Stella told her.

“What did you just say?” She strained her ear as if she didn’t hear what Stella said initially.

“You might not like what I said, but the truth is that it is your fault. When that woman came here, she greeted you in a respectful manner before she started delivering her message to you. It was your response that made her angry. What you don’t want someone to do to you, don’t do it to another person,” Stella told her.

“Stella shut up. If you don’t know what to say, seal your mouth. Ha! what is wrong with everyone? That we are in the same church should not make us not know those in our level.”

Stella quickly got up and left her . When she discovered that she was just there talking to herself, she decide to go and meet Mama Ephraim to know why she was called.