Immediately they got to the hospital, the nurses started attending to him. The legs were examined to determine the extent of the damage. As all that was going on, Mrs. Gad suddenly remembered that she had not informed the man of God of what happened to her husband.

“Please, I’m coming. Let me buy call card. I want to call Pastor’s phone” she informed her husband.

“What did you just say?” he asked in anger.

“I said I want to inform Pastor of your condition.”

“If you try it, I will deal with you. If you step out from this place, after making that phone call pack your belongings and go and meet Pastor or you go back to your parents’ house. What is all these? Why can’t you be sensitive for once? You always want to lord it over me. You want to be the husband and be marrying me. You know that it will not work. I am not the kind of husband that a woman can tie inside wrapper. Try me and see,” he threatened.

That was how Mrs. Femi jettisoned the idea of informing Pastor of her husband’s condition. However, she kept on praying and telling God to have mercy. The next morning, elder Femi’s condition took a turn for the worst. The legs were swollen. He was groaning in pain. When the doctor was examining him, he kept on shaking his head. He later recommended that the leg should be scanned. Afterwards, he invited Mrs. Gad to his office.

Mrs. Gad was visibly shaking when she entered the doctor’s office. The situation made the doctor to delay in giving her the needed information.”

“Madam, you have to calm down and be strong for your husband. Weeping will not solve the problem at hand. If you are reacting this way, what do you want your husband to do?”

“It’s okay doctor. I have heard. So, what is the way forward?”

“Madam the truth is that there is nothing that God cannot do. I noticed that you are a prayerful woman. Keep praying. What is needed is God’s intervention. If not , your husband’s two legs will be amputated.”

“Jesus! have mercy on me. Doctor please, please,” she cried.

“Madam there is no point telling you a lie. You can see the pain he is passing through. That was why we had to put him to sleep. You remembered that I kept asking you what exactly happened to your husband. The injury I saw through the scanner is not that of someone that felled from a stool. I think that there is more to that accident that meet the eyes. The pain will keep increasing. But then, we will wait till tomorrow.”

A nurse came to tell Mrs. Gad that her husband had wake up from sleep so she went to meet him. On getting there, he met the husband shedding hot tears. The pain had become unbearable. Before she left the doctor’s office, she has resolved to be strong no matter what, but the sight she witnessed weakened and broke her completely.

A pastor walked in and was praying for the patients. He was moving from one patient to another. Mrs. Gad quickly joined in the prayer even as she waited for her husband’s turn. Surprisingly, after the pastor rounded off praying for the patient next to her husband, he turned and started walking away.

“Man of God you have not prayed for my husband,” Mrs. Gad reached out to him.

“Woman, your husband does not need prayer. He is wise in his own eyes.”

He started walking away again but Mrs. Gad ran and held his leg.

“Servant of the most high, do not walk away. My husband is in danger. Have mercy on me,” she cried.

The man of God looked at her and smiled bitterly.

“Woman I told you that your husband does not need prayer. You think that I don’t know what I am saying. He knows that he does not need prayer.” He turned and faced elder Gad.

“Sir, do you need prayer?”

“Yes oo please oo come and pray for me,” elder Gad cried out.

“I cannot pray for you. Even if I pray, God will not answer. Is your pastor aware of your condition?”

He kept mute.

“I expected you to keep mute. God sent a man yesterday morning to warn you to stop fighting your pastor. Instead of you to listen, you insulted him. Do you remember that he told you that you will never walk home with your two legs?”

Mrs. Gad’s body suddenly stiffened and she looked at her husband in shock. “My dear, you mean this kind of thing happened and you never told me,” she lamented.

The Pastor continued addressing elder Femi.

“You said you felt that a hand pushed you. That invisible hand, that parted the red sea touched you, you landed on the ground and ended up with broken legs. It was just a touch. If he has pushed you, you will not live to tell the story. Last night, you remembered you were touched again in the dream, you woke up and saw your legs swollen. This night, the hand will touch you again and your leg will be as big as a matured iroko tree. The doctors are still debating whether to amputate the leg or not but by tomorrow morning, there will be no need for debate. First thing in the morning they will put you to sleep because if they don’t, your shout of pain will not allow anyone to stay in this hospital. Before you wake up from that sleep, your two legs will be gone. But that will not solve the problem. It will only mark the beginning of your sorrow. The legs will keep decaying but death will be far from you. It will get to a time, you will tell the doctors to inject you with a poisonous substance, so that you will die but they will not agree. You will look for death, but it will be very far from you,” the man of God concluded and walked away.