The Adventures of Iyin

She’s taken over the village, her friends too. They’re starting to strengthen the captives. Most of them have even been set free. They’re starting to see the Light, Master.

What can we do? Who really is she? Who gave birth to her? Astragalus, find out where she lives, the altars we laid there, her family altar and her grandparents’ altar. We must have a loophole somehow. How can one human destroy all that took us years to engrave? Preposterous!

This conversation was ongoing in the spirit realm between the devil and the demon Astragalus. He had the appearance of a flower after the famous flowering plant but it was all a deceit. He was nothing like the healing herb.

Astragalus sent three of his subordinates to search for loopholes in Iyin’s life. They visited Iyin’s home, looked around and found it clean with a burning altar. The altar the devil raised had been ruined and replaced by another, with sacrifice burning to God. They couldn’t go near it so they sowed tares. They carefully kept cold coals in the basket. This would take a while to burn. The complacency and tiredness tares would discourage the parents from waiting for it to burn. All this was in the spirit realm. But by the time it manifested, Iyin’s Dad, Mr Jide lost His job. It came as soon as they paid their first fruits. A month later, The kitchen got burnt. No one was hurt but a lot of their savings went into fixing the house as the Landlord put pressure on them to restore his property to it’s former state. The home was starting to experience imbalance and it affected the altar slowly.

These three didn’t stop there. They went to her school, making sure that they were always around her friends. Those four, suddenly became seven and you know, it looked like a perfect number so they weren’t really concerned.

Everytime those four decided to pray, one of those three would have an excuse to waste time and bring excuses. Personal prayers were the next thing to attack.

One evening, Iyin had a bath in anticipation of Christ’s teaching. She was really expectant when Sophie’s number popped up. Iyin would normally not pick calls but it was Sophie, the quiet one of those three. She picked up only to hear Sophie crying.

One loophole was Ìyìn’s inability to balance emotions and logic. It took wisdom to do that. But Ìyìn was more of an emotion person. Emotions could be manipulated and that’s what Sophie did.

Funnily, Iyin had never liked those three but for Tobi and Tayo who thought it wrong to dismiss well meaning people who wanted to grow spiritually.

Now what was wrong with Sophie? Her mum died and would be buried in 3 days time.

Ìyìn tó the rescue! She forgot completely about the meeting with Christ. She said a short prayer, left and became the comforter.

Ìyìn got to her dormitory that afternoon and tried to keep her calm. Sophie stopped crying and sobbing. She slowly began to sleep. To Iyin, the comforting words from scripture worked wonders.

She was going to leave and get back to her meeting but at every instant, Sophie woke up.

It was difficult. She too soon started to yawn. At that very minute, Christ came to her room, waiting patiently for his best friend. He called out to her. But just outside Sophie’s room was a spiritual barrier. There was no reception inside the room.

At the last minute, Iyin opened her eyes and got up to pee. As she opened the door, she heard her name loudly and saw two angels waiting outside. They could see her but the unclean barrier kept them from her. They stayed quiet amidst Iyin’s questions through the walk back.

Christ was excited beyond her imaginations. She wondered why and he started to explain that once she broke the streak, her flesh would take over and it would be difficult for her to accept God’s will into her heart

Dreading losing her best friend, she promised to try to maintain the streak as long as God’s grace was with her.

But she didn’t ask about the three friends Out of love, Christ said, You’re just four before my Father. Those three don’t love me and can never. Iyin couldn’t keep her mouth closed as she heard those words. She never really trusted them. She was starting to open up to Sophie. Now what? How do I stop being friends with someone who lost her mum? What does that make me?

Christ smiled and said, How do you continue being friends with someone who takes you away from my presence at every chance they get? How do you talk about the world and its pleasures at peace with these people?

The next day, Iyin called Tobi, Fiyin and Tayo and told them what Christ had said. Tayo confirmed it all and even exposed that Philip was talking him into joining a group of seniors who were homosexuals. Philip assured him that he’d not have to study hard as our class teacher, Mr Eroja was the head of the group and he’d ensure great grades if Tayo joined them.

Wow was all we could say. I’m pretty sure Tobi and Fiyin had encounters but they were quite reserved. We agreed to steer clear off them but Fiyin kept asking how Sophie could get help with the loss of her mother.

It would be heartless. She was starting to doubt what we heard so we prayed together for individual confirmations to foster unity.

Meanwhile as we prayed, these three started looking for ways to flee the school. Afẹfẹ ti fẹ…

The cold coals were still on the family altar. It was here that God taught Ìyìn what happened with the Baal prophets.

After she prayed, Fire burnt even with the wet coals and the fire didn’t burn out. The same fire scathed the demons. There were burn marks on them.

They won once again because Christ’s love was immeasurable. He kept looking out for those four. This love defied all of the devil’s odds and gave strength to them.

Iyin’s dad got a much better job, better pay and more personal time. He could work remotely and on site too. As if that wasn’t enough, The organization gave certain packages with it: housing, and transport. It was a real estate company that took special care of it’s staff. Mr Jide would be the owner in two years of working with them.

Those four kept burning. They healed the sick, especially children with the down syndrome. It seemed almost impossible when they held their hands together but as they opened their mouths, Fire fell on the sick and smote the chains that held their tongues, arms, brains, feet. All they could see was peace.

More importantly, they grew in wisdom, knowledge and discernment.

Who are these four? Heirs of the Most High, Joint heirs with Christ and that’s on periodt.

They continued in this till they graduated secondary school and part ways as they arrived at three tertiary institutions.