CLUB 99

Father please, my husband's spiritual gifts is making him proud and out of tune with the fruits of the Spirit, please put him in his place..." Asumpta had not finished praying when her husband Pastor Ben entered. Woman why is my food not ready yet" Pastor Ben shouted at his wife from the dinning room trying to curtail his anger. "Daddy, it's almost ready, please have patients" Asumpta said, hurriedly adding the ingredients into the cooking pot. Pastor Ben walked down to the kitchen from the dining room to meet the wife.. "Have I not told you to get my food ready before I climbed down the pulpit." It's clear he is losing grip on patience and his anger had gradually risen from his heart and had started reflecting in his eyes, his eyes was color red. "My dear, it's barely an hour ago you left the pulpit, fried rices takes an hour 20 minutes to get done.' Asumpta said knowing what Pastor Ben would do next, she was trembling in fear, but then she won't just stop talking. "That means I have to wait another 30 minutes and you know my flight will be leaving in the next 20 minutes, I have an anointing service by 3pm." Pastor Ben said agitated banging at the table in the middle of the kitchen. "Daddy, you don't eat stall food, it must be made fresh and by me, how else do you want me to do it.' Asumpta said stirring the things in the pot. But then Pastor Ben's anger flared like Ohuza gaz flare, he had totally lost his patience, he threw down the new microwave in the kitchen unit to the floor. The sound startled Asumpta but she continued with the cooking. Pastor Ben will always make sure he destroyed something whenever he gets angry. "But you preached about self control and anger control this morning, so it was for your members alone?" Asumpta asserted and that got Pastor Ben even angrier and he flinged his phone as his wife but she dodged it and smashed against the kitchen unit. Asumpta imagined how the preachers usually think they don't need repentance whereas they prefer verbal preaching than be an epistle not written with ink. She imagined the way his husband do carry himself like a saint in the presence of his members but in closed doors he is a beast... Asumpta left everything and was looking for a way of escape while Pastor Ben was approaching her . Pastor Ben remembered his flight ticket was in the phone which is now crushed, someone would think he will become sober but he became angerier than before. "You devil and enemy of progress, you have ruined the trap that will announce me to the world." Pastor Ben said while he rushed his wife and grabbed her neck, Asumpta managed to escape his grip. "You are the one who is the devil, I have kept quite all this while covering up for you thinking you will change, but now, I won't keep quiet. You haven't made your home pleasant, what you care about is using God and not allow him use you" Asumpta said sobbing. Truth is very bitter to the hearer, pastor Ben was fuming inside but then he realized that Kaima and Kaira, his two sons were staring at him from the kitchen door, so he left the kitchen. "No ..... come back and hit me, this is the only example you have to show the world, you have been preaching for 20 decades and you keep millions of followers and Nigeria is not seeing the fruits. No changes, keep deceiving yourself." Asumpta said as Pastor Ben went to grab his phone to see if his sim is in order atleast, he realized that the sim was bad, he took his car keys and headed to the mobile office to retrieve his sim and to get another phone but it didn't work out because they don't open on Sundays. He felt devastated, he will be preaching in the largest church in South Africa in an auditorium of about 50k people. The other pastors couldn't wait, they left. In the evening he saw in the news that their plane crashed. He felt touched and sobber too. He felt that the delay was only to his favour. He went to his wife and apologized and promised to change for good. Asumpta thanked God for answering her prayers.