CAPTIVES OF THE ALMIGHTY

“My Reward..” He called her with a calm bedroom voice and she answered still with her eyes closed.

“I’ve been thinking about something you said earlier and I think I find it very interesting and important for us to look into critically..” He said and she opened her eyes inquisitively to look into his eyes.

“What’s that?” She asked curiously, searching his eyes.

“Yeah… You talked about us making our children captives for God..” He said and she nodded her, desiring to hear more of what he has to say about it.

“Uhm… You know, that word, “captives” kept ringing in my head even after you finished saying it and I have been trying to understand what it truly mean for our children to become captives for God.

Something actually struck my mind while I was trying to figure out what it means but then I want to hear from you first, perhaps your explanation would better explain my own thoughts or become a perfect confirmation to the burden in my heart.

Tell me, what did you mean when you said, together we shall make our children captives for God?” He asked her and she adjusted herself properly to answer the question.

“Well, like I said earlier before even talking about the children, I said something about me being made a captive of the Almighty who was once a captive of the devil.

Yeah, I understand the word, “Captive” to mean, “Prisoner” or “Captured.”

When I got initiated into the underworld company, I was called a captive.

A captive because they initiated me into it without seeking my consent, they didn’t care whether I liked the kind of life they were introducing me to or not, they forced me into it through hypnotism and other demonic influences.

When I later realized myself in their strange coven, I hated it and wanted to come out but it wasn’t possible because I had become a captive, I have been captured and was under their control so that I could not go where I want to go or decide what I want to do.

Everything about me was decided by them, even when I want to do something good, they had the power to manipulate me into doing evil.

I had no mind or life of my own for as long as I was their captive, they chose where I go, where I live, whom I relate with and practically everything until the day the Almighty God which is highest power and authority delivered me from their hold.

Now, if the Underworld company which is under the control of Satan could control my life like that in such a way that it’s what they want me to do that I did then it is very much possible for our children to be captured also of God without their permission to do only what God wants.

The Underworld are but small mighties, there are limits to what they can do under the heavens and sometimes even before carrying out an operation, they appeal to the Almighty who is unlimited in power for permission before they can tempt or afflict anybody who is connected to God as we saw in the case of Job and Peter who sought God’s permission before attacking them.

I strongly believe that our children too can become captured by God in such a way that even if peradventure they want to go contrary to the ways of God and the teachings of the Scriptures unto godliness which we have been teaching them in words and through our lifestyles, they will always find themselves inside God.

It’s true that God does not force the human beings He created to follow Him, He gave everyone a freewill and allows them choose for themselves whom to serve, whether the devil or Him. But children can become willful captives.

If we can succeed in catching them young at this their tender age and persuade them to start making some willing covenant prayers and commitments to God seriously, I am very sure that when they grows up and leaves to stay on their own without our surveillance they won’t be able to depart from the ways of God because they have already gone so deep in many covenants and commitments with God that their lives and destinies are practically being controlled by a higher force which they can’t resist.

Have you not noticed that the evil covenants some ancestors made with their gods which they included their children and children’s children still speaks and works on their offsprings even to the fourth generations after some seventies and hundreds of years after they have lived their lives and died?

That’s how initiation is done too, occultist parents initiates their children to take after them in serving what they serves and most times their children becomes even greater than them in exploits ; we can also initiate our children into God as Captives of the Almighty God bounded to live all the days of their lives in God doing only what pleases God and the best time to do so is not tomorrow but now.

My God’s grace, I have been leading them to do some deliberate lifelong covenant prayers but if we can both join hands in working on them, we’re sure to raise a three man squad for God who will be so loyal and bounded to God to do great and mighty things for God more than we have ever done.

That’s what I meant by making our children captives for God.” Chizaram explained carefully then Nnamdi breathed down heavily a great sigh of relief.

“You see, that’s why you’re my greatest reward from God.
You compliments my weaknesses with your strengths and sees for me when I seems blind.

I have always dreamt of my children growing up to know and follow the Lord even more than myself but I have never taken it so serious to work on them from this their tender age with extra commitment until this night. It’s been only you all these while, all I did was relax back and make excuses that you’re specially graced for the children ministry but I have been wrong.

These are my children and if they becomes negative influences in the society tomorrow, it’s my name that will be dragged to the mud and uhm…I would be so foolish to think that the devil will not come for my children, he will definitely for them and erm.. that’s why I totally agreed with everything you have just said about us making our children captives for God.

I am so at peace with it because that’s the only way our children can be preserved in a perverse world filled with many temptations and battles for the young.

And..the good and interesting thing about capturing our children for God is this, when the devil captures a child, God can deliver that child, when a man captures a child, God can also deliver that child but when a child is a captive in God’s hands, nothing can take that child away from God, even the child himself can’t walk out on God..” Nnamdi said laughing while she concurred to what he said.

“Thank you my reward, I will from now henceforth make out time to join you in ministering to our children.

Maybe in the morning, we would sit down and properly strategize on how best to go about the mission and uhm.. I think I am feeling hungry again at the sight of the tantalizing food before me..” Nnamdi said grinning naughtily and Chizaram looked down at her naked body.

“Which food?
You better go and sleep..” She said then made to climb down from the bed and Nnamdi grabbed her waist from the back.

“Leave me alone jor, I will bite you o..” She threatened, trying hard to hold herself from laughing.

“Please bite me, come and bite because I like it when you are the one biting me..” Nnamdi said and she didn’t know when she started laughing.

“Naughty man..” She hit him with a pillow as both of them turned the bedspreads and pillows upsidedown in a love play….

To be continued…