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    It was in the middle of these struggles that I lost my mother whom I have not seen in five years. My world was in chaos! It was as if the enemy unleashed his police dog to attack me and trail me every step of the way, trying so hard to steal my purpose and joy. As I quietly planned to fly across the Atlantic Ocean over to West Africa against my doctors and my wife’s wishes who knew how precarious my health condition had become, just to say a final goodbye—the funeral service of a mother that I so strongly loved and that I missed terribly, just three days to embark on this trip, on March 9, 2008, I was rushed to the emergency room almost a dead man from where I will be hospitalized and remain for the next eight weeks. That was how I never get a chance to see my beloved mother at least one more time which hurts me for a number of years.
    As a minister, I have been privileged to always pray for people, comfort and counsel them. In fact, in one of the churches I once served in the pastoral staff, my area of primary assignment was outreach/nurture and prayer ministries because I am a man that believes strongly in the power of prayer. I had always thought that I was a very strong man, and strong men of God of course do not cry—I falsely thought. However, about this time, I felt that life has been so unfair to me in a number of ways. Many of the nights I will cry to God while I pray and fall asleep. In one such night, I was almost at the point of death. I could hardly breathe; I was beginning to lose it all. And somehow that night, something so supernaturally out of the ordinary happened to me.
    Pray To Be Overpowered
    Out of nowhere that night, I was overpowered to receive such a supernatural increase and audacity in my spirit; an audacity of God’s flowing grace with currency indeed, which was so intensely egregious. It overtook me. It vibrated my veins and shook my life. I knew it had to be the arrival of the Lion of Judah in my life—the power of God’s unending grace gave me another chance for life. Before this supernatural visitation that night, I was beginning to be enveloped by darkness, as the enemy kept ringing it loudly in my ears that it was my time to die. But I fought back! I recalled that God has not given me the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 2:7 NKJV). I refused to give in to the lies of the enemy and blockage my mind not to think about negativity as the enemy makes it so intense to convince me to give up and believe the lie. I refused to agree in my mind to die that night. Before this time, I had lost my ability to perform most of my activities of daily living. But it was in the middle of this battle that night, that I regained power to do, and began to unleash words of power and confessed positively that premature death was not an option for my life.
    There Is Power in Your Confessed & Spoken Words
    This is why our words and the declarations we make for our lives are more powerful than we know it. As I struggled to breathe, I prayed and became louder and louder in my affirmation that I am going to live to raise those children, to be their mentor, to be the husband and lover that I have promised my wife to be; to rebuild the walls of our collapsing ministry that God has entrusted in my care, and to build those businesses that needed to empower people from diverse backgrounds, and alleviate, suffering or banish people and communities from poverty. The more I decreed and made those declarations, the more tears ran down my cheeks. As I released these supernatural words into my life taking authority from Jesus, and doing something I never ever have done in prayer, I saw that I became stronger and happier and stronger that night. Few days past, and my surgery was scheduled. Before this time, the surgery has been delayed for over one year and three months because it was a very complicated and high risk case to embark on. The surgeon-in-chief of the