Once upon a time 43

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PART 43
"ONCE UPON A TIME "
©️Opeyemi Akintunde 

Kennedy kept speaking in tongues. At that point , he had no idea as to what to say or pray about, but he knew he had to connect to the Father for guidance and help.

Kemi and the other two knew next to nothing about Speaking in tongues. Janet was a church person but not to the extent of speaking in deep tongues.

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Redemption felt like she was going down a tunnel at a high speed.  Suddenly,  she dropped and she felt her body against a surface. The Surface was like bare floor but it was not as hard  as solid ground. She looked up to survey her surroundings...

" 50 more counts before the bus leaves..." A voice said in the distance.

Redemption looked up and traced the voice.  She saw two buses standing side by side. On looking closely, she read the banners on the buses one after the other.

" Damnation!"

" Paradise!" 

Redemption read the sign on the buses and surprisingly to her she saw people in their large numbers entering the DAMNATION bus. The bus looked overloaded.

"Your hand?" Redemption heard a voice from her left. She looked to her left side and a man whose face shone so brightly stretched his hand to her to lift her up. 

Redemption accepted the hand and rose to her feet. 

" Congratulations on catching your last bus to paradise!"

" Paradise?" Redemption asked

" Heaven."

" Oh! I will make heaven? Queen Mother didn't let me finish my repentance words to God!" Redemption said positively alarmed

" The mouth speaks only what the heart has concluded!" The man replied

" Oh! Yeah! Thank you!" Redemption replied in pure Joy 

" Thank ABBA Father!" The man replied

Out of the blues, Redemption caught sight of Rachel among the crowd of those struggling to get into the Damnation bus...

"Rachel! Rachel!" Redemption screamed

" She can't hear you, you don't speak the same language anymore!" The man said

" Can't you tell her that she should join us here" Redemption asked with pleading eyes.

"She was given the same opportunity just like you were given, but she turned it down! " The man said

Redemption looked puzzled.

" Few minutes before you were used to terminate her...."

As the man spoke, Redemption found herself transported back to Rachel's hotel room in Cotonou back in time

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FEW HOURS EARLIER

Rachel woke up, looked around her, she saw Janet sleeping by her side but saw Kemi's bed empty. She sat up wondering where she went to...

As she was busy wondering, she heard a loud Speaker, the main speaker was speaking in English,  while there was a French interpreter....

" HALLELUYAH! HALLELUYAH! Glory to God in the Highest!" A voice said

Rachel heard the chorused answer....

" Let us begin to bless the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the reason why you are still alive...Listen Sister! the fact you are still alive shows that there is hope for your dry tree to blossom again. So why don't you thank God for the gift of life..."

Rachel had sat up in the bed listening to the church program blaring from the church speaker.

" I should trace this Church and see if they can be of help!" Rachel had thought

" No! Don't mind their lies! All is just sweet talks to make people bring money to their church" a voice within her said discouraging her.

Rachel sat up from the start of the vigil; from praise worship to the message. About the time she was losing interest, the preacher was rounding up his message... 

"The best life you can have is the life in Christ. If you are going through challenges,  trials and tribulations,  my best advise is to surrender your life to Christ. Give your life to Christ and Let Him be responsible for it. When you take your child to a creche, for the hours the child spends in that Creche, the management of the creche is responsible for the life of that Child. They watch over the child, feed and play with the child. Give your life to Jesus,  Let Him be responsible for making you Joyful in all aspects."

Redemption watched in anticipation expecting Rachel to receive the offer of salvation.  She didn't have that opportunity,  she only had her inner conscience who prompted her in the right direction, but here was Rachel enjoying the Grace...

Redemption watched in disappointment as Rachel went back to sleep. It wasn't up to five minutes after she had gone back to sleep, that Redemption saw the knife she had used penetrating into Rachel's chest.

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Redemption returned back to the realm she was...

" I Shouldn't have killed her..."

" Yes you shouldn't have, but let us dwell on What you can do to rectify that!"

" What can I do?"

" You can save others."  

" Save others? How?"

" Our Heavenly Father will always protect the righteous from the arrows of the wicked. By surrendering your life few seconds before your death, you had  automatically made God responsible for your life. He can't let a Witch kill one of his own. Return and save all those who your actions have kept in bondage...."

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Redemption coughed back  to life. She looked up at the ceiling; it was the ceiling of her room. Redemption jumped up almost immediately...

" I am alive!" She screamed

The reality of what looked like a dream dawned on her....Sadness clouded her joy at the thought of Rachel's trip to damnation...

"Return and save all those who your actions have kept in bondage.." the last words of the man with the bright face echoed itself in her ears...

" I am saved to save!" Redemption said to herself

"But who are those my actions have kept in bondage?"

" All those Queen Mother used you to keep in Captivity and those affected by Rachel's issue." A voice replied her

Redemption remembered  Rogers,  Kemi and Harry faintly. While she was monitoring Rachel, she had seen them in the crystal ball and she had tried manipulating them against Rachel. She had marked them for evil. In Withcraft, they could mark a person so that wherever that person goes, other evil doers will naturally be attracted to them to do them evil; which was why Rogers became a victim of kidnapping. 

She also remembered sponsoring Kemisola's desire to go to Cotonou, hoping that the herbalist would add to her problems so that on their return from Cotonou,  Kemi will be so burdened with her personal challenges to care about Rachel....

However, she remembered they couldn't make it to the herbalist place but she could tell that they would be in soup at the moment.  She knew they would be implicated by Rachel's death.

Redemption thought about how she could save the man that was kidnapped and the three people who went to Cotonou with Rachel...

Redemption hit her chest three times like she used to do, expecting to be Spiritually transported to Cotonou, but nothing happened...

" You no longer need that!" Her inner police said to her

" So what do I do to save this people?"

To be continued 

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INSPIRED BY THE HOLY ONE 
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