WAGES OF SIN 5

EPISODE FIVE

That same night God revealed himself and his will concerning the new born child to James just as he revealed to Jamie in a dream. His face became brightened like the stars in the sky saying hi to mankind. His pulse could obviously be noticed as he jumped out of bed with his chest rising and lowering like a fluid in a capillary tube. It was unusual of God to reveal things to James in such a way in his dreams. James was full of awe and surprises. Could God had gone that far to unfold secrets about his little princess to him? He thought.

Woken by her husband's screaming, Jamie steadily rose up, and slowly rose up from her slight sleep to face James who was still rather confounded about things he saw and heard with his ears. Facing Jamie, he thought his wife must be so deep in the spirit that she knew those things better than him and even before he got to know anything. Merely glancing at her husband's face Jamie could tell that James had had an encounter with the Lord and that she might not really have to strive anylonger with him about the name of the baby. For James to have a divine understanding had been Jamie's prayer through the day, and her prayer was answered.

"I felt God so near!" James exclaimed. "I have never being so close before"

Jamie gave a teasing smile at him. "No, dear. You saw an angel, not God himself." Jaimie said, teasing him, "you don't want to die, do you?"

"Oh! You mean that was an angel?" James asked, confusingly. "Whatever. All I know is I have seen a divine being."

"Yea. So what happened in the dream?" She asked so silently, giving him her full attention. By this time she was fully awaked and was anxious to hear from him. James, knowing there was no way of escape than to agree with what his wife attested, said, "uhmm. I saw this divine being touched me as I sat on a desk, and said so many things about the baby to me."

"Things like?"

"Things like 'she's not a girl but a boy, not a woman but a man. This is how the Lord has made her, and she must to fulfill the assignments upon her shoulders. She'll be an intercessor for my people, lifting her heart and voice to the Lord through prayers and supplications on behalf of my people. She'll be a..."

"Shepherd to my people" Jamie cuts in, "that none of them should want; that they may not be lost nor destroyed. There are wars in my church, abomination here and there, sins untold and unheard. Therefore have I made her a priest in the order of Aaron and Melchizedek. I will make her oil flow to everyone she stands up for. I have made her a healing river.

Astonished, "Really? You know all those and you are still making ne to recite them before you?" James said, bulging his eyes.

"Come on" Jamie said, caressing his beard, "so what did the angel call her name?"

"Really? You are asking me that?" James asked, slightly furious "I know you know, you are just trying to mock me. It's the same name you kept enchanting. It didn't change."

"I want you to say it with your mouth, you know I don't like assuming."

"Okay, okay" he said, and cleared his throat, "the name is" he continued, but paused for some seconds, thinking, "wait, Sweetheart. Does that mean our daughter will have to face a Goliath?" he asked, with a great concern for the little girl.

"No dear, she will be facing a lot of them. James' eyes bulged.

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(Saturday, a day preceding the naming ceremony)

"And do you think those people will agree with you or what the Lord had said to you concerning their little daughter?" Rachael, the pastor's wife asked, "the name especially"

James and Jamie attended The Bethel Baptist Church not too far from their home, where Kenneth was the church pastor with Rachael, his wife as the pastor's wife. The couples were members of the church. "That's up to God to convince them, not me, and I pray he does." Kenneth replied.

The young pastor removed his glasses from his eyes and laid it between his opened bible at Number chapter 26 through 28. "That reminds me, tomorrow is the naming, and I haven't seen any message from the couples containing the name of the child." He said and sighed lightly. "That sounds suspiciously"

"Well let's hope the Lord is also dealing with them about it, and that's why it's taking so long." Rachael urged.

Kenneth heard his phone rang inside the bedroom and pleaded with Rachael to help him get it. Rachael rushed in before the call could end. "Sweetheart, it's them"

"James and Jamie, right? Kenneth asked, receiving the phone from her.

"Hello"

"Hello sir" James answered from the other end.

"How are you? Jamie and the little baby?

"All fine sir?"

"Okay, and how has been preparation for tomorrow?"

"Goo-d, yea, th-at's why I ca-lled" he answered, with little stammering.

"Okay?" Kenneth replied, eager and anxious to hear him.

"There's a little problem somewhere, sir?"

"Problem? And what could that be?"

"Uhmmm, yea, uhmmmm" James said, finding it difficult to relay to the pastor. "Actually we have been working on the name of the child and, uhmmm. As in, I mean we have been trying to give a good name to the child and, ehmmm..."

Kenneth, perceiving he was on the right track with the name and that God might have revealed the name of the child to her parents and who she was to become, cuts in, "Mr James"

"Y- es si- ir" he answered, stammering.

"Is her name David?"

Shocked and surprised, James withdrew the phone from his ear, covered the mouthpiece and whispered to Jamie, "did you give the name to the pastor already?"

"No" she whispered.

He returned to the call, "Yes sir, the name is David."

to be continued...

Story by: ADENIJI MICHEAL (MICHEALHADEN)