Today I woke up to some very shocking news that reminded me of a dream I had late last year, and which I had almost forgotten about.

I remember very clearly now it was on a Thursday of August 2019, and I had this disturbing dream which I never really understood and neither did I seek to understand much about it. My friend, today’s incident has made me regret why I never paid attention to the Dream.

That particular Thursday I remember I was so tired and I decided to sleep an hour earlier than my usual. I had just relocated from living with my parents in the village to town to start my life afresh, now that I had just graduated.

I remember with all the traveling, when I arrived in my new house, there was a lot unpacking of my belongings, and arranging stuff , so basically I was so much tired and just decided to sleep at around 8pm.

It must have been around 2pm in the night when my dream came. I dreamt that I was in junior school, and we were having an art lesson. My teacher was using my drawings as an example with class to show the rest of the pupils how he wanted the homework done. Then all of a sudden, we heard the bell ringing and we were all asked to swiftly march outside and proceed to the assembly ground. We all proceeded to the assembly ground and when everyone was settled, my very art teacher who was earlier teaching us in class came to address the whole school but no sooner had he started the speech than we heard some noise like the sound of a huge car approaching us. Everyone looked up and we were all terrified and I seemed to be the only one who noticed that it was an aeroplane flying above the assembly ground. It was actually flying at a lower level and to some point I felt like running. Everyone was still gazing up but they all seemed to be looking at something else. I was the only one who was seeing the plane approaching.

The noise of the plane became louder and louder and I almost could not bear the noise. I wanted to cover my ears, but before I could lift my hands, bang! The plane crashed just before my eyes. Funny enough there were no casualties, neither was anyone screaming or crying. In the dream I felt not to be deeply affected by this incident, but the loud bang of the crashing of the plane woke me up.!

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My friend, what would you have done having woken up in the middle of the night from such a dream. How would pray about it?

Well, I was very disturbed. At first I didn’t know, should I bind the devil? Should I be cancelling some unknown accidents? I had so many questions about the dream that I found myself binding the devil in prayer and pleading the blood of Jesus over my life. Then because I was so sleepy I managed to pray for just few minutes and continued with my sleep. Little did I know that this was not enough approach at all.

Then , like 40minutes into my sleep again I had a dream. This time it was such a lovely dream that I remember hearing myself laughing in the dream. I dreamt that I had given birth to the most beautiful, adorable healthy baby any mother could ever wish for. Then I was so happy seeing my child all grown up, I remember carrying my child, we cuddled and we started dancing around, we went outside and there was such a huge multitude of people cheering us , me and my baby! We kept dancing and singing and the more the people clapped for us the more happier I was and then I started laughing so loudly and it was the sound of my laughter that woke me up! Lol!

This time when I woke up, I didn’t feel any confusion. I was just at peace. Upon looking at my watch I noticed it was almost 4:30am and decided to finish my sleep. I slept soundly and there were no more dreams that night.

However, Today morning, I just received a very shocking phone call from my sis-in-law to be. As I am writing this I have just been told that my fiancee was involved in a gruesome accident. He was driving to the airport to board a plane since we had agreed that he was coming to join me in a cohabitation agreement.

Mind you dear reader, I was doing this agreement with my late fiancee against my pastor’s advice. I remember the first time I mentioned it to him, he simply asked me to wait and he would get back to me with more counseling about marriage. To him , he felt that I was young for marriage and I needed to approach it with caution. Likewise my mom, was totally against the idea of me getting married to a total stranger. When I mentioned about my fiancee to my parents, my mom was not of the idea, but my dad was like anything that will make my princess happy,is ok! You know the most dads always cover up for their daughters. !

My dear friend, I must mention to you, we met with my fiancee online actually on social media, on a dating app, we fell in love or so I thought and he proposed to me right there online few days later. Of course I agreed! And for your information we had never physically met before. So my relocating to town was in a way meant to create the opportunity for us to finally meet up and leave together as man and wife! Talk of killing two birds.

My friend, everything happens for a reason. Nothing catches God by surprise. In my mind I knew I had hidden my plans from my pastor and from my parents but it is not so with God.

You see, He tells us in the book of Jeremiah, ” For I know the thoughts I have for you, thoughts of peace and not evil. To give you a hope and a future.”

We ought to acknowledge God in all our ways that He may direct our paths.

Had I listened to the advice my pastor was giving me , Today I would have saved myself this heartbreaking I am experiencing as I am writing this post.

You see, God Is looking for OBEDIENCE. OBEDIENCE is better than sacrifice. This whole happening is not a surprise to my God. He’s all FOREKNOWING. The Alpha and Omega. That’s why He was warning me about this incident of today in the dream I had last year.

God saw that I held my dreams of getting married so highly and with great anticipation that it was bound to lead me astray. I was focusing more on the blessings than The Blesser!

And because of the great amazing love He has towards us, God will never fold His arms and watch while we walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

This was what was about to happen to me until I learnt about the sudden departure of my fiancee.

Now, more than ever I know that The Lord Is my Shepherd, and I shall not want….

Today I chose to obey His voice. I chose to listen to His Spirit. Today I know that when God speaks It is done. When He commands it stands!

I may not have obeyed His voice the first time He warned me in my dream but, I KNOW THAT HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY BLESSED MORNING.

God loves me so much that He repeated the His voice in the second dream that I had later that night because His ways are not our ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts. His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are much higher than our thoughts.

I had always wanted to have my way in life but today I know He knows the way. Jesus Is The Way. I chose to put my trust in Him that I may not be put to shame.

Though I may be weeping right now, deep down I know God Is not a man that He should lie. If He warned me about this incident through the first dream of the plane crashing right before my eyes, then The second confirmation is absolute truth.

Joy is coming my way. Great laughter is coming in my morning very soon. I have faith in God.