Take caution! Be Wise!
Apostle Paul talks about a single
sister that she cares for the things of God which means God is your priority as
a single lady. A single lady born and purchased with the precious blood of
Jesus is called to serve the Lord. In service to God you will be honored and
lifted. It is important to use your youth for the Lord there is no sitting on
the fence at all. It is either you are for the Lord or for the devil.
The bible talks about God pouring out
his Spirit on all flesh including sons and daughters of the most high God. The
outpouring of the Spirit of God is evident in our days as we see young ladies
doing wonders for God through their local assembly and through their
independent drama, music, writing, teaching ministries.
So it is not uncommon that with these
ministries and services to God, single sisters often encounter dicey situation
and challenges in the line of his service. Caution must be put in place so you
don't end up getting stained or injured in the course of service. I will share
one out of many experiences I have had while single and serving Jesus.
In 2004 I had traveled to Akwa Ibom
state, Nigeria for mission to Nigerian secondary school with two of the sisters
in our ministry back then. The brother who was our contact there was doing his
national youth service corps in that state. He had under estimated the journey
to us so we found our self in a city called Onitsha half way to Ikot-Ekpene our
first point of ministration. It was late in the night when we got to Onitsha
and so we couldn't continue the journey that night we never knew it will turn out
like that. So we have to look for a place to pass the night with the little
insufficient money in our hands as we always step out in faith to go on
outreaches. We approached in what you can call a road side hotel and the man we
met charge each one of us 1000naira each back then just to stay in a room. It
was outrageous so we left thinking we could get a better place but alas we didn't find any. So we move to a church by the road side where the choir was
having a rehearsal for next day service as it was a Saturday with the hope of
spending the night there. Apart from the fact that there was total black out,
there open spaces on the wall so anyone could jump in at night.
A sister offered to take us to her
compound and we followed her joyfully as we got no choice only for us to
discover she was going to hand us 3 ladies to a man in a one room to sleep
there. The warning alarm begins to ring in my head as we saw the man put off
his shirt and lay on a chair offering us his bed. I dialogue with my sister in
our native language and left. I went out and talked to God as I walked back to
the first hotel that "God these your daughters are following you in my
life please help us tonight so we will not become casualty in serving you"
I prayed for favour and the man at hotel eventual agree to 1000 naira for the 3
of us as against the earlier offer of 3000 naira. I went back to get the other
sisters and we slept in that hotel though far from comfortable but at least
“safe” from becoming a causality. I can’t remember sleeping throughout the
night as there were many mosquitoes in the room I was praying in my heart for
the ministration ahead while constantly asking God to keep me till the very
end.
Some single sisters who set out with
zeal to serve the Lord unfortunately fell into such dilemma like we found
ourselves that night and many have lost their purity and virtue in the process.
Do you know that as a single sister serving Jesus your purity in Spirit, soul
and body is important to God? Your purity is a seal of God upon your calling to
serve so you must guard it with all caution. Don’t let the devil steal from
you, don’t let his agents steal from you and of course the “seemingly’’ saints.
In the course of ministry I have heard many pathetic stories of how supposed
mentors of single sisters, pastors, fathers of faith so to say have taken
advantage of them taking away their purity and the seal of God on their life
and ministry. Let no one deceive you
beloved single sister, your body belongs to Christ and so let no man take
advantage of it. Be wise run away from situation that will land you into
trouble, if that brother want to support your ministry and he is always
inviting you over at odd times...Take caution!
If the only place you can meet your
mentor is in a private place away from prying eyes without his wife, do not go.
Special appointment in hotels and secret places for prayer support is uncalled
for; you don’t use your body to get money for your ministry or project it is a
sin against God and your body. Don’t spend the night in a single brother’s room
under the pretext of there is no option; there are options if only you will ask
God. If a man is sleeping with you and promoting your musical album or film
production you are not serving God but Satan. If you are secretly having an affair with a
married man you are soiling your marital bed and offering a strange service to
God therefore you will be open to all satanic activities and attack.
If the Lord has given you a vision he
will surely provide for it, don’t help God and get into trouble. There are
cases in the bible where man tried to help God and it backfire, we are still
suffering the consequences of Sarah trying to help God today by giving her maid
to sleep with her husband and get a child which was a counterfeit of the
promised and covenanted seed of Abraham.
"But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise" Galatians 4: 23
Before you set out for any ministration seek the face of God, dress decently and if you are sleeping over in your host take caution don’t go around the house in night gown. Be security conscious check that the doors are properly locked. Not that you are living in fear but you are being cautious. If you have a married mentor let it be the husband and wife, don’t get so attached to another woman husband in the name of mentoring.
Everything you do now is a seed so be wise and sow good seed!
May the Lord be with you as you go around serving the Lord.
Shalom!
Oluwatoyin Fatunsin
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