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Testimony: A Bit Of History Of A Past Heavy Drinker And Smoker
FADARE MAYOWA's testimony "A Bit Of History Of A Past Heavy Drinker And Smoker" on 4/15/2014, 10:39am...
I am a young man from western Nigeria who lived in Lagos state. To many I may
be considered a nobody. As a matter of fact, you may have walked past me on
the road in the past or stand beside me at the bus-stop not taking any notice of
me. But please let me have your attention for some minutes. I have a past I
actually want to share with you. There was a time in my life when I indulged in
heavy drinking of alcohol and smoking (marijuana) I was so derailed in thinking
that I saw drinking and smoking as the best way for a man to relax.
My teenager years I could remember that I didn't like the smell of Cigarette and
Alcohol it seemed like poison to my face, but unfortunately I turned to be a
drunkard and a smoker (marijuana) even, I equally inhaled gum and petrol. It all
started like a dream I joined friends in drinking and smoking and lied to my parent.
Some years after my ND program. I came home that same year I had admission
into aviation school where I met different friends with different background. For
me getting admission into aviation school, I exacted money from my parents to
buy drinks for friends I felt that has how life is being started. I started from one
bottle to a stage that I wasn't drinking beer, I went for gin and smoked marijuana
some years back I was given money to buy a car for my self I used the money
for drinking ,smoking, clubbing and womanized to the extend that people could
not welcome me any more. I used to go from one bar to another without money in
my pocket. After drinking I would pretend as if was going to their toilet, from there
I find my way out. Or if I do not do that I would beg for drink from friends until they
avoided me. 90% of my income then went for drinking and smoking . When
people gave me money to work for them for example maybe the job cost 100
thousand I prefer to collect 40 thousand just because its will enable me to buy
drink and smoke During my year as a drunkard and smoker I preferred going to
bar than to church. Until one day, I came back from where I do smoke (marijuana)
and drink alcohol getting back home to relax I was lying on the bed and I notice
that someone was speaking to me that I should take a look at my self and the life
I was living. Immediately I stood up, but I did not see any body.
The spirit was telling me to look at my self then I was afraid ,I looked at myself in
the mirror ,but I didn't find anything wrong with me but the spirit was still telling
me to look at yourself ,after that I open my wardrobe to pick out one of my finest
cloth and I put it on, them I was telling myself that after all if I want to go out I am
still presentable and okay with the cloth, but the spirit then told me that I was not
okay and presentable at all, immediately my eye open I saw my self how my skin
was and discover that I was not okay. I ran out from the room crying like a boy to
meet my sister I then asked her so I am living in darkness, the answer she gave
me made me cry and cry ' SO YOU DON'T KNOW” this time my eye was open and clear but it all still seemed so incredible to be true. That same day I started to
recollect how my father and all well wisher used to advices me, and on how I travel
on a road of destruction, then I was taken to church. Which I was completely mad
for three hour. GOD told me to tell all my friends that we smoke and drank together
and people out there to stop smoking and drinking. And I vowed to the Lord that in
obedience I would move round Africa to bring the vision to pass I reasoned that if
GOD could do that to me he can do it to others.