Episode 89

THE JESUS SLAY QUEENS 2

Episode 89

© Ayo Omolayo

"Hello! Julie angel! How are you?" Robert asked.

"Hi Romeo! I don't pick calls at this time of the night. This is 11:15pm. Why are you calling me by this time? You promise to call me immediately you were done with the ministration. Just look at the time you're calling me?

" I am so sorry! Goodnight! I'll call you tomorrow! Bye!"

"Shoooo! Wait na! Allow me to land!"

"I'm sorry for calling you at this time of the night! It's unprofessional to call a lady at the late hours of the night. And based on the kind of personality you are, I'm supposed to respect you enough to call you at the convenient time. I will try and adjust to your standards more I'll call you when it's more convenient."

"Daddy! I'm sorry! I don't understand this guy at all!"

"YOU STARTED IT YOURSELF! YOUR MAN CALLED YOU AND ALL YOU DID WERE TO MAKE COMPLAINTS."

"But I'm sorry!"

" IS IT ME YOU WOULD APOLOGIZE TO OR YOUR MAN?"

"Daddy please help me out! I'm seriously tired of hurting this man all the time."

"JULIET LET ME TEACH YOU A SECRET. YOU NEED TO LEARN THE SECRET OF QUEEN ESTHER. IF YOU'RE EVER GOING TO BE A GOOD WIFE, THIS SECRET MUST STAY WITH YOU.

I'LL TEACH YOU LATER. ANSWER YOUR MAN."

"So I'll call you tomorrow!"

"My Romeo! Don't leave your baby girl na! Why are you doing like this?"

"I'm sorry!"

"But I picked your call!"

"Yes, but you said you don't pick calls by this time of the night. Why did you pick my call?"

"Because it's this special call. It's a call that puts smiles on my face. Whenever I see my phone ringing and your name appearing as the caller, it makes me smile without thinking."

"If someone else had called you by this time, would you have picked it?"

"No! Never!"

"So why is my own special?" 

I started laughing. It was completely clear to me he was messing with me all this while. 

"Romeo, please allow me to sleep!" I said admist laughter.

"Okay! Goodnight!"

"Haaaaaaaa! Wait na! Wait first!"

"Juliet, I want to tell you something that has been on my mind lately, but it seems you need to sleep, so let me allow you take your rest.

"Actually, I was waiting for your call. That's why I have been awake."

"Wow! So I kept this woman of God awake? Who am I that is great woman who stay awake waiting for my call?"

I was just grinning sheepishly.

"Say what you have to say, I'm listening!"

"I think it's better I allow you to sleep!"

"You this man you are not caring at all oooo! I'm trying my best here to stay awake to listen to what you have to say and you are not saying anything. I will vex and end this call."

"Please end it!"

"Haaaaaaaa! Why are you doing me like this? Oya I'm sorry!"

"My name is not oya! Call my name properly."

"My sweet Roberto! I'm sorry! Forgive your baby girl!"

"Wow! Sweet Roberto! I love that name."

"So have you forgiven your angel?"

"I wasn't angry with her in the first place. So what am I forgiving?"

"Thank you so much!"

"You're welcome!"

"I wanted to tell you how I feel, but I want you to tell me yours first."

"Haaaaaaaa! Romeo! You said you have something to tell me, now I'm the one to tell you something."

"Yes because it's your fault. It's your fault that I fell in love with you. You're the one who made me fall in love with you and now, you're putting the blame on the serpent."

"Chai! Roberto you are lucky we are having this conversation on the phone. Remind me when next we'll meet, I'm owing you a slap on your cheeks."

"You want to slap a full grown man? I am no longer that little boy you could slap back then in secondary school."

"I must pay back in your own coins."

"Anyway, thank God we always see ourselves in public places. I can't imagine you slapping a man of God in the presence of his church members. They'll make sure the beat you."

"I'm going to slap you when you come for the singles or teenagers meeting. I'll slap you in the ministers room where nobody will be able to see you."

" I don't understand. You want to pull me into that place so that you can slap me. No secluded places in this relationship. And no one is permitted to break the rules."

"I know that is what you are going to say but don't worry. I will always look for a way to get my revenge."

"Lord, all those who plan to revenge against me. Do not allow them to have sleep this night."

"Haaaaaaaa! Romeo!" I called admist laughter.

"Romeo! You don't want me to sleep?"

"How will you be sleeping when you have used love to pursue sleep from my eyes? I am trying to sleep, yet to sleep won't come. If I roll to one end of the bed, it's your face I will see. If I am dreaming, you're the one appearing in my dream."

"Please reverse that utterance. I need to sleep. I'm on morning shift at the hospital."

"No peace for the wicked!"

"Haaaaaaaa! I'm not wicked oooo! Please don't kill me with laughter this night. My stomach is already aching me."

" if you want to die I have a very good spacious cave to bury you. My heart is 6 feet deep! I'll bury you in my heart!"

"Chai! When did you become a poet?" I asked laughing hard.

"Anyway, I want to apologize for feeling to call when I promised. I was so busy counselling teenagers after the meeting that I forgot to call. In fact, I slept off when I got home. It was in the midst of my sleep that I remembered I had not called you. I jumped out of sleep and placed a call across to you. I'm sorry I almost forgot my Juliet! Please find a place in your heart to forgive me!"

"Awwwwnnnn! I'm seriously blushing right now! At least, you finally called her and are loving heart already forgave you before you apologized."

"Wow! Loving heart! That means I need to do a heart transplant."

"You have started again!"

"But that's the truth. Not everyone has a loving heart like my Juliet. I'm so lucky to have a woman with a loving heart that can forgive my offense before I apologize. How many ladies out there can forgive their man without him asking for it?"

"I hear you sir! I'm still a work in progress. God is still working on me and by his grace, I am becoming a better version of myself.

"And God will keep making you into a vessel of honour in Jesus name."

"Amen!"

"Goodnight my love!"

"Goodnight my sweet Roberto!" 

That's how the call ended and to me, it was as though the conversation should go on. 

"Daddy, how was it? Did I fall your hand?"

"YOU DID GREAT! BUT I SERIOUSLY NEED YOU TO LEARN ABOUT THE SECRET OF QUEEN ESTHER."

ARE YOU READY?"

"Ready!" I replied as I grabbed my bible study jotter and pen. 

"OPEN TO THE BOOK OF ESTHER CHAPTER 5 AND START THE READING FROM VERSE ONE."

"Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. 

Verse 2. And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre. 

Verse 3. Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom. 

Verse 4. And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him."

"IN EVERY MAN, THERE'S A KING AND THERE'S A BEAST. AS LONG AS IT'S A MAN YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED TO, THEY ALL POSSESS IT. 

YOU BRING OUT THE BEST AND THE KING IN A MAN THROUGH WORSHIP. YOU BRING OUT THE BEAST IN HIM THROUGH MURMURING AND COMPLAINING. 

HAVE YOU NOTICED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS? WHENEVER THEY NEEDED SOMETHING FROM GOD, THEY ALWAYS LACK MANNER OF APPROACH. INSTEAD OF MAKING A REQUEST TO GOD AS HIS CHILDREN, THEY START COMPLAINING TO HIM.

THEY COMPLAINED TO A POINT THAT GOD SENT SNAKES TO BITE THEM."

"Wow!" 

"HAVEN'T YOU READ THAT IN THE SCRIPTURES?" 

"Yes, but I never saw it that way."

"LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING MANY MARRIED WOMEN HAVE FAILED TO PRACTICE. OPEN TO PROVERBS 25:24."

I opened the scripture on my phone app to get what different versions would have to say and read them all.

"NLT: It is better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a contentious wife in a lovely home.

AMP: It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a disagreeing, quarrelsome, and scolding woman.

MSG: Better to live alone in a tumbledown shack

than share a mansion with a nagging spouse.

NIV: Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife."

"ESTHER HAD BEEN IN THE PALACE WITH THE KING FOR ONE MONTH AND NEVER SAW HER HUSBAND. WHAT KIND OF WOMAN WOULD BE HAPPY TO HAVE SUCH A BUSY HUSBAND?"

"The loneliness will be too much to bear. No woman can endure such a man without lashing at him."

"AND BRING OUT THE BEAST IN YOUR HUSBAND."

"So you mean if I see my husband doing something terrible, I should clap for him? I should worship him? Am I to worship my husband?"

"I USED THE WORD WORSHIP, BECAUSE I WANTED TO EMPHASIZE ON REVERENCE. THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS. I'M NOT SAYING YOU SHOULD WORSHIP YOUR HUSBAND, THE WORD WORSHIP IS REPLACED BY THE WORD REVERENCE. IT MEANS TO HONOUR AND RESPECT A PERSON.

ESTHER HAD NOT SEEN HER HUSBAND FOR A LONG TIME, BUT INSTEAD OF LASHING OUT AT HIM, SHE PREPARES A SPECIAL DELICACY FOR HIM. AND AT THE DINING TABLE, THE MAN FELT SO GUILTY FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE AND BEGAN TO ASK HER AGAIN TO REQUEST FOR ANYTHING.

THIS IS SOMETHING MANY WOMEN HAVE FAILED TO REALIZE. ESTHER SHOWED US THAT THE WAY TO A MAN'S HEART IS THROUGH TREATENING HIM LIKE A KING. 

MEN ARE NEVER GOING TO BE HUNDRED PERCENT PERFECT. THIS WAS THE SAME KING WHO ORDERED VASHTI TO COME BEFORE HIM AND SHE REFUSED. IF YOU WERE TO INTERVIEW VASHTI AND ASK HER WHY SHE DID THAT, YOU'LL BE SHOCKED.

YOU'LL ALMOST CALL VASHTI A GOOD WIFE FOR ACTING THE WAY SHE DID. BUT, WE CALL HER A DISOBEDIENT AND QUARRELSOME WIFE, WHILE MANY BELIEVERS ARE FOLLOWING HER EXAMPLE. 

BUT SHE LOST HER MAN COMPLETELY. MANY MARRIAGES HAVE TURNED SOUR BECAUSE OF THIS ONE MISTAKE. HE'S NOT PERFECT, YES! TREAT HIM LIKE A KING. PRAISE HIM AND APPRECIATE HIS LITTLE EFFORTS. WATCH HOW IT WILL BRING OUT THE BEST IN HIM. 

WHENEVER YOU RESPECT A MAN IN HIS IMPERFECT STATE, YOU AWAKEN HIS CONSCIENCE AND STIR HIS ZEAL TO DO BETTER."

"STOP BEING A COMPLAINING WIFE. BE A PRAISING WIFE AND WATCH HOW YOU'LL BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR HUSBAND."

To be Continued......

I believe this is a message. Sometimes in your life, God might not have given you all you asked for, but approaching him witb gratitude moves him to do more.

What makes you think marriage is any different? 

Esther would have lost her home the same way Vashti did, if not for this secret. The king became her errand boy. Just say anything Esther. I will do it for you! 

Sometimes, hubby attitude is not only prayers alone. Examine what Esther did and practice it.

I believe this message is for someone.

INSPIRED BY THE BREAD OF LIFE

WRITTEN BY AYO OMOLAYO

YOUR BROTHER IN CHRIST 🙏