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When I Used To Be Vibrant- Fasina Muyiwa


In Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he prayed that they may be able to comprehend with all the saints the dimensions of the love of God and know the love of God that surpasses knowledge, thus inferring that there are depths of the Christain life that we can only be experienced as a community.

I'm Oluwamuyiwa Fasina, a graduate of Pharmacology from the University of Lagos where my Christain walk really started even though I was saved shortly before I got into school, I got baptised in the Holy Spirit while in 100l during one of the prayer meetings of my 'departmental' fellowship (Medical Science Students' Fellowship). The main fellowship I was with was The Redeemed Christain Fellowhip (RCF) where I served in the Bible-Study and Technical unit, I served as the Assisstant Academic Secretary and Assisstant Organising Secretary in my penultimate and final years respectively.

I graduated in 2014 before proceeding for NYSC the following year in Jos, Plateau State. The Christain life on campus is awesome and while I was in school, I would hear alumni mention that the intensity of one's walk would depreciate immediately one leaves school and immediately I would pray that whatever level I was when I would leave school would be my least ever. The major trigger of the Christain life on campus is always the knitly bonded community of believers.

When I got to Jos, it wasn't difficult to find a community of believers because I was staying in the NCCF family house, after about three months in the house, I got a PPA that was far from town amd they gave me an accommodation but I couldn't stay there because I couldn't afford that distance from the brethren instead, I opted to spend extra on transport because I loved the family I was with, I knew I had a place there and money was never going to be an issue, I knew no amount I could save could be worth the quality of fellowship I would miss.

Towards the end of my service year, I started sensing that God would have me stay back in Jos, but then I had a problem, How would I survive when I stay back and all my NCCF folks are all gone? I knew that the confirmation I needed was that if God really wanted me to stay back he would plant me into a family. Exactly two months before passing-out, I attended God-Life Assembly for a program and I knew it at the end of the program that 'this is home' and it dawned on me what God would have me do in Jos.

After about a year in Jos, I got a job offer in Abuja and I was led to take it after refusing it the previous year, even now that I'm presently in Abuja, Jos is still home. I spend two weekends there monthly, thus maintaining the same spiritual circle.

The major key for me in keeping the fire burning is community because in community you're accountable to one another, it's there you find help when you're weak. It's in there we know the love of God that's beyond knowledge, we can only experience it and it's via that experience that we are sustained.

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