I could have dozed off inside the Ajumose bus (the Ibadan version of BRT), but something woke me up. It was a voice that carried more than lyrics and melody. The effect it had on me was like that of a hotspot that has just detected a Wi-Fi.
My aim was to rest my muscles as I was going home inside the bus, but the song this man is singing is triggering a chain reaction. For a while now, I have been meditating on the tangible presence of God and how to discover it even in a very secular atmosphere.
Few seats ahead of me inside the bus, a man was singing a song and it was causing so much presence inside the bus. I could sense it. He was singing- "at the center of it all, it's You that I see". He kept on repeating that line, quite loudly.
I know it is prohibited to do religious stuffs inside the bus, but the network is too strong for my hotspot not to connect. I damned the consequences and I began to sing along. I started with humming before I fully joined the singing. I could sense the presence of Jesus becoming stronger as we sang in the bus.
As we sang and enjoyed the flow of the Spirit, the man directly in front of me turned back and I could see anger in his face. His dressing and beard that proved that he is devoted Muslim.
He roared at me "dake enu re" (shut up your mouth). At that point, the man who began the song initially changed the song we were singing. He changed it to the Sinach song- Way Maker. I sang more loudly this time. When we got to the point where we sang "You are here, moving in our midst", the man in front of me turned back again
He opened his mouth with the same anger as the first time, but what came out of his mouth was "Jesus is king, Jesus is king". Two scriptures popped up in my heart. One, Saul wanted to kill David in Ramah, but when the anointing came upon him, he began to prophecy and two, the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. To me, this confirms the presence of Jesus!
Suddenly, on the other side of the bus, someone started speaking in other Tongues. As the voice of the third man swept the bus, a cold breeze blew across the bus and everywhere went silent. There was reverence in the bus. I had seen this before. I know what it means! Someone is around!
The song continued in the bus and another voice joined us. This other voice wasn't singing, it was weeping. The young man wept out loudly. He screamed "I am a sinner, help me". Then I noticed a lady not so far away from me. She was shivering. I couldn't move towards her because of bus was still in motion.
After about 2 minutes, we met a little traffic and the man who was praying in tongues stood up and preached for few minutes. 14 people (including the man directly in front of me) made a decision for Jesus!
Could these dreams be fiction?
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