Some time ago, one of my prayer points was to be able to attain the highest certification in my profession (IT Service Management). The requirement for this was attending 2 courses which were rarely held in Nigeria, taking 2 three hour exams over 2 days. The total cost of the courses and exams was £5,000 (₦1.2m). I believed God for the money. As God would have it, I found out that a UK Training provider was partnering with a Nigerian company to deliver the courses in December for two weeks with the exams coming up in January. It was a breakthrough for me as the cost was greatly reduced to about ₦700,000. But I still needed a miracle to get that amount. I was sent a notice that I needed to make my payments by October. As at the beginning of September I didn't have the money. On the last day of September I got a call reminding me of an allowance I was entitled to which I was ignorant of. I calculated the amount to my bonus for that month and it came to exactly ₦1.2 million. That was an overflow. With the exams coming up in Lagos, I didn't need to liquidate some of my assets which I was already planning to do. I paid my tithe, sowed a seed towards the Church auditorium and wrote a cheque for the course.

I went for the courses and wrote the exams in December and January respectively. The exams were tough but I believed God would perfect what He had started. I later sowed precious seeds into the lives of my Pastors. I never really tied the seeds to anything particular, but it later dawned on me that I might as well tie it to some things, one of which was my exams. Pastor Charles called me thereafter and said that God will increase me, and I held on to that word as prophecy.

At the beginning of March, after our morning prayer, I told my wife that I believed God was saying He would do something specific on the 29th of that month. When that day came we remembered, though the day ended with nothing significant happening – or so we thought.

The next day, I got a call from one of those who sat for the exam saying that his result was sent to him via e-mail but he didn't make one of his papers. I told God that the first thing I wanted to see when I opened my result e-mail was congratulations. This was exactly what happened. When I saw it, I screamed to the extent that people ran out of their offices towards mine to see what had gone wrong. I immediately went on my knees praising God. What was more was that the e-mail was sent 7.30 pm on the 29th of March! God had fulfilled His word. I found out later that out of the 6 of us that wrote I was the only one that passed. Statistically, only 9,000 people world wide own this certification; less than 15 in Nigeria, and in my company I became the fourth person. God has actually increased me according to the word of the man of God.