Two weeks before Discovering Treasures 2014, my nine month old daughter started stooling uncontrollably, and it later deteriorated to irritating blisters all over her bum, with the skin peeling off and smelly water coming out of the sore. This became a major concern to me since I didn’t experience that with my other children. I took her to a pharmacist and I was given baby Tribotan serum and one “jedi-jedi” drug.
The Tribotan serum dried up the surface of the blisters while the “jedi-jedi” drug made her stool more and begin to lose strength. I had to discontinue with the medication and decided to break bread with her, and also spoke the Word because that was where her unusual strength would come from. Hearing Rev. Inyang Okutinyang say God will turn our mistakes to a blessing in the opening confession during his message I keyed into that word and asked God for mercy, because I made the mistake of giving my daughter too much sugar in this case.
We decided not to be in church on the second day of Discovering Treasures because we had stopped wearing her diapers so that the blisters could heal, but my home caregiver thought otherwise and promptly gave her opinion. “Aunty, why not carry her to church, she might get her healing; I’m a testimony to this.” I quickly prepared my other children and we made it to church, albeit late. We were so late for service that I had to sit at the back in the overflow.
When our Woman of God, Pastor Nkechi climbed the pulpit and started ministering in the gift of the word of knowledge, the next thing I heard was, “There is someone who has been stooling over sometime now, something like diarrhea. Probably, it could be a child and could be in the Children’s Church right now, signify by raising your hands.” I don’t know what came over me at that point. I felt like jumping, screaming and even rolling all at once. I was so amazed that God saw my daughter’s situation and went further to assure me that He is watching over her and would certainly heal her. I began to cry uncontrollably.
As soon as I saw my daughter at TC Cubs Complex, I checked her diaper. She had stooled, but this time it was a normal stool. We got home and she slept that night. I even checked her diaper again and again until morning, but there was no stool. When I picked her from her class after service the next day (Sunday), I quickly checked her diaper again, but I saw nothing in it. All I could do was throw her up and scream, “Thank you Jesus! No more unnecessary stool. Thank you Jesus for using Pastor Nkechi for speaking the word of knowledge that healed you.” All my baby did was laugh because I guess that even though she is a baby, she knew it was a concern.