Wife of Nigeria’s pioneer modern day pentecostal pastor and the Archbishop of the Church of God Mission International, Bishop Mama Margaret Idahosa has sent a word of advise to young brides and brides to be.
Her counsel is reminiscent of that of a mother speaking to her daughter who is about to be given out in marriage or who just recently wedded.
While not taking anything from her message, she captions her counsel as:
MAMA IDAHOSA’S ADVICE TO LADIES:
*DON’T ALLOW YOUR PRESENT POSITION DICTATE YOUR FUTURE.
*DON’T SAY I MUST GET THIS AND THAT BEFORE MARRIAGE.
*I MARRIED MY HUSBAND WITH ‘KPANDA’ AND NOW ALL I WEAR ARE DIAMONDS
“There’s an aspect that I need to tell you or reiterate to you about the day we got wedded, so that the new ladies now, our girls now, will not say until I have this, until I have that before I will get married.
The day we got married, my husband didn’t have a car, we only had a motorcycle. Yamaha, Yamaha 200, that was what we had. The day we got married, we borrowed our car. Our car took us to church and brought us back to the reception. Before the reception was over, the owner of the car told my husband that he had a place to go, so, he took the car. Then, we did our reception in the frontage of one of the in-law’s house. The in-law was coming back from Lagos and “he told his wife”, listen, I don’t want to meet any crowd at the front of my house. So, we hurried things over and when it was time for us to go home, there was no car. I had to tiptoe, my husband had to carry my veil and we had about 8 houses before we got to our house. My husband carried my veil, we both walked or trekked to the house.
“Why am I saying this?
I’m saying this to tell our young ladies that it’s not everything you must have. If I want a limousine to take me to church now, it’s at my beckon and I will get it, but then, there was none. But you see, don’t allow the position that you are in now to dictate your future because your future is bright, your future is great, your future is powerful. So, don’t let what you have now disturb you at all. My husband said before he left, he said where you are coming from is “hind”, that is, it’s behind you. There’s nothing to write home about where you are coming, but where you are now you are not perturbed because you know where you are going.
In her conclusion, Mama Idahosa admonished the young brides on fathers and trust in God.
“So ladies, I know where you are going. I know because, I am a woman of God. I can pray you to where you are going, and also, believe God, believe God for yourself as Sarah believed God for herself. When you believe God, you become what you believe. So, I just want you to know that it was not roses.”
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