My name is Zainab Olulana. During the 90 Days Challenge, a lot of things happened actually, God has really been faithful. So, towards the end of the 90 Days Challenge, Pastor declared that this is the season where our highest expectations would be fulfilled. It was actually during the 7 days of special encounters that Pastor started talking about Psalm 50 that says, God enters into covenant with His people by sacrifice and when Pastor K.K came, he also buttressed on that, he said we needed to give our Isaac seed, and the day he made that statement, Pastor came up and said that we are not the ones that determine what the seed is, the Holy Spirit will tell us that seed is, that we are to ask.
So, excitedly, I said ‘Lord, do you want my car?’ but I knew in my heart that I didn’t love the car but God said ‘No, No, No, I don’t want your car, the money you’ve been saving up for your trip, that’s what I want you to give’. I had just even changed some money; I had some dollars with me and then I had some money in my account that I had actually saved up for my vacation this year. I felt the urging to give everything, I struggled with it because my car had just quarter tank and I was telling the Holy spirit that ‘Let me just keep 10,000 naira, so I can buy fuel tomorrow morning’. He said ‘If you don’t trust me to fill your tank, how will you trust me to give you what you deserve when you drop this?’ And I released everything that I had with me, I cleared out my account, it was on zero. The Holy Spirit had said to me ‘You’ve never done this before, if you do what you’ve never done before, you will see what you’ve never seen before’, and I dropped it with all excitement and I started anticipating what God will do. This was about the 29th of May.
I was at home on the 31st of May minding my business when about 9:30pm, my boss just called me from the office. I work in an organization where typically there is no source for promotion, if there is an opportunity, everybody applies, you get interviewed at different levels, and at the end of the day, the best man wins, but my boss just called me that night and said Zainab, I’ve gotten another role in this organization and I’ve nominated you as my replacement as the Director of Public Sector in Nigeria and I was shocked. I said ‘O.k, what do I need to do? when are the interview schedules?’ She said ‘No interviews, I’ve spoken with the Senior Vice-President, he is happy with my nomination’. I was struggling to understand what she was saying when she dropped the call, I was just so grateful.
I said God, ‘I don’t understand what’s happening’, I was excited, at the same time, I was scared because it means a lot of changes for me, it means that my target will go up, because I will now be carrying the entire team’s target, and it was also very exciting because I got to recruit my new team members, and a whole lot of trainings and so many other things. But, I was a little bit scared because I knew that there has been a ban on ICT procurement in Nigeria because of COVID and all that drama. But then, on the 1st of June, few days after that, I was in church, it was a Tuesday and I remember very precisely because I was excited and I was scared that ‘how do I want to deliver the number for the team?’ Our target was about 4.5 million dollars for the year and Pastor made a statement that day, I wrote it down, it was at 7;38pm on the 1st of June, He said that ‘God will make your work look easy, you will look like you know how to do it’.
I jumped up from my seat when he made that declaration and I received it with the whole of my heart. So, I was thankful, I said ‘God gave me this job, and he is going to give me a strategy on how to do it’. Three weeks later, I had already been working on a project but we left it because of the ban on ICT procurement, I had been working on it since 2019, it was a very huge deal. These people had already stopped answering my calls, it was as if the deal had just stalled. So, I just decided to call them that day and find out what was happening. I was told that they were presenting our project to the Federal Executive Council already and I would be called back around 6pm.
I was like if I had known ‘I would have prayed and fasted’. Then, I remembered that a word had gone ahead that this would be our season where our highest expectations would be fulfilled. I sent a message to Baba, and Baba just responded ‘It is done’. By evening, I got the call ‘Congratulations Zainab, your project has been approved’. I was so excited. My target for the entire team was 4.5 million dollars and this deal was 30 million dollars, I didn’t really have to struggle, I got it on a platter. My husband was also promoted, with a house in Banana Island, and an all-expense paid vacation.
While this was still going on, I have a sister in the UK whose husband is a dentist. He relocated about 14 years ago, He is very intelligent and he had never failed an exam before. When they relocated, he had to write an exam to register as a dentist there and he wrote the exam several times, but he was failing. He was failing by sometimes quarter, and sometimes half a point to the pass mark. A word came to them during the challenge, and He wrote to the association over there, they told him to just send his transcript from school to determine if they would be able to register him based on that. On the 10th of June, Baba gave a word that ‘Today, you would hear good news from a far country’. I received that word and mentioned my sister and her husband’s name in the prayer. That day, my sister called me and said ‘The approval has come, my husband has been registered to practice dentistry in the UK, he did not have to write any exam’. The devil thought he had blocked the door but God took away the roof and made the impossible possible.
God has been faithful, God has been amazing.
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