BREAKING FAMILY LIMITATIONS

Good morning, afternoon/evening, sir, ma'am, and the whole Dunamis family.

As my name has already been stated above, I hail from Taraba State, Nigeria, Donga LGA to be precise, but moved to Jalingo in 2012.

I come from a family where my mother's side is doing well in all realms, but my father's side is full of shame and limitations.

Therefore, God helped me not to align with my father's people.

Both my father and mother separated when I was 2 to 3 years old. We were four children, and I am number three. I have two elder sisters, while my younger sister, who was the last born in my father's house, died after my mother remarried.

Life was tough because neither my father nor my mother had us in mind. In fact, they abandoned us in the hands of our grandmother (my mother's mother).

We grew up like orphans.

My first elder sister got married at the age of 18 without completing her primary school education. My second elder sister also got married at the age of 16 to 17 after completing her primary school education.

My father later married another wife after separating from our mother. As we started growing, my uncle called our father to come and take his children.

My second sister was adopted by one of my aunts (my father's sister). When my first elder sister got married, because of how our father was maltreating us, my second sister was brought back from where she had been adopted by our aunt.

Our father collected money from a stranger whom she had never met and had no relationship with. She was forced to marry the man, who was almost 50 years old, when she was only 16 to 17 years old, just because of ₦15,000 (fifteen thousand naira). That was in 2006.

Life was full of predicaments.

There was no favor from anywhere. I was now the only person remaining from my mother's side to stay with my father. But due to the maltreatment from my stepmother and father, I fled back to my mother's people after completing my primary school education in 2007.

I started my secondary school education, but my uncle, who was also so much in love with farming, could not adequately support my education. So, I stopped schooling until 2012.

In 2012, I was able to farm beniseed (Sesame seeds), and then I enrolled myself in secondary school in JSS 2 at Wetibi Government Secondary School, Ananum, Donga LGA, Taraba State.

In 2012, I wrote Junior WAEC, and one of my uncles asked me to move to Jalingo, promising that he would assist me in completing my secondary school education.

Then, I was able to complete my secondary school education in 2015.

My uncle's business later crashed, and he could no longer take care of himself or me. He asked me to return to the village, but I refused, and this became a problem between my uncle and me.

Before 2015/2016, I came across the Seeds of Destiny devotional book by Dr Pastor Paul Enenche. This was the book that taught me how to read a book and understand what a writer was passing across. So, I picked an interest in reading it all the time. In fact, even the old editions that were two years old, I still enjoyed reading them as if they were fresh.

Seeds of Destiny made me develop an interest in the Dunamis Commission.

In 2017, I wrote JAMB, but I scored below the expected aggregate to gain admission into the university.

Then suddenly, Dunamis Church was brought to Sabon Gari, Jalingo, in that same year (2017), and the church was planted in a shop opposite my kiosk. In fact, I can remember that I was the first person they started evangelism with. When they mentioned the name "Dunamis", I was already in love with the church, as it had come to my doorstep.

From there, I did my Foundation Class and Maturity Training Course.

Then, in 2021/2022, DUSOM (Dunamis School of Ministry) came to Jalingo.

After the first batch, I joined the second batch and graduated in 2023.

One thing that happened during this time was that, during one of our lecture sessions, our resident pastor, Pastor Samuel Edino, who was then the resident pastor in Yola, walked into our class that day.

After the lecture, he came directly to me and said, "God will change your story."

Brethren, from there, I developed the passion that after DUSOM, I would proceed to the university.

Brethren, to cut the long story short, today, I am at Taraba State University, Jalingo, in the Department of Business Administration, and I am the class representative.

Things are really hard when it comes to taking care of myself and sponsoring my education, but the truth is that I am the first and only person from both my father's and mother's lineages to attend a university.

Out of the 12 children in my mother's family, I am the only person in school, currently a 200-level student at Taraba State University, Jalingo, going to 300 level.

All I am today is through the teachings and encounters at the Dunamis Altar. To God alone be all the glory!

And to Daddy and Mummy Enenche, may God bless you abundantly for answering His call.

In fact, this is a generational embargo because my father finished secondary school in Form 5 (1984) but could not proceed further.

But today, I have gone beyond where he stopped.

Thank You, Jesus.