Evelyn Joshua, Prophet TB Joshua's wife of 23 years, in this rare
encounter, opened up about how she met and married the man of God at the
Synagogue at the age of 17 and her role in his ministry.
It is indeed an interesting read. Excerpt:
I
visited a sister somewhere at Ikotun-Egbe and they were all talking
about a particular man, a prophet. Half of the people in the room had
all met him and they were saying a lot of good things about him. After
everything, I asked my sister if she could take me to him. I needed a
spiritual guide at the time. A counselor. So we went there but
unfortunately didn't meet him at home. Some months later I visited him
again alone, that was in 1990.
Before this time, the idea I had
about this prophet was that he was an old man, with a long white beard.
So on that day I was reading a novel that I came with when I suddenly
saw someone come into the room, pick one or two things and went back.
The person I saw wasn't an old man so I didn't pay him any attention.
But when he went back to the consulting room, one of the people also
waiting to speak with him said 'that's him'.
When it eventually
my turn to see him, we sat opposite each other. He was gazing at me for a
few minutes, and I was also gazing at him. Transfixed as I was, I saw
him write something on a piece of paper, 'Ejide' (means twin has come).
I'm a twin.
Then we started talking and he told a lot of things
about myself, both things I knew and the ones I didn't know. He told me
about my family, about my past, about my future. Altogether we spoke for
about forty five minutes. At the end of the whole thing he spoke to me
in Yoruba. He said (translated in English) 'Please don't be annoyed.
Don't think this is how I talk to everyone that comes to me. I don't
have a concubine and I don't want to have a concubine. But will you
marry me?'
Just like that. It was strange, but that gives me an
insight into what the scripture says that the spirit testifies with our
spirit that we are God's children. That was how I met him. When he
proposed to me my heart agreed with it instantly. Some months later I
asked him why he thought it was right seeing a lady for the first time
and proposing to her. He said he had seen me four days before that day. I
don't know if it was in a dream or a revelation. We had our traditional
and church wedding a few months later.
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