THE DREAM I WAS TOLD TO IGNORE UNTIL PEOPLE DIED IN DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH OKENE IN 2012 by Israel Oluwashina

THE DREAM I WAS TOLD TO IGNORE UNTIL PEOPLE DIED IN DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH OKENE IN 2012.

There are some memories that never leave you.

I have been having some flashbacks recently, even following the gruesome killings of innocent people in Nigeria as we speak.

No matter how many years pass, they sit quietly somewhere in your mind and return whenever certain conversations come up.

One of those memories for me happened in 2012, in Okene, Kogi State.

You have to read this piece with understanding else, you'll lose the vitals, don't rush to the comment section to start exhibiting ignorance; because this post will change your life...

On August 6, 2012, gunmen attacked the Deeper Life Bible Church in Otite, Okene, during a Monday evening Bible study.

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It's was around 7:50pm, I still remember, the GS was on point 2, when we started hearing gunshots.

The attackers first switched off the generator first, threw the whole place into darkness, and then opened fire on worshippers. About 19 people lost their lives, including the pastor, a well-known person.

Many people that I know were injured. It happened just behind the Federal College of Education campus in Okene, where we were holding our own Bible.

I was there in Okene then. I was like a dream. Just a few meters away from that environment, off campus.

And this is the part that has stayed with me all these years.

Just before the gruesome attack, about two or three weeks, I had a strange dream.

I usually don't even like using words like "revelation" because anybody who passed through Deeper Life understands the culture there. We were taught to be extremely careful about dreams, visions, revelations, prophecies, and anything outside the written structure already established.

In fact, if you came and said, "God showed me something," the first thing they would do is look at you like you were becoming spiritual in the wrong direction.

So when I had that dream, I didn't even fully understand it myself.

But what I saw disturbed me badly.

I saw chaos.

I saw killings, like in the setting of a local church meeting place, I saw people gathered and suddenly attacked.

It shook me enough that I went to meet Bro. Emmanuel, the General Coordinator of the DLCF campus fellowship in FCE, Okene.

I explained what I saw.

Do you know the response I got?

I was told that maybe it was because I had just recently given my life to Christ then.

That perhaps it was the kind of people I used to move with before salvation affecting my dreams.

That I should avoid certain associations and focus more on spiritual growth.

And honestly, I accepted it quietly.

Because in that system, once you are considered a baby Christian, your voice cannot carry weight.

I am not saying dreams should be worshipped, but the mind is powerful, because we are Spirit Beings living in the body, we can at some point see things before they happen. It's not a sin... It can be an ability for unbelievers too.

We could have prayed over things like that and possibly have written it off. It's possible.

But in Deeper Life, Pa Kumuyi's revelation is above all, your dream can never override the already established structure.

So I kept quiet.

Then weeks later, the killings happened.

People died! So painful...

That incident stayed with me, not because I claim to be a prophet or because I'm trying to prove I saw something spiritual.

No.

That's not even the point.

The point is, in denominational systems today, once the founder or leadership has established a pattern, nothing outside that pattern is allowed to breathe.

Everything must pass through the already approved lens. In Deeper Life, if you have a special prayer style, they call it "strange fire."

Even when people genuinely feel burdened about something, they silence themselves because they know the system already has its final authority.

And in Deeper Life especially, everybody who passed through there knows this truth.

If Pa Kumuyi has not said it, it almost does not matter.

If it does not align with the already accepted direction, just forget it.

That is why I keep telling sincere seekers, you cannot change a system that was intentionally built to protect itself.

You cannot reform a structure that already sees questioning as rebellion and attack.

You cannot convince founders against conclusions they settled decades ago.

You will only frustrate yourself trying.

At some point, many people must realize this painful truth, sometimes the healthiest thing to do is to leave.

Leave the system, leave the cage, leave the fear. And return to the Scriptures. Return to the simplicity of Christ.

Return to the pattern of the early church before Christianity became chained to denominations, personalities, and religious loyalty.

Because Jesus never died for denominations. He died for His ONE true church.

May God open your eyes!

Israel Oluwashina Ahmadu©️