LIFE, ABOVE ALL FINAL CHAPTER - CHAPTER FORTY SIX

Life, above all 

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FINAL
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“Remember to the last, that where there is life, there is hope.”
When the bus overturned, Tiya crashed into a window and blacked out.  When she finally awoke a few minutes later, she was lying on the grass and some paramedics where by her side.
“Are you okay?” A man asked her when he noticed she was awake.
“Yes.” Though her head hurt like hell.
She looked around her they were people who were severely injured and some looked dead. As she sat upright she touched the right side of her face and felt a warm liquid like water but when she took her hand away she saw blood between her fingers.
The paramedics led her to an ambulance even when she told them she was perfectly fine. She didn’t want to be taken to the hospital because she was scared of Ivy and her father.
“We need to take you to the hospital so you can be examined, it’s even a mystery that you got out alive and barely inured, a lot of people have lost their lives and most of them are badly injured.”
“It’s the work of God,’ she mumbled under her breath.
Once on the ambulance, one of the paramedics asked Tiya for the contact details of her guardians so they could call and inform them about the accident, she gave them Ganizani’s number.
 When they reached the hospital, she was examined and put on bed rest. They must have given her some sleeping pills because the minute she lay on that hospital bed, she fell into a deep slumber.
When she woke up, she looked around her and found her siblings sleeping on her hospital room, closing her eyes she took a deep breath and tried to piece together the events of the previous day. Everything had happened so fast, for a moment there she thought she had died.
Finally she cleared her throat, waking up her siblings. Thoko was the first to open her eyes.
 “Tiya,’ Thoko squealed with excitement.
“Oh Tiya,” Ganizani said tears flooding his eyes he couldn’t believe his sister was alive and back to them.
“Water,” she said, her voice was raspy.
Thoko grabbed a cup of water from the table and held it out to her straw first Tiya took two swallows and slumped back to the bed.
“I thought I would never see you guys again,’ Tiya said as tears streamed down her cheeks. “Thank you Jesus for bringing me back home to my siblings.”
“What happened to you? Where did you go?” Thoko asked
“It’s a long story but let’s just say that God has been faithful.”
“Amen.”
Shortly after Celine walked into the room, she had some plastics in her hands, the moment Tiya saw her, she began to scream, “Daughter of an evil woman, don’t come near me,” she screamed.
“Tiya calm down,” Ganizani said
“Auntie Stella is an evil woman.”
“I know my mother is an evil woman, I am not here to harm you but to help.”
“I don’t need your help.”
“Tiya, she has changed, she is on our side.”
Tiya kept quiet.
The doctors later examined her and declared that she was fit to go home. Celine drove them to her father’s house though her father was not yet back from his trip.
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When the pastor finally arrived, he started preaching the word of God, he preached and preached for a long time before he asked Ivy to kneel down, at first she was hesitant but eventually she knelt down.
As soon as he started praying, she was knocked down by the spirit of God and she fell flat, she tried to stand up but to no avail, the people who had been sent to help her stood at the door, they couldn’t enter because of the power of God that was in the room.
The pastor prayed for what seemed like forever, all of a sudden Ivy started to cough violently. She coughed until she started throwing up. Just when she thought she had finished, she felt like something exploded in her, she opened her mouth again and started vomiting, this time there was a lot coming out, it was getting hard for her to breath.
Meanwhile the pastor and everyone in the room continued to pray without ceasing. Ivy felt more stuff coming out she continued to throw up uncontrollably with no end in sight.
A few minutes later, she was done she fell down on her own vomit and collapsed.
“Praise the lord!” The pastor exclaimed, “It is done.”
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The only thing Mr. Bwalya could see was fire, there was fire everywhere engulfing the whole place, filling the air with pillars of thick dark smoke. There were screams all around him, agonizing screams from his members who were obviously wounded, he felt sick and hurt his entire body was in pain.
He wanted to scream and plead but he knew that none of this would help him in anyway. This was his end this was the end of the Black Arms family they had been defeated by a power greater than them.
Mr. Bwalya had sacrificed both his wives to the Black arms family and he had initiated his step daughter Ivy in bid to get richer.
He fell to his knees and curled himself in a ball as the heat of the fire caressed his skin as he felt his whole body heat up. Eventually he lay low and waited for his fate, he couldn’t fight this any more.
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Twelve Months,
That’s how long it has been since I was delivered from the hands of the devil, the past year has been the best year of my life, I feel so free and light because God saved and restored my life in so many ways.
A few days after I was discharged from the hospital, Celine took me to her church where they prayed for me and I received Jesus as my lord and savior, I even got baptized a few months later.
I now have a relationship with God I have a deep sense of joy and fulfillment in my life. Even when things aren’t going my way, I have learnt to trust God, his ways are always perfect.
I had to go back to school and repeat my grade seven, I recently wrote my exams and I know I will make it because I have been studying real hard.
So Ken was discharged from the hospital, he is doing a whole lot better and he too has received Christ as his lord and savior, I am no longer in a relationship with him we are just friends. I have realized that I am too young to be the dating, there is a time for everything and this is the time for me to be serious with school.
My grandmother is doing perfectly fine now, my siblings and I moved in with Auntie Tina after , I must say life is a whole lot better here than it was at dad’s house.
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Mr. Phiri
It’s been a year since I discovered I had married a fraud, I seriously loved Stella and I would have given her the world, I don’t even know what prompted her to get involved in Satanism.
As if that is not enough, she used me as part of her sacrifice and killed my sister.
If not for these people of God who intervened in this situation, my mother would have died too. My sister’s death haunts me I don’t think I will ever forgive myself for her death.
Now I am a lonely man, I am in this house all by myself I lost my job and children. My children despise me, they want nothing to do with me, I can’t blame I wasn’t a good father to them, I choose a stranger over them. I just hope someday they will find it in their hearts to forgive me.
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Celine
I walk into my mother’s hospital room as usual she is curled up at the corner of the room.
“Hello,” I say placing my bag on the floor.
She looks up at me but says nothing, the woman sitting in this room doesn’t look anything like my mother, this woman looks dirty, her hair is unkempt and there are dark circles around her eyes.
As if that is not enough, saliva is dripping out of the corners of her mouth.
I still cannot believe my mother was capable of all those bad things, after she confessed of killing her husband’s sister, she was taken to the police, it was while in police custody that she lost her mind and they had to bring her to this mental asylum.
Now she doesn’t talk, all she does in stare into space and scream that they are coming for her, I feel sorry for her, she is still my mother after all but she made her bed and now she will have to lie in it.
My mother lost everything after the truth was revealed her businesses, houses and money, everything she obtained through satanic forces vanished into thin air.
I just hope she receives Christ as her lord and savior before it’s too late.
Life for me the past year has been quiet good, after rewriting the previous year I did really well and now I am in my first year in university, my father married his long time girlfriend and now they are pregnant with their first child.
“I will see you some other time mum,’ I grab my bag and walk out of the room. I visit her once in a while to check on her progress though she has been in the same condition from the time she was admitted.
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Ivy
I can’t believe I went from riches to rags I lost my father in a strange fire which destroyed our house and so many valuable possessions. My life is miserable, I failed my grade seven exams again and because I had no one to take me in, I was taken to an orphanage this place is terrible.
I just want to die because I have nothing else to leave for, maybe if I had made better decisions like would a little easier for me. Right now I don’t even have any friends Harry dumped me after news of my involvement in Satanism went viral, now even the kids at the orphanage are scared of me.
It’s true what they say, what you sow you reap. Karma is really a bitch.
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Ganizani
Sometimes in your life you will have seasons where you feel like nothing is working and everything is out of control, you will have frustrating days and you will want to give up but hold on because help is on the way, the darkest hour is always before dawn so just hold on.
If someone had told me that God would rescue my siblings and I from the hands of the devil. I swear I would not have believed, the past twelve months I have seen the goodness of God in my life.
My sisters are perfectly fine and they are happy, I am writing my final exams and I know I will make it; I just wanna excel and make my mother proud. I haven’t seen my father in a while not maybe someday I will be able to look him in the eye and call him dad again but for now, let me just say that life is good.

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