The Parade April 2013 | Page 81

Fiction of the true believers. Satan wanted to use all sorts of dirty tricks to make people question the authenticity of this Messiah who had been sent directly from above to deliver the children of Zimbabwe from their trials and tribulations. But the prophet was truly anointed by the Lord and right before everyone’s eyes, the man that the medical doctor had so recently certified as a paraplegic destined to go through the rest of his life relying on others to feed him, bathe him and replace his soiled nappies with clean ones to keep bed sores at bay. The patient stood slowly, raised his hand, looked at it in wonder and flexed his fingers. The prophet flicked out a spotless white hanky from his trousers pocket and wiped the perspiration that had accumulated on his brow during his struggle with Lucifer. “Sit up. God has taken mercy on you. In this church we know that replies to prayers are instant. We know that God hears those who really pray to him. He has answered my prayer for you and you will walk out of this church on your own two feet,” the man of God told the man on the stretcher. The giant screens and the huge PA system ensured that the whole gathering received this message personally. The now ex-paraplegic sat up, then stood up. For a moment he tottered on his feet before jumping up and pushing his stretcher to the open-mouthed doctor. He knelt before his savior and expressed his thanks. There, before the audience, he handed over the keys to his Greendale house saying that the Lord who had returned his limbs to him would grant him more wealth to buy a thousand more houses. That day many sinners were converted. Many of them stood up to confess that they had come to the church on the devil’s mission. They had been hoping to find a way to discredit the man of God in order to send his followers back unto Satan. 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