I went on and plugged into the life of my new Church, participating in most things happening in the life of the Church. This time I started to distance myself from the affair. I focused on living for myself, even though it was difficult to do. I had no money or income to contribute towards my parents and that depressed me. But I believed that Christ would find a way for me.

I befriended other Christians to keep myself occupied and we spoke about all things Christian. That’s when I found the courage to fix my broken marriage. I contacted my estranged wife and arranged for her to visit our sons. It felt like the right thing to do. When she arrived in Harare, I told her that I was a saved man, that I had let go my drinking and smoking habits. She was very impressed with how I had changed.

I introduced her to the man who had caused me to change my ways, the Pastor. He told me that I had done the right thing by reconciling with my wife. We started to attend church as a family for a couple of weeks before my wife had to go back home. We had planned that she would quit her job and move to Zimbabwe to be with her family. I had long broken any contact with my now ex-mistress.

My wife followed through on what we had discussed and moved to Zimbabwe two months later.

As happy as I was to have my entire family back, things weren’t easy financially. I believed in the prophecy that said: “If you believe you shall receive.” One day I received a call from South Africa in regards to my painting. They later sent me an email detailing that I had been invited to attend an art workshop. I was so happy at the news that I’d received. Once again my wife and I packed our bags and went back to SA with our son, who wasn’t in school yet and the eldest remained behind in school. He followed and joined us a couple of months later when the school year had ended. We were still not satisfied financially so my wife and I went back to Zim to go sell my car because it had been registered there. After selling the car, my wife and I went to go pay our tithes at church.

I remembered 2 Kings 2:9 in the bible which read: “9: When they came to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me what I can do for you before I am taken away.” And Elisha replied, “Please let me inherit a double share of your spirit and become your successor.” NLT.

I said this, giving him an offering then he said “Let’s pray”. We prayed and went on our way. We came back to South Africa where we continued with our lives. Then one night while praying, my wife started acting strange. I remembered what Pastor had said and put my hands on her head. I told her she had an unclean spirit and needed to be cleansed. I did with her what the Pastor had done with me.

Later that night I called Pastor and told him what had happened. He laughed, saying that’s what I asked for when I asked for a double portion of the anointment. It was clear that I had been having an affair with an agent of the devil. Pastor told me that evil spirits that were in the living didn’t give up easily and that we had to pray as a family for my wife to be saved. During that period, there was no intimate contact between my wife and me.

Everything I did with my mistress played in my head. It happened every day the entire day. I had no control of the thoughts I had of her and our time together. I then told Pastor about it. He advised me to meditate on the word of God. I did as I was advised. I read my bible non-stop and reminded myself of the scriptures I had read. Slowly I gained control of my mind again. However, family spirits manifested themselves through my wife and me respectively. Then our children had to pray for our deliverance in those times because we could not. They prayed for Christ to cast those spirits out of us and He did. After that, I continued to meditate on the word of God and memorising scriptures.

Things went back to normal between my wife and me. We were confident to be intimate with each other again. I didn’t go back to drinking and smoking, I stayed true to myself. Recently we celebrated our 10th year anniversary and I came to understand what it means to be saved.

1 Peter 2: “9: But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, and God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 10: Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people.

Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.” NLT.

That was my testimony. I feel that God wouldn’t have saved me the way he did. What He has done for my wife and for us to keep that to ourselves. He brought me to his light while I was living deep in darkness.

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