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Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by Tholudee(f): 3:53pm On Apr 14, 2016 |
Mike Bamiloye share picture with wife and his elder sister as he celebrates his 56th birthday on 13th April,2016 with his story! I am a solid testimony of Grace. Everything about me is about the authenticity of Grace. It was Grace of God that brought me thus far. And it is His Grace that will take me all the way to where He is taking me. Whatever the LORD IS DOING PRESENTLY in my life, is as a result of His love and mercy and Grace. He just chose to use me. He just decided to pick me and make SOMETHING out of this NOTHINGNESS. That is why I am grateful to Him that His Grace has not been in vain over my life or rather, I am trying by His power not to let His grace be in vain over my life. David was no body in the house of Jesse, but the Grace of God made him Something. Gideon was the least in his father's house, which was the least in the House of Israel, but the Grace made him a Force to reckon with in his father's house. I ought not to be this, But His Grace made me What I Am and will make me what He wants me to be. The earliest time I could recollect of my life was several years back to the earliest moment of my life I could recollect. Beyond that time, I could not recollect anything about my earliest moment. I can still remember I was on the back of a woman, who had carried me and was heading to the market. May be I was two years old or three, I can now not tell. And who the woman was, I can now not tell. Next earliest moment of my life I can still recollect was when I was siting on the bare floor in the passage of our house, eating pieces of boiled yam, while I saw a lot of people walking in and passing me to the back of the house where a lot of people were gathering. People were coming in and going out. What they were doing at the back of the house, I did not know. Why they were coming in and going out, I did not know. But I thought I was in the age range of three or four years old. Later, I got to understand, probably, that was the day my mother died, and while people were either coming inside the house for condolence visit and going out, I was kept busy on the floor of the passage of the house with eating pieces of boiled yam. I knew nothing. I was told my mother died while I was four years old. I was told my mother was terribly sick the moment she was carrying me in her womb. I was told the devil became angry with her through out her pregnancy and kept me in her womb far longer than the normal none months. I was told I was in her womb while she did not know I was there, and she thought she had swollen belly. I was told she went to hospital several times and they did not discover the pregnancy, all what the doctors were seen was that her belly was swollen with what they could not discern. It was far later, a white doctor checked my mother again and told her, she was carrying a baby and the baby would be a great man. So, I was told that my mother was sick through out the pregnancy that stayed longer than normal time. I was told that after I was eventually delivered, the sickness lingered in her for another four years before she passed on. THE DEVIL WAS MAD AT MY COMING AND STILL VERY MAD UP TILL NOW. He afflicted my mother for carrying me in her womb. So, I had to live with different relatives at my up growing, because my father had many wives, though my mother was the first wife. She gave birth to just two of us, while my father had many other children. Usually, in a polygamous house, "everyone wife to herself and every child to her mother". Therefore, I became the responsibility of my Elder Sister who was a student at the time. Because she could not sit down with me yet, she placed me with different relatives while she was struggling to find her footings. Therefore, my beginning was a very bad one. My up growing was a very rough one. I schooled in many schools, depending upon where my Elder Sister felt I would fair better. I had my Primary 1 and 2 in Ilesha, I read my Primary 3 and 4 in Awe, Oyo where she was teaching; I had my Primary 5 in another school, living with a male teacher friend of hers when she was transferred to another far place. And I had my Primary 6 in Agege, Lagos, living with a family relative. My Form 1 and 2 was with another close relation in Mushin, Lagos and my Form 3 was in the city of Ile-ife, when she brought me closer to her after she had gotten married. So, I completed my secondary education in Ile-Ife. Because of the circumstances of my up growing, I can recollect that I was very bad right from the age of 7, while I was in Primary 1. I was living with an old woman who was a close relation at the time. My Primary 1 and 2 at the age of seven and eight was a very bad one. I walked about the streets uncontrolled. I used to leave the house and follow masquerades for two or three days without anyone in particular searching for me. I used to hawk things sold by the old woman. I used to search all the loads in the house for things that was not lost. I used to steal and pick the pockets at the age of 7 and 8. I ought to have been poisoned or killed because I was a very very very bad boy. BUT HIS MERCY AND GRACE KEPT ME. It was at the age of 15, I came to know the Lord while in Secondary School Form 4. I grew up in the Lord very fast and by age 16 I was already preaching in the school Chapel. Towards the end of my secondary school days, I was already leading an Evangelism Team to various villages and we were missing classes. It was in the end of the Year Variety Activities, while I was in Form 5, that I had my first presentation of christian drama. My life got stabilized after I gave my life to Jesus Christ while in school. Every evil occurrences that grew up with me ceased. My annual terrible sickness every month of April ceased. In the Teachers' College, I had my first experience of what drama ministry was. I saw altar calls through presentation of evangelical drama. I saw miracles performed by drama ministers. We stopped rain because we wanted to have our drama night, and we released the rain in the midnight after we were sure every student had got back into their hostel. But it was in the College of Education I was introduced into the ministry of Drama Evangelism. It was there, I knew that was where the Lord had called me to serve Him. Today is April 13, 2016. I am a year older today. Last year I was 55. Several people the Lord used to bring me to this point of my life. Both family relations and ministry members and friends. BUT TWO SPECIAL PEOPLE I WOULD WANT YOU TO CELEBRATE AND GREET ARE MY TWO MOTHERS. The FIRST MOTHER was that woman who the Lord used to raise me up and carry me about while she was trying to find her footings. She took me as a responsibility while she was still a student, when our Mother died. The Lord has kept her alive for us. When our ministry began in 1985, she still carried us all in the ministry. It was true, she stood against me when I entered into full time and withstood me while I went to visit the people who would be my in-laws. It was true she warned them that I had no jobs, because she could not understand the meaning of my being in "Full-Time". But whose mother would behave and think differently? She acted naturally, she wanted me to be a law graduate, but I wanted to be a drama minister. So, she could not understand that type of calling. But, shortly later, ever before the ministry had any meaningful direction, she queued up behind us and supported us. She cooked for us when we had the first failed film project in 1984. She hosted us in her house and prepared elaborately. She carried me as a responsibility till I got married. She got the house we first lived in as married couples. She stood by us in MOunt Zion, because we were all living around her house. We call her Mama Mount Zion. The SECOND MOTHER is Mummy GLORIA, who took over from Mummy Adesiyan; or who my Elder Sister handed me over to. Mummy GLORIA is a very supportive and understanding wife and mother. She has been taking care of me since Mummy ADESIYAN handed me over to her. Interestingly, my Elder Sister still treat us as children, while coming to greet us, she would load her car with different fun things: coconut, corn, vegetables, pepper and tomatoes, Eko (solid Pap) and a lot of funny things. She would buy petrol in keg and travel all the way from Ile-Ife to Ibadan to deliver it to us, during petrol scarcity. She loves my wife and get used to her freely. I thank the Lord He has given me a wife who is loved by my entire family, especially my elder sister. A wife is also a mother. She is submissive and understanding. Do you now see what the Grace of God has done to me. He preserved my live and soul. The Grace of God shows me Mercy and Favor. Grace gave me my wonderful Wife and useful children. The Grace of God put me in the midst of consistently relevant ministry members. I am what I am today by His Special Grace alone. HIS GRACE KEEP ME. THEREFORE, BELOVED BRETHREN, ON THE OCCASION OF MY 56TH YEAR BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY, HELP ME APPRECIATE and CELEBRATE MY TWO MOTHERS: Mummy Gloria OLUSOLA BAMILOYE (08038323367) Mummy FELICIA Adepeju Adesiyan (08037872071) Thank you for celebrating with me. - MIKE BAMILOYE
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Re: Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by Hero10001: 4:19pm On Apr 14, 2016 |
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Re: Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by Hero10001: 4:22pm On Apr 14, 2016 |
Can't just forget his movie where we see characters like ;Isawuru, aro meta, paulina, bose and aiyamatangaaaaah! |
Re: Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by vikacydevato(m): 5:14pm On Apr 14, 2016 |
I respect this man a lot. 1 Like |
Re: Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by mummydirect(f): 11:59pm On Apr 14, 2016 |
Happy birthday to you sir, may his grace never cease in your life and ministry, amen. I rededicate my life to you oh lord, direct my everyday steps and thoughts and use me to your own glory, amen. 1 Like |
Re: Evang. Mike Bamiloye @ 56 by Tholudee(f): 5:59pm On Apr 15, 2016 |
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