Popular clergy, Prophet Joshua Iginla, has called on men to take responsibility for planning their families’ future, stressing that negligence and lack of structure often leave wives and children vulnerable after the death of the breadwinner.
In a recent sermon, Iginla recounted painful experiences of widows and orphans who were left stranded because their late husbands failed to prepare properly. According to him, too many widows face betrayal, rejection, and abuse from the very friends and relatives their husbands trusted.
“Plan your life. Plan your family. Take your wife, sit them down, and tell them the truth. Stay around your wife,” Iginla said. “Wives, talk to your husbands. Cry with him, let him understand. Don’t be arrogant. Families must plan together because suffering is not good.”
The cleric lamented that some widows are abandoned by in-laws and betrayed by close family friends shortly after losing their husbands. He narrated the case of a church member who was a lawyer but died unexpectedly, leaving his wife and children at the mercy of people he once trusted.
“The very month he died, the house rent expired. Those friends who advised him to leave the church began to turn on his wife. Within three weeks, men who were his best friends started making advances to her,” Iginla revealed.
According to him, the widow became depressed and unrecognizable within weeks, as the pain of loss combined with pressure from supposed helpers. “She came to the church crying. I paid her rent and took up her children’s welfare. She wept, saying, ‘My husband, see now, it is your enemy who pays your children’s school fees. Your friends want to sleep with me.’ Tears came to my eyes,” Iginla said.
The prophet urged men not to neglect their families while alive, warning that misplaced trust in relatives or friends often ends in betrayal. “You don’t know who is who. People you think are good may disappoint you when you are gone,” he emphasized. See, More, Here>>>>
Iginla concluded by stressing the importance of wisdom and preparation. “It is difficult to get good people in this world. So, plan your life, protect your wife and children, and don’t leave them at the mercy of outsiders,” he admonished.
