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From: Stephen Okafor <st_okafoor1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: st_okafoor@yahoo.es
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:39:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: GOD'S WORK
Dear Beloved
May the peace of the Lord be with you in Jesus Name AMEN!!
Glory be to God that I am a born again Christian today. Having known
the truth, I had no choice than to do what is lawful and right in the
sight of God for eternal life and in the sight of man for witness of
God's mercy and glory upon my life.
I want to share my testimony with you; I am Barr Stephen Okafor, the
Personal Lawyer of late Mr. Philip Williams, a Ukrainian that lived in
my Country Nigeria for good 17 years before he died in an auto crash
early this year. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace! Amen!! He
was a very good Christian, he is so dedicated to God but he was not married
nor had any child till He died, may His soul rest in peace, Amen.
Throughout His stay in my country, he acquired a lot of properties like
lands, houses etc. As his legal adviser, before his death, Mr. Philip
Williams instructed me to write his WILL, because he
had no child, he
dedicated his wealth to God. According to the WILL, the properties have
to be sold and the money be given out to a ministry or individual for the
work of God. As his legal adviser, all the documents for the properties
were in my care. He gave me the authority to sell the properties and
give out the fund to an individual to propagate the work of God. I sold
all the properties after His death, as instructed by him. And I
realized the sum of al together USD$7,200,000.00. The total amount will be
invested into God's work as instructed by the original owner. But
Instead of giving the fund out for the work of God as instructed to me by the
owner before his death, I converted the fund to myself with the
intention of investing the fund abroad for my personal use. I was afraid of
putting the fund in the Bank, because I have to give account to the
bank on how I got the money. I then packaged the fund in two Trunk Boxes
and deposited the Trunk Boxes with a security company here in Nigeria . I
did not want the management of the Security Company to know the content of
the Trunk Boxes; therefore I registered the content of the Trunk Boxes
as Family Treasure. Now the security company believes that what I
deposited with them was Family Treasures.
I had a turnaround in my life few weeks ago when I was watching a
program on Trinity Broadcast Network, a Christian television channel on
DSTV. The man of God was preaching concerning Ananias and Saphira.
After hearing the word of God that faithful day, I gave my life to Christ and
became a born again Christian. After reading my bible for sometimes, I
discovered that the only way I could have peace in my life is to do
what is lawful and right by giving out the fund to the chosen one as
Instructed by the owner before his death.
I have asked already God for forgiveness and I know that God have
forgiven me.
But I have to do what is lawful and right in the sight of
God by giving out the funds to the Chosen individual, for the purpose of
God's work as instructed by the owner before he died. After my long
fasting and prayers, I asked God to make his choice and direct me to an
honest Christian that deserves this fund for the expansion of His
Kingdom work. I then came across your address on the Internet as I was
seriously in search of the chosen one. So these are how I received such a divine
revelation from the Lord, and I then decided to contact you for the
fund to be used wisely for things that will glorify the name of God.
I have notified the Security Company where I deposited the Trunk Boxes
that contained the funds that I am moving the Trunk Boxes abroad, and
the security company has since been waiting for my instructions regards
to that.
If you know the funds will be used wisely for God's work as instructed
by the original owner (Mr. Dmitriy Olegovich) then do contact me back
immediately for proper arrangements of getting the funds across without delay.
I am waiting for your response.
Sincerely Yours,
Barr Stephen Okafor
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