Popular actress and politician Tonto Dikeh shares testimony about how her 10-year conflict with her ex-husband, Olakunle Churchill, finally came to an end.
Speaking at the Streams of Joy International on Sunday.
She revealed that a decade-long period of bitterness, public shame, and toxicity was divinely mended by God through the prayer of her 10-year-old son, King André
The movie star revealed that she had told her son that his passport was being held by an embassy to protect him from the reality of the conflict.
However, the truth was that the documents were in his father’s possession.
She said, “I’m giving this testimony on behalf of a 10-year-old boy because I am a beneficiary of a sincere prayer of a 10-year-old. At the beginning of the 21 days fast, Papa asked us to write seven things that we wanted and seven things that we didn’t want, and I told him, ‘Yes, write it.’ One of the evenings when I came to church to pray, I stayed behind to pray and I was advantaged to have brought mine and his; I brought the prayer request to the altar.
“As a mother, I saw his prayer points. I read them, and they were just different things. Then I got to number six and my son wrote: ‘God, I want the embassy to release my passport.’ And that’s where the story comes. You see, I have always told my son that his passport was held by the embassy. I never even told him the truth at all, and the truth was that the passport was with his father. And I and his father have been in long, toxic, demonic battles; it’s been public, it is worldwide.
“So I saw it and I just sighed and I said, ‘Oh God.’ I didn’t think much about it. Church, exactly two days later, now this testimony is from the first week of the 21-day prayer his father reached out to me and said, ‘I want to give every document this boy needs; every document that you left with me.’ And for some reason, the Holy Spirit just told me, ‘He’s real. He’s serious. Believe him.’ And I just stood there and I believed him. He asked me a series of questions, and those questions made me to know that it was time for me to talk to my son about who his father is.” She stated.
She further explained, “So, I sat him down and I asked, ‘Have you ever wondered who your dad is?’ I said, ‘I’m very sorry, what I’m about to say might hurt you.’ And then he said, ‘Mommy, talk.’ So I told him, ‘A man and a woman got married and gave birth to you, and then it became war.’ And then he said, ‘Really?’ I said, ‘Yeah. We were so bitter, we were toxic, and in the midst of all of this, we have affected you. I’m sorry.’
“And then he looked at me and said, ‘So, have you forgiven him?’ I didn’t answer. He said, ‘Mommy, have you forgiven him?’ And then I looked at my son because he’s very authoritative, and he said, ‘If you’ve forgiven him, I have forgiven you. But I’m upset with you for not telling me. But it’s okay, I can understand better now.’
“Church, I’m telling you that this is 10 years of war. 10 years of public shame. 10 years. 10 years without a boy knowing his father. 10 years of bitterness, 10 years of lack of love, and everything just dissolved in front of my child. My child just held my hands, and I was crying. Then I started praying for that man. I prayed for that man.”
She emphasized, “You don’t understand. Ex-presidents have intervened, but I said no. I said no because of how bitter I was. When I said I would burn the bridge, if you’re coming I’ll burn you, it was not a lie. That was who I was. I had so much bitterness and anger.”
“Church, I see myself addressing my ex-husband as he should be addressed. If it was before, I would have used a derogatory sentence or something added to his name. I see myself forgiving. You see, the biggest testimony in this life is the testimony of a changed person, because I have peace that doesn’t even make sense. It doesn’t make sense, it doesn’t. But God gave me 10 years in one day. I just want to give glory to God.” She said.
