Mount Zion founder Mike Bamiloye celebrated his beautiful
wife lady evangelist Gloria Bamiloye as she turns 52 on
Thursday the 4th of February.
He also seizes the opportunity to narrate how he proposed
marriage to her.
In his words:
“The day I went to propose to her, I never beat about the bush
or rehearsed any Love persuasive Poem. I never said anything
like, the Lord sent me or I felt the Lord is leading me. Or I
dreamt and saw you Or I heard a voice from Heaven that.
I had said some of those things before to some sisters whom I
thought the Lord was leading me to, and I was wrong. This
time around, I went to this new sister, after my usual much
Prayers and Waiting. I was not even sure if the Lord was
leading me or not again. My computers have been crashed
and the memory virused by the previous disappointments I
had met from the sisters I had thought were the will of God.”
“So, I arrived the campus and the brethren were happy to see
me. I usually came at evening time, for Drama rehearsals or if
there were drama outreaches, I would come to go with them
or lead them to the programs. But this time, I came during the
day, at lecture time and many of the brethren were coming to
me to know why or what information I had brought for the
Fellowship Drama Unit members. I simply said I came to see
Sister Shola. And that was unusual of me. I don’t come
asking for sisters in the fellowship.”
“So, some brethren spread out to look for Sister Shola. And
one sister found her in the school Library and grabbed her
hand: Bro. Mike is around. He is looking for you. The sister
brought her and left. Sister Shola stood before me smiling,
and waiting for the instructions, probably to the Drama Unit,
or information of her being casted into a new Drama Unit
presentation. I greeted her. She replied with a smile. I told her
bluntly, that the Holy Spirit had not sent me neither did I see
any vision. Then, I asked her: WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
“She stood before me speechless for some minutes, looking at
me with some astonishment and confusion. She was never
expecting to hear such question from “Bro. Mike” of all
people! She was lost for words, because it was the last thing
she would expect to hear from me.”
“I got my answer after one month of waiting. It was on a
Sunday Morning. After the church service, I went to wait for
her at the front of her house. I just wanted to greet her again
and look at her again, and maybe the Lord would answer my
prayers this time. She came not so long and ushered me into
the house quietly. She was quiet. She was not showing any
excitement, which got me more worried again. I sat down on a
chair while she was writing something on the table. Then, she
finished writing, and she turned to me with a small piece of
paper containing ONE SINGLE LINE OF SENTENCE: “I WILL
MARRY YOU”
Mike Bamiloye further revealed that he proposed to his wife
on Sunday, August 4, 1985, when she was 21-years and he
was 25-years, as he asked himself a question: “is it not
evident that the Lord actually led me?”
Interesting!