When I Passed Through A Dry Valley
Saturday, 01/03/26 at 17:15
Sammy Omosh
Kenya 🇰🇪
Matthew 27:3–5 (The Living Bible) About that time Judas, who betrayed Him, saw that Jesus had been condemned to die. He changed his mind and deeply regretted what he had done. He brought back the money to the chief priests and other Jewish leaders. “I have sinned,” he declared, “for I have betrayed an innocent man.” “That’s your problem,” they retorted. Then he threw the money onto the floor of the temple, went out, and hanged himself.
Allow me, Jonathan, to share with everyone what happened to a pastor I once knew, and then my own real-life story.
The first testimony took place many years ago. The second is less than a decade old. I have shared prophecies, visions, and dreams through the call and grace of Yah bestowed upon me by Him. Behind these revelations lies a story of real-life resilience, perseverance, and triumph over hardship.
On 17/12/25, I was awakened to write this article, and I finished writing it on 18/12/25 at 11:11 a.m. I was instructed not to post it until Yah approved it.
The approval came through a dream of a messenger the Lord showed me. This messenger is going through a very hard time. In the dream, I saw lack inside the house when I was there. Distance is nothing to Yah. I must protect the identity of this messenger, but I want to give this encouragement.
There may be several of you in similar situations, but read my personal experience and draw something from it. The dream was a sign that I should share this now, without further delay. If it were not for Ruach, I would not have shared this personal matter that happened years ago.
If you read the above Scripture with the eyes of the Spirit, you can see that Judas slid from promise to pit. How we finish the race is more important than how we started it.
Do we ever think about what awaits us in glory compared to what we experience here? Recently, I was studying an architectural drawing, and I could see a three-storey building or mansion with many rooms. I began to think: What will my mansion in the land yonder look like?
(We are not of this earth.)
Testimony 1
Many years ago, I knew a pastor who was gifted in translating English into Swahili. He was very instrumental whenever visiting ministers came for meetings at the church he co-pastored.
At one point, he had serious marital problems. The pressure became overwhelming, yet he never shared what he was going through. Eventually, he took a kitchen knife and stabbed his wife to death. Afterward, he committed suicide.
A demonic anger took hold of him, and he died without repentance. You likely know where he ended up—just like Judas.
First-degree murder or homicide can be forgiven if the culprit truly repents. The thief on the cross saw the light before taking his last breath—you know what Jesus told him. This shepherd would have been jailed for manslaughter but could have saved his soul through repentance.
Testimony 2
Years ago, when I went to Israel, one evening a friend and I took a walk down the street. We saw a man passing near us, and something stirred in our spirits to stop him and greet him. We had a brief conversation and invited him to come to our hotel.
When he came the following evening, we were surprised. Had we not felt what we felt in the Spirit, we might have judged him presumptuously—especially since he came from a country not viewed favorably by many nations. But how do you judge someone you have never met or truly known?
The three of us fellowshipped, and before he left, he gave prophetic words to both of us. This is what he told me:
“A dark time is coming to your workplace in the future. But don’t worry—God has seen it and is in control. After you go through the valley, something good will come your way. It will surprise many people.”
(I cannot share all of it.)
When I returned home, the first part of that prophecy began to unfold. I do not believe in shortcuts, so my work ethics clashed with those of my boss. Collusion and setting up “toll stations” became the order of the day, and I separated myself from it.
I was denied work and suddenly had a lot of time on my hands. One day, a lecturer from an institution came looking for me through a student on industrial attachment. He told me there was a vacancy at the college on a contract basis. That is how I ended up teaching business subjects that semester.
Later, my boss was scheduled for another assignment elsewhere. I took over and streamlined the office to make it efficient. Clients who had felt oppressed were relieved. Everything I did reached the ears of the administrator.
When my boss returned after a year, he resumed the same unethical practices. It was not long before he was sent elsewhere again. Before leaving, he went to the administrator and claimed I was inexperienced and incapable of running the office.
He was asked, “Who was in charge while you were away for a year?”
He had no answer. He packed and left, and I was placed in charge since there was no replacement.
Ironically, my former boss had attended the same campus as my uncle in Jabalpur, India.
When I thought the dark season was over, I was wrong. A second wave hit even harder at another location. The details are too long to share.
I found myself depressed and without food. That was when I truly understood how people feel when they go to bed hungry. I could have asked for help, but I told no one.
A lady neighbor noticed something was wrong. Her husband, a good friend of mine, visited often, yet I had nothing to offer him. She would say, “Come to our place for supper.” I would go only when hunger became unbearable. She always looked at me with concern.
Later, a man told me, “If you overcame that fiery test without giving up on God or your faith, then you are truly saved.”
One day his brother came home describing the hell he had endured at work, tears streaming down his face. He calmly asked him, “Can you go through what Sammy went through?” The conversation ended there.
My own brother often tells me I am his role model. He once said, “I cannot fit into your shoes of life experience.”
Let no one be quick to judge you.
Another person once said, “What if God was testing you to see your reaction?”
Denzel Washington once said:
- Every blessing comes with a test.
- People forget your help once you are no longer useful.
Bruce Lee said:
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
What do these secular men know that many Christians do not?
The message of promise, problem, and provision was birthed from my experience, which began with a prophetic proclamation. The words spoken about me were not pleasant. If words could kill, I would have died long ago—but here I am writing this.
That dark season ended. What does not end in this life? No situation is permanent. It is always darkest before morning.
In the winter season of your life, you remain hidden, but when spring comes, you leap out like a calf. The waters of Marah were bitter before they were healed—and so was my second experience.
1 Samuel 10:9
“When he turned to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart.”
The heart I had before the trials could not withstand them. Yah gave me an enduring heart. Without it, I would have easily backslidden.
In my work history, I was friends with a Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs. I dined with him in both his city and countryside homes and traveled with him in his official car for nearly 300 miles, yet I never asked him for a favor.
I also had a police officer friend. In his house, I once saw a picture of him with the fourth president. One night he left me alone with German Shepherd police dogs while hunting a notorious serial killer. Yet I never sought his help during my darkest season.
Not long ago, a family member shared that after giving a testimony, some people accused her of bragging. She asked me, “Is it wrong to testify about what God has done?”
I replied, “If He does it again, testify even more. That kind of bragging will not send you to hell.”
She once survived on porridge for an entire year, yet miraculously did not lose weight. Ruach even told her to preach somewhere, and she obeyed, returning to survive again on porridge. Many of us would have disobeyed, focusing on the problem instead of obedience.
I asked her why she never told me about her hardship. She said, “I didn’t want to bother anyone.” I learned of her experience much later—after I had gone through mine.
A Word for the Messenger
This is your word:
You have waited on the Lord. Your night season has been long. You have waited and waited, and it feels as though your job description is simply waiting. But the day will come. You will inherit the promise against all odds.
Your case looked closed, but you will taste and see the goodness of Yah in the land of the living. You will sing that old song:
“Look what the Lord has done.”
I wrote this word on 18/12/25, and Yah showed me you earlier this week. I saw the hardship you were in back then, and I sent you an email. What makes you think this word is not for you now?
In the dream, you could not even offer me a cup of coffee. You were relieved when I left. I have been there before. That is why Yah instructed me to exhort and encourage His people through my testimony.
I am building, not destroying.
When I passed through the lowest valley, no one had a word for me. In your case, Yah has chosen to reveal a glimpse of what is happening in your life—because He loves you deeply.
This is not a motivational message; it is laden with prophetic insight.
Glory to the Mighty One of Jacob.
Job 30:26
“But when I hoped for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.”
