Ghanaian gospel musician Ewura Abena has disclosed how certain unexpected life turnouts inspired her new release, ‘All is Well’.
According to her, she lost her job five days only after she had released ‘It is Finished’ on April 7, 2023.
Speaking with Doreen Avio, on Daybreak Hitz, she stated her dismissal was because she couldn’t meet a required target percentage at work.
“I released ‘This Far’ on 7th October 2022. It went well and that was after a long break from ‘Agye Me Nkwa’. Then on the 7th of April 2023, I released ‘It Is Finished’ and on the 12th of April, I was fired from work. It was like the ‘It is Finished’, finished my job,” she recounted.
She added: “It wasn’t as though I was given a prior notice but I was told I wasn’t able to hit the 24 per cent target, but then, I had done 23.8.”.
She also added life challenges befall her any time she releases a new song, terming it a “repetition”.
“At that moment, it felt easy to think history was repeating itself. That is what happened to me previously. I release a song, and it does well, and then something happens, sometimes, I get an accident, I fall into diverse temptations of problems and I sink again”, she added.
Ewura Abena further recounted the difficulties she experienced in securing a job after she was fired.
“From April to September, I was jobless and it was hard. It was very tough but I was still releasing albums and all those tours but no one knew it. When I went back after the launching in September last year, I went into one of the hospitals and they offered to give me a 5-hour part-time administrative work”, she said.
The musician reiterated she wasn’t paid although the job led her into a distressful condition.
“I went in one to two weeks into it, tripped off from the top had a spin of leg and landed on crutches. I wasn’t paid because it was part-time, not even on the day I had the accident. As humans, I became bitter in heart but God got me fired from my first job because it was hard, which mostly took me away from my kids”, she stated.
However, she stated Grace found her, and God blessed her with a new and suitable job.
“In that time, glory to God, I had some personal space with God and I said I have seen You do this for me and I will say it is well with me and God encouraged me with words. I realise when we worry, we exalt the problem above the level it should be, but when we worship, we exalt Him and His promises over the problem”
“The day I was returning to the hospital, God gave me a job and I received an email from the government, offering me a job. It wasn’t just about the money because the Bible says we have a high priest who knows all of our weaknesses. God knew I wasn’t strong for the initial job I was doing since I had hormonal imbalance”, she said.
She concluded with “When God commissions, He makes provisions for it”.
Source: myjoyonline.com