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Monday 22nd - Sunday 28th April 2024
RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION …
“What money cannot do, more money will do” is the unfortunate axiom of the current political leaders in Nigeria. Their leadership principle seems based on bribery and corruption. The consequence is a corrupt, decadent, and lawless country. As a common proverb goes, the fish rots from the head.
However, one might be unfair in heaping all the blame on the current set of leaders who were themselves products of a corrupt system. The Nigerian system was compromised right from Independence, when an ethnic leader claimed that the newly independent country was “an estate" of his great grandfather. That irresponsible and reckless statement set in motion unwarranted competition and distrust rather than cooperation and mutual trust in the new country. Events soon spiralled out of control leading to the 1966 coup, the civil war, and the military interregnum. It was during the era of the military that corruption became an institution in Nigeria.
An amusing but very unfortunate incident occurred around the ‘90s while the military was in power, and it underscores the mentality in Nigeria. A luxury bus travelling from Lagos to the East was waylaid by armed robbers along the Benin-Shagamu express road. The thieves ordered all the passengers to disembark and hand over their money and other valuables. One young man moved towards the rear of the bus and quickly stuffed his money into his sock leaving a dirty and ragged looking 50 Naira note in his hand. Unfortunately for him, one of the robbers saw him.
The robber accosted him and demanded his money. Tearfully, the young man presented the dirty currency note pleading that was all he had. He explained that he went to visit his sister in Lagos, but she had travelled. In fact, he told the robber, it was her neighbour who gave him money to return to Benin.
The armed robber looked at him contemptuously. With disgust written all over his face, the thief said, “simple honesty, simple honesty. That is the problem with this country, no one is honest. Ordinary bring out your money, you were hiding it in your sock. I saw you. Get out my friend, you are not an honest man. That is the problem with Nigeria, no one is honest.”
That was in the ‘90s. Fast forward to 2024 where the annual national budget was allegedly padded with trillions of Naira. The Senator who raised the alarm was suspended by the Senate. He was not an “honest” man in their midst.
The situation certainly would not have been this bad if the God-appointed custodians of moral standards in Nigeria, the Church, have not joined in the fray. In the past few years, the impression has been firmly established that the Nigeria Church is more corrupt than the world. Every attempt to call the Church to order is termed "rebellion" and the "promotion of disunity" in the Body of Christ. A generation of leaders appeared in the Nigeria Church, which, like the corrupt sons of Eli, “knew not the Lord” (Judges 2:10; 1 Sam. 2:12) These corrupt priests fraternize with corrupt politicians and endorse them publicly.
Consequently, the Nigeria Church has lost moral authority. Now, perversions and pollution fill the sanctuary of the Lord. With the Church in such moral disarray, the country has had no moral compass to navigate its society in a godly and righteous manner. The bloodletting, corruption and immorality all over the country are the consequences of the loss of moral standard in the Church.
The challenge facing Nigeria Christians is to restore righteousness within the household of faith. This would require believers to take the stand of Paul against Peter in Galatians 2:11 – 16. It is not sufficient for Christians to pray about and condemn the evils in the land yet condone the evils and hypocrisy in the Church. The Lord expects His people to place His righteousness above everyone, for God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10: 34).
If Nigeria Christians continue to indulge in and accommodate sinful and corrupt church leaders (contrary to the will of God in 1 Cor. 5:12–13 and 1 Tim. 5:20), righteousness shall continue to elude Nigeria. The moral authority of the Church must be restored before it can fulfil its role as the conscience of Nigeria. Today, Nigeria operates without a conscience, at every level. The ugly situation will persist until the people of God arise in righteous indignation and begin to judge the evil within the Body of Christ. God established a pattern in Haggai 1:9-10 when He said, “Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.” The house of God cannot be in disarray while Christians expect God to tidy up their country.
A lot of prayers are going on, but faith must be combined with works for results to show (Jam. 2: 17.) It is insufficient for Christians to pray for a new Nigeria. They must also raise new leaders that “know the Lord”, leaders who will promote righteousness within the Body of Christ.
It is righteousness that exalts a nation. That righteousness must commence from inside the Church.
PRAYER POINTS
1). John 1:9
The condition of the Church has resulted in collective guilt upon all Christians. Let us confess the failure of Christians in this generation to uphold the holiness and righteousness of God in the Nigeria Church.
2. Matt. 16:18
Appeal to the Lord of the Church to step in and help Nigerian Christians to overcome the sons of Belial who daily pollute the Church.
3. Jude 3 & 4
Pray for the outpouring of the zeal of God, that Nigeria Christians shall become militant against corrupt and hypocritical Christian leaders.
4. Hebrews 1:7
Pray for fresh fire upon Nigeria Christians, fire that will consume all dross and chaff in the Church. Pray that Nigeria Christians shall be on fire for truth and righteousness.
5. Acts 5:1-11
Pray for the discipline of the Holy Spirit to restore the fear of God in the Church.
6. Acts 13:1-4
Pray that henceforth, the Holy Spirit shall raise leaders in the Nigeria Church. Pray that all leaders not appointed by the Holy Spirit shall be uprooted from leadership positions in the Church. Matt. 15:13
7. Ps. 75: 6-7
Pray that God will promote and empower Spirit-filled Christians into positions of authority and influence in government as well as in the seven mountains of the society.
THE VOICE OF BLOOD
The series of teachings titled "The Voice of Blood" ( Part 1 - 3) are available below:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMNl-9DvS_7Iz5TBMMkPIGreoPrTwEj7
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 15th - Sunday 21st April, 2024
BLOOD FOR BLOOD: THE CLEANSING OF THE LAND
According to the Creator, it takes blood to wash away blood; either the blood of the guilty or a relation of the guilty (Genesis 9:5; 2 Samuel 21:1-14), for which blood will keep being spilt, or the redemptive blood of a vicarious one, an animal, in the Old Covenant (Deut 21:1-8) or the blood of the Lamb (Hebrews 12:24).
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it” (Numbers 35:33).
There has been a cycle of blood – in families, in communities, in the nation. It is time to step out as priests of God in our various capacities to address those. If a present generation can he held accountable for the bloodguilt of their ancestors (Luke 11:50-51), then a present generation can also time-travel into the past to clear inherited liabilities of blood (Leviticus 26:38-42).
PRAYER POINTS
1). Genesis 4:15; Ezekiel 9:6 – The Mark of Preservation
In this season of so much bloodthirstiness, where old blood keeps crying for more blood, may we beseech the Lord for the mark of preservation, upon us and ours; upon the righteous and innocent.
2). 2 Kings 2:32-33 – Blood upon the Guilty and Declaration of Innocence
So many innocent people have suffered for blood that they had no hand in. May we, like Solomon, begin to i) send blood back upon the heads of the guilty and their accomplices, as well as ii) declaring the exoneration of ourselves, our households, our thrones, our seeds from the consequences of blood seeds sown in our spaces.
3). Hebrews 12:24 – Judicial Appeal to the Higher Blood
Since it takes blood to cleanse blood, may we begin to apply the blood of Jesus to our consciences seared stiff against guilt and to our lands defiled many times over with blood. Let us appeal for that blood to speak for us, for our land, better things that the reproaches being compelled by shed bloods.
4. Hosea 4:6 – Requesting Wisdom in Dealing with Blood
Praying amiss can costly; not discerning one’s crisis and not knowing what to do about the symptoms can be deadly. May we request the opening of the eyes in dealing with blood matters in our age.
Amen.
THE VOICE OF BLOOD
The series of teachings titled "The Voice of Blood" ( Part 1 - 3) are available below:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMNl-9DvS_7Iz5TBMMkPIGreoPrTwEj7
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Ps. 46:1
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Monday 8th - Sunday 14th April, 2024
BLOOD GROUPS AND THE POLLUTION OF THE LAND
Medically, there are four major (or eight broad) blood groups, each classified according to whether or not the A and B antigens are present on the surface of the red blood cells. They are blood groups A, B, AB, and O. In spiritual hematology, there are five broad blood groups, classified according to the circumstances of their spillage:
i) blood of war, spilled by law-enforcement agencies in the course their civil duties or by others in the course of self-defence (1 Kings 2:5),
ii) innocent blood - the blood of the guiltless shed in rituals, extra-judicial murders, assassinations, robberies, and by tyrants as well as by greedy professionals who cut corners and bring fatal accidents upon innocent people in open wells and collapsed buildings (Matthew 27:4; 1 Samuel 19:5; Deuteronomy 19:11-13),
iii) the righteous blood of saints and prophets martyred for their faith (Matthew 23:34-35),
iv) accidental blood of manslaughter and other accidents not intended by the causer of death (Deuteronomy 19:4-7), and
v) the guilty blood of those who bring their death upon themselves through rebellion (Ezekiel 18:10-13).
Against the backdrop of all these, the Bible warns, “So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it” (Numbers 35:33). Something defiled and polluted cannot produce maximally. Might that also explain some of our national and communal and personal retardations? Political bloods, ritual bloods, jihadist bloods, abortions, etc.!
What is our answer to these? Nothing but the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 12:24).
PRAYER POINTS
1). Kings 2: 31-33 – May the Guilty Bear the Bloods
Solomon had to declare his ancestry’s innocence in the blood implications of Joab the Army Chief under his father David. Next, he sent the consequences back upon the guilty. Let us declare our innocence (where we are), and send blood back upon all the sponsors of jihad, kidnapping, political assassinations, etc.
2). Numbers 35:33 – Discernment
May we pray for proper diagnosis of our many national and family crises, so we can apply proper therapies. It is waste of time cleansing a polluted land with fresh but ineffective fertilizers and helpless farming tractors. Ask discernment for spiritual and other leaders in handling the multiple crises of the time.
3). Numbers 35:33; Blood for Blood
May all who have loved blood, who have profited from the blood and tears of others, begin to drink of their own cups as God gives them blood to drink – in their palaces and in their caves. “For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy” (Rev 16:6).
4). Luke 22:38 – Enforcing the Right to Self-Defence
The enemies of justice and peace have systematically disarmed the innocent and strengthened their killers against them. Peter carried a sword of physical defence all the time he followed Jesus the Son of God (Luke 22:38; Matthew 26:52-54), and Heaven had an army with weapons of war ready before the war came there (Rev 12:7). May there begin to be administrative enforcements of people’s armed rights to self-defence against their marauding killers, and a reset to the theologically-induced passivity that makes people unfortunate preys.
5). Hebrews 12:24 – Invoking Blood against Blood
To the extent that it takes blood to cleanse or answer blood, may we as kings and priests apply the Blood of Jesus to every desolation and pollution arising from blood on the land.
THE VOICE OF BLOOD
The series of teachings titled "The Voice of Blood" ( Part 1 - 3) are available below:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkMNl-9DvS_7Iz5TBMMkPIGreoPrTwEj7
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TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm daily (Nigeria time)
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 1st - Sunday 7th April 2024
The Crises of Blood on the Destiny of a Land: Nigeria
Genesis 4:11-12
11 And NOW art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
12 When THOU tillest the ground, it shall not HENCEFORTH yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Innocent blood may be concealed, but it does not leave the land of the killer without consequences. Abel’s blood was concealed, but that did not spare the killer and his land. Nigeria is daily drowned in bloods: from accidents caused by carelessness, ritual murders, politically and otherwise motivated assassinations, jihads, abortions, etc. According to God the Creator, blood both pollutes and “defileth the land” (Numbers 35:33). What is polluted does not yield maximum benefits. Polluted water might seem to quench the thirst, but it can kill. A defiled church might be full of members, yet far from God. What the enemy can not prevent, he tries to pollute. Our land is destined for greatness but is threatened with seeds pollution by the enemy.
PRAYER POINTS
1). Psalm 51:2, 14 - REPENTANCE
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. … Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God..,”
May we acknowledge guilt, where there is, and ask cleansing from bloodguiltiness, for self and the community. Guilty as Cain was, he besought the Lord. May we not be too intelligent to repent.
2). Genesis 4:15 – THE MARK OF PRESERVATION
...And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.”
May we request God’s mark of preservation from the beastly avengers of blood that sprawl the lands, preying on the blood of school children, disadvantaged youths, etc.
3). Genesis 4:11-22 – DISCERNMENT
And NOW art thou cursed from the earth … it shall not HENCEFORTH yield unto thee her strength …”
You cannot fight what you do not know; you cannot treat a disease you are unable to diagnose. May we request divine insights into the calendars of dryness resulting from blood, so we can properly address them.
4). Hebrews 12:24 – BLOOD FOR BLOOD
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
It takes blood to cleanse blood (Numbers 35:33). May we appeal to the higher Blood and the Highpriestly Jesus to intervene in our cases. Let blood speak over blood.
For more information about the message on The Voice of Blood," kindly follow the YouTube link below for Part 1 of the message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxQUGfy1sCs
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 25th - Sunday 31st March 2024
WHO OWNS NIGERIA?
Yes, "the earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof" (Ps. 24), however, whom has God handed Nigeria over to? Acts 17: 26 says that God “… hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;” Each nation has a specific portion of planet earth allotted to it by God. It would be logical to conclude that Nigeria belongs to the indigenous ethnic nationalities. This conclusion may however pose a problem when we consider the next question: Who wrote the current Constitution of Nigeria?
The Constitution is the sovereign document of a state, determining how the country should be governed. It is produced by the citizens, if the country is free, or it is produced by a colonial power if the country is a colony. Under the colonial rule, Nigeria had such constitutions as the Clifford Constitution of 1922, the Richards Constitution of 1946, the Macpherson Constitution of 1951, and the Lyttleton Constitution of 1954. Nigerians did not produce the constitution of the country then, because they were under colonial rule. Now that the country has gained independence, who should produce the constitution of Nigeria?
It is time to answer the question, "Who produced the 1999 Constitution for Nigeria?" Was it produced by Nigerian citizens or was it handed over to them? The reality that Nigerians must face is that some forces are brazenly saying that Nigeria does not belong to Nigerians. They have affirmed this by giving Nigeria a constitution that was not produced by Nigerians. After ending colonial rule on 1st October 1960, Nigeria entered another servitude which commenced on 29th May 1999. This is the reality on ground. What was not made public is the identity of the new colonial master.
To placate Nigerians and lull them into a false sense of security, the National Assembly was persuaded by the new “owners” of Nigeria to conduct regular “amendments” of the Constitution. This has become a ritual that each Assembly does to silence protests and create the impression that Nigerians have a say in the Constitution of the new colonial master. Since 1999, there have been five of such alterations to the Constitution. A few days ago, the National Assembly gave notice of the sixth amendment and called on Nigerians to submit memoranda.
Did any of the previous alterations to the Constitution bring any meaningful change to Nigeria? The 8th Assembly in 2017 made thirty-two (32) amendments to the Constitution. Did it impact the country in any meaningful way? The 9th Assembly conducted its constitutional merry-go-round in 2020 and could not solve the problems of insecurity and poverty. As a matter of fact, after the 9th Assembly concluded its amendments, Nigeria officially became poverty capital of the world. In 2024, the new Assembly is calling for memoranda for another session of motions without movement.
The 1999 Constitution is at the root of the current calamities that have befallen Nigeria. This sovereign document, that was produced by a faceless colonial master, and imposed on the country by Military Decree 24, has locked Nigeria in a cage of violence and poverty. Nigerians may not come out unless they summon the political will to break the chains. We shall highlight four key areas in which the 1999 Constitution is a liability to Nigeria.
CORRUPTION
The pillar of corruption in the country is the “immunity clause” in the 1999 Constitution. The clause accords immunity to the President, Vice President, Governors, and Deputy Governors while they are in office. The immunity clause gives them protection from all civil and criminal prosecution no matter the crime they commit. They can only be tried after the expiration of their tenure.
It is this immunity that birthed executive impunity in Nigeria. The President and the Governors can loot and mismanage without any fear of prosecution. The immunity clause prevents leadership accountability. Once the leaders are not accountable, the followers will naturally follow suit and the leaders will have no moral authority to query them.
INSECURITY
The 1999 Constitution concentrates security in the central government. Nigeria is a Federation in which the federating units have no power to defend themselves. The State Governors are referred to as Chief Security Officers of the state, but the entire security apparatus is controlled from Abuja. In April 2016, Nimbo in Enugu state was attacked by terrorists. The Governor held security meetings with all security formations in the state to prevent the attack. After the security meeting and various assurances given to Governor Ugwuanyi, the terrorists struck. The Governor, as the Chief Security Officer of Enugu state, had no authority over the security forces.
In Nigeria, there is neither state nor community Police. Consequently, kidnappers, bandits, insurgents, cultists, armed robbers, ritualists, as well as drug dealers ravage the country unmolested. It is the 1999 Constitution.
UNEMPLOYMENT & POVERTY
The 68 items in the Exclusive Legislative List are commercial and developmental projects that only Federal Government can undertake. This list bars states from exploiting resources within their zones for development purposes. Each federating unit should be in control of its resources and pay royalty to the Federal Government. Consequently, Nigeria has resources that it is not adequately benefiting from. Too much responsibility is saddled on the Federal Government by a “colonial master” determined to control every aspect of the lives of Nigerians.
RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
Nigeria obtained independence as a democratic country under Common Law jurisdiction. The National Ideology of Nigeria at independence was Parliamentary Democracy. The 1999 Constitution legitimized dual conflicting ideologies of Democracy and Sharia for Nigeria. Both are antithetical to each other. This was done without the consent of Nigerians. At present, Nigeria has joined Islamic countries like Bangladesh, Brunei, Gambia, Malaysia, and Pakistan in the classification of countries under Common Law and Sharia. Again, it was imposed by virtue of 1999 Constitution.
This Constitution is the bedrock of religious insurgency in the country. Religious terrorists will continue to bedevil Nigeria so long as the 1999 Constitution is in force. Sharia in the Constitution gives the Islamist insurgents legitimacy to operate in Nigeria.
On 18th March 2024, some eminent Nigerians, under the aegis of the Patriots Group, gathered in Lagos for a Conference commemorating 10 years of the National Conference. The Patriots Conference passed a resolution calling on the Government to adopt the report of the 2014 National Conference. The Report of the National Conference came with a draft new Constitution for Nigeria.
Every Nigerian must begin to agitate for a new Constitution. The National Assembly must be told in clear terms that another amendment of the 1999 Constitution is no longer required. What is paramount is for the National Assembly to legislate a bill for a new Constitution. The process will be fast-tracked by the adoption of the Report of the 2014 National Conference. Nigeria requires a new Constitution, not an amended Constitution.
For Christians, demand for a new Constitution should form a major prayer focus. It is for liberty that Christ has made us free. The yoke of bondage placed upon Nigeria through the 1999 Constitution must be destroyed so that Nigeria can be free to fulfil the mandate of God. Christians should specifically demand that in 2024, Nigeria shall have a new Constitution, in the Name of Jesus. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1). Ps. 129: 1 – 8
Thank God for preserving Nigeria despite countless attacks and afflictions.
2). Isaiah 7: 4 – 7
Decree by the authority of the word of God that every conspiracy of foreign nations to capture and dominate Nigeria shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.
3). Isaiah 8: 9 – 10
Pray that all the faceless forces, locally and internationally, that are behind the 1999 Constitution, shall be scattered and broken in pieces.
4). Zech. 1: 14 – 17
Pray that indignation shall break out from heaven and cover the earth against the 1999 Constitution. Pray for a stirring in the land that shall overwhelm the sponsors of the 1999 Constitution.
5). Matt. 16: 19
Take authority over every satanic manipulation designed to keep Nigerians docile and spellbound. Nullify all those works of darkness with the Blood of Jesus Christ.
6). Gen. 9: 6
With the blood of Jesus, silence the voices of blood crying for vengeance against Nigeria. Decree the judgment in Gen. 9: 6 upon everyone who has shed innocent blood in Nigeria.
7). Isaiah 11: 1 – 4
Pray that the Spirit of God shall brood over the National Assembly and compel the legislators to initiate the process for a new Constitution for Nigeria in 2024.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 18th - Sunday 24th March 2024
WHAT ARE THE LEGS OF IRON?
And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. (Dan. 2: 40).
Over the years, Bible scholars have sought to interpret the dream of Nebuchadnezzar by concluding that the legs of iron in that revelation refer to the Roman Empire. While the Bible clarified the head of gold in that dream as representing Babylon, the breast and arms of silver as the Medo-Persian Empire, and the belly and thighs as the Grecian Empire, no mention was made of the identity of the legs of irons. However, a careful study of the Roman Empire and contemporary world events reveal that the empire described as the legs of iron could not be the old Roman Empire. The following few points could be considered:
- Several Bible scholars subscribe to a revived Roman Empire in the last days. Undoubtedly, we are in the “last days,” but there is no military build-up in Italy. The last military strongman there was Benito Mussolini who appeared during the 2nd World War, 79 years ago.
- The devastation and destruction credited to the legs of iron were not typical of the Roman Empire. When the Romans conquered any place, they did not engage in wholesale destruction. Rather, they preserved the cultural artifacts and paved the way for civilization. That was how the saying came, that “all roads lead to Rome”. Unlike the Roman tradition of preserving their conquered places, the legs of iron in Nebuchadnezzar's dream did "break in pieces and bruise.”
- The nations that will fight Christ in the Battle of Armageddon are Islamic nations. When we read of Teman, Dedan, Cush, Midian, Moab, Amon, Put, Elam, and so on, they are the current-day Islamic nations.
- In the prophecy of Gog in Ezekiel 38, the eight locations that will invade Israel, are today’s Islamic nations. Five of the locations are in Turkey, while Elam is Iran, Put is Libya, and Cush is Sudan.
- The “feet and toes … iron mixed with miry clay” represent Islamism and secularism. The word “mixed” is the Hebrew word Ereb and the Aramaic word Arab. The Arabs are the mixed tribes of the desert. Islam is their unifying factor.
Islamism - that is, political Islam - is responsible for global insecurity and bloodshed, while secularism is the root of moral perversion and widespread sexual immorality. Nigeria is in a precarious situation. Islamism is coming from the North while secularism is spreading from the South. The Church is caught in-between.
- Mystery Babylon in Rev. 17 could not be Rome. John was carried in the spirit to the desert (wilderness) to see the woman. Rome is not in the desert. The Salafi and Wahhabi ideology that is at the root of Islamic terrorism is based in Saudi Arabia.
- According to Dan. 8:21–25, the antichrist will come from the Grecian Empire of Alexander the Great. The four nations that represent that empire today are: Syria, Egypt, Turkey, and Greece.
- The head of the beast that was “wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed" (Rev. 13: 3) could only be the Caliphate.
The Islamic Caliphate is the historical Islamic Government or empire, which began with the Rashidun Caliphate in 632 AD shortly after the death of the prophet of Islam, and culminated in the Ottoman Empire, which officially came to an end in 1924. The leader of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal, the Atarturk, dismantled the Caliphate in 1924 and adopted Western civilization so that Turkey could develop. A group of Islamic fundamentalists, led by Hassan Al-Banna, felt that the decision of the Atarturk was a betrayal of Islam. In 1928, they met in a village named Ismaila, in Egypt, and founded the Islamic Brotherhood. The Islamic Brotherhood had two objectives at its foundation:
1. To implement Sharia worldwide
2. To re-establish the global Islamic state known as the Caliphate
The Caliphate was the beast that was wounded to death (in 1924) and was healed (in 1928). The whole world is now wondering after it, in UK, Europe, USA, and of course, in Africa. The Western powers treat Islam like a religion while Israel responds to it as an empire. Consequently, Islam has conquered the West without waging coventional war.
The global upsurge in Islamic terrorism and global expansion of the religion are the direct result of the activities of the Islamic Brotherhood. The goal is to make Sharia a global ideology. In effect, while Islam is outwardly a religion, it is inwardly a world empire, a ruler of the gentiles in the category of Babylon, Assyria, Medo-Persia, and Greece. As an empire, the Caliphate is bent on territorial conquest and global domination. Nigeria has been marked by the Caliphate for conquest because the capture of Nigeria signifies the capture of Africa.
Repeatedly, the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) has warned Nigerians, particularly the Christians, that the problem of Nigeria is primarily the conflict between Democracy and Sharia in the country. This conflict was smuggled into the 1999 Constitution, producing a sovereign document with dual conflicting ideologies for the country. It is these dual ideologies that are tearing Nigeria apart. For example, the 2023 election was not a democratic exercise. It was Sharia. Every democratic norm was violated in the 2023 elections.
To date, the indigenous ethnic nationalities and the Christian community, are underestimating the Caliphate. The goal is to build the coalition of the antichrist that will face Christ at the battle of Armageddon. According to Biblical eschatology, Christians are expecting an antichrist at the end of the age. In like manner, the Muslims are expecting a saviour at the end of the age. His name is Imam Mahdi. Authorities on this subject believe that the antichrist the Christians are expecting is the leader the Muslims are expecting. It is natural that Satan will want Nigeria in that coalition since God has designated Nigeria a sheep-nation that will spearhead the last days harvest of souls into the kingdom of God. Satan always opposes whatever God initiates.
The battle going on now over Nigeria is intense in the spirit realm, and Christians must be careful where they stand and how they live. There is a titanic struggle going on for Nigeria, and many saints are falling due to greed, covetousness, carelessness, and love for the vanities of the world. It is time for Christians to rebuild the ancient altars of truth and righteousness in the land because the army of darkness is on the move. Only the truth can stop them.
In addition to intense prayers, Christians should participate in the agitation for return to regionalism in the country, so that a multi-layer security architecture can be built from the national to the community level. The terrorists should not be perceived as a rag-tag group of thugs. They are the advance forces. They are globally coordinated, well-funded, and strategically deployed to deliver Nigeria to the Caliphate. This would be at the expense of Christian lives. Not only are Christians at risk, even the indigenous ethnic nationalities, irrespective of religion, are equally at risk. As can be seen from the mass murder of Hausa Muslims in Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto, Niger, Kaduna, and Katsina, even the indigenous Muslims are not safe.
While we take solace in the assurance of God that Nigeria will not be handed over to Islam, the Caliphate will inflict maximum damage in the attempt. Every effort must be made to mitigate the damage. Prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps. 124
Thank God for holding back the flood of the fury of the Caliphate against Nigeria. If not for the Lord Who was on our side, the Caliphate would have devastated Nigeria.
2. Jer. 10:11
Pray that all the forces gathering against Nigeria, both in the spirit realm and in the physical realm, shall be destroyed by the power of God.
3. Lam. 3:37
Nullify the spells, sorceries, divinations, incantations, satanic rituals, and blood sacrifices going on in the country to weaken and destroy Nigerians. Plead the Blood of Jesus against every incantation and enchantment in the atmosphere.
4. Heb. 1:14
Pray for angelic support for Nigeria Christians in the wake of terrorist attacks all over the country. Pray that God shall release His angels to drive these forces of evil out of Nigeria, the same way Lucifer and his forces were driven out of heaven.
5. Hosea 4:6
Pray for more understanding in the Church about the program and purpose of God in this season.
6. John 8:32
Pray that the truth shall make Nigeria Christians free from doctrinal errors and political manipulations.
7. Acts 1:8
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church.
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Monday 11th – Sunday 17th March 2024
THE DAY OF VISITATION
“For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation” (Luke 19:43–44).
In the prayer call of last week, we considered a 1995 prophecy and the consequence of an indifferent response from the Church. In this week’s prayer call, we shall consider another prophecy given to the Church in 2013. Already, the consequences of the Church's lukewarm response are being felt, but there is hope that the situation could be remedied if appropriate caution is taken. As it is usual with God, He makes a way of escape for His people whenever He sends warnings to them.
In 2013, two years before the 2015 elections, God sent the Church the warnings in Luke 19:42–44. With the benefit of hindsight, it is now clear that God was not only looking at the 2015 elections but also farther down the road to the 2019 elections. That election was the crucial one, but the unfortunate choices made in 2015 were to impact unfavourably on the outcome of the 2019 elections.
In Matthew 1:17, the Bible records that God dealt with Israel in a cycle of 14 generations, representing 420 years. Israel spent 430 years in Egypt; the period of the monarchy from king Saul to the Assyrian captivity was 410 years; the judges ruled for a little over 400 years; and the period between Malachi and Matthew is regarded as the 400 Silent Years, which silence was broken by the arrival of Archangel Gabriel to deliver a message to Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist.
While Nigeria is not old enough to experience a cycle of 420 years, it nevertheless has shown a cycle of divine dealings every 20 years. That cycle started in 1939, and may be highlighted as follows:
- 1939 – Southern Nigeria was divided into East and West, which hastened development in the South.
- 1959 – Constitutional Conference and preparations for Independence in 1960. God delayed the Independence till 1960 because Nigeria had to receive Independence on the Day of Atonement which, that year, fell on 1st October 1960.
- 1979 – The 1979 Constitution and return to Civil Rule.
- 1999 – The 1999 Constitution and another return to civil rule.
- 2019 – The next cycle for political configuration of Nigeria - the elections.
Due to misplaced priorities by some Christian leaders, Islamists took over political power in Nigeria in 2015 and began to afflict the land and the people. God was prepared to re-organize Nigeria at the next cycle of political configurations. As the 2019 elections approached, signals came from Heaven, that God was set to return power to the people. A lot of people caught the signal even though many did not fully understand what they were responding to. It would be recalled that Nigeria had the largest turn out of Christians contesting for presidency in 2019. There were over 50 Christian presidential candidates.
Those who understood what was about to happen started planning for a Christian political consensus. That was imperative, so that one Christian presidential candidate could contest against the two Muslim candidates who had taken the tickets of the two major political parties.
Armed with the knowledge of the 20-year cycle and the prophecy of 2013 that Nigeria must not miss divine visitation, arrangements commenced under the Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) and the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), to harmonize and mobilize Christians to prepare for divine visitation.
A press conference was held on 23rd November 2018 in Lagos, followed by a meeting with 13 Christian presidential candidates on 30th November 2018. The Christians presidential candidates unanimously gave NCEF the mandate to endorse one of them while the other candidates would support. It was clear to everyone that there could only be one president. The selection process was to commence on 10th December 2018.
Without prior involvement in the Christian political consensus project, the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria suddenly issued a press statement, that it would “interview” presidential candidates on 10th December 2018. The NCEF had convened in Abuja to commence their process on that same day. The Christian Elders reviewed the development and opted to step down their process and await the Christian presidential candidate to be announced by the Association. That “interview” never was. The announcement of it seemed to have been a strategy to dismantle the Christian Political Consensus Project of the NCEF
The apex body eventually interviewed 10 presidential candidates made up of 8 Christians and 2 Muslims, at the National Christian Centre, Abuja. It followed up with an advertorial on 21st December 2018 which said nothing about a Christian political consensus.
As if to truncate the CSMN/NCEF Christian Political Consensus Project, the apex body did an advertorial in PUNCH newspaper of 14th December 2018, asserting that it had dissolved the NCEF which is has no constitutional power to do. It was a political mischief, frustrating the Christian Political Consensus Project and making easy way for a jihadist to return to power. The Christian Political Consensus Project collapsed, and the Church lost in 2019. The consequence is what everyone is suffering today.
Soon as Buhari was “re-elected”, officials of the Association were one of the first to visit the presidential Villa to publicly congratulate him, even though that election was still being contested in the court. The jihadist would seem to have been their cherished candidate notwithstanding that in his first term, he had pursued an agenda of blood against Christians.
All that is now history. What should concern Christians at the moment is the next cycle in 2039. At the rate of attacks on the Church and mismanagement of the country, no one needs to be told what lies ahead if God does not intervene.
Fortunately, we serve a merciful God Who hears and answers prayers. A lot of prayers have been made, that God would break into that 20-year cycle and reconfigure Nigeria. The signals from Heaven are positive. As carried in the prayer call of last week, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is imminent upon Nigeria.
The story of the 20-year cycle is being narrated because of the expectation of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, so that Christians would take care not to miss another divine visitation. God will intervene, but Nigeria Christians must be prepared to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
It shall be well. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1). Dan. 9:8–10
Pray in repentance for God’s mercy upon Nigeria even though the Church missed divine visitation in 2019. Confess careless missing of that visitation, which has placed mammon above God.
2). Eccl. 8:11
Pray God’s judgment upon everyone who willfully frustrated the deliverance that God had purposed for Nigeria. If God does not judge those, others will join them for selfish gain.
3). Dan. 4:34–35
Plead with God to exercise His sovereignty in Nigeria by breaking into the 20-year cycle before the next due date in the divine calendar. Pray that God would re-organize Nigeria and deliver the land from oppressors.
4(. Eph. 6:12
Following the access given to Hamas to enter Nigeria, there has been an escalation of terrorist activities in the country. It is reported that 113 females were abducted by Boko Haram in Borno State last week, and over 280 school children abducted in broad daylight in Kaduna State, while the killing of Christians has increased in Benue State.
Take authority over the forces of darkness behind all these terrorist attacks.
5). 2 Thes. 1:6
Pray divine judgment upon all human collaborators of these forces of darkness. Pray that God would judge the sponsors of terrorists in Nigeria: their sorcerers and diviners, the religious and political leaders protecting them, as well as the terrorist foot soldiers themselves.
6). Isaiah 52:1-3
Pray spiritual alertness upon the Church in Nigeria, that Christians would not miss another divine visitation.
7). Isaiah 44:3-5
Pray for an early outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Nigeria, so that the land would have rest.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 4th – Sunday 10th March 2024
"TOHU VA BOHU"
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Gen. 1:1–4).
The condition of planet earth before God decided to renovate it for habitation was a state of indescribable desolation and emptiness. The Hebrew language described the earth as tohu va bohu, without form, and void. An expanded description of the situation could be rendered, “formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness.” There was no order; there was only chaos.
That situation could be likened to present day Nigeria. It would be in alignment with prophecy to describe the country in a state of tohu va bohu, irrespective of our positive confession or patriotism. Nigeria presently is in a state of confusion; without order, politically, economically, and socially.
In June 1995, God spoke from Isaiah 32:9–18 to a group of gospel ministers concerning Nigeria. The message was treated with the urgency that it deserved, which led to a series of high-level meetings of Church leaders that eventually culminated in the National Prayer for Repentance and Reconciliation, which held in September 1995. The repentance program held nationwide, and Nigeria appeared to have escaped the prophetic judgment outlined in Isaiah 32:9–14. Unfortunately, that was not the case. The repentance prayer of September 1995 was not complemented with a penitent attitude. By November 2016, Heaven lamented: “Nigeria Christians are praying and fasting, but they are not repenting.”
A cursory look at Isaiah 32: 9–14 shows that God keeps mentioning the cause of the problem: “carelessness.” Thrice in that short passage, God addressed carelessness. Rather than solve the problem of carelessness in the Church, the situation worsened, and by September 2013, another word came from Heaven, describing the Nigeria Church as “irresponsible”; that the “Nigeria Church is guilty of the sin of irresponsibility.”
An honest appraisal of the condition of the Nigeria Church will reveal that those two reports from Heaven well characterize it – “careless and irresponsible”. Time and space will not permit the list of the various acts of omission by the Church, spiritually, morally, ethically, and socially. The Church went into a freefall. Every attempt thereafter to call the Church to order was resisted, especially by the leadership. Today, scandal upon scandal rocks the Church, and some Christians who can no longer cope have opted to sit at home on Sunday mornings. Unfortunately, their number is increasing.
As the Church stumbled and staggered, its condition spilled over into the country. A Church without moral compass will ultimately throw the country into a spin. The consequence is a country in a state of tohu va bohu. It will be superfluous at this stage to mention the distressing conditions of Nigeria. Even if one attempts to list only the key problems of Nigeria, from where would one begin?
Fortunately, God does not give up in the face of tohu va bohu. In Genesis 1, as tohu va bohu reigned upon earth, the Spirit of God appeared, followed by the Word of God, and light dispelled the darkness; order replaced chaos, restoration commenced, and fruitfulness took the place of emptiness. When the Spirit of God appeared, the earth was renovated and restored.
This same pattern of deliverance is what God has promised Nigeria. It is undeniable that according to Isaiah 32:10 “many days and years shall ye be troubled,” and “Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers” (v. 13). That verse has been fulfilled yet, there remains the glorious promise in verse 15, that those distressing conditions would persist “Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high”.
As the Spirit of God reversed the chaos and emptiness “in the beginning”, so shall the outpouring of the Spirit of God reverse the present reproachful condition of Nigeria. What Nigeria is waiting for is the promise of the Holy Spirit. Nigeria is not waiting for restructuring, innovative as that might sound. Nigeria is not waiting for State Police to enhance national security. Nigeria is waiting for the promised gift of Holy Spirit outpouring. If God promised two things and one has come to pass, then the second shall unfailingly be fulfilled. The prophecy that foretold “many days and years [to] … be troubled” is the same prophecy that assures us that the situation shall persist only “Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.” (v. 15).
With this understanding of prophecy, Christians should focus prayers on the fulfilment of God’s promise of Holy Ghost outpouring upon Nigeria. All the problems of injustice, unrighteousness, immorality, perversion, corruption, and insecurity in the country shall be addressed when the Spirit of God is poured upon Nigeria. There is no reason for Christians to be despondent, depressed, or fearful. It is time to exercise faith in the word of God and prayerfully remind Him of His promise of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, we have experienced tohu va bohu, but according to prophecy, we shall “arise and shine, for [our] light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon [us].” (Isaiah 60:1). In Nigeria, darkness shall give way to light, and order shall replace chaos. It is time to pray fervently for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lam. 3:21–23
Thank God for His faithfulness and mercy upon us in Nigeria. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we have not been consumed.
2. Num. 23:19
Thank God that He is faithful to keep His word. He has promised Nigeria an outpouring of His Spirit, and it shall not fail.
3. 2 Cor. 6:2
Pray that God will hasten His word to perform it in Nigeria. Pray that the Spirit shall be poured out upon Nigeria today.
4. Acts 1:8
Pray for divine empowerment for the saints. Pray that a powerless Church shall be made powerful again by the Holy Spirit; powerful to exercise dominion over the land.
5. Joel 2:28–29
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Nigeria’s youths.
6. Ps. 85:4–7
Pray for Holy Ghost revival all over Nigeria.
7. Isaiah 32:9–17
Pray that as Nigeria has seen the days and years of trouble, Nigeria shall also witness the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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Monday 26th – Sunday 3rd March, 2024
THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH “HAMAS” (PART 2)
The prayer call of 8th – 14th January 2024 carried Part 1 of this message, “THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH HAMAS”. Genesis 6:11 states, “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.” The word “violence” is the Hebrew word “_hamas”. This week continues that prayer call, especially in response to disturbing developments in the country in the past few days.
A few days ago, leaders of the Hamas terrorist group were given visa by the Tinubu administration to officially enter Nigeria, which suggest the government’s endorsement of international terrorism. As if opening the doors of the country to an international terrorist organization had not been enough, Hamas was given permission to justify and defend its terrorist activities on Channels TV. Hamas denies that it is a terrorist organization, but the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom designate it as such. More importantly, the modus operandi of Hamas confirms it is a terrorist organization.
While Hamas claims that it is a political group, it draws its support base mostly from Muslim nations involved in the age-long determination of the Arabs to exterminate the nation of Israel. That Hamas is primarily associated with religion should have cautioned the government that Section 10 of the Constitution would be violated by extending invitation to such a group.
The unfortunate Palestine conflict might have been resolved with the two-state solution. Regrettably, on multiple occasions when that was proposed, Hamas has rejected it, while Israel accepted it. What Hamas wants is the complete vacation of the land by Israel. Hamas joins other terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), as well as a host of Arab nations, all of whom are committed to wiping out Israel. Prominent amongst those nations are Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq.
Today, Arab nations are seeking strategic countries in Africa to co-opt into their anti-Israel agenda. Many years ago, God gave Pastor Elton a vision of Africa as a pistol, when the map of Africa is placed sideways. Nigeria occupies the position of the trigger while South Africa is the muzzle where the bullet fires from. Prophetically, both Nigeria and South Africa occupy sensitive positions in the end time agenda of God for Africa and the world.
A few weeks ago, South Africa sued Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for genocide in Gaza. South Africa overlooked the fact that on 7th October 2023, Hamas launched an unprovoked brutal attack against Israel. Why hasn’t Hamas gone to ICJ by itself to state its case against Israel?
Each life is sacred. We condemn the destruction of lives in whatever form and at any time. However, justice demands that the truth must be applied to every case if problems are to be solved. When Hamas attacked Israel on 7th October 2023, it killed unarmed men, women, and children. That prompted Israel to react in self-defense to prevent future attacks. South Africa condemned the reaction of Israel but overlooked the action of Hamas that precipitated that reaction. What Hamas did on 7th October 2023 was genocide. According to UN definition of genocide, it does not consist in the number of people killed. The murder of one person out of racial motivation or as an act of ethnic cleansing constitutes genocide.
South Africa would appear to have been co-opted into the coalition of Arab nations against Israel. Having co-opted the prophetic “muzzle” of Africa, the Arabs are turning to the "trigger", Nigeria.
For years, the politics of religion and religious insurgency has threatened Nigeria. Islamism (political Islam) has hijacked power in Nigeria, with the unfortunate connivance and endorsement of some prominent Church leaders who have placed personal and selfish interests about the interest of Nigeria and the Church.
The objectives of the Islamists are not hidden, as published in their communique entitled “The ABUJA DECLARATIONS 1989.” Excerpts from that communique are as follows:
• To ensure the appointment of only Muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations.
• To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity, Ahmadiyya and other tribal modes of worship unacceptable to Muslims).
• To ensure that only Muslims are elected to all political posts of member nations.
• To ensure the declaration of Nigeria (the 24th African and 48th World member of the OIC) a Federal Islamic Sultanate at a convenient date any time from 28th March 1990, with the Sultan of Sokoto enthroned as the Sultan Supreme Sovereign of Nigeria.
• To ensure the ultimate replacement of all Western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Sharia in all member nations before the next Islam in African Conference.
Clearly, this communique has been the script running government in Nigeria for many years. The escalation of the politics of religion and religious insurgency is the intentional design of some forces. At present, the first five offices in Nigeria are occupied by Muslims. They occupy the Number 1, 2, 4, and 5 slots in the political hierarchy of the nation, from the Presidency, through the parliaments to the judiciary. It is not a coincidence. The “Abuja Declarations 1989” was made public in 2014. Instead of Church leaders to treat it with concern and caution, a prominent Church leader wrote a letter condemning the warnings against it, calling on Christians to ignore that warning. Church leaders threw caution to the winds and fully endorsed Islamist candidates in the 2015, 2019, and in 2023 elections. Without the support and endorsement of Church leaders, Islamists could never have gained power in Nigeria.
Now that the sponsors of the politics of religion are no longer hiding their intentions, what will the Church leaders do? The access given to Hamas, coming shortly after the invitation extended to Dr Zakir Naik in November 2023, are indications that the Islamists are preparing for a major offensive.
Concerning the visit of Dr Naik, Premium Times in an editorial on 14th November 2023 noted thus,
“Media accounts of the just concluded visit to Nigeria by the controversial Indian Islamic televangelist, Mr Zakir Abdulkareem Naik, suggest nothing but an apocalyptic scenario, in which a flaming terrorist was given an expanded platform in Sokoto, Abuja, Keffi and Ilorin to plant the seeds of discontent that ultimately bodes the Nigerian political environment nothing but impending chaos, turmoil, and bloodbath in the very near future” (https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/editorial/643039-editorial-a-cleric-his-message-and-the-media-storm.html).
It was after the visit of Dr Naik that the gate was opened for Hamas.
What will the shepherds of the Nigeria Church do? The National Prayer Altar suggests as follows:
1. The Church leaders should organize a one-day solemn assembly for the confession and repentance of the clergy for their mismanagement and misleading of the Nigeria Church. They must accept responsibility before God for the distressing condition of the Nigeria Church and of Nigeria as a country.
2. The Church leaders should immediately contact the government and insist that it equally extends invitation to Israel to send a delegation to Nigeria for a balanced report of the situation in Gaza. After hearing from Hamas, Nigeria must hear from Israel. This will ensure that government complies with the neutrality of the state on religious issues as enshrined in Section 10 of the Constitution.
3. There must be an immediate Christian Leadership Conference to consider the threat posed by political Islam in Nigeria. There has not been any such conference since the insurgency started in 2009, fifteen years ago. This Conference should include Christian professionals in various fields. It should not be a conference of the Clergy alone.
4. To strengthen the Church, we reiterate our earlier recommendation that churches should import food for free distribution to members of their congregations. The responsibility of the shepherd is to feed their flock.
5. Churches should engage in mechanized farming as well as re-introduce free education. In the coming days, Christians will be further required to take a stand for the Church. If they cannot see the relevance of the Church in their lives, particularly in their hardship, they will not stand – for themselves or for the Church.
6. Christian leaders should return to discipleship teachings. An imbalanced prosperity message weakens the Church.
If this Prayer Call seems appropriate to you, kindly help it to get to your church leader and every other church leader you can.
God bless Nigeria.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Isaiah 8:9–10
There is an international conspiracy against Nigeria. Pray that all the conspiring nations shall scatter, and their counsel shall not stand.
2. Ps. 2:1–9
Satan has gathered many nations to contest the Lordship of Jesus Christ in Nigeria. Pray that every country and individual in that conspiracy to resist the Lordship of Jesus Christ in Nigeria be broken in pieces with God’s rod of iron.
3. Isaiah 7: 7
Pray that every decision in the Abuja Declarations 1989, as well as in other strategy meetings of the Islamists, be nullified by the blood of Jesus and the authority of the word of God.
4. Isaiah 60:18
Pray that violence and destruction shall cease in Nigeria.
5. Col. 2:14 –15
Sorcery, divination, and incantations are being massively deployed into Nigeria against the people, to keep them docile, suppressed, and helpless. Come against all those works of darkness with the blood of Jesus. Saturate the atmosphere in Nigeria with the blood of Jesus for cleansing and deliverance of the land and the people.
6. 2 Cor. 5:11
Pray that the terror of God shall fall on the Church leaders and they shall be persuaded to repent and amend their ways.
7. 2 Cor. 3:17
Pray for a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Nigeria, to give Nigeria liberty from Satan, from the forces of darkness, and from the children of the devil.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 19th – Sunday 25th February 2024
LAMENTATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1)
For the Church in Nigeria, 2013 was an interesting year. It was a year in which the Lord sent messages to Nigeria Christians. The results are now manifest. We shall look at some of those messages.
1. Your Church leaders are like Rachel sitting on an idol. They will rather die on top of the idol than get up.
2. If care is not taken, in 30 to 40 years, Nigeria will be like Turkey.
3. The Nigeria Church is guilty of the sin of irresponsibility.
Nigeria is facing enormous challenges, socially, economically, and politically. The challenges are a reflection of the deep crisis within the Church. The Lord endowed His Church in Nigeria with enormous capacity for national transformation and the spiritual liberation of the country. Unfortunately, at every critical junction in the life of Nigeria, Christian leadership has failed to act like Jesus. That is the deep crisis within the Church.
The first casualty is the Church itself. Nigeria is in disarray today because the lamp of the light bearer has been smashed in many places and its glow has gone dim. Most of the acts of insincerity that weaken the Church are from within.
After the dispensation of the early missionaries who, to the best of their ability, laid a credible Christian foundation for Nigeria, leadership of the Church fell on the shoulders of indigenous Christians. In August 1976, forty-eight years ago, God established a central management body for the Church with the mandate, “That they all may be one”. As of 1976 when the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) was established, the following were some of the stable conditions of the Church:
1. Christian influence was paramount in government and in the society.
2. There was free Christian education all over the country.
3. Church buildings and properties were not being burnt.
4. Christians were not being murdered and maimed.
5. Christian communities were not sacked, and the Christians driven to IDP camps.
6. Christianity was well respected in the society.
7. Christians were amongst the most trusted and credible people in the country.
CAN met the Church in a stable condition in 1976. Fast forward forty-eight years to 2024: what is the condition of Christianity in Nigeria?
a). Christian influence is insignificant in Nigeria. Islam rules the country.
b). There is scarcely free Christian education in the country. Where Christian schools exist, the fees they charge are the highest in the neighbourhood.
c). Church buildings are burnt in their thousands without repercussions to the arsonists.
d). Christians are murdered daily on a genocidal scale. Current statistics indicates that 82% of global mortalities due to faith-based persecution are Nigerian Christians killed in Nigeria.
e). Hundreds of Christian villages have been sacked by insurgents who often invade in their hundreds, and the Christians are driven into IDP camps. Millions of Christians are in IDP camps while their villages have been occupied by Muslims (mostly from the desert) and the names of the villages changed by the new residents.
f). Christianity in the country has become a joke and a ridicule. Comedians make a living by poking fun at Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Blood of Jesus, and of course, the pastors and their wives.
g). Christians are the least trusted in Nigeria.
The parable of the unprofitable servant in Matt. 25:14–30 provides a scriptural perspective to the state of the Nigeria Church from 1976 to 2024. How have the clergy managed Christianity in Nigeria, resulting in a stable Church in 1976 becoming a distressed Church in 2024?
The situation would not have been so bad if church leaders accepted Godly counsel. A few years ago, God raised some Christian Elders from the six geo-political zones in the country to professionally support the Church leaders, but those were offended that anyone would seek to advise them. They headed for PUNCH newspaper and paid for an advertorial entitled “CAN HAS NO SUPERVISOR”. Nobody could talk to them. The consequence of that sad display of power is what both Christians and other Nigerians are suffering today.
It is a spiritual reality that when leaders sin, their followers suffer consequences. Under the circumstances, what should the followers do? It is time for Christians in Nigeria to demand accountability from their leaders. That way, they will absolve themselves before God of complicity. What has happened in the Church cannot be swept under the carpet. Too many people have died without justification. Questions must be asked, and answers provided.
The Lord is jealous for His Church, and He will hold accountable those who undermined it, and their supporters, too. Unfortunately, when the Lord comes to judge, He will not judge the leaders only. He, however, gives grace, that if judgment is executed on the earth, Heaven would refrain or review other actions. In 1 Cor. 11:31, it says, “For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”
If the Church does not call itself to order, evil will continue to multiply in the Body. Too many things have gone wrong since 2009. Tens of thousands of innocent Christians have been murdered, millions of lives have been devastated, and the credibility of the glorious Church of Jesus Christ compromised. The Church has no option but to query itself. If Christians do not do it on earth, the Lord would do it from Heaven, with serious consequences. The spirit of jealousy has been provoked.
Demanding accountability from Church leaders in Nigeria should cover the following areas:
1. What role did the Church leaders play in 2015, 2019, and 2023, in handing political power in the country over to the Islamists who have daily murdered Christians and inflicted hardship on the populace?
2. What warranted the neglect of the persecuted Christians who are daily wallowing in abject poverty and suffering?
3. In the ongoing famine in Nigeria, how come the Nigeria Church has not adequately helped suffering saints, as demonstrated in the scriptures, in Acts 11:27-30?
4. What action did the Church leaders take about the cases of corruption and abuse of office reported in the Church?
5. Despite the much money that enters the Church every week, why haven't church leaders sustained the tradition of free quality education which the early Church leaders in the country offered, without access to funds such as today’s Church has?
In every organization, spiritual and secular, leadership is crucial. The success or failure of an organization depends on the quality of its leaders. It is time for Nigeria Christians to pray fervently for Good Shepherds like the Lord Jesus Christ. The spirit of jealousy is lamenting over the distressing state of the Nigeria Church.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1. 1 Peter 4:17
Pray that God will commence judgment according to His word, against every corruption, treachery, and betrayal of Jesus Christ by those entrusted with leadership in the Church.
2. 1 Cor. 11:31
Pray that the spirit of judgment shall be stirred in the Nigeria Church, and Christians shall be of one mind, and the Church be purged from evil and wickedness.
3. 2 Cor. 11:13–15
Raise a lamentation to heaven against the hypocrisy and duplicity of those claiming to be Christian leaders yet they work at cross purposes with the Holy Spirit. Pray that God will terminate every Church leader who has placed personal interest above the collective interest of the Body of Christ in Nigeria.
4. 1 Cor. 12:26
The neglect of persecuted Christians in Nigeria, which amounts to criminal negligence by the Church, was on account of some Church leaders who frustrated support from reaching persecuted brethren, in deference to their Islamist patrons. Pray that the Lord would judge all who deliberately frustrated, and are still frustrating, every effort to minister to persecuted Christians in Nigeria.
5. Job 5:12-16
Pray for God’s intervention on behalf of the masses of Nigeria from the hands of a greedy and covetous political class inflicting suffering on the people. Pray that all their conspiracies to inflict further sufferings on the people shall be nullified.
6. Acts 10:38
Pray that the Nigeria Church shall return to good works, which the early missionaries established as tradition in the Church; good works such as the provision of free education, free health care, taking care of the poor, and humility amongst the clergy.
7. Ps. 75:6 -7
Pray that God will promote righteous and God-fearing Christians into positions of relevance and authority in the Church.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 12th – Sunday 18th February, 2024
CAMA 2020 & MATTERS ARISING
“… Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me…? Feed my sheep” (John 21: 17).
In August 2020, former President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020. That law, amongst others, stipulated that “The Commission may by order suspend the trustees of an association and appoint an interim manager or managers to manage the affairs of an association where it reasonably believes that there has been any mismanagement in the administration of the association”. The law threatened the leadership of various churches in the country. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) promptly headed to the court when “all attempts to convince the Federal government why it should not intervene or interfere with the management of the Church in the country through any of its agencies failed.”
It was a long drawn legal tussle, and in April 2023, CAN won the case in court. Hallelujah! All the church leaders united to confront the government and resist what was evidently an ill-motivated law that would have conferred the control of churches on the Federal Government.
The outcome of the court case on CAMA highlights a few notable points as follows:
1. The Church has the capacity to unite against a common foe.
2. The much-vaunted denominational divisions and rivalry amongst various church groups can easily be surmounted.
3. The churches can resist the government and prevail.
4. The church has the capacity to compel government to do what is right.
The question that naturally follows is, if church leaders were capable of resisting the government over CAMA, why have they not engaged governments over the persecution and daily murder of Christians in Nigeria? Are we to conclude that church leaders mounted their spirited resistance against CAMA because it threatened their positions and benefits, while they demonstrate indifference to the plight of their persecuted brethren because they or their families are not directly affected? It is disturbing to note that since the insurgency started in 2009, fifteen years ago, there has not been a single Christian leadership cooperation to engage Government the way church leaders mobilized to engage it against CAMA.
It is reasonable to conclude that if church leaders could rely on legal representation in court to stop the government from implementing CAMA, nothing stops them from utilizing the same process to compel Government to comply with Section 14 (2)b of the Constitution which states that “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government:” It is sadly apparent that “the security and welfare” of Nigerians are not the primary purpose of the APC political party in government.
Jesus Christ commanded Peter, “Feed my sheep”. Inherent in that command was the expectation that the sheep of Jesus would be protected and well nourished. Today, in addition to insecurity, there in hunger in the country. What steps are church leaders taking to ensure that the flock of Christ is fed in obedience to the command of the Lord?
Over the years, churches have amassed enormous funds from freewill offerings, tithes, thanksgiving, seed faith, and vows, and some of them are able to build places of worship costing billions of naira. The cost of some 'special' and annual church programs runs into billions of naira. Invariably, some churches or denominations can afford to import shiploads of food into the country without denting their purse. Why then have such projects not been their objective?
Not only can churches import food into the country to alleviate the sufferings of their members, they also have the financial capacity to start large scale mechanized modern farming. Some would-have-been farm lands are wasting as 'campgrounds.'
In obedience to the command of Jesus Christ, churches should feed their people some of whom had helped to raise those huge funds. A church might not be able to feed the entire country, but at least it can start with its members.
Churches should not only pray but also act like Jesus and meet the physical needs of their people. The suffering in the land is becoming unbearable. Miracle services for the suffering masses are great, but plus miracle food provided for those masses, it could be greater. To think that some church leaders were accomplices in foisting the present Government of hardship upon Nigeria puts on them the additional onus of alleviating the suffering that they have helped to bring upon the land.
The National Prayer Altar calls on church leaders to rise up in the interest of the flock of Jesus Christ by doing the following:
1. Take action to defend persecuted and vulnerable Christians the same way they fiercely fought CAMA.
2. Feed the sheep of Jesus Christ by importing food for free distribution to their members and others.
3. Embark on large scale mechanized farming to ensure sufficient local food production.
There was a prophetic word in August 2021, that the Lord was “ANGRY” with the Church leaders in Nigeria because of their indifference to the bloodshed and evil in the land. Caring thus for the suffering and hungry flock could be a redeeming appeasement. “...Our God is a consuming fire” (Heb. 12: 29).
PRAYER POINTS
1). Acts 4:34–37
Pray that the convicting power of the Holy Spirit shall rest upon church leaders and influential Christians to persuade them on the welfare of the flock.
2). John 13:35
Pray that the selfishness and self-centeredness that currently characterize many church leaders shall be melted away by the love of Christ.
3). Ezekiel 45:9–10
Intercede for the suffering masses in Nigeria, that God would deliver them from an insensitive and self-seeking political class that has elevated selfish interests above the collective welfare of Nigerians.
4). Gen. 9:6
Pray against bloodshed and insecurity in the land. Pray that God will raise righteous and just leaders that will execute judgement on all those involved in shedding the blood of the innocent in Nigeria.
5). Ezekiel 34:11-16
Pray that God will hear the cry of the poor and downtrodden in Nigeria, and give the land responsible, accountable, and God-fearing leaders.
6). Isaiah 32:10–15
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon Nigeria, that the revival fire shall sweep all over Nigeria and bring an end to corruption, violence, and immorality in the land.
7). Gen. 1:2-3
Pray that the present darkness over Nigeria shall give way to the light of God. Amen.
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Ps. 46:1
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Monday 5th – Sunday 11th February 2024
A BULLOCK FOR THE PRIEST, A BULLOCK FOR THE CONGREGATION
For the third week now, we are persuaded to draw the attention of Christians in Nigeria to crucial issues bordering on their personal survival and that of the Church. Since 2009, Islamist insurgents, funded, protected and deployed by some influential people within and outside Nigeria, have daily been decimating the Christian population. The carnage has assumed genocidal proportions. According to World Watch Monitor, in the past 12 years, Nigeria has been the most dangerous country in the world for anyone to be a Christian.
In Nigeria today, murder is legalized. In every other country in the world, murder is a crime punishable by either death or life imprisonment. Murderers in Nigeria roam free, get enlisted in the military as ‘repentant terrorists,’ and others are let go apparently with a license to commit the next act of terror, while their survivors remain destitute in IDP camps. Their victims depart planet earth without personal identity in mass graves.
Those agents of wickedness are not stronger than Nigerian Christians, neither are they better strategists. Christians are more in number, better educated, better enlightened, and stronger than those determined to exterminate them. Christian leadership failure is to blame.
A good parallel to the situation in Nigeria is found in Exodus 1: 8–11. Pharaoh admitted that the children of Israel were “more and mightier” than the Egyptians. How come it was the people who were “more and mightier” that became slaves to their apparently less and weaker opponents? The answer is: leadership.
In the past few days, a troublesome ethnic nationality in Nigeria that has gained notoriety for bloodletting and abuse of hospitality has openly escalated plans to cause further destruction of lives in the country, going as far as publishing its intention to bring destruction to the 36 states in Nigeria. That is in addition to registering a vigilante group made up entirely of members of that ethnic group. Informed observers have noted that that was how Janjaweed, the quasi terrorist police in Sudan, started. In all of these, what is the response of the Christian leadership?
The problem is failure both of leadership and followers. According to Sociology, two factors produce leadership in any society:
1. Someone to claim it.
2. Someone to recognize it.
If someone claims leadership but no one recognizes it, there would be no leader. So long as people recognize someone as their leader, that person remains a leader. Spiritually, recognizing someone as leader carries a lot of weight.
According to Lev. 4, if an anointed priest sinned, he would bring a young bullock to atone for his sin. However, if the entire congregation of Israel sinned, that priest would bring only a young bullock to atone for their sin. If the ruler sinned, he would bring a male goat to atone for his sin, whereas a common man would bring a female goat (Lev. 4:3-28). A corrupt and covetous leadership brings divine indignation upon its congregation. In this crucial season, the Nigeria Church requires Good Shepherds, not hirelings. A Good Shepherd will not allow the wolves to devour his flock. Good Shepherds will not have folded their arms since 2009 with no plan of engaging the insurgency. They will not throw the weight of the Church in support of enemies of Jesus Christ. The endorsement of the Muslim-Muslim ticket by influential Christian leaders, after eight years of jihadist Buhari, is a strong indictment on Christian leadership.
PRAYER POINTS
1. John 10:10
Take authority over the spirits of darkness that have come to steal, kill, and destroy in Nigeria. Bind all those evil spirits and cast them out.
2. Ezek. 34:2–6
Pray that they will not be blameless who were empowered and positioned by God to halt the murder of Christians in Nigeria, but did nothing.
3. John 10:11
Pray that God will raise a new generation of Church leaders, Good Shepherds, for the Nigeria Church.
4. John 10:12–13
Pray that God will dismiss every hireling occupying a position of Christian leadership in Nigeria Church.
5. Gal. 2: 11–14
Pray that God will raise the spirit of boldness and zeal for righteousness in the Church.
6. Acts 6: 2 – 4
Pray that the Holy Spirit would raise people in the Church who would reorganize the Church to do the work of God and at the same time answer the enemies at the gate.
7. Philp. 1:27–28
Pray for unity amongst Christians in Nigeria; unity to confront the enemies of God determined to destroy Christians.
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From 18th April 2022
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Ps. 46:1
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Monday 29th January – Sunday 4th February 2024
BLOOD, BLOOD, EVERYWHERE
Three things defile a land and bring curses upon the people. They are:
a. Adultery
b. Idolatry
c. Bloodshed
Of these three factors promoting curses, the worst is bloodshed, because it is not easily atoned for. The Bible says in Num. 35: 33: “So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
Since 2009, Muslim insurgents have embarked on a killing spree in Nigeria and in the process murdered tens of thousands of Christians. Their primary target has been the Christian communities. This was affirmed by Abubakar Shekau the leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group in a widely circulated video in 2012.
It is widely published that in the 8 years of Buhari, 63,111 Nigerians were recorded killed (according to available figures), making an average of 22 people killed every day in 8 years). Sadly, there are several other deaths and 'disappearances' unaccounted for.
In 2023 alone, over 8,119 people were killed in 4,326 violent events. That year rounded up with the massacre of 238 Christians in Bokkos, Mangu, and Barkin Lardi Local Government Areas of Plateau State on Christmas Eve. Those are the official figures, which usually underplay the gravity of such killings.
In August 2021, the Lord sent a message to Nigerian Church leaders, that He did not command them to be quiet about all the evils taking place in the country. In a strongly worded message, the Lord declared that He was “ANGRY” with Nigerian Church leaders. As published in our prayer call for last week, none of the Church leaders responded to that admonition as well as to the other messages sent by the Lord in 2021. One might ask, What is the fate of Christians if their leaders no longer listen to the Lord?
In all the bloodshed going on in Nigeria, we also wish to ask, whom is the Lord holding primarily responsible? Ezekiel 34:7–8 laments, “Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord; As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock...”
There is documented evidence that every effort to build structures to protect Christian lives in Nigeria was deliberately truncated by some Church leaders. The National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) gallantly confronted the Church leaders and demanded accountability from them. The shepherds of the Nigerian Church retorted that the NCEF was causing disunity in the Church. They went so far as publishing in the newspaper that CAN had dissolved the NCEF. There is no such constitutional authority in the apex body of the Church. The Christian Elders asked Church leaders 12 questions in June 2018. To date, they have not provided an answer to any of the questions.
Last week, a delegation of church leaders visited President Tinubu and, in a published report, said that "President Bola Tinubu’s administration is making positive efforts to tackle the challenges facing the country”. During the same period, a Muslim organization said that it was "deeply concerned about the current economic reality in Nigeria and the devastating impacts of the removal of petrol subsidy on Nigerians.” While the Muslim leaders spoke truth to power, Christian leaders patted the President on the back.
It has been observed that most of our prominent Church leaders play a brand of politics that negatively impacts on Christians and weakens the Church, while their Muslim counterparts play politics to protect Muslims and promote Islam. It is the Christian leadership brand of politics that cushioned the 2015 conspiracy of some Church leaders to unseat a Christian President and hand power over to a jihadist. They repeated it in 2019 by facilitating the re-election of Buhari and topped it in 2023 by throwing their weight behind the Muslim-Muslim ticket. While the blood of 238 Christians killed in Plateau State on Christmas Eve is still fresh on the ground, Church leaders were in Aso Villa commending Tinubu.
The only good thing that came out of the meeting was President Tinubu sermonizing to Nigerians not to make money their god. We hope the Church leaders got the message.
According to another message from the Lord in 2021, the Nigeria Church has a LEADERSHIP CRISIS. That message from heaven in 2021 went further to state: “What the Nigerian Church is parading as Christian leadership today cannot enter the Holy of Holies to obtain deliverance for Nigerian Christians.”
In the prayer call for last week, we stated, "The victory or defeat of an army is determined primarily by the quality of its leadership." It is time for Nigeria Christians to interrogate Christian leadership in the country and hold it accountable. The bloodshed going on in the land must be stopped. The runaway evil and corruption trampling upon the country must cease. The Church is the light of the world and the salt of the earth. The Nigeria Church deserves leadership that will be a moral authority, enabling Christians to exercise spiritual authority over the hordes of darkness invading the land. A Church without moral authority cannot exercise spiritual authority.
Christian leadership must be accountable and Christlike. A Christian leadership that attended the funeral of TB Joshua and claimed it went to “honour” him should be interrogated. In his lifetime, the Nigeria Church rejected TB Joshua as a servant of God. Why would Church leaders officially attend the funeral of such a man to “honour” him? Would true prophets give honour to a false prophet? Now that BBC has produced a three-part documentary asserting to the whole world that TB Joshua was an occultist and a false prophet, what would the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria say? Afterall, they went to “honour” him.
A set of Christian leadership that ignores messages from God must be overhauled. Such leadership that is evidently disconnected from the Lord of the Church can only lead Christians into penury and destruction.
At the National Prayer Altar, all we can do is to pray. However, there are influential Christians in the country who can act. The relentless bloodshed, adultery, and idolatry in Nigeria must be checked. Christians must ensure that their leadership accepts responsibility to lead the Church into victory over all the evils assailing Nigeria. A Christian leadership that is preoccupied with selfish interests is not what this season needs. There is too much at stake. If Nigerian Christians are truly desirous of deliverance from all the evils in the country, they must ensure a Christlike leadership.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps. 24:7
Thank God that the foundation of Christianity in Nigeria was built by God on faithful servants of Christ, like Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Apostle Ayo Babalola, Evangelist Paul Gindiri, Pastor Granville Elton, and so on. Pray that this foundation of righteous Christian leadership shall speak again and produce faithful servant-leaders for the Church in Nigeria.
2. Matt. 25:28–30
Pray that all the Church leaders whom the Lord empowered and positioned to intervene for the Church and speak against the evil in the land, but who did not take any action, being therefore guilty of criminal negligence, should be judged by God as unprofitable servants.
3. 2 Pet. 2:1–3
Pray that every Church leader who received money, land, and other favours from politicians, governments, or Islamists, and because of those inducements exposed the Body of Christ to injury, shall be judged by God.
4. 2 Cor. 11:13–15
Pray that every Church leader in the occult or who traffics with the powers of darkness in the name of a Christian 'ministry' shall be exposed and judged by God.
5. Matt. 15:13
Pray that all the greedy, covetous, and self-seeking people polluting the sanctuary of God in Nigeria shall be uprooted and dismissed by Heaven.
6. 2 Pet. 2:12-15
Pray that all immoral and perverse 'ministers of the gospel', who engage in sex rituals or in immoral sexual acts with Church members and non-members, shall be exposed by the light of God and dismissed from the altar, in the name of Jesus Christ.
7. Dan 1:1-8; 6:3-5
Pray that God will promote righteous, God-fearing, and Christlike Christians into positions of leadership in the Nigeria Church. Amen.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 22nd – Sunday 28th January 2024
LETTERS TO THE NIGERIA CHURCH
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. (Rev. 1: 11).
We might consider 2021 “the year of letters”; the year in which the Lord sent different people to write letters to the leaders of the Nigeria Church. We are aware of five of such letters, but we have four of them in our possession. The letters were written on 11th April, 12th April, 8th May, and 26th August 2021. In the letters, the Lord admonished His Church in Nigeria to repent or face judgment. (We do not have access to the fifth letter, which was also written in May 2021 by a Pastor, but we are aware that it was written to 12 Church leaders.)
Excerpts from the letters are as follows:
11th April 2021
In the early hours of Sunday, 11th April 2021, about four (4) captains of separate destructive troops from the LORD came into the country. They had a warrant from the LORD… The reason for their mission was sins of the Nigerian people and the sins of the Nigeria Church. Here are what the Lord mentioned:
a). They (the leaders) know that many in their congregation, who assemble before them, are rebellious sinners who continually grieve My Spirit which is among them, yet they love it so …
b). They know that My return is imminent and that their congregation is far from being ready, they surely know that their members are not ready for My return, yet they suffer them gladly to continue so...
c). They know the enormity of the bloodshed in their country, caused by their countrymen; they know the effect of the blood of the poor innocents upon the land…
12th April 2021
“… the Nigerian Church is facing LEADERSHIP CRISIS. The primary problem is not Boko Haram, Fulani ‘herdsmen,’ President Buhari, ISWAP, Islamists, or the "Bandits." Those are merely symptoms of the problem of the Nigeria Church. The problem is the LEADERSHIP CRISIS within the Church.”
8th May 2021
“Your repentance must be thorough, the highs and the lows, every Church and everyone that is identified by the name of the LORD across your country, for my wrath is upon all your nation, else I will strike you just once in full might, for my wrath is come up to my face,” says the LORD.
26th August 2021
“The Word of the LORD came with a force and rebuke that was unusual, unsettling and unmistakably URGENT. We heard expressly from the LORD that He is ANGRY with the leadership of His Church in Nigeria. He made it clear that He did not command His Church to be silent and He will hold everyone concerned individually and collectively responsible and accountable for the unrestrained run of evil in the land.”
To date, there is no evidence that any of the Church leaders who received the letters responded. Nearly all of them ignored the letters. The only response came from a prominent Pastor who castigated the message of 11th April 2021 and insisted in a circulated message that God cannot judge the Church. He referred to the message as “arrant heterodoxy” and he claimed that “God cannot judge the body of Christ.” His view directly opposes 1 Pet. 4:17; 1 Cor. 11:31; Heb. 10:30–31. Ironically, it is the views of that senior Pastor that are “arrant heterodoxy”, a complete deviation from accepted beliefs and standards in the Church.
On Tuesday 16th January 2024, a powerful blast ripped through the ancient city of Ibadan in Oyo State. Not a few intercessors agree by revelation that Ibadan is the spiritual capital of Nigeria. To the discerning minds, a powerful blow was struck at the spiritual nerve centre of Nigeria. Why was it not prevented by the Lord?
While Christians were still mourning the massacre of 238 brethren on Christmas Eve of 2023, the Fulanis started their "Nomad Vigilante" in Nasarawa State. An informed observer commented that that was how the militant group Janjaweed started in Sudan. To date, none of the estimated 500 insurgents that attacked Plateau state in December of 2023 has been arrested. Are they spirits? How can the Christian leadership be inactive in this situation?
As pointed out in all the letters, the Nigeria Church has critical issues with leadership. In many crucial instances, it was difficult to know on which side some prominent Christian leaders stood. Were they on the side of the Lord, or on the side of the Lord’s enemies?
According to the letter of 26th August 2021, the Lord expected the Church leaders to speak against the evils and the bloodshed in the land. On the contrary, what happens repeatedly is that some prominent Church leaders speak in endorsement of those promoting corruption, evil and bloodshed in the land. A few public examples may suffice, and they are present below, although the names of those church leaders who made those statements have been discreetly omitted:
- * “God ordained Buhari, Osinbajo as our leaders, they will deliver.” - 2015
- * “God will give Buhari solutions to Nigeria’s problems in 2017” - 2016
- * “God’ll build Nigeria through President Tinubu” - 2023
- * “Tinubu fought a good fight and God gave him victory” - 2023
- * “President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed can fix the country with God’s help.” - 2023
- * “God will use Tinubu, Wike, others to develop Nigeria.” – 2023
What those church leaders thus said on earth was not in agreement with what the Lord would have wanted them to say.
There is an urgency in the atmosphere. The household of God must be put in order. The starting point is the leadership, because God relates to His people through their leaders. The victory or defeat of an army is determined primarily by the quality of its leadership. Since 2009, Christians in Nigeria have been under attacks, daily. To date, there is no organized plan of response or defence by the Christian leadership. The Lord of the Church is stirring. He cannot take it any longer.
In 2017, the National Christian Elders Forum started calling for independent investigations into the leadership of the Church. Rather than hearken, Church leaders castigated and reproached the Forum of Elders and accused them of causing disunity in the Church!
Nigeria's Christians must prayerfully re-organize the Church. Prayer is good, but “faith without works is dead”. Christian leadership must be Christlike. The Good Shepherd places the safety and well-being of His flock first. In Nigeria, the flock of the Lord is vulnerable and exposed; it has become prey to every beast of the field. Insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and Fulani herdsmen snuff them out without repercussions. For 12 years running, Nigeria remains the most dangerous country on earth for anyone to be a Christian. The 2023 World Watch Monitor report confirms that Nigeria keeps the unenviable title of headship, with 82% of global Christian mortality arising from persecution!
Meanwhile, there are Christian leaders to whom the Lord gave influence, power, and capacity to halt the mayhem. They would rather endorse the perpetrators and sponsors of the genocide against their brethren. How could any Godly leadership act in this manner?
The Lord has spoken, He has written, and He has been patient. No one can blame the Lord if He begins to execute judgment.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Isa. 26:9-11
Pray that God will teach Nigerian leaders, both religious and political, righteousness by the execution of divine judgment.
2. Ezek. 18:1–4
Everyone who has contributed to the bloodshed and indignation upon Nigeria through their rebellion against the will of God, whether they are leaders or followers, whether in the Church or outside of it, let Almighty God judge them to His satisfaction.
3. Gen. 9:6
All those shedding the blood of Nigerians and are still determined to shed more blood, let the judgment in Gen. 9:6 come upon all of them.
4. Ezek. 11:1–4, 13
Every false leader in the Church who claims to be the servant of Christ but is serving other interests, may the Lord expose them and judge them for their duplicity.
5. Matt. 3:8–10
Everyone whom God promoted and placed in a position of influence to stop the killings of Christians but did not do anything, let the judgment of God start with them.
6. Act 1:18
Pray that every Balaam in the Church, who placed his personal interests above the interest of the Kingdom of God, shall be dismissed by God and replaced with a worthy servant of Christ.
7. Matt. 25:31–33
Almighty God, in this season, separate the sheep from the goats in the Nigeria Church.
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“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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Monday 15th – Sunday 21st January 2024
SECTION 14 (2)b of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria states:
“The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government:”
On Monday 8th January 2024, a marketing staff of a bank in Lagos State committed suicide in the office toilet by drinking poison. We grieve deeply with her family, relatives, colleagues, and friends. It is one more painful death too many in this country. We pray that God would comfort members of her family.
In our prayers this week, we shall highlight this unfortunate incident as a fresh call for concerted and intensive prayers for righteous leadership in Nigeria. The 32-year-old woman needed not to have died if those who acquired leadership in the country had performed their roles creditably. The young woman left a note in her diary which, amongst others, stated:
"Nothing is working in my life. My figures are low. The economy is getting harder. The future doesn't seem bright at all. I see extreme hardship. I can't bear the pain anymore. Dear Lord have mercy on me!"
It can be concluded that the young woman was driven to suicide by the state of the economy. An insensitive commentator wrote that suicide is not an option, as if the woman willingly chose suicide as her exit plan from the world. The correct comment should have been that an incompetent and inconsiderate government was not an option for this country. Nigerians deserve better than the quality of leadership they are currently receiving. The people are not deceived by media propaganda of government activities. The reality is in the marketplace.
Since 2015 when the All Progressives Congress (APC) forced its way into power, it has inflicted nothing but hardship and sorrow upon Nigerians. Every index of growth and progress of the country collapsed under APC. To worsen matters, when the new administration was sworn in through a controversial Supreme Court judgement, it immediately increased the price of fuel from N187 to over N500 within minutes of receiving power. There was no arrangement to cushion the impact on the populace. It was a most inconsiderate and insensitive policy.
Under APC, tens of thousands of Nigerians have lost their lives in various genocidal attacks by Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, bandits, ISWAP, and kidnappers. Millions of Nigerians have lost their means of livelihood because APC on multiple occasions drove the Nigerian economy into recession and turned Nigeria into the poverty capital of the world. To date, APC has not provided solutions to the crisis it has brought and still brings upon Nigeria.
Governance is serious business. It should not be seen as personal political achievement or a tribal trophy in the contest for supremacy amongst ethnic nationalities. Those who accept the responsibility to govern must demonstrate empathy and capacity to make the lives of the people better. Since 2015, APC has not demonstrated responsibility in governance.
The first two constitutional parameters to assess the performance of government are stated in Section 14 (2)b. Only a self-deceiver would give APC any pass mark in “the security and welfare of the people”. In both parameters, APC scored ZERO. It is absurd that such a political party still contested for re-election and went all out to push itself into office through very controversial circumstances.
The death of this young woman is very painful, and the agony of Nigerians under APC is unbearable. The buffoonery and crass corruption exhibited by some officials of the present administration leaves a bad taste in the mouth and a nauseous odour in the atmosphere. The impression one gets is that these government officials assume that governance is a booty, and the national treasury is the spoil of war.
So far, this new administration has not demonstrated any capacity to handle the problems caused by its predecessor. On the contrary, it is making itself an accomplice in the genocide and economic hardship inflicted on the masses.
One can therefore conclude that, contrary to the Constitution, the security and welfare of the people are NOT the primary purpose of APC in government. The question that APC should answer is, What is the primary purpose of APC in government? Apparently, it is neither the security nor the welfare of the people.
If the politicians in APC do not understand governance, they should hire consultants to teach and help them. The incompetence, the irresponsibility, and the insensitivity of APC to the sufferings they have inflicted on Nigerians should stop. A group of greedy and kleptomaniac politicians should not continue to feed fat on the misery and pain of Nigerians.
In the meantime, prayers should be mobilized and intensified that all unrighteous leadership in Nigeria must give way for righteous leadership. It is when the righteous are in power that the people rejoice. As of today, Nigerians are not rejoicing.
May God have mercy upon Nigerians.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Rom. 12:5
Pray for the family of Amarachi the unfortunate dead banker, that God would comfort and strengthen them to bear the loss. Pray also for other Nigerians on the verge of giving up, that God would deliver and encourage them to endure the present afflictions in the land.
Pray against the growing rate of suicide in the country.
2. 1 Tim. 2:1-3
Some believers misunderstand this Bible verse. They assume that every ruler should be blessed. God commands us to pray, but He did not tell us the type of prayer we are to pray for a kind of leader. For benevolent and considerate rulers, we might pray for wisdom and more grace, but for wicked and evil rulers, we can pray that God would restrain them and teach them righteousness by His judgment, as we find in Acts 12:5, 23-24. The goal of the prayer for rulers is so that people would “lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”
Isaiah 26:9–11: Pray for the judgment of God upon every corrupt politician and corrupt government official in Nigeria. Pray that God would teach corrupt Nigerian government officials righteousness by His fiery judgment.
3. Isaiah 28:14–18
It is open secret that many politicians get into office through rituals and ungodly covenants. Pray that their covenants with hell shall be nullified; that their blood sacrifice be nullified by the Blood of Jesus.
Isaiah 25:7–8: Pray that every spell and incantation cast as a veil over Nigeria shall be consumed by the fire of God.
4. Rev. 16:5-7
Pray that God would judge all those shedding the blood of Nigerians to draw power from darkness; that God would give them their own blood to drink.
5. Ezek 34:7–10
Pray that every Church leader who endorsed this set of evil politicians into office shall partake of their judgment and punishment.
6. Ps. 72:12–15
Pray that from henceforth, the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government in Nigeria.
7. Joel 2:25–27: Pray that times of refreshing shall come upon Nigerians.
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Monday 8th – Sunday 14th January 2024
THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH “HAMAS”
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (Heb. hamas) Genesis 6: 11.
On 7th October, 2023, the terrorist organization, Hamas, launched a coordinated deadly attack on Israel. The attack was unprovoked. It attracted a fiery retaliation from Israel, which has led to the devastation of Gaza. Global opinion is divided about who was right or wrong.
The spirit behind the action of Hamas is mentioned in the Bible as one of the factors that made God to release the Flood upon the earth in the days of Noah. The word “ violence” in Gen. 6:11 is the Hebrew word hamas. The other factor mentioned in Gen. 6:11 responsible for the judgment by flood was corruption.
In Nigeria, both corruption and violence are recurring decimals that have brought the country low. While corruption steals the people’s wealth but spares their lives, hamas takes lives violently, and in some instances, wipes out entire families - and still steals and wastes their resources. Whenever the combination of corruption and violence manifest in a land, the judgment of God is not far.
Since 2009, the spirit of hamas has been afflicting Nigeria with pain, sorrow, and destruction. Thousands upon thousands of innocent citizens have been murdered in cold blood while many communities have been sacked and the inhabitants expelled into Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.
A worrisome observation is that the activities of hamas in Nigeria appear to be a well-coordinated international conspiracy involving countries in the Middle East as well as influential local collaborators. The objective of the conspirators is to use violence to redefine the local demography of Nigeria in favour of adherents of a particular religion and an ethnic nationality.
On Christmas Eve of 2023, disciples of hamas murdered 238 Christians in Bokkos, Mangu, and Barkin Lardi Local Government Areas (LGA) in Plateau State. While the country was reeling with shock, and government played mute, the terrorists struck again on 1st January 2024 and killed over 40 Christians in Borno, Yobe, and Kaduna states. In Chibok LGA of Borno State, 10 Christians were killed while in Kaura LGA of Kaduna State, 17 Christians were killed, and 24 Christians were killed in Kajuru LGA in Kaduna State. As if the carnage was insufficient, on 4th January 2024 a COCIN pastor with 6 members of his congregation were killed by the Boko Haram in Geidam LGA of Borno State.
To date, there has been no proactive response by the Christian leadership. That has been the unfortunate pattern from Church leadership, which is expected to respond to these issues.
The recurring decimal of death and destruction in the country calls leadership capacity to question both in the Church and in the Government. While Church leadership and Government might deny complicity in these killings, they cannot deny criminal negligence. In a country fitted with the relevant security units, leadership has been worrisomely negligent.
Under the circumstances, prayers must be renewed for God to visit upon Nigeria severe judgment that will wipe out the twin evils of corruption and violence in the country. "Hamas" shall not flourish in this land. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1. 2 Thes. 1:6
Pray that God shall recompense tribulation to every nation sponsoring and supporting terror attacks in Nigeria.
2. Ps. 83
Upon all the foreign countries involved in the conspiracy of violence against Nigeria, decree the judgment written.
3. Isaiah 33:22
Section 14 (2)b of the Constitution states: “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government:” By virtue of this Constitutional provision, raise a lamentation to God that governments in Nigeria have failed in this primary responsibility. Demand justice and judgment from God against complicit Governments of Nigeria.
4. Rev. 16:5–6
Pray that God will judge the terrorists and their sponsors according to their deeds. As they have delighted in shedding blood, let God give them their own blood to drink.
5. Judges 5: 23
Pray that every Christian leader whom God has permitted to occupy leadership position, but has maintained silence and indifference at these atrocities, shall be judged according to the word of God.
6. Gen. 9:6
According to the word of God, pray that God will empower and release men to execute judgment on all those who shed the blood of Nigerians.
7. Isaiah 7: 7
Cancel and nullify, with the blood of Jesus Christ, every sorcery, spell, divination, and occult manipulations that the bloodshed in Nigeria is being used to feed. Decree that whatever the forces of darkness plan to do with the blood of Nigerians, shall not prosper. Amen.
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Ps. 46:1
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Monday 1st – Sunday 7th January, 2024
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF THE LAND
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace (Jeremiah 29: 7).
We congratulate Nigerians who have made it into 2024, as we also commiserate with the government and people of Plateau State over the murder of over 197 Christians on Christmas Eve of 2023. In the same vein, we commiserate with all the families that lost loved ones in various parts of the country, particularly in Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Borno, Adamawa states, as well as in Zamfara, Niger, Katsina and Imo states. Apart from the mayhem unleashed upon Nigeria by Islamist insurgents, the country is also struggling with multiple cases of kidnapping, ritual killings, and cult wars.
As we enter a new year, one does not require a prophecy to predict what 2024 portends. The mantra of the government in power has said it all. On 15th October 2022, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at a public event in Kaduna, said, “I promise to continue from where Buhari stopped.” The Nation Newspaper reported on 6th February 2023, that ex-president Buhari told a campaign crowd in Katsina that “Tinubu will continue from where we stopped.”
Where did Buhari stop?
1. Buhari stopped after turning Nigeria into the poverty capital of the world.
2. Buhari stopped after giving Islamist insurgents freeway to murder and devastate Nigerians without arrest, and without prosecution. While their victims suffered unprintable horrors, the insurgents/terrorists were pampered as “repentant terrorists.” Under Buhari, murder was legalized in Nigeria.
3. Buhari stopped after giving thieves and looters free access to loot the national treasury. Corruption under Buhari made Babangida and Abacha look like amateur corrupt leaders.
4. Buhari stopped after inflaming tribalism and clannish mentality to a level unseen before in Nigeria. Four out of the six geopolitical zones threatened secession at various times while Buhari was president.
5. Buhari stopped after forcing thousands of professionals to flee the country.
6. Buhari also stopped after driving the economy into recession on multiple occasions.
These are just a few of the unenviable records of the Buhari administration.
For an incoming administration to “promise” that it will continue from where Buhari stopped, the message should be clear what is in store for Nigeria. Little wonder that immediately the new president was sworn in, right on the podium, he increased the price of fuel from 187 naira to over 500 naira. A few days later, he “floated” the Naira exchange rate, and Naira to Dollar skyrocketed from N500 to N1,200. Meanwhile, official minimum wage remains at N30,000.00. The “promise” is being fulfilled. The new government is continuing from where Buhari stopped.
The prognosis for 2024 is not pleasant, unless God steps in. The current managers of Nigeria have a track record of falsehood and deception. Even when they promise good, the result is often suffering and agony to the masses. Whoever believes promises from such politicians has probably not learnt any lesson about them.
Under the circumstances, Nigerians must intensify prayers to the only true Judge who shall grant the masses justice. The nation’s Judiciary has already exposed its character. The Nigerian judiciary is no longer the last hope of the common man. It has lately defined itself as the last hope of corrupt politicians.
Prayers of repentance must be intensified in 2024, that God would have mercy on the land and bring to an end His indignation against Nigeria. As we pointed out in previous publications, there is indignation against the land because of iniquity in the sanctuary. In addition to prayers of repentance, Christians must begin to demand accountability from Balaams in the Church. As Christians pray to God for mercy, they must also demonstrate that they have learnt to stand for truth and righteousness. These are the virtues God wants to see in the Church.
Isaiah 59: 1–2 points out very well: “Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”
In 2024, purpose to pray for the peace of Nigeria. If Nigeria has peace, the people shall have peace; if Nigeria prospers, the people will prosper.
Happy New Year.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps. 46:1-11
Thank God for preserving us to see the New Year. Pray that He will be the refuge of Nigeria, and that He would deliver the country from all its troubles.
2. Prov. 30:14
Pray that God will deliver Nigerians from a generation of leaders whose every decision and action inflicts sorrow and suffering upon the people. May God arise and execute judgment upon them.
3. Ps. 68:1-3
Pray that God will arise and scatter all the enemies of truth, righteousness, and justice in Nigeria. Whether they are in the Church or in government, let God arise against all enemies of righteousness in Nigeria.
4. Isaiah 33:1
A major problem of Nigeria is the treachery of its leaders. From political leaders to civil servants, INEC officials, the Judiciary, and senior security officers, Nigeria is consistently weakened and compromised by treacherous public office holders. Pray that every traitor shall be judged by God according to their treacheries. Pray that by the spirit of judgement and the spirit of burning, God will raise people to execute judgment on these traitors.
5. Rev. 16:5-6
Demand divine punishment upon all who conspire to shed the blood of the saints in Nigeria. Whether they are within Nigeria or in foreign countries, pray that God would give them to drink of their own evil cup and cause their blood to be shed violently.
6. 1 Cor. 4:1-2
Pray that God would raise faithful leaders in the land.
7. Ps. 125
Pray that the rod of the wicked shall no longer rest upon Nigeria; that as the mountains surround Jerusalem, the Lord shall surround Nigeria. Amen.
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Ps. 46:1
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Monday 25th December 2023 – Sunday 1st January 2024
THE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. (Dan. 12: 10)
In Heb. 11:7, the Bible says, “Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house;” Lot escaped from Sodom and Gomorrah with his two daughters because they responded to God’s warning. In recent times, the late founder of Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International, Demos Shakarian, escaped the Ottoman holocaust in Turkey. According to www.cbn.com the family of Demos Shakarian “escaped the holocaust due to a warning from a Pentecostal prophet whom God had raised up to warn the nation of the disaster that would come upon them. The Shakarian family heeded the words of the prophet and fled to America where Demos grew up in the Pentecostal Church.”
In recent years, God has been warning Christians in Nigeria about the danger posed by political Islam, but most Church leaders and influential Christian elites have dismissed the warnings as "fear mongering and politics." At present, both violent and stealth jihad are running full steam in Nigeria.
Whenever Church leaders are cautioned about their brand of politics that throws the weight of the Church behind Muslim candidates, they retort that those who are warning them do not understand politics. Meanwhile, their perceived understanding of politics has not prevented tens of thousands of Christians from being murdered in Nigeria.
Today, in a country where Christians are clearly in the majority, political jihad has taken the Nos 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the five topmost offices in the country. Educational jihad has lowered the standard of education, diplomatic jihad has tactfully included Nigeria as member of Islamic delegations of the OIC, while agricultural jihad has designated Nigeria as "food hub" for OIC member countries. On top of these, violent jihad has given Nigeria an unenviable global record of 89% of Christian mortalities based on faith-based persecution.
Last week, the Minister of Finance reportedly announced that Nigeria will adopt the Islamic model of finance because the world can no longer adopt “elevated interest rates”. Islam primarily means religion. When did Islam become an economic model for secular states? How could one reconcile adoption of Islamic finance with the constitutional provision that the government "shall not adopt any religion as state religion"? Is this not a violation of the Constitution? Did China, Japan, and India adopt Islamic finance to grow their economy?
Some things are hiding in plain sight while Christians keep their eyes wide shut. “Adam was not deceived.” The wise shall understand.
The solution is not to flee the country. The solution is for Christians to reorganize and reposition the Church. There is a war of supremacy between the Kingdom of God and that of darkness in Nigeria. At present, the Church has been compromised on many fronts, but the Most High reigns supreme in the kingdoms of men. If Christians arise, the tide will turn in favour of the Church.
It is time for the sons of Issachar to arise in the Church and demand a reorganization of Christianity in Nigeria. It is time for renewed vigour in the place of intercession and prayers. It would be naïve of Christians to adopt a simplistic approach to these issues. It is certain that something sinister is brewing.
The wise shall understand.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Luke 1:68–75
Thank God for His Presence and enduring love for His people. Even though the enemy is raging, God is with us.
2. Haggai 1:13–14
Pray that God will stir the spirit of Nigerian Christians to arise and organize the Church to respond effectively to contemporary threats against Christianity in Nigeria.
3. James 1:5
Pray for divine wisdom to guide Christians as they respond to existential threats in Nigeria.
4. Job 5:12–14
Pray that God will disappoint the devices and craftiness of all who conspire against Nigeria and the Christians in the country. Their counsel shall not stand and none of their plans shall come to pass.
5. Ps 2
Pray that all the forces, both physical and spiritual, that conspire against Jesus Christ and His Church in Nigeria, shall be broken in pieces with a rod of iron.
6. Ezekiel 34:7–11
Pray that God will execute judgment on all Balaams in the Church, who through greed and covetousness, cheaply betray the Kingdom of God.
7. Rev. 11:15
Decree by the authority of the word of God that Nigeria is the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
LINK TO JOIN MARATHON PRAYERS ZOOM PLATFORM
Interested persons can register at:
https://io.layfaithful.org/24hourprayers
The Marathon Prayers ZOOM link: https://zoom.us/j/94064259957?pwd=bm13eDlSNTMrZWhVdTl5bmNRRlBHQT09
Meeting ID: 940 6425 9957
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There will be no prayers on the Marathon platform during the daily 9.00pm - 10.00pm (WAT) National Prayer Altar.
JOIN US AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
DAILY INTERDENOMINATIONAL PRAYERS FOR NIGERIA
From 18th April 2022
TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm daily (Nigeria time)
VENUE: ZOOM
ZOOM link:
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Meeting ID: 968 0619 0505
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Bosun Emmanuel & Prof Kontein Trinya
Please share with other Christians and get them to join these prayers. THANK YOU!!!
“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
- Details
- By Lay Faithful
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 18th – Sunday 24th December 2023
A CONSTITUTION AT WAR WITH ITSELF
It is no longer news that Nigeria ranks as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. To many Nigerians, if the country could resolve the problem posed by corruption, Nigeria will become a beautiful place. What many do not realize is that corruption is merely a symptom of the disease plaguing Nigeria. The real disease is the dual and conflicting ideologies in the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
Every nation is identified by its national ideology. There are countries that embrace democracy, there are communist and socialist, and there are countries that subscribe to a religious ideology, like Sharia. Nigeria is openly touted as a democratic country, but its very Constitution makes provision for Sharia. Most analysts believe that it is the contest between Democracy and Sharia within the 1999 Constitution that is pulling the country in two opposite directions. It is this conflict that is at the root of the dysfunction of the Nigerian state.
The 1999 Constitution contradicts itself when in Section 10 it asserts as follows: “The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion”, yet in Section 275, it makes provision for Sharia. Both democracy and sharia are antithetical to each other. The late Justice Mohammed Bello summed it up as follows, “Section 38(1) of the Constitution ensures for every person the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, including freedom to change his religion or belief, whereas under Sharia, ‘ridda’ (change of religion) is a capital offence. Consequently, the offence of ridda is inconsistent with Section 38(1) and by virtue of Section 1 is unconstitutional.”
The late Prof. Ben Nwabueze added, “The conclusion is thus inescapable that the prohibition in Section 10 of the Constitution stamps with an indelible taint of unconstitutionality, the Sharia criminal law, whether in its original form as contained in the Quran and the Sunnah or in a codified form to be enacted by the National Assembly or a State House of Assembly”.
It is safe to conclude that if the Constitution of a country is at conflict with itself, that country cannot have peace. The question that rises therefore is, how did Nigeria obtain the 1999 Constitution? Which Constituent Assembly sat to put such a document together for Nigeria?
Chief John Nwodo, a former Minister of Information, in a video clip that went viral, stated that, as the substantive Minister of Information in 1999, he did not know where the 1999 Constitution came from. It was not printed by his ministry, and the document surfaced at the swearing-in ceremony of President Obasanjo. Until then, no one had sighted a copy of the 1999 Constitution.
The saving grace for Nigerians is that those who crafted the 1999 Constitution retained Section 10, as it was in the 1979 Constitution, before adding elements of the Sharia ideology to the document. If Section 10 was not in the Constitution, there might have been a wholesale handing over of Nigeria to other forces using religion as a masquerade for cultural and political domination of the country.
This conspiracy is inherently the promotion of one religion over and above other religions. It has nothing to do with religion. It is a cultural agenda to dominate the indigenous ethnic nationalities that make up Nigeria, irrespective of religion, tribe, or gender. As the Hausa Muslims in Zamfara, Niger, and Kebbi, are beginning to find out, religion has nothing to do with this matter.
Elections in Nigeria have been drifting away from democratic norms, while the judiciary has been giving some rulings that are unquestionably in favour of undemocratic processes. If Nigeria is truly a democratic country, yet critical decisions are not in conformity with democratic norms, then, we may ask, which ideology is running the country?
It is this conflict of ideologies that promotes corruption, because a lot of compromise must be made to have people look the other way. This compromise has affected the security units, the legislature, the judiciary, religious leaders, traditional rulers, and of course, the media.
There is need for prayer mobilization against this conspiracy. Christians should be aware of critical issues that affect Nigeria and prayerfully seek divine intervention. Some issues run deep, and are too complex for civil agitations alone to resolve them. It is time to go to the root of the current crisis in Nigeria and prayerfully provide solutions. Nigeria requires a new Constitution, not an amended Constitution. The indigenous ethnic nationalities should accept responsibility for the introduction of a new Constitution for Nigeria.
In the meantime, Christians should commence consistent prayer action for a new Constitution for the country. Let us pray.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps. 124
Pray and thank God for defending Nigeria so far from conspiracies hatched against the country, of which Nigerians were not aware.
2. Lev. 26:40–42
Confess the sins of this generation and that of our fathers for colluding with the invaders. The truth of the matter is that the invaders could never have come this far with their conspiracy if some of our people did not collude with them. Let us confess our sins so that God will remember the land.
3. Jer. 10:11
Pray that all the forces of darkness conspiring to take over Nigeria shall fail in their pursuits.
4. Isaiah 8:9–10
Pray that all the foreign nations involved in the conspiracy against Nigeria shall be broken in pieces, according to the word of God.
5. Isaiah 54:14–15
Pray that all the foreign multi-nationals and globalists pursuing an agenda of hostile take-over of Nigeria and its resources shall perish for the sake of Nigeria.
6. Isaiah 33:22
Pray for a new Constitution for Nigeria from the Almighty God. Pray that every resistance to the enactment of a new Constitution for Nigeria shall collapse.
7. Ps. 133
Pray for unity of purpose amongst all the indigenous ethnic nationalities of Nigeria, that they would rise as one to demand and obtain the new Constitution for the country.
LINK TO JOIN MARATHON PRAYERS ZOOM PLATFORM
Interested persons can register at:
https://io.layfaithful.org/24hourprayers
The Marathon Prayers ZOOM link: https://zoom.us/j/94064259957?pwd=bm13eDlSNTMrZWhVdTl5bmNRRlBHQT09
Meeting ID: 940 6425 9957
Passcode: Altar
There will be no prayers on the Marathon platform during the daily 9.00pm - 10.00pm (WAT) National Prayer Altar.
JOIN US AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
DAILY INTERDENOMINATIONAL PRAYERS FOR NIGERIA
From 18th April 2022
TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm daily (Nigeria time)
VENUE: ZOOM
ZOOM link:
https://zoom.us/j/96806190505?pwd=K2RqcUN3YjRwQzEzRDZaMUt2N1ZsUT09
Meeting ID: 968 0619 0505
Passcode: 024184
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Bosun Emmanuel & Prof Kontein Trinya
Please share with other Christians and get them to join these prayers. THANK YOU!!!
“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 11th – Sunday 17th December, 2023
THE BATTLE FOR THE THRONE
Last week, there were some posts on WhatsApp in which some Christian elites were rejoicing over the appointment of new Supreme Court justices because seven out of the eleven justices were "Christians." It is good to rejoice at the promotion of our brethren, but not like those elites who went on therefore to celebrate their support for the unfortunate Muslim-Muslim ticket. They went as far as saying that those Christians who opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket should go to God and ask forgiveness. What an irony!
When Jesus taught us the Lord’s Prayer, after worship, the first request He taught us to make was, “Thy KINGDOM come”. Christianity is about the “Kingdom”. The gospel of Jesus is the gospel of the Kingdom. If Christian leaders do not understand this, how would the Church positively impact the world?
Every kingdom has a throne, and whoever controls the throne controls that kingdom. The Muslims in Nigeria strategically aimed for the throne, then passed down mere portfolios to certain Christians! Have those Christian elites rejoicing over mere appointments forgotten what happened in Egypt?
In Egypt, Pharaoh told Joseph in Genesis 41:40–43, “Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.”
Undiscerning Jews in Egypt might have rejoiced that their “brother” had become Prime Minister in the land, the same way that some of our Christian elites are rejoicing at ministerial and judicial appointments. Pharaoh handed the whole of Egypt over to Joseph, but he kept back the throne for himself. The throne that exalted Joseph was the same throne that placed the children of Israel in bondage for 430 years!
* Whereas Pharaoh apparently handed Egypt over to Joseph, he kept the throne to himself.
* Nebuchadnezzar handed Babylon over to Daniel, but he did not hand over the throne.
* Darius gave the Medo-Persian empire to Daniel, yet he too did not also give the throne.
* In present day Britain, Rishi Sunak, of Indian descent, is the Prime Minister, but King Charles, an Englishman, holds the throne.
No king hands over their throne, except some Nigerian Christian leaders who, as priests and kings to God, do not understand the value of the throne. May God save Christian leaders from spiritual blindness.
The Muslims have often aimed for the throne in Nigeria. Today, their Christian collaborators are rejoicing at mere appointments, but the throne is bidding its time. The Muslims have taken the Presidency and the Vice Presidency, then given the Senate to a reckless Christian who allegedly took N800 million of state money for his private birthday celebration. They allowed him, so that they could have a long and thick rope to hang him with when the time comes. They have done it before.
Apart from the Presidency and Vice, they have the Number 4 position in the person of the Speaker of the House, and the Number 5 position as the CJN. In other words, they have secured for themselves the prime No 1, No 2, No 4 and No 5 positions, yet some Christians still blindly celebrate mere appointments.
Today, they are giving certain Christians some apparently 'juicy positions,' because they still need them, especially this early in the game. After all, Christians at present have more skilled manpower in Nigeria than the Muslims have. Just as Pharaoh realized that he needed Joseph, so do they realize that they still need the Christians, while they keep building their own manpower. The day they believe that they no longer need you, that day you will realize the power of the throne.
Those who are now rejoicing should think far. What will happen to their children? The power of the throne is in the hand of those who do not believe in your God. Anyone who assumes that a throne that answers to Satan will favour the followers of Jesus Christ must be truly undiscerning and very spiritually unwise.
It is the supporters and promoters of the Muslim-Muslim ticket that should go to God in repentance, in dust and ashes. The gospel that Christians are called to preach is the gospel of the Kingdom, not the gospel of appointments, of garlics and cucumbers. They should go to God and plead with Him to forgive them. They have compromised the interest of the Kingdom of God in Nigeria.
For the rest of us, it is time to pray for the throne and declare, “Thy kingdom come.”
PRAYER POINTS
1). Isaiah 42:18–20
Pray for God’s mercy and forgiveness upon the Church. Plead that God would not deal with the Church according to the blindness and ignorance of its leaders.
2). Isa. 28:14-15
The Satanist, Alice Bailey, told her disciples, “Whatever change you implement on the ground, get the Church to endorse it, get the Church to officially cede ground”. That's what is happening in our world now.
Pray that God will diminish and silence every Christian leader who is using their spiritual authority in the Church to endorse evil thrones and promote unrighteous leaders in Nigeria. Pray that heaven shall revoke their endorsement.
3). Joel 2:15–17
Pray for genuine repentance amongst Christian leaders in Nigeria.
4). Ps. 94:20
Pray that the throne of iniquity in Nigeria shall be dismantled by God.
5). Prov. 29:2
The word of God says that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice. For many years, Nigerians have not been rejoicing. Pray for the promotion of righteous men and women into positions of authority in the country. Pray that the David whom God promised Nigeria shall manifest.
6). Rev. 11:15
Pray that Nigeria shall become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ. Pray that the throne of Nigeria shall become the throne of Christ (Matt. 6:10).
7). Genesis 1:1-2
In a revelation shared last week at the National Prayer Altar, a sister saw Nigeria opened before her, and the Holy Spirit hovering over the country. Pray that, as in Genesis 1, the Holy Spirit shall alight upon Nigeria and the light of God shall break forth over Nigeria. Pray that the light of God shall destroy every power of darkness in Nigeria. Amen.
LINK TO JOIN MARATHON PRAYERS ZOOM PLATFORM
Interested persons can register at:
https://io.layfaithful.org/24hourprayers
The Marathon Prayers ZOOM link: https://zoom.us/j/94064259957?pwd=bm13eDlSNTMrZWhVdTl5bmNRRlBHQT09
Meeting ID: 940 6425 9957
Passcode: Altar
There will be no prayers on the Marathon platform during the daily 9.00pm - 10.00pm (WAT) National Prayer Altar.
JOIN US AT THE NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
DAILY INTERDENOMINATIONAL PRAYERS FOR NIGERIA
From 18th April 2022
TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm daily (Nigeria time)
VENUE: ZOOM
ZOOM link:
https://zoom.us/j/96806190505?pwd=K2RqcUN3YjRwQzEzRDZaMUt2N1ZsUT09
Meeting ID: 968 0619 0505
Passcode: 024184
CONTACT: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Bosun Emmanuel & Prof Kontein Trinya
Please share with other Christians and get them to join these prayers. THANK YOU!!!
“God is our refuge and strength.…”
Ps. 46:1
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