NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 16th - Sunday 22nd September 2024
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. 6: 24).
Dr Cathy Burns produced a scholarly 778-page book on religious manipulation, of which over 554 pages are filled with facts and 204 pages are references verifying sources of information. That book, entitled Billy Graham and his Friends, is another confirmation of the statement of Jesus Christ that, “… that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16: 15).
An excerpt from page 145 forms the basis of the prayer call for this week:
“Dr Ward visited Stalin in Moscow in 1920, and they worked together to form the basis of the Social Gospel, now openly proclaimed by the NCC (National Council of Churches). This gospel was to increase emphasis on the materialistic side and decrease emphasis on theology so that in due time, Marxism and the Social Gospel may become one and the same.”
In a previous prayer call entitled “The Hypocrisy of a Father,” we narrated how Karl Marx started the obnoxious Communist ideology because of his father’s hypocrisy. Communism is an ideology that denies the existence of God and terribly persecutes Christians. It has taken millions of souls to hell. The ungodly ideology was dismantled in Soviet Union, but it still thrives in China and North Korea, including some other countries.
Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He was infamous for the murder of over 20 million people, which was worse than Adolf Hitler. According to Dr Cathy Burns, Stalin, and Rev. Dr Ward laid the foundation for the prosperity gospel, which today has become the central doctrine of many pastors. After developing the framework for a social gospel that would “decrease emphasis on theology” and “increase emphasis on the materialistic side,” Rev. Dr. Harry Ward returned to Union Theological Seminary in the U.S.A. and started training a new generation of pastors to teach it.
Ward was identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party. According to Manning Johnson, an ex-Communist, Harry Ward was “the chief architect for Communist infiltration and subversion in the religious field” (Billy Graham and his Friends, Page 142).
“Ward’s job was to teach bright young men to become, so-called, ministers of Christ and to place them as pastors of churches. While teaching them to become ministers, the Reverend Ward also taught them how to subtly and craftily preach to their congregations that the entire story of Christ was a myth to cast doubts on the divinity of Christ, to cast doubts about the virgin Mary, in short, to cast doubts on Christianity as a whole. It was not to be a direct attack, but much of it to be done by crafty insinuation that was to be applied, in particular, to the youth in the Sunday schools” (p. 145). When one considers that this was in the 1920s, it can be easily understood how generations of “adult Christians” are more interested in wealth than in Christ.
Today, after adopting the prosperity message from America, the social gospel blossomed from the ‘90s in Nigeria and has lasted for over thirty years. That is a generation. After prosperity preachers spent a generation promising many churchgoers million and billions in miracle blessings, Nigeria got acclaimed as the "poverty capital of the world." In 2023, an estimated 38.9% of Nigerians, representing over 87 million people, lived below the poverty line. The figure rose to 40.7% in 2024. This is a spiritual contradiction. It is God from heaven dissociating Himself from all the promises made in His name and on His behalf by the prosperity preachers.
The question that might be asked is, “Didn't God promise to bless His children?” That would be answered by referring to the Bible and finding out what God says. The Bible is divided into two sections, the Old Testament and the New. To avoid the danger of falling into error and misappropriating the commands and blessings of God, the New Testament instructed the pastor to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15).
The greatest problem in the Church is the inability of many pastors to rightly divide the word of truth and discover what God promised the Old Testament saint and what God promised the New Testament saint. Much of the prosperity message is appropriating the blessings of the Old Testament saint and applying it to the New Testament saint. If earthly wealth was God’s reward for serving Him in the New Testament, the likes of Paul, Peter, James, and John would have been the wealthiest in their generation.
A casual study of the Bible will reveal that earthly prosperity is not the focus of the New Testament. Jesus did not promise it, and neither did the early apostles teach it. How thousands of pastors could have been deceived into adopting it as a major doctrine while they in turn misled millions of Christians remains one of the mysteries of this dispensation.
In Deut. 8:18, God promised Israel power to get wealth. Which power did God promise the New Testament saint? In Acts 1:8, God promised the New Testament saint power to witness. The problem is that many New Testament saints do not want to witness. They want to be millionaires. This is one reason neighbourhood evangelism in many churches does not record a huge turnout, while a miracle service featuring “an anointed” man of God would be filled to overflow.
Today, the Church has nearly lost much credibility and integrity due to the obsession of many pastors with mammon. All manners of misconduct that should not be mentioned amongst the saints of God are now common incidents in the Church. The Church has been commercialized in many assemblies, and the principles of the New Testament no longer guide many ministries. Innumerable false teachers have filled the sanctuary, committing unprintable atrocities in the name of the Lord. It is as 2 Pet. 2: 1–3 says,
”But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
It is time to return to the narrow path. It is time to shun the error planted into the Church by Satan, using the Communists. Jesus Christ made only one promise to His followers: ”And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even ETERNAL LIFE" (1 John 2:25). The Father sent His Son for only one purpose, as stated in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have EVERLASTING LIFE.” Christianity is all about eternal life.
When the Church returns to the message of eternal life, holiness, sanctification, contentment, moderation, integrity, and other Godly virtues, then it has begun to reclaim character. The recurring problems with sin, immorality, and insincerity in the Church will naturally dwindle. One is not saying that Christians will not prosper. Wherever one combines diligence with integrity, whether a Christian or not, success and wealth would follow. Therefore, making earthly wealth the focus of the gospel of Jesus Christ is a disservice to the Son of God. He came to save His people from their sins (Matt. 1:21).
Pastors should stop promising Christians what God did not promise them. What Jesus promised is eternal life. People should not be invited to churches with the promise of 'blessings.' Jesus did not make such a promise. When He invited people to follow Him, He said He would make them fishers of men, not rich men. If there is going to be a revival in the land, we must prepare the grounds by returning to sound doctrine. It is time to stop all the greed and covetousness flowing from the pulpit. It is time to return to the narrow path.
1). Matt. 6: 24
Confess and repent on behalf of the Nigeria Church for giving mammon prominence in the Church.
2). 1 Kings 18: 21
Pray for Christians to be focused on Christ alone in the Church and not on Christ and Mammon.
3). 2 Cor. 4:3-4
Pray that every veil of false teachings that Satan has used to cover the minds of Christians, making them exalt earthly prosperity above eternal life, shall be destroyed in the name of Jesus.
4). 2 Pet. 2:1–3
Pray that all false teachers who make merchandise of Christians shall be dismissed by God and all their structures removed.
5). Heb. 13:5–6
Pray for the spirit of contentment in the Church. Pray that greed and covetousness shall no longer plague the Nigeria Church.
6). 2 Cor. 5: 15
Pray that Christ shall remain the centre of the Church, and commitment to Christ shall be the goal of every Christian.
7). 2 Cor. 2:17
Pray that God would raise faithful and sincere ministers of the gospel in the Nigeria Church, who would not corrupt the word of God for personal gain. Amen.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th September 2024
When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built (1 Kings 6:7).
This is an amazing account of the construction of the Old Testament temple. In the entire seven years that it took to construct that temple, which at the financial value in 1997 would have cost over $985 billion dollars, (according to Finis Dake), there was no noise. For seven years, the entire construction site was quiet! That was a feat, unmatched by today’s construction companies with all their technological breakthroughs.
“The LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him” (Hab. 2:20).
What accounted for this feat? All the stones used for the construction were pre-cut, pre-sized and prepared at the quarry, far away from the construction site. As each stone arrived at the temple site, it knew its place, accepted it without any struggle, and quietly fitted in. The construction supervisors and workers did not attempt to change any decision made at the quarry.
There was no nepotism, no favouritism, no racism, and no partiality. The stones were not self-seeking or self-willed. The stone cut to be part of the floor did not suddenly desire to be the capstone. The stone cut for the back of the temple did not covet the position in the front. Each stone accepted the decision of the stone cutters.
What was the result of the meek submission? A spiritual house was built without commotion. No wonder the LORD was pleased to come down in glory to inhabit His temple.
Unfortunately, the exact opposite is the case in the construction of the New Testament temple. There is so much noise! Jostling, pushing, shouting, including smiting with tongues of wickedness. Some New Testament stones have turned the spiritual construction site into a street fight, to the ridicule and embarrassment of Heaven.
Who are the stones? “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house …” (1 Pet. 2:5). Ye also…
Some New Testament stones refuse to be broken, cut to size and smoothened, yet they show up at the construction site, desiring to be the capstone. Christ gave His Church the example of servanthood. Many church members and ministers desire to be executives in the Church of Christ. The magnitude of disagreement, indiscipline, and division in the Church of today is scarcely found in any other institution on the face of the earth.
“Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?” (Mal. 2:10).
What is the result of the commotions in the modern temple? It has resulted in loss of credibility and loss of respect for the only institution on earth that God gave His own Son to redeem. In an Evangelical Synod in January 2003 in Germany, the chief speaker lamented that a recent opinion poll revealed that the Church is the least trusted of all the institutions in Germany. If a similar opinion poll should be conducted in Nigeria, the result would most likely be the same. The Body of Christ referred to in 1 Tim. 3:15 as “the pillar and ground of the truth,” has credibility crisis in our generation. (Culled from: Return to the Narrow Path)
Developed and well-organized human societies operate on the basis that humans are inherently rebellious and chaotic, if not restrained. Therefore, they build critical institutions to maintain law and order, and ensure that those institutions work without interference. In those organized societies, the same ruler is used to measure the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless. The result is a relatively peaceful society in which everyone calls themselves to order and restrain the promptings of their adamic nature.
Unfortunately in Nigeria and many other African countries, although there are established institutions of law and order, they fail to adopt non-interference. The managers of the institutions apparently do not like the idea of accountability and self-restraint. Consequently, law and order break down frequently in those societies.
There remains yet a critical institution that could have set a good example for the country and its leaders: the Church. Tragically, the managers of the Church appear to be of the same stock as the managers of the country.
In 2015, the National Christian Elders Forum submitted a Strategy Document to the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria, detailing some critical institutions that the Church should establish. The Document outlined action points to prevent wholesale takeover of the country by the jihadists/terrorists, as well as restrain lawlessness in the Body of Christ, whilst making Christians focused on the goals of the Church. After the expiration of the tenure of Pastor Oritsejafor, his successors did not implement the Document. The consequence of a Church fighting an existential battle, without any plan of action, is starring all Christians in the face.
The lack of restraining structures within the Church has now turned Christianity in Nigeria into comedy, as on the social media. The comedians are the church leaders as the world laughs while those who claim to be custodians of righteousness bring ridicule to their God.
In the past few weeks, the social media has been awash with the raging controversy stirred by a pastor in Akwa Ibom State. He has managed to drag another well-known pastor in Abuja into a needless controversy about who established which ministry. It all suggests stones that did not stay at the quarry for proper cutting to size. They have shown up in the temple, demanding to be accorded the position of “fathers of the faith”.
To worsen matters, some other unbroken stones have joined in the cacophony of confusion in the temple, to the embarrassment of Heaven. Any man may claim to be whatever he wants. What matters is what the Lord says. If a man claims to be the “father” of a ministry, let him be. On the day he faces the Lord, he will provide evidence for his claims.
The noise going on in the Nigeria Church is not needful. The controversy over doctrines and methods are uncalled for. The Church faces sufficient challenges in trying to curb corrupt and occult religious leaders. This is no time for needless arguments in the Body of Christ. What should be paramount now is to build structures that will maintain order and decorum in the Church. Fortunately, the Lord has rejuvenated a body determined to restore order and decency to the Church. We can only pray that it succeeds.
1. Mal. 2:10
Confess before God the needless strife and discord in the Church. Pray for forgiveness and mercy for the Nigeria Church.
2. Matt. 15:13
Pray that those whom God has not called as pastors and ministers of the gospel shall be uprooted by Him from the Nigeria Church.
3. John 10:12–13
Pray that God shall, by His power, dismiss the hirelings in the Church who pretend to be under-shepherds of Jesus Christ, but their god is their belly.
4. Mal. 3:2–3
Pray that God shall purge and purify every altar in the Nigeria Church.
5. John 10:11
Pray that good shepherds like Jesus Christ shall be promoted by God into positions of leadership in the Church.
6. John 17:21–23
Pray for the unity of the saints of God in the Nigeria Church.
7. 1 Cor. 6:2–6
Pray for grace for the Church to build structures that will maintain order and decorum in the Body of Christ.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th September 2024
Years ago, in Germany, there was a young Jewish boy who had a profound sense of admiration for his father. The life of the family centred around the acts of piety and devotion prescribed by their religion. The father was zealous in attending worship and instruction and demanded the same from his children. While the boy was a teenager, the family was forced to move to another town in Germany. In the new location, there was no synagogue, and the people all attended the Lutheran Church. Suddenly, the father announced to the family that they were all going to abandon their Jewish tradition and join the Lutheran Church. When the stunned family asked why, the father explained that it was necessary to help his business. The youngster was bewildered and confused. His deep disappointment soon gave way to anger and a kind of intense bitterness that plagued him throughout his life.
He left Germany and went to England to study. He sat daily at the British Museum formulating his ideas and writing a book. In that book, he started a movement designed to change the world. In the book, he described religion as the “opium of the masses." Today, billions of people live under the system invented by that embittered young man. His name was Karl Marx. The impact of his father’s hypocrisy is still being keenly felt around the world (R. C. Sproul, Objections Answered)
Today, we agonize in Nigeria over the dismal condition of the youths. All manner of perversions are common amongst them: sexual immorality, drug addiction, cultism, ritual killings, cybercrime, armed robbery, insolence, etc. The very painful part of the malaise is that most of those youths are from Christian homes. The question has therefore been asked repeatedly, “What is happening to Christian families?”
Generally, children learn by imitation. “Do as I say, not as I do” does not work with them. They will do as their parents, or the elders around them, do. Therefore, if the problem of rebellion among youths is going to be solved, it is necessary to look beyond them to their foundations. How children are brought up, and by whom, become critical questions to be answered.
In this generation, nearly all the structures and institutions that should guide a decent society have collapsed; a collapse not caused by the youths but by their parents. The youths are not the ones running the country, neither do they head critical institutions. Their fathers do. Most of those fathers are Christians. Every Sunday, they report in church and piously worship. On Monday, they return to work to supervise the collapse of the economy and the compromise of moral values.
There are Christian fathers in INEC when INEC supervises election rigging. There are Christian fathers in the Judiciary when their “lordships” pervert judgment to favour the highest bidder. There are Christian fathers in the universities where lecturers demand sex for grades; in the civil service where they share budgetary allocations at the expense of public projects, and in Customs where fathers return home every month with millions of Naira received from smugglers. The same can be said of the Police, the Army, and of course, the National Assembly and the Presidency.
In every critical institution in Nigeria, in the public and private sectors, there are Christian fathers and mothers, men and women called by the holy name of the holy God, but their character is of the devil. At the slightest opportunity, they would throw their religion in your face, but their deeds belie the faith they profess. In all of these, the children are watching, and unfortunately, learning how to be hypocrites.
To be fair to the parents, one must dig deeper to understand what happened to this generation of Christian parents. The answer would be found in the Church, right at the pulpit. Jesus commanded Peter in John 21, “feed my sheep”. What food did Jesus have in mind? The Master spelled it out in Matthew 28: 20: “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:” Are pastors teaching their congregants to observe "all things" that Jesus taught His disciples? The answer is, No.
A common evil in churches today is pastors asking donations for "special projects," pressuring the people to "come forward and pledge" or "sow a seed" of some humongous amount that some of those members have to compromise ethics at work place during the week to be able to "give" on Sunday. The society and Christian values become the casualties, and everyone suffers it.
Christianity in Nigeria is reeking with the foul odour of hypocrisy. Churches are filled on Sundays yet Christlike character can hardly be found in government, in educational institutions, and in our legal system. A few weeks ago, we published a prayer call in which we asked, “Where are the men?" the men with integrity, like Jesus Christ Who could say, "the prince of this world cometh, but he has nothing in me". Where are the men with a perfect heart towards God, like David? Where are the men like Daniel who refused to defile himself with the king’s meat? Where are the men worthy to be called “Christian men”?
The hypocrisy of the father of Karl Marx gave birth to Communism, a godless political ideology that has taken millions to hell, and still is taking. The religious hypocrisy of many Christian fathers in Nigeria has done more damage to the country than Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen combined.
If Nigeria is going to change, the men must change for the better. For this to happen, the pulpit must be sanitized, and sound doctrine must proceed therefrom. Enough of the doctrines of covetousness that have defiled the sanctuary of God. It is time to do away with teachings that do not promote self-denial and carrying the cross of Jesus. Our covetous messages of 'abundance,' 'promotion,' and 'prosperity' are unlike what Jesus Christ taught His disciples to observe. Those disciples warned against covetousness and greed.
It is time for pastors to repent and quit inflaming hypocrisy in Christian men. It is time for the Church to build structures to monitor and sanction false doctrine from the pulpit. If Nigeria is going to change, the men must change their value system. Christian men must adopt integrity and faithfulness as the epitome of masculine character. For the men to change, the spiritual food that they are served every Sunday must change. This demands that church leaders call themselves to order. The hypocrisy of the fathers has almost destroyed the country. May God deliver His Church from hirelings in the sanctuary who have led a generation astray. Amen.
1). Isaiah 54:13
Pray for Christian youths, that even where the family and the Church have failed to bring them up properly, the Lord would teach them Himself.
2). Mal. 4:5–6
Pray that the hearts of the fathers shall turn to their children to bring them up in love and Godly discipline. Pray that Christian fathers shall be determined to set good examples.
3). Neh. 5:14–16
Pray that God would raise Christian men with Godly character into positions of authority in the Church as well as in the country.
4). Neh. 13:29
Pray that God would purge the sanctuary and execute judgment on ministers who fail to teach what Jesus commanded His disciples to observe.
5). 1 Tim. 6:6 -7
The father of Karl Marx became a religious hypocrite because of gain. Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Church, that fathers shall pursue godliness with contentment and shun hypocrisy because of gain.
6). 1 Cor. 6:2–5)
Pray for God’s intervention for the Church in Nigeria to build structures to maintain discipline and order amongst ministers of the gospel.
7. Matt. 28:20)
Pray for revival in the Church, that the churches would return to the teachings that Jesus commanded His disciples to observe.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 26th August - Sunday 1st September 2024
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent (Acts 17: 30).
For many years, whenever people wanted to describe a case of extreme poverty, the common proverb was, “as poor as a church rat”. In the past, the proverb was apt because people did not eat in the church. The consecration of the old-time Christians gave no room for feasting in the place of worship. In the present generation, however, it would be out of place to describe the church rat as poor. In fact, given all the love feasts, food for first timers, refreshment at every meeting in the church, conventions and other special food programs, the church rat in this generation is fat.
In the wake of the Pentecostal revival of the 1970s, God released enormous amount of money into the Nigeria Church for the expansion of the gospel. As the heart of the people opened to Jesus, their purses opened for His Church. The Church became stupendously rich, to the extent that some ministers of the gospel were able to acquire and maintain private jets. While only a few pastors acquired private jets, many churches embarked on vanity projects, with little bearing on the work of the Kingdom of God. They gulped much money.
Amongst the frontline vanity projects by the Church has been the building of places of worship. The budget for building cathedrals in Nigeria surpassed N21 billion in some instances. The range between N10 billion to N17 billion became the “normal” budget for constructing a cathedral. The usual excuse is that such architectural monstrosities are required to encourage the rich and affluent in society to come to church, where prayers have been absent to pull them. Of course, the real reason is the ego of the pastor. The Bible says, “… he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house” (Heb. 3: 3). Whenever men see a beautiful house, the question they ask is, “who built this house?”
Do Churches require such exotic places of worship? If we take Nigeria as an example, our friendly climate does not require an air-conditioned place of worship. What is required is a solid smooth floor and poles, or pillars, to hold the roof. Even windows and walls are a luxury because fresh breeze will blow upon the congregants. The question we are to ask is how many days in the week do people spend in church to require a billion-dollar edifice? There are 168 hours in a week, and the average total hours spent in church is five hours, for Sunday worship and Bible Study. The remaining hours of the week are spent in homes and in the marketplace. Is it justifiable to spend enormous Kingdom funds on a cathedral that is not used for over 160 hours in a week?
The sad part is that, after putting the resources of the church into building the cathedral, the congregants are invited to come and start praying for prosperity and employment. What a contradiction! Would it not have been better to invest the money in skill acquisition training centres to empower the people, as well as establish cooperatives to enable them access capital for businesses? Could one imagine how many lives N17 billion would transform. Could one stretch the imagination and consider how many schools can be started and how many hospitals can be established. Unfortunately, transforming lives does not appear to be the goal of many pastors.
As the number of the cathedrals increases, poverty bites deeper in the lives of many Christians, thereby making them very desperate and susceptible to manipulations by unscrupulous ministers of the gospel. The unscriptural master-slave relationship observed in some Christian assemblies, between the pastors and members of the church, is easily attributed to poverty. It is probably from some pastors that the politicians learnt to keep the people poor so that they can control them.
The question we are compelled to ask is, Did Jesus Christ command His disciples to construct ostentatious places of worship? Did the Master not command His followers to build men and make them disciples? There is no example, in the New Testament, of a single building project. Even if a place of worship is required for large assemblies, what is required is a functional building as described above. The emphasis should be on functionality because Christians are pilgrims on earth.
The consequence of this misappropriation of Kingdom resources is that the areas in Christendom that require funding are neglected. Yet, it is because of those crucial areas that God has released money into the Church. The areas include:
• Missions and soul winning
• The poor and the needy
• The persecuted Christians
In those three areas, the Church in Nigeria has not done well, and vanity projects is not a call of God. A great deception has afflicted many ministers of the gospel. One can only pray that the casualties will not increase. Many souls have missed heaven because the money meant to get the gospel to them was used to purchase cement and iron rod for a vanity project. What explanation would these pastors present to Jesus Christ when they meet Him at the end of their pilgrimage on earth?
The good thing about God is that, while there is life, there remains opportunity for repentance. As the Bible says in Acts 17: 30, ”And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:” It is time to repent and shun all forms of activities and projects in the Church that constitute vanity. Eternity is a long time for one to be without Christ.
It is not only the pastors that need repentance, the congregation that contributes the money for vanity projects is equally guilty and needs repentance. Christians should realize that the offerings that God recognizes as sacrifice usually fall into the three categories highlighted above. What God considers “treasure in heaven” (Matt. 6: 19-21) is the offering that fulfills the will of Jesus Christ.
It is our prayer that pastors and Christians will reflect on these issues and re-order how they handle the resources that God commits into their hands. We are all custodians of God’s resources, and we shall render account. May we not be guilty before God for acts of improper generosity. May our giving not condemn us.
1). 1 John 1: 9
The neglect of missions, the poor, and the persecuted Christians is a collective guilt on all Christians in Nigeria. Confess the sin and ask God for forgiveness.
2) Eph. 1:17-18
Pray for Christians, that God would open their eyes of understanding to know His will, particularly as it relates to using resources.
3). 2 Pet. 2: 1 – 3
Pray that Christians shall be empowered by God to discern false teachers whose mission is to make money for their personal lusts and not for the expansion of the gospel.
4). Heb. 13:3
Pray that God shall grant a burden to support persecuted Christians, especially in IDP camps.
5). Phil. 4: 15 –16 Pray that the hearts of Christians shall open to support missionaries and all genuine soul winners.
6). James 2:14–17
Pray that the compassion of Christ will fill the hearts of Christians to respond to the needs of the poor and needy around them, particularly in this season of hunger in the land.
7). Matt. 28:19-20
Pray that Church leaders and all ministers of the gospel shall receive grace from God to re-order their priorities and focus on building men to be Christlike, instead of worldly projects.
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Monday 19th - Sunday 25th August 2024
“… ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isa. 62:6–7).
Two seemingly contradictory revelations from heaven were shared last week at the National Prayer Altar. While they appeared to be conflicting, to the discerning, both revelations were saying the same thing: a new Nigeria is going to be birthed.
In one revelation, a sister saw two Cherubim in a prayer posture, in-between them the Ark of the Covenant. From the mercy seat came forth the coat of arms of Nigeria. In her dream and in her flesh, the sister started screaming for joy, until her husband woke her up, wondering what 'nightmare' was making her to scream in her sleep. The import of the revelation is clear: a new covenant-country is about to emerge.
In the other revelation, a 15-year-old girl who has demonstrated prophetic integrity said she was shown that the military took over power, and great calamity came upon the country. She reported that the Lord said to her that "the Church should rise up and pray immediately against the military takeover and the calamity prepared to befall our nation Nigeria."
Both revelations are saying the same thing, that there is a plan of goodness for Nigeria from God, but Satan has not retired from from his evil plots. It is left for the Church to decide on which side the pendulum should swing.
In the wake of some protesters in northern Nigeria carrying the Russian flag during the just concluded national protest against hunger, the signal of a military takeover should not be taken lightly by intercessors. It would be a great setback for Nigeria if the military should return to power. If there should be another military incursion into power, it is not difficult to predict from which section of the geographical and religious divide in the country the coup plotters would come from. Of greater apprehension would be their allegiance to the oppressive forces seeking to dominate Nigeria. The implication of such a takeover is that all the obnoxious attempts to appropriate the lands of indigenous ethnic nationalities, which have been resisted through the instrumentality of the Constitution, would be done without any hinderance. The military rules by decrees, not by a constitution. RUGA can be imposed by a decree, and the water ways can be appropriated by a decree.
The issue now is no longer whether one approves of the APC or not. There is a greater danger looming over the horizon, and the Church must intensify prayers for God’s divine intervention. Some apparent compatriots have shown that they are determined to persist in evil, irrespective of its cost to the country. They are forces that kept mute in the eight years of Buhari’s misadventure with power.
As mentioned in the prayer call entitled “When Will the Church Save Nigeria?”, Christians must accept responsibility for birthing a new nation, and ensure that their words and conducts match their utterances in prayer. It is not enough that Christians travail in prayers for the country. They must, in addition, ensure that they live exemplary lives that will promote righteousness in the land.
The season calls for greater circumspection by Christians about the role of Church leadership in national affairs. On multiple occasions, the spiritual authority of the Church was misused by some Church leaders who were merchants in the sanctuary, to endorse evil leaders in the country. The pursuit of selfish interest in the Church is what brought Nigeria to its knees. Christians must be on the alert to demand accountability from such transactional leaders. It is not rebellion to resist Church leaders whose actions threaten the corporate interest of the Church. The often repeated intimidation is that only God can correct His servant. That has no basis in the Scriptures.
Nigeria is at the brink of destiny. Heaven has shown that a new country could either arise out of the Holy of Holies or the country could suffer a setback and begin afresh. The Church has the responsibility of ensuring that a covenant country emerges.
Let no one be in doubt about the future of Nigeria. A new country shall emerge. God has spoken it. When God speaks, it comes to pass. What we do not know is how quickly we would cooperate with Him to bring His will to a pass in the country. The children of Israel reached the border of the Promised Land two years after they left Egypt. There at the border, they rebelled and returned into the wilderness for an extra thirty-eight years, until that generation of rebels perished.
This generation of Christians in Nigeria must be careful. Upon them lies the responsibility for the emergence of a new Nigeria. The weak link in the Church has been its leadership. The transactional spirit that many Christian leaders have exhibited has done great harm to the Body of Christ and to the country. They have been able to get away with it because their Christian brethren do not demand accountability from them, under the guise of respecting spiritual leaders. Transactional leadership in the Church must cease. The Church of Jesus Christ is not a commodity to be put up for sale to any politician.
In this season, “watch and pray” is indispensable. All Christians must be on the alert, physically and spiritually, all over the country. Satan must not be permitted to set the country back tragically at the border of the Promised Land.
1). Isaiah 43:18–19
Thank God for the vision of a new Nigeria. Thank God that it shall come, and it shall not fail.
2). Isaiah 14: 27
Decree that no conspiracy by the kingdom of darkness will frustrate the emergence of a new Nigeria.
3). Isaiah 46: 9 -10
Decree again that, concerning Nigeria, the counsel of the Almighty God shall stand. The new Nigeria shall come forth.
4). Zech. 1:18–21
Pray for the release of the four carpenters of heaven, to scatter all the forces that are working against God’s purpose for Nigeria. Take authority over the forces of darkness that are oppressing Nigerians.
5). Isaiah 29:5–8 Pronounce judgment upon all the forces threatening a military takeover in Nigeria, to promote sectional ethnic and religious interests. Cancel all their plans. Decree that they shall be like chaff before the wind.
6). 1 Pet. 4:17
Pray that God will arise and judge all Christian leaders who collaborate with the enemies of God and the foes of Nigeria, for their selfish interests.
7). 2 Cor. 12:9
Pray mercy and grace for Nigeria, that the country shall not fail at the border of the Promised Land.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 12th - Sunday 18th August 2024
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matt. 5:9).
“A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”
- James Freeman Clarke
A social experiment involving red ants and black ants was conducted to depict the cause of conflict in human societies. Both different species of ants were placed inside a covered jar. So long as nothing disturbed the jar, both ant armies remained peaceful, crawling over each other. Then the researcher took the sealed jar and shook it violently. Immediately, the red and black ants started attacking each other and ended up killing themselves. The red ants thought it was the black ants that caused the problem, while the black ants held the red ants responsible for the quaking in their environment. The problem was caused by neither of the ants. The culprit was the person who shook the jar.
In every conflict situation, it is prudent to discern who is shaking the jar. Conflicts start from somewhere.
After the controversial 2023 elections, ethnic tension flared up between the Yorubas and the Igbos in Lagos. The National Prayer Altar was alarmed by the development following the presidential election of 25th February 2023, in which both Yorubas and Igbos massively voted for Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party. After that display of ethnic synergy aimed at providing quality leadership for Nigeria, why would the same ethnic nationalities, within a few days after the presidential election, engage in open conflict? The National Prayer Altar sought answers to the troubling question and organized a conference to determine who was shaking the jar.
The conference concluded that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was behind the conflict. Apparently alarmed at the political synergy that was displayed by the Yorubas and Igbos during the Presidential Election, APC, working through its various supporters and structures, manipulated an open ethnic conflict between the Yorubas and the Igbos. There is video evidence of some APC members openly threatening Igbo voters at polling stations in Lagos.
The communique issued after the conference can be accessed here: https://houseofkaris.net/blog/communique-ethnic-conflicts-in-nigeria-unmasking-the-puppet-masters
Following the controversy surrounding the 2023 elections, there has been sustained escalation of the diatribe between Igbos and Yorubas in Lagos State. It is interesting to note that such conflict is not replicated in any of the other Yoruba states, like Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, and amongst the Yoruba speaking people of Kwara and Kogi States, neither does it have the endorsement of Afenifere, the leadership of the Yoruba nation. Why should this be taking place only in Lagos State?
To worsen matters, most Igbo people in Lagos became overly sensitive, and reacted to some actions and policies of the State Government as deliberate attacks on themselves. It produced counter reactions from some Yorubas, adding to the tension between the two ethnic nationalities. At present, some people have again begun to canvass an “Igbos-must-go” action, from 20th August 2024. It has been openly stated on social media.
Understandably, some provoked Igbos made unfortunate statements about Igbo people developing Lagos and owning it. They must have misinterpreted the support to Mr. Peter Obi in Lagos. Such provocative statements only serve to heighten the tension as well as provide justification for those determined to inflame ethnic conflicts for political reasons.
Arising from the foregoing, the following facts can be deduced:
First, the ethnic tension in Lagos State is the handiwork of politicians who are already planning for the 2027 elections. It does not reflect the views of the Yorubas, as concluded by the Conference organized by the National Prayer Altar in April 2023. It is politicians plotting their way into the next election, not the next generation, according to James Freeman Clarke.
Second, while some politicians are fanning the embers of ethnic discord, other citizens are pouring more coals into the fire. The number of invectives and provocative statements flying around the social media should be of concern to any decent human. The ill-will that is freely expressed by educated people is frightening. Should such hostility subsist in the consciousness of supposedly compatriots?
Third, it is not Igbos alone that were robbed of the presidential election in 2023. Every Nigerian that voted for Mr. Peter Obi was. It was a national loss. Interestingly, one of the strong pillars behind Mr. Obi has been Afenifere, the leadership of the Yoruba race.
Fourth, it is alarming that most of these vituperations are posted and circulated by Christians! There are noticeable instances in which influential Christians are posting some of those hostile communications. That cannot be the expression of the Spirit of the Lord. When Christians place cultural values above Biblical values, it says a lot about their Christianity. Jesus tells us, “ye are in the world but ye are not of the world.”
There are different world views: ideological, cultural, philosophical, Koranic, and Biblical. A genuine Christian possesses a Biblical worldview. When people claim to be Christians yet employ cultural worldview to respond to issues, it suggests that their Christianity is shallow.
In response to the mischievous manipulation of politicians in Lagos State, Christian Igbos, and Christian Yorubas should see beyond the deception and exercise restraint in their comments. The children of God should not permit the children of the world to divide them. Let unbelievers behave like unbelievers, let Christians behave like Christians. Africa need them to establish a platform for the Kingdom of God in Nigeria.
Kindly read the communique of the conference organized by the National Prayer Altar in April 2023. We shall not fall into the trap of Satan while Politicians are shaking the jar.
1. Ps. 133
Pray for unity amongst all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.
2. Job. 5: 12 – 13
Pray that God will disappoint the devices of politicians who sow the seed of discord in Nigeria so that they can divide and rule.
3. Isaiah 7: 7
Nullify every plan of darkness to cause war and bloodshed amongst Nigerians.
4. Pro. 6: 16 – 19
Pray that heaven shall arise and punish everyone that is beating drums of war in Nigeria, inflaming hatred amongst various ethnic nationalities.
5. Ps. 94: 20 - 23
Pray that heaven shall punish and dismiss all those who attained political offices by fraud, that they and all their collaborators shall be held guilty by the Lord.
6. Isaiah 60: 18
Pray for peace all over Nigeria. Decree that violence shall no more be heard in the land.
7. Ps. 89: 14
Pray that righteousness, justice, mercy, and truth, shall henceforth uphold governance in Nigeria.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 5th - Sunday 11th August 2024
LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy (Hab. 3: 2, NIV).
John Calvin wrote: “When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers”.
A certain information came out last week and it sounded like fake news, but the video was provided to confirm that the news might not have been faked after all. (So far, no one has claimed that the video was manipulated.) In the video, the Senate President, in apparent reference to the planned nation-wide protest over hardship in the country, said, “We are not interested in regime change. Let us own this government. Those who want to protest can protest but let us be there eating.” Earlier, the President had said, “the cost of fuel has gone up, food and other prices have followed it, households and businesses are struggling, things seem anxious and uncertain. I understand the hardship you face. I wish there were other ways but there is none”.
In 2010, God gave a word that Nigeria would go through a 7-year season of judgment from 2011 to 2018. It was in that same message that God said “a season of death” would come upon Nigeria. People will die in large numbers under various conditions. At the end of the 7-year season of judgment, God decided to test Nigeria to determine if the country had learnt righteousness. Details of this are contained in an article published in July 2019 entitled “Christianity in Nigeria: What is going on and Why”. https://houseofkaris.net/blog/christianity-in-nigeria-what-is-going-on-and-why-2
In setting the test for Nigeria, God neither tested the Presidency nor the National Assembly, but God tested the Church. Would the Church of Christ in Nigeria defend righteousness? In 2018, the Church failed the test flat out. Consequently, as published in July 2019, a new season of judgment commenced, this time, without a terminal date. It will end when the Nigeria Church learns righteousness. All of this was published in 2019. What is going on in Nigeria at present is the consequence of the controversy between God and His people, represented by their church leaders.
A lot of Christians in Nigeria have dutifully and faithfully embarked on intercession, supplications, and prayers for Nigeria. Repeatedly, God has given the assurance that He has heard, and a new Nigeria will come forth, yet He did not stop dealing with Nigeria. That the populace has now embarked on open protest nationwide is a confirmation that the matter of God’s dealing with Nigeria is becoming unbearable for the citizens. But, has the Church learnt its lesson?
Undoubtedly, Nigeria is now being governed by the most insensitive and implacable set of political leaders since independence in 1960. This set of leaders is not touched by the suffering of the masses, and as proclaimed by the Senate President, so long as they are there "eating," the people can complain all that they want and perish.
According to the Scriptures, “the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will" ( Daniel 4: 32). Tinubu could not have succeeded in becoming the president of Nigeria if the Most High did not permit it. God is fully aware of the character and the dispositions of Tinubu before permitting him to access the office of the President. If God wants, God can remove him in a moment. Therefore, if God permits such an entity to be the president of Nigeria, the people of God should be interested in the reason.
The reason is that the Church has fallen short of God’s expectations of righteousness. Despite all the dealings of God on the land and on Christians, the key Christian leaders have neither changed their attitude nor called themselves to order. For them, business continues as usual. A few weeks ago, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) conducted elections in Lagos State. That exercise made INEC look like a saint. It was so bad that the Vice President of PFN (SW) resigned in protest.
Not content with promoting Buhari in 2015 and endorsing him for re-election in 2019, Church leaders endorsed Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023. There were eighteen presidential candidates in 2023 election, eleven of them were Christians. None of the Christian candidates received the kind of reception that Tinubu received at the National Christian Centre. In fact, one of the key Church leaders publicly announced that God would punish Christians if they did not vote for Tinubu. Maybe God is punishing the nation now for those who did not vote for him.
If the Church had united behind one of its own, APC would not have returned to power. As of 2023, after eight years of Buhari, Nigerians were tired of APC. While most Christians wanted another party to form a government, the key Church leaders supported the political party which had spent eight years to prove it should no longer be in power. What makes matters worse is that Christians still refuse to demand accountability from their spiritual leaders, but keep demanding accountability from political leaders.
According to 1 Cor. 5: 12 – 13, Christians are meant to judge evil inside the Church. It is when Christians judge evil in the Church that God will judge evil outside the Church. In effect, when Christians judge themselves, and sanctify the sanctuary, God will judge the political leaders. Christians cannot continue to tolerate and accommodate ungodly men in the sanctuary while expecting God to sanitize their country so that they will have peace and prosperity.
If Nigeria does not have good leaders, Christians should look inside the Church and not inside Aso Villa. At present, Christians in Nigeria are acting like Israel after the captivity, when God had to shut the heaven over them to get their attention.
Haggai 1:9-11 says, "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."
Christians must pay attention to the way the Church is being run. God expects Christians to deal with misconduct in the Church, like Jesus confronted the hypocritical religious leaders in His days on earth, and the way Paul called Peter to order (Gal. 2:11), all in compliance with the word of God in Jude 2 to “contend earnestly for the faith”.
Christians can heal this country. They are empowered by God to transform Nigeria into a praise in all the earth. However, they shall remain incapacitated so long as they continue to accommodate hypocrisy and evil in the Church under the guise of “respecting” their spiritual leaders. If Christian leaders indicate that they have little regard for God and His ways, it is righteousness to expose them and resist them.
We congratulate Nigerians for rising to express indignation over the evils going on in the country. It is a signal that God answers prayers because brethren have been praying for a stirring in the land against all the various acts of corruption and wickedness perpetrated by the APC-led government. We grieve over the lives lost during the protest and we pray that the efforts shall not be in vain. We pray that positive results shall follow the protest and government shall be compelled to review its policies and take decisions that will make life better for Nigerians.
Christians should remember that God will deal with Nigeria according to the state of the Church in His sight. It is the Church that must provide healing for Nigeria. We also urge Nigeria Christians to remember that Christianity is equal brotherhood. We must prepare our minds to confront evil and unrighteousness in the Church. As citizens of Nigeria, the electoral assets of Christians must no longer be used to endorse ungodly men into political offices to satisfy personal selfish interest. The Church must heal the land.
1). Isaiah 10: 27
Thank God for the stirring in the land against wicked rulers. Pray that the efforts of the people shall not be wasted.
2(. Hab. 3:2
Pray that God will have mercy upon Nigeria and deliver the Church from ungodly leaders as well as the land from wicked politicians.
3). Job. 5:12–13
While Nigerians are genuinely grieved over the hardship in the land, there are those who plot to take advantage of the season to perpetuate evil in the country. Pray that God will disappoint their devices and catch them in their craftiness.
4). Mal. 3:2–3
Pray that God will purge and purify the Nigeria Church from all manners of defilement and corruption.
5). Ps. 94:20
Pray that the throne of iniquity shall no longer reign in Nigeria. Pray deliverance for the land.
6). 2 Cor. 5:21
Pray that the righteousness of God in Christ shall speak for the Nigeria Church, and the indignation against the Church shall come to an end.
7). Jer. 3:15; Acts 13:22
Pray that God will give the Nigeria Church leaders who only seek His heart.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 29th July - Sunday 4th August 2024
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3: 3).
A few weeks ago, we published under the prayer call entitled “The Samoa Agreement,” the 10-point agenda of Alice Bailey aimed at the establishment of the New World Order. That satanic 10-point agenda currently guides the policies of most Western nations. Today, we shall revisit that agenda for the purpose of prayers on another issue that is of paramount importance to Nigeria. First, we need to represent the entire agenda to enable us to understand the context within which today’s prayer call is based.
The 10-point agenda of Alice Bailey is as follows:
1. Take God and prayer out of the education system
2. Reduce parental authority over the children
3. Destroy the Judeo-Christian family structure or the traditional Christian family structure
4. If sex is free, then make abortion legal and make it easy.
5. Make divorce easy and legal, free people from the concept of marriage for life
6. Make homosexuality an alternative lifestyle
7. Debase art, make It run mad
8. Use media to promote and change mindsets
9. Create an interfaith movement
10. Get governments to make all these laws and get the church to endorse these changes.
All the points in this agenda were inspired by Satan and are implemented under the guidance of evil spirits. Therefore, Christians need to be circumspect if they discover that their actions and programs tend to align with any of these satanic 10-point agenda.
Our focus in today’s prayer call is on the 9th Agenda, which states, “Create an interfaith movement”. We pointed out earlier that the forces of darkness recognize the spiritual authority of the Church and would usually seek endorsement of the Body of Christ for their evil works. For example, a major cult in Nigeria, the Ogboni Fraternity, used to initiate new members in the vestry of a church, accompanied by the reading of Ps. 133. The 10th Agenda of Alice Bailey pointedly states: “… get the Church to endorse these changes.”
Unfortunately, many Christians are not discerning in their relationship with the children of the world. The spiritual authority of the Church has been compromised by many undiscerning Christian leaders who use their position to endorse the works of Satan. The politics of Christian leaders is an uncomfortable example.
In September 1999, the Federal Government under President Obasanjo, a Christian, established an interfaith body for Christian and Muslim leaders to dialogue. That was a few months after the 1999 Constitution was introduced in May. With the benefit of hindsight, one can judge that while the 1999 Constitution was introduced to place Nigeria in political bondage, the interfaith followed in September of the same year and entangled the Church in a spiritual relationship that weakened its spiritual power.
That interfaith forum was established by government does not confer on it automatic sincerity. Afterall, it was governments that took God and prayer out of schools, reduced parental authority over children, and in many countries, legalized LGBTQ. Many policies of government require interrogation to determine their sincerity.
It is prudent for Christians to check what benefits have come to the Church from its participations with the interfaith movement. After that movement was established in 1999, Islamist insurgency started in 2009 and blossomed in Nigeria. Despite the quarterly interfaith consultations, hundreds of thousands of Christians have been murdered by Islamists, thousands of churches destroyed, thousands kidnapped, and billions of Naira extorted from Nigerians as ransom, besides millions of Nigerians who have become Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in their own country.
We bear in mind the craftiness of the devil. Our leaders, while they think that they are forging religious tolerance, are unwittingly giving spiritual endorsement to the activities of those who trouble the land. Satan knew what he was planning when he instructed in that Agenda from hell to “get the Church to endorse these changes.” The word of God queries, “can two walk, [or sit] together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3: 3).
We are aware of the sensitivity of these issues, considering that the meetings have gone on for twenty-five years and some Christian leaders are committed to it. Nevertheless, we cannot discountenance the 9th Agenda of Alice Bailey. What we are doing in this prayer call is to present the facts and to call on Christians to weigh what has been presented. The Scriptures warn us, “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” (2 Cor. 2: 11).
For Satan to be emphatic that the endorsement of the Church is required for his 10-point agenda, which includes the interfaith movement, it is prudent for Christians to examine the issues dispassionately. It is no longer a secret that the doctrine of “Taqiyya” which is “approved deception” is a major tool of Muslim leaders. It is not impossible that promises and assurances of positive action against terrorism have been made to Christian leaders at the interfaith meetings, without any corresponding positive action. The truth of the matter is that if Muslim leaders are committed to stopping terrorism in Nigeria, they would have stopped it long ago. It is time for the Christian leaders to re-consider the issues.
That the call to create an interfaith movement is part of the 10-point agenda from hell should serve as a signal to Christian leaders. May they be guided by Holy Spirit in all that they do for the Church.
1). 2 Cor. 6: 17 – 18
Pray for courage and submission to the Holy Spirit for Christian leaders to separate themselves from every unholy association.
2). 2 Cor. 6: 14 – 16
Pray for the spirit of sanctification, which is separation from sin and evil, to rest upon Nigeria Church leaders. Pray that they shall not be unequally yoked with Belial.
3). Lam. 3: 37
Cancel every endorsement of the Church for evil thrones in Nigeria. Renounce such endorsements and dissociate the Church from it.
4). 2 Cor. 2: 11
Cancel every device of Satan against the Church in Nigeria. Nullify with the blood of Jesus every manipulation and wile of the devil that has been operating against the Church.
5). Ps. 94: 20
Pray that every evil throne that has been sustained by the endorsement of the Church shall fall and be destroyed.
6). Ps. 18: 28
Pray that the light of God will lighten the understanding of Church leaders, that they will understand spiritual issues.
7). Heb. 10: 26 – 27
Pray that God will punish and dismiss every Church leader who knows the truth yet chooses to persist in error.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 22nd - Sunday 28th July 2024
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell (Prov. 23: 13 - 14).
In a viral video on social media, a Muslim cleric based in Florida, USA, was boasting to a Muslim congregation that churches were “emptying out” because the younger generation was no longer interested in Christianity. He bragged that Church buildings were becoming empty, and Muslims were purchasing the properties.
Was that Imam telling a lie? No,, he is not. The younger generation of Christians is generally not interested in the faith. Under such circumstance, who should be held responsible, Satan? Again, no. The fault lies with Christian parents.
Every electronic or mechanical device is sold with an “owner’s manual”. The buyer is warned to read the manual before operating the device, so that it does not malfunction. In like manner, for babies, He also provided an owner’s manual, the Bible. The tragedy of this generation is that many Christian families are bringing up children without recourse to the Owner’s Manual.
Only a few Christian parents realise that by ignoring Biblical standards in bringing up children, they have unwittingly adopted the manual of Satan. In the 10-Point Agenda of Alice Bailey, which we published in a prayer call two weeks ago, the Number 2 point in that Agenda of hell, states: “Reduce parental authority over the children”. This is the exact opposite of Prov. 22: 6, which states: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Due to lack of home training, many children have grown up with the "foolishness" in their hearts not purged. God declared in Prov. 22:15 that “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” That childhood foolishness manifest in adult years as rebellion, lewdness, drug addiction, self-will, and ungodliness. The innocent and beautiful looking junior, who was celebrated at his birth, turned into a wreck eighteen years later. His parents, the God-appointed caregivers, were not diligent to apply the Owner’s Manual in directing the life of the child, so a beautiful God-given gift malfunctioned.
How many Christian parents can confidently affirm, “My daughter is eighteen years old, and she has not lost her virginity.” How many Christian parents can say, “My son is twenty-one years old, and he does not drink and he's not on drugs.
The new generation today is called Gen Z. It is a generation that is sensuous, focused on entertainment, and considers morality outdated. It is a generation for which fornication is normal and “virgin" is a dirty word, according to a group of German teenagers. Today, many Christian homes are reeling under the impact of teenage pregnancy, drug addiction, cultism, and online prostitution referred to as “hookup.” Many girls leave home for the tertiary institution to practice prostitution. This has given rise to a phenomenon referred to as “single at home; married in school.”
The advent of social media has opened a vista of opportunities for youths without home training to experiment with hedonism and unbridled youthful lust. The consequence is youth exodus from the Church.
I ask, how did the world get into this mess?
Some informed sources hold the teachings of Dr Benjamin Spock responsible. It is argued that in the sixties, he advocated that parents should be lenient with their children and allow them to express themselves. His books became popular and influenced a generation of parents. Eventually, that thinking got to Nigeria, amongst the elites, who would proudly say, “If you beat your child in Britain, your neighbour will call the Police.” Gradually, bringing up children without the rod of correction became the “civilized” way of parenting. The consequence is starring both the Church and the country in the face.
This prayer call is not advocating “wicked punishment,” in which the slightest fault of the child is met with sticks and rods of anger. Rather, God wants parents to avoid “wicked love” in which a child is left without discipline, and brings the mother to shame. “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” (Prov. 29: 15).
The essential ingredient in bringing up children is T-I-M-E. Parental love is spelled T-I-M-E. Statistics reveal the following disturbing figures about the time an average father spends with his son. Weekly, the average father spends:
• 40 hours at work.
• 50 hours to sleep.
• 7 hours to dress and groom himself.
• 24 ½ minutes talking to his son.
Pray, who is bringing up Junior? Who is imparting values and virtue to Junior? The house maid? The TV, or the school? While the school will impart knowledge, it is the responsibility of parents to instil home training. That is why it is called “home” training.
A child’s personality is formed between the ages of three and five. Subsequently, the child builds on it until it is cast in concrete. It is at that critical age that parents should forge the character of their child and impart to the child Godly values. Prov. 20: 11 says, “Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.”
History confirms that many of God’s generals were converted as children. The probability of positive response to the Gospel is as follows:
• Children 5 – 13 years – 32%
• Teenagers 14 – 18 years – 4%
• Adults 19 and above – 6%
It is possible and easy for parents to personally convert and disciple their children at home and the child will not depart from it all the days of their life. God instituted marriage because He is looking for Godly seeds (Malachi 2: 15). Producing Godly seeds must be the focus of every parent. It requires discipline, patience, love, and unity between the couple. Christian couples must ensure that the children entrusted into their hands by God become useful to God in their respective generation. God forbid that our children should turn out like the sons of Eli who “knew not God.”
1). 1 Sam. 2: 27 – 29
Like Eli, many Christian parents indulge their children and place them above God’s moral standard. Ask forgiveness on behalf of Christian parents for years of neglect in bringing up children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
2). Prov. 23:13–14
The first point in 10-Point Agenda of Alice Bailey was a direct attack on the children. It states, “Take God and prayer out of the education system.” Taking God out of schools included taking out Godly discipline. This has become state policy in many countries, including Nigeria.
Pray that Godly discipline shall be restored into the educational system in Nigeria. Children left without discipline tend to grow wild.
3). Gen. 18:17–19
Pray that Christian parents shall realize that producing Godly children is one of the keys to unlocking God’s favour and friendship. Pray that Christian parents shall devote quality time and attention to their children.
4. 2 Tim. 1: 5
Pray that the generational covenant in Christian homes and families shall not be destroyed due to pressures of modern living.
5. Isaiah 49: 24 – 25
Pray that God shall deliver all Christian youths and children whom Satan has taken captive through rebellion, drugs, sexual perversion, cultism, and cybercrime.
6. Joel 2: 28
Pray for a fresh outpouring of Holy Spirit upon Nigerian youths and children. Pray for divine transformation in the lives of the youths.
7. Ps. 85: 6 – 7
Pray for fresh revival in all tertiary institutions, secondary, and primary schools in Nigeria. Pray that God will reenact the revival in the Universities in the ‘70s.
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Monday 15th - Sunday 21st July 2024
A few days ago, during our regular prayers, a brother shared his unique experiences over days, culminating in a profound dream with significance for Nigeria. A flash interpretation to the dream was provided. This indicated that it was a vision about a great political figure who was soon to fall in the country after his house of beasts shall have risen against him as his leviathan powers are judged. Days later, a more insightful interpretation was provided, with an impressive clarification of the season that now is. Both the vision and that interpretation are provided below.
It began as a thought in the morning of Monday October 30, 2023. I woke up and my mind was flooded with the thought of a giant tree towering majestically over Nigeria.
The following day, that thought continued strongly like a discussion within my soul. The roots came into focus. I began to see in my mind that the tree had roots running along the ground and reaching all over Nigeria. Along the roots sprang up other trees, also lofty but dependent on the main tree for their sustenance.
The thought shifted to the deepness of the taproot of the major tree. In the ongoing conversation in my soul, I heard that the taproot was more than 200 meters deep. At that point, I dismissed the thoughts and concluded that they were not of the Lord. Why? Because the Bible measures lengths in cubits, not meters.
By Thursday the 2nd of November, the thought had left my mind. In the early hours of Friday the 3rd of November, that is, on the fifth day, I had a dream about the same tree whose thought had flooded my spirit the days before. In that dream, I was standing a distance away, looking at the huge tree towering majestically high. It was a sight to behold. Suddenly, I heard movements to my left. As I turned towards the sound, I saw a massive python, so huge that I could not see the end of its tail. It was swift in its movement. I was amazed at the size and speed of it. In an instant, it had climbed to the top of the majestic tree and settled in a branch, as if spread out on a royal bed.
Then suddenly, a host of all kinds of animals, both herbivores and carnivores as well as all kinds of birds, angrily converged at the top of the tree and began to devour the python. In a moment, they had completely eaten up the python. What was left of it was its huge skeleton at the top of the tree. It was quite a sight.
As I looked on, I saw that the lofty tree had also suddenly dried up. The few leaves left on it had dried up too. I woke from that dream, and it was a few minutes before 3am. I was led by the Holy Spirit to read Ezekiel 17:24 and Isaiah 27:1.
Ezekiel 17:24
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
I reflected on the conceited Ishmaelitish kingdom seeking roots in Nigeria since 1804. I recall that its ancestor, who set it up, was told in a dream that his kingdom would last for 200 years only, then die.
-Bro C.
Here is the understanding of the dream. Like with the dream of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4, the tree refers to a man. In Nigeria, that man would be the one who sits on the apex Ishmaelitish throne in the land. The other lofty trees along the roots of that big tree would refer to the chiefdoms raised by that apex throne and dependent on it for sustenance. The deepness of the taproot at 200 meters would refer to the 200 years of that throne in Nigeria.
The python that spread itself on the top of the tree refers to the Kusugu well in Daura. It was confirmed during a visit to the well in 1986 that a great snake used to live in the well. That well is at the northern tip of an occult triangle, the two base tips being one at Bariga in Lagos, in the South-West (around the University of Lagos waterfront), and the other at Akamkpa River in Cross River State, in South-Eastern Nigeria.
The deliverance of Nigeria will begin with the divine destruction of that religious throne which has long troubled the politics of the land. That throne is behind the Sharia movement that seeks to take Nigeria captive for Islam. The present ruler on that throne was raised to execute that agenda. The problem of Nigeria is the Sharia movement which has been institutionalized in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.
We need to focus prayers on what God has revealed, so that that evil tree shall wither as shown, the python devoured, and the occult triangle permanently dismantled. Amen.
Beloved, by the mouths of these witnesses, we have a timely prayer point for the continuing deliverance of Nigeria. It is not over. The enemy has not prevailed. Amen.
1. Dan. 9:1–2
In the calendar of God, times and seasons are apportioned to nations. A foreign throne has had dominion in Nigeria for 200 years since 1804. That throne has perpetrated evil and oppression in the land. After the expiration of its season, it still seeks to dominate the land. God in His mercy has sent us a prophetic insight announcing that its time is over. Pray that that evil throne and all its subsidiaries shall perish from Nigeria. Demand from heaven that the time allotted for this throne be over and it must be dismantled in Nigeria.
2. Rev. 16: 4 – 6
This evil throne is guilty of bloodshed all over Nigeria, particularly the blood of the saints of God. As it persists in bloodshed, pray divine retribution upon this throne, that it shall be repaid in bloodshed for all the havoc and destruction it has wrecked upon Nigeria.
3. Rev. 14: 6 – 8
There is a shaking about this evil throne and rumblings within its palaces. Pray and decree that the shaking is not enough. It must fall never to rise again.
4. Ez. 12: 21-28
Refer to the vision of the big tree that withered and the python that was destroyed. Pray by the word of God that the vision shall not be delayed but it shall be fulfilled quickly. The evil throne whose season has expired over Nigeria shall wither and be destroyed according to the revelation from God.
5. Ez. 21: 25–27
Pray that the wicked powers ruling Nigeria shall give way for righteous rulers that will promote righteousness and justice.
6. Isaiah 33: 22
Pray that Christ shall reign over Nigeria as King (President), Lawgiver (National Assembly), and Judge (Judiciary). Hand Nigeria over to Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
7. Proclaim Ps. 24:7–10 all over Nigeria.
Command every spiritual gate in Nigeria to open for Jesus Christ the Kings of Glory to enter and reign.
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Monday 8th - Sunday 14th July 2024
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants (Lev. 18: 25).
When the Israelites left Egypt, Satan assigned two demons to follow them: Baal and Ashtoreth. Baal was responsible for idolatry, which God regards as spiritual adultery, Ashtoreth was responsible for physical adultery, lewdness and sexual perversion. Both demons stayed with them until God destroyed the northern kingdom of ten tribes, Israel; and later, Judah the southern kingdom was driven into exile in Babylon, for seventy years.
The exile in Babylon cured the Israelites of idolatry and adultery. By the time of Jesus, after the 400 Silent Years, those were no more a national concern. In all His contentions with the religious leaders, He never mentioned the worship of Baal and of the Asherah pole as part of their sins.
When Satan realized that he could neither use Baal nor Ashtoreth anymore to lead the people astray, he replaced them with another demon named Mammon. Jesus spoke more about money than about prayer, faith, and any other subject. In fact, in Matthew 6:24, He warned that people would have to choose between two “masters”: God and mammon. Since the beginning of the New Testament, mammon has been God's major problem with His people. Some preachers do not realize that in making 'prosperity' their major doctrine, they are transmuting into priests of mammon. Let's get back to our main concern.
Our focus in this prayer call is the attempt of Satan to accelerate the depopulation and destruction of Nigeria by opening the gate of perversion. Since perversion resulted in the destruction and captivity of Israel, Nigeria would not fare any better if it should dabble into that evil as a state policy.
The Western nations, spurred by the writings and demonic influence of Alice Bailey the Satanist woman who led the Caucasian race astray from God, have officially adopted sexual perversion as state policy. Alice Bailey produced a 10-point agenda for a 'New World Order,' which is now being implemented by many nations. Her 10-point agenda is in the UK Parliament House of Lords, but not the Ten Commandments. That Agenda states as follows:
1. Take God and prayer out of the education system
2. Reduce parental authority over the children
3. Destroy the Judeo-Christian family structure or the traditional Christian family structure
4. If sex is free, then make abortion legal and make it easy.
5. Make divorce easy and legal, free people from the concept of marriage for life
6. Make homosexuality an alternative lifestyle
7. Debase art, make It run mad
8. Use media to promote and change mindsets
9. Create an interfaith movement
10. Get governments to make all these law and get the church to endorse these changes.
Item Number 6 on that Agenda is what Western nations want to compel developing countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific region to adopt. Through subterfuge, they have offered developing countries funding support of $150 billion, if they would sign an agreement captioned: “Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Members of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, of the other part”. The Agreement was produced on 19th July 2023 by the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and signed on 15th November 2023 in Samoa, Pacific, by some countries.
When it was clear that many countries, which included Nigeria and South Africa, did not sign the Samoa Agreement, the European Union intensified its lobby for more countries in the Organization of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific States to sign. According to Vanguard newspaper, “Nigeria’s ratification of the agreement emerged on Monday, July 1, (2024) when Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, confirmed the development at a European Union (EU) reception in Abuja.”
A spokesperson for that minister denied that Nigeria signed the document, stating that the portion signed by the government “pertained strictly to economic development and did not mention LGBTQ or same-sex marriage.” The Media Assistant to the Minister insisted that “Bagudu signed an agreement related to a $150 billion trade component, not LGBT issues.”
Additional reports indicate that Nigeria’s endorsement of the Agreement was accompanied by a statement declaring that any provision in the Agreement that is inconsistent with Nigeria's laws would be invalid. In January 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Anti-Gay Bill into law. The bill criminalized same-sex union, with a 14-year jail term in Nigeria. The present government is trying to claim that since Nigeria has an Anti-Gay law, any portion of the Agreement that deals with adoption of gay rights would not apply to Nigeria. That is the attempt of government to eat its cake and still have it. Since the government knows that there are provisions in the Samoa Agreement that are not consistent with Nigeria's laws, why did the government sign it?
The European Union may argue that the 395-page Samoa Agreement is one document requiring one signature. Once a country signs the document, it has accepted the entire package, which includes the LGBTQ clause. The Samoa Agreement was not produced in sections for countries to cherry-pick what they want to accept or reject. It is a single document that offers economic benefits as well as the adoption of LGBTQ. The EU did not provide a document with options of choice. It is either accepted as a whole or rejected.
Some Nigerians conclude that the government is not sincere on this matter. Our people have a saying that what one is not going to eat, he should not sniff. Since the Nigerian government was aware that the document contained portions offensive to national law, it should have steered clear off it. According to reports, South Africa, which has a liberal position on gay rights, has not signed the Samoa Agreement.
Of critical importance to Christians is point No. 10 in the agenda of Alice Bailey, which says, “get Governments to make all these law and get the Church to endorse these changes.” Even satanists recognize the spiritual authority of the Church. It was reported that Alice Bailey told her disciples that “whatever change you implement on the ground, get the Church to endorse it; get the Church to officially cede ground.” The Church endorsed Buhari in 2015, and he became the president of Nigeria. Again, in 2023, Church leaders endorsed Tinubu and he became the president. Christians must be on the lookout that no Church leader endorses the document that the Tinubu government has signed. Church leaders must be cautioned against speaking in favour of the action of the government. Nigeria has a law against LGBTQ, and that law must be upheld. Anyone who violates the Anti-Gay law in Nigeria must be jailed according to the law. Whatever has been signed by the present government must be unsigned.
1). 1 John 3: 8
In the name of Jesus, destroy every work and manipulation of the devil to defile and deprave Nigeria with sexual perversion.
2). Isaiah 5: 20 – 24
Decree judgment upon every politician and government official in Nigeria that is violating the Anti-Gay law. Pray that the existing law against LGBTQ in Nigeria shall be executed against them.
3). Acts 8: 18 – 21
Pray that greedy Church leaders will not accept money to compromise the spiritual authority of the Church, to endorse sexual perversion.
4). Hab. 1: 2 – 4
Pray that angry voices shall arise all over the country in condemnation of the action of the government.
5). Ps. 24:7–10
Pray that the spiritual gates of Nigeria shall be shut against LGBTQ and all the Globalists' agenda.
6). Ps. 94: 20–23
Pray that God will trouble and humble all the countries promoting LGBTQ, that the pride of all those foreign governments shall be broken, in the name of Jesus.
7). Isaiah 60:21–22
Pray for the spirit of holiness and righteousness to fill Nigeria from one end to the other.
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Monday 1st - Sunday 7th July 2024
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. (1 Sam. 17: 24).
Last week, during the nightly intercessory prayers for Nigeria at the National Altar, a distinguished professor, while leading prayers, lamented what she called the “poverty of courage” in the land. Evil, corruption, unrighteousness, injustice, and perversion have pervaded the land because “men” are no longer standing as “men”.
In every culture, it is the responsibility of men to ensure that things do not go wrong. It is men that stand to defend their land and their families. It is the responsibility of men to ensure that foreigners do not invade their land and hold them captive. It is the responsibility of men to ensure there is food for their families and there is justice in their society. Men stand at critical periods to defend the values and virtues of their society. Even in the face of death, men will stand. That is the reason for the saying that “a man must do what a man must do”.
The generation in which the men are not willing to fight ends up in captivity. Their wives are ravished and dehumanized while their children end up as slaves. If men fail to do what men ought to do, the society suffers, and predators will take over.
A few years ago, at the height of Buhari’s misadventure in power, an article entitled “WHERE ARE THE MEN?” was published. It remains a research topic for sociologists and anthropologists what happened to Nigerian men that such an entity was permitted to remain in power for eight years. The question, “Where are the men,” remains germane today as it was under Buhari. The insensitivity and profligacy of government should incense any man of noble birth. Governance in Nigeria is not difficult. The problem is the corruption and recklessness of the political class; the brazen recklessness right in the face, saying, “What can you do about it?”
Two politicians were so impudent they dared Nigerians to do their worst. Former Governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido, said in a widely circulated report that “Nigerians are too poor to revolt.”. He went further to say, “They don’t have the capacity to unite because they are burdened by poverty. We have taken away from them, their dignity, their self-esteem, their pride and self-worth, so that they cannot even organize.” That was coming from a supposed compatriot, unless he was being sarcastic of his own class.
A former state governor, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, said, “we steal because no one stones us”. He too went further to say, “If you see a thief and you allow him to be stealing, what have you done? You have stoned nobody; that is why we are stealing. Who have you stoned? They came out and started dancing, oil subsidy, oil subsidy. They told you that they stole N2.3trn, what did you do?”
Other politicians do not talk because they are busy eating, and it is bad manners to talk while you are eating. They are eating the future, the comfort, and the well-being of their fellow citizens. Nigeria is one of the wealthiest countries in the world by virtue of its abundant natural resources. Unfortunately, its people are officially the poorest, having become the poverty capital of the world. The problem of the country is not poverty of wealth, it is poverty of courage. Rather than stand and defend justice and truth, the men would rather grumble and adjust to the pain.
This poverty of courage is more keenly felt inside the Church. A few years ago, some reckless and ungodly entities took control of the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria. They were brazenly corrupt and reckless. The National Christian Elders Forum challenged them, but the Elders were not supported by many of the Christians who felt that they were causing disunity in the body of Christ. In effect, if you see something, say nothing! One individual summoned courage to attend the meeting of the highest organ in the Church and petitioned against corruption in the leadership. He demanded immediate action. Rather than consider issues based on truth and righteousness, he was condemned by some Christians and vilified for exposing evil. It is the same people complaining today of suffering in the land. If evil is permitted to thrive within the Church, what would happen to the world?
At present, scandal upon scandal rocks the leadership of many Christian assemblies. What has the Christian community done? If Christians, who are the light of the world, cannot confront the works of darkness in the Church, who is going to help Nigeria? If there is one group that most suffers the poverty of courage in Nigeria, it is the Christian community. Some Christians hide cowardice under a veil of prayers. There is time to pray, and there is time to act. The word of God says that “faith without works is dead.” The Nigeria Church is rich in faith but poor in works. There must be a balance.
Christians in Nigeria must not be like Israelites in the valley of Elah. According to 1 Sam. 17: 24, when “all the men” saw one man, “all the men” fled, until a boy arrived on the scene. From human perspective, there were many men, and one boy who had been sent to deliver bread to his older siblings at the battlefront. However, from the perspective of Heaven, there was only one man on that battlefield - David. All the others were boys. It takes men to fight battles. It takes men to confront issues. It is men that stand against evil and defend the truth. A man does what a man must do. Where are the men in Nigeria? Are there no men in the land?
God forbid that the men meant to stand in this season for the land have joined the “japa syndrome”. As the condition in the country worsens, many people are fleeing to foreign countries. It is like a man whose father’s house is on fire and he promptly salvages a few of his properties and moves to his neighbour’s house. Whom is he expecting to put out the fire in his father’s house? If all Nigerian men had purposed to confront the issues in the country, the situation would not have got this bad, and there would have been no reason for anyone to bail out.
Some observers believe that Nigerians are under a spell. The example was cited of a former Head of State who imported sorcerers into the country to place the people under a spell. One of the reported acts of the sorcerers was to obtain 1,000 mice, and in Abuja, put out the eyes of the mice, and tie their snout with threads before burying them. The purpose was that Nigerians would neither see nor say anything so long as that individual was in power. There was another report that some sorcerers were put on a plane and flown over the country, making incantations against Nigerians. Still, another report was received of a group of fishermen in a riverine community who saw a helicopter hover over the water and drop some bundles into the sea. After the helicopter had departed, the fishermen found the dropped parcels to be the religious books of a people who have since aimed to dip their book in the sea.
In view of the foregoing, one may not really blame Nigerian men for the display of nationwide timidity. Maybe it is the spell and the enchantment working in the land. If that is the case, the solution is still the Church. There must a be mobilization for prayers to counter the hypnosis, docility, and disunity in the land. However, the first requirement for the Church is righteousness. To wage this warfare, the Church must return to righteousness. It is written, “the righteous are bold as a lion.” If there is poverty of courage in the land, it implies that righteous men are few in the Church. If the men are righteous, they will be bold.
1). Prov. 28:1
Pray for the spirit of boldness to descend upon Christian men to defend truth and righteousness in the country.
2). 2 Tim. 1:7
Plead the Blood of Jesus to nullify the effect of sorcery upon Nigerians in the face of oppression.
3). 2 Cor. 10:3 - 5
Come against every blood sacrifice and satanic ritual employed by wicked rulers to gain and remain in power in Nigeria. Decree that all such evil powers shall be neutralized in the name of Jesus Christ.
4). Ex. 22: 18
Pronounce judgment on all satanic priests and priestesses that service satanic altars in Nigeria.
5). Matthew 16: 19
Bind and dispell the demons empowering wicked and corrupt rulers in the country.
6). Isaiah 27: 1
Call upon the sore, great, and mighty sword of God against the spirit of leviathan and all its forces in Nigeria. Set Nigeria free from the influence of leviathan.
7). Isaiah 59:15–19
Pray that the righteousness of Christ shall deliver Nigeria and execute judgment on all the enemies of truth and righteousness in the land.
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Monday 24th - Sunday 30th June 2024
This prayer call analyses the impact of political ideologies on Nigeria. There are currently two conflicting political ideologies contesting for supremacy in the constitution. The consequence of the contest is the dysfunctionality of the Nigerian state. It is in the interest of Nigerians that this contest is resolved in favour of the political ideology upon which Nigeria was established as a country.
Amongst the Yoruba people, if a parent wants to punish an erring child, or a group of people is threatened with painful punishment, the common term used is, “I will do ‘seria’ for you.” Yoruba people understand “seria” to mean excruciating pain, punishment, and affliction. What many people might not know is that seria is not a Yoruba word, but an adaption of the Arabic word “sharia”. To the Yoruba mind, seria connotes pain. A translator rendered seria to mean, “I will show you pepper”.
In some Yoruba ethnic groups, [sh] is pronounced as [s], like the “shibboleth” in Judges 12: 6. That is how "sharia" is typically realized as “seria”.
The issue is this, Nigerians, at present, are in agony and penury, but only a few people understand the root of the problem. In the past twenty-five years, the country has been steadily marching backwards, while the intensity of the affliction on the populace has assumed infernal proportions. In this country in which the monthly salary of a university graduate was less than N500, a few years ago, N500 can no longer buy a loaf of bread. What went wrong? A political ideology that “peppers” people was illegally injected into the constitution of Nigeria. This debilitating political ideology hijacks sovereignty from the people and, under the guise of religion, concentrates it in the hands of feudal lords. They claim proprietary rights over the freedom of the people and the resources of the land. While they live in affluence and indulgence, they subject the masses to “pepper”.
The controversial Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, once said, “Zamfara started Sharia in Nigeria, today it has the highest poverty rate”. He went further to say, at the Mo Ibrahim Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco, that it was time for people to realize that “this is all deception, this is all politics, this is not religion; it is about politicians appropriating religion as a discourse for getting into power”.
Anyone who wishes to disagree with Alhaji Sanusi should consider the condition of the 12-sharia states in Nigeria. They are the emblems of poverty, human deprivation, illiteracy, violence, and death. That is the spiritual influence emanating from the 1999 Constitution foisted upon Nigeria by some power-hungry politicians under the garb of military uniform, traditional stools, and under the guise of political activism. They have one thing in common, they believe that the national treasury is their petty cash box. They are as greedy as hell.
If Nigerians do not understand the manipulation of these self-seeking elites and take steps to stop them, they will suck the life out of the citizens. Already, they have succeeded in driving multitudes of citizens out of their fatherland. The injection of sharia into the constitution has nothing to do with religion. As Alhaji Sanusi indicated, it is the political manipulation of religion for cultural and political domination. The National Christian Elders Forum has written extensively about the politics of religion as the bane of the Nigerian society.
Nigeria was established as a country with democracy and parliamentarian system of government as its national ideology. The founding fathers crafted a constitution that enabled the constituent units to thrive and develop according to their individual pace. There was an attempt to introduce sharia ideology at independence, but the move was rejected. That was the reason Sardauna introduced the Penal Code for northern Nigeria. Instead of promoting democracy and equality in the land, some political hawks sought the opportunity to play the politics of religion to dominate political power. They have largely succeeded with the 2023 elections. That election was not a democratic exercise. It was sharia. The ballot box did not produce the president. It was the court. Under democracy, the ballot box produces winners at elections. This might be one reason why much pepper is following the 2023 election.
That is not all. Nigeria gained independence as a common law country, which presupposes that the judicial and legal officers in the country would be common law lawyers. Under Buhari, both the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the Attorney General were sharia lawyers. It was an aberration. At present, the contest for supremacy between democracy and the sharia ideology in Nigeria is swinging dangerously in favour of sharia. This is the reason Nigerians are being peppered seriously. Therefore, people should understand where the pepper is coming from. It is a manipulation of religion for political domination.
Undoubtedly, apologists and beneficiaries of sharia in the constitution might argue that talking about sharia in the constitution is an infringement on their freedom of worship. Such people should be reminded that while there were a series of constitutional conferences that agreed on democracy as the national ideology of Nigeria, there was no single conference that agreed on sharia in the constitution of Nigeria. It was an imposition done with impunity.
Under the circumstances, Nigerians should focus all their attention on resolving the conflicting ideologies in the constitution in favour of democracy. The country must return to a constitution that enshrines democracy as the only national ideology, because that is the basis upon which Nigeria was established as a country. This is the only way leaders can be held accountable and the resources of the country utilized for the common good.
Interestingly, like Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, President Tinubu is toying with the idea of returning the country to regionalism. This is a tentative step in the right direction. However, there should be strident calls for a constitution that is not an adaptation of Decree 24, which produced the 1999 Constitution. There are two options to handle the constitutional impasse:
1. A return to the 1963 Republican Constitution (with some minor amendments), or
2. A fresh constitution negotiated by the indigenous ethnic nationalities.
All the elites, labour leaders, academics, professional bodies, and the youths should raise a clarion call for a new constitution. The seria peppering Nigerians is coming from the 1999 Constitution (as amended). The sponsors of the 1999 Constitution have seriously peppered Nigerians. The pepper in the eyes of the people is too much.
May God have mercy upon Nigerians.
1). Ps. 102: 13
Plead with God to arise and have mercy upon Nigerians.
2). Ps. 133
Pray for grace that Nigerians shall be united and demand, in one accord, a new constitution. Pray against every division crafted by the forces of darkness.
3). Exodus 2: 23 – 25
Pray that God will have respect for the groanings and cries of Nigerians.
4). Exodus 3: 7 – 10
Pray that God will raise a Moses for Nigeria, who will rally the people and lead them out of the present bondage.
5). Isaiah 28: 14-15, 18-21
Pray that every diabolical power that the sponsors of sharia in Nigeria depend upon, shall be nullified by the Blood of Jesus.
6). Isaiah 7: 7
A prophecy circulated on social media that a massive mobilization of forces of destruction is waiting to be unleashed upon Nigeria. Pray and decree that it shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. Bind all the forces darkness that are involved, and cast them out.
7). Col. 2: 14 - 15; Rom. 4: 16 – 17
Pull down the 1999 Constitution in the spirit realm and nail it, with other obnoxious ordinances in the country, to the cross of Jesus. Call forth a new constitution that will give Nigeria peace, progress, and prosperity.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd June 2024
For the purposes of watchfulness and intercession, National Prayer Altar is sharing the revelation below. The source of the revelation is credible, and the goal of sharing it is to destroy the works of Satan and establish the government of the kingdom of God upon Nigeria.
In my night seasons, I was made to see a large rectangular shaped table situated inside a rectangular shaped body of water. I was made to understand that this was the ocean, and that I was seeing into the marine kingdom. Inside this water, there were people seated on either length of this table. Outside the water also, there were people seated on either length of the water.
Inside the water, on one side of the table (the right side) sat former presidents (of Nigeria), politicians, and many “babalawo” (chief voodoo men); they were all dressed in white. Standing closely behind them were powerful businessmen and SANs (eminent judges) in Nigeria. I was made to know that those men standing behind represented various sectors of the society … commerce, education, etc.
On the other side of the table were some pastors, ministers of the gospel. They were seated facing the politicians and the “babalawo”. Those who stood behind the pastors were far from the table and had no idea of what exactly was transpiring at the table, neither did they see those that the pastors were dealing with.
The meeting was called because the people at the table were not satisfied with the present government and wanted to take the mantle of office from the present leader. The meeting was clearly set in the marine world.
The politicians were the godfathers and power holders in the country. The pastors seated were their collaborators, the successors to the GO’s and the current leading ministers of the gospel in the country. They were the “tier two” ministers. The well-known men of God in the country were the “tier one”.
I was made to understand that the men of God seen at present as “fathers” had become mere figure heads and social media celebrities. They were rich and celebrated but had absolutely no power again in the spirit realm, either in the Kingdom of Light or in the kingdom of darkness.
The powerful men who stood behind the politicians were not exactly concerned with the well-being of the country. They only wanted access to the raw power available at the table.
The most powerful man on the table was seated with the politicians and he had a white fetish cloth around his shoulders and amulets on his wrists. He and the other politicians and godfathers were preparing to handover to the powerful businessmen and SANs behind them who were already fully involved and fully aware of the practices at the table.
The people behind the pastors had no clear idea of what the pastors were involved in. They were however following the pastors intently. There was a particular pastor who was always standing up from the table to go and talk to the people and come back to the table.
All the pastors had Bibles in their hands. Some placed theirs on the table, while some held theirs in their hands, but they all had it. It was mandatory. However, that was not their source of power. They were extremely unconcerned with anything that had to do with God, but they had a huge following in the Church - followers who followed blindly. The pastors were hard eyed and ravenous for the power, influence, and affluence that was available at the table.
Somewhere else, not too far from there, I was taken to a church premises. The church had lots and lots of buildings and so many activities were going on … there were podcasts, recordings, services, and ceremonies. There was one ceremony a bishop was having, and food was being shared, however the man was a fetish man. The church was in such a disarray. Everywhere was dirty and dusty. Some buildings had large holes in them, some were dilapidated, but no one seemed concerned about the state of the church. Each was just doing his own thing.
Somewhere in the sky, just above the church premises, were a group of Apostles and Prophets and Pastors, who were meeting to intercede and make decisions concerning the nation. Some of them were there physically, some were not, because they don’t live in Nigeria. However they all seemed to be physically present at the meeting. They were not a part of the activities of the church, they were above and beyond. They had put structures in place in the spirit realm ten years ahead. They had handled the problems of the nation in the spirit, and were already making plans, years ahead of everyone else.
At some point, this company was offered the food that was being served in the church. They turned it down with such disdain. They saw it as a defilement and a distraction to the work they were doing.
I rushed to tell them of the meeting in the water, that I had just seen, but they didn’t seem surprised at all. They said it was not news to them. Apparently, they had handled it and taken care of it in the spirit realm. This company of Apostles, Prophets and Pastors was working ahead of everyone, and they had access to the raw power of the Living God in Christ Jesus.
This is what I was shown…
2nd June 2024
1). Job 12:22; Daniel 2:22.
Thank God for not leaving His saints in the dark. Thank Him for His light that brings deliverance.
2). Isaiah 5:5; Malachi 3:2-3.
Pray that God would take away the covering and the strength of all false pastors. Let the power of manipulation and hypnotism be destroyed from the people. Pray that the house of God be cleansed & purified by fire.
3). Colossians 1:16-19; 1Chr. 29:11.
Fasten the government of Jesus Christ over the soul of Nigeria. Jesus has pre-eminence over all things in creation. Ask Jesus to fill the entirety of Nigeria.
4). John 2:13-16; Matthew 18:18.
By the authority of Jesus, overturn all the tables of wickedness set against the counsel of God for Nigeria. Disannul the counsel of occult and demonic tables raised against Nigeria. Bind and cast out all demon spirits disturbing the peace and destiny of Nigeria.
5). Luke 10:19; Matthew 28:18.
Collapse and crush the powers of the tables that have risen against Nigeria; the powers of the tables operating from the waters, from the air, from the land. Cast down and destroy every power that is trading the destiny of Nigeria.
6). Luke 21:15; Job 22:28.
Unlock the marine and the freshwaters; the grasslands, the forests, the mountains, and the deserts. Set the stars, the moon and the sun over Nigeria free from all evil occupation, all evil configuration, all evil incantations and manipulations against the plans and purposes of Jesus Christ for Nigeria.
7). Isaiah 8:10; Hebrews 12:29).
Overturn, break and destroy every table negotiating, bargaining, exchanging, and trading the soul of Nigeria and Nigerians. Break their stronghold over Nigeria and turn their counsel to nothing by the finished work of Jesus Christ. Let every such demonic power table be consumed by the fire of God!
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 10th - Sunday 16th June 2024
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors, there is safety (Prov. 11: 14).
We commend the leaders and members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), with all their affiliate bodies, for rising to the challenge of defending the rights of the ordinary citizen in Nigeria. The recent nationwide strike of the labour should be a wake-up call to a self-seeking and heartless political class, that it can no longer continue to take Nigerians for granted.
In the prayer call of 25th – 31st May 2024, we carried an article entitled “WHO OWNS NIGERIA?” In that prayer call, we highlighted the 1999 Constitution (as amended) as the bane of the Nigerian society. We further highlighted four areas in which the 1999 Constitution (as amended) negatively impacts Nigeria.
The 3rd – 4th June 2024 warning strike of NLC aims at negotiating better wages for Nigerian workers. This is a noble objective, but it falls far from the goal of making life easy for all Nigerians. It does not matter how much salary increase labour leaders are able to negotiate, inflation will wipe it off as soon as it arrives. Nigeria is no longer productive, because it runs a dysfunctional constitution that chokes the life out of the constituent units in the country and prevents them from working. Therefore, any salary increase at this time will harm the economy. It will be too much money chasing too few goods.
There was a time in Nigeria when the monthly salary of a university graduate was N484.00. At that time, monthly rent for a three-bedroom flat was N200.00 in some cities, while a brand-new car was N4,804. This was in 1984. Today, both the rent and the car are priced in millions while the monthly salary of the graduate must be in six figures for it to make sense. Even for a graduate earning a monthly salary of N100,000 today, he will have to make do with the minimum basics of life to survive the month.
Therefore, when NLC and TUC repeatedly propose certain figures as new national minimum wage, what do they think would happen to the economy? Are we going to purchase a loaf of bread for N100,000? If labour is piqued with the irresponsible legislators who allocate to themselves humungous monthly salaries and allowances, the solution is not a tit-for-tat humongous salary increase across board. An eye-for-an-eye will make everyone blind.
There is a better way to handle the problem, and it will not cost the labour unions any extra effort, but it will guarantee maximum benefit for everyone in the country. The same nationwide strike and shutting down of services (excluding essential services) is all that is required, and far-reaching rewards will accrue to all the citizens.
The problem of Nigeria is not lack of money. Nigeria is a stupendously rich country, but its sovereignty has been hijacked. At present, Nigerians are not free citizens in their country. Some faceless forces have hijacked the liberty of the people and turned them into “dhimmis”, second-class citizens, in their country. What labour is doing is akin to slaves going on strike in a sugarcane plantation for better treatment. Even if they obtain the better treatment, they are still slaves. Is it not better to fight for freedom?
The sponsors of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) usurped the sovereign right of Nigerians to give the country a constitution and organize Nigeria according to their wish. Nigerians are suffering today because they did not organize Nigeria in its present manner. It was done by a group of forces, who blatantly lied by claiming that “WE THE PEOPLE” of Nigeria produced the 1999 Constitution (as amended) when, in fact, WE THE PEOPLE knew nothing about it. It is an act of treason. It is that illegitimate constitution that has locked up Nigeria in a cell of poverty and death. This is what NLC and TUC should resolve and not wage increase.
In the prayer call of 25th – 31st March 2024, we highlighted four areas (amongst many others) in which the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is harming Nigerians.
Those four areas are:
1. Insecurity
2. Unemployment and poverty
3. Religious intolerance
4. Corruption
If leaders of labour could concentrate on getting a new Constitution for Nigeria, they would resolve these four harmful points, as well as the many unnamed others. Then, there would be no need for any salary increase. Employment opportunities will blossom. There would be peace and safety all over the country. The cases of insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism will die a natural death. Productivity will increase all over the country and each constituent part will generate its electricity and provide effective transportation system for the people. The quality of education will improve, and it will be free. Quality healthcare will be accessible to all citizens and the brain drain of medical personnel will cease. The cost of foodstuff will drop as farming activities will resume in full scale all over the country. All these will make life easier for all the citizens.
There are two ways to go about the new Constitution:
1. There could be a demand for an immediate return to the 1963 Republican Constitution. This can be achieved within a few months with minor amendments. A transition program can be put in place for the current political office holders till 2027 when their tenure will end. If the country can revert to the Independence Anthem, why can it not revert to the Independence Constitution?
2. The other option is for a conference of ethnic nationalities to be convened for the various constituent units to renegotiate Nigeria and develop a new constitution from their negotiations.
All these can be achieved in 2024.
The fraudulent and illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended) acknowledges in its Section 14 (2)a that “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority;” This being the case, labour should reclaim the sovereignty of the people over Nigeria so that the country can be organized by the people in a manner that will benefit the citizens. The sovereignty of Nigeria has been hijacked. This is the reason votes no longer count and courts have replaced the ballot box.
If NLC and TUC are truly desirous of helping Nigerian workers, they should focus on resolving the constitutional dispute in the country and leave wage increase. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
God bless Nigeria.
If this prayer call makes sense to you, kindly share it until it gets to leaders of NLC and TUC.
1). Prov. 11: 14
Pray for Godly counsel to guide Nigerians in positions of authority and influence so that they can use their positions to lead the country aright.
2). 2 Samuel 15: 31; Ezekiel 11: 2
Pray that God will overturn every evil and wicked counsel that is working against the peace and progress of Nigeria. Pray that God will silence all evil speakers within and outside Nigeria.
3). Isaiah 28: 14 – 15
Pray that every covenant that some political leaders have entered into with forces of darkness, that makes them insensitive to the suffering of the people, shall be annulled, in the name of Jesus Christ.
4). 2 Cor. 11: 13 – 15
Pray for the swift judgment of God on Church leaders who entered into covenant with marine spirits and traffic with the occult while claiming to be servants of Jesus Christ.
5). Isaiah 27: 1
Take authority over the spirit of leviathan and bind its power and influence over Nigeria. Pray that the judgment of God shall come swiftly upon leviathan, and it shall be cut off from Nigeria.
6). Isaiah 25: 6 – 8
Pray that all Nigerians shall arise in one accord and demand a new constitution for the country. Pray that the veil and the spell placed upon the country shall be destroyed.
7). Col. 2: 14 – 15
Decree and nullify every constitution, decree, treaty, ordinance, byelaw, and any regulation in Nigeria that causes oppression, suppression, and regression of the country and the people. Amen.
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 3rd - Sunday 9th June 2024
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. (Eccl. 8: 6).
God is Sovereign. For every purpose upon earth, God has a time and a judgment. Once the calendar of God starts running, it can neither be interrupted nor abrogated. There are instances in which God gives man an idea of His calendar. A situation might not seem pleasant or palatable, but it could fit into God’s eternal purpose. Under such conditions, it does not matter how much prayer, fasting, or cries one offers, the calendar will run its full course.
However, because God is sovereign, He might also decide to break into His calendar and accelerate events, as indicated in Matt. 24:22: "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened". Whenever God breaks into His own calendar, it is amazing grace.
In His dealings with nations, God establishes programs of action to purge, prepare, or preserve the people, for His purpose. We see two examples of such dealings with Israel in which the nation went through a calendar of fire to prepare and purge the people to fulfill God’s purpose.
That is where it gets interesting. Once God commences His calendar, its termination or fullness of time is left to the people. If they are alert, they will terminate the calendar at its fulness of time. However, if the people are rebellious or careless, they could extend the calendar. This is true for nations as well as for individuals.
In Daniel 9: 2, Daniel wrote, "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Daniel was on the alert, waiting for the seventy years to be accomplished for the Jews in Babylon. He did not pray before the seventy years were completed, because he knew it would not work. The prophetic calendar had to run its full course.
Daniel was still on his knees when the answer came from heaven. "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation" (Dan. 9: 20-21). Heaven was waiting for the nation to arise and demand a termination of the calendar of judgment. Only one man understood the times and the seasons. That single individual ended the calamity for the entire nation.
We find another example in Gen. 15: 13. God told Abraham, "... Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years" The calendar of God for Israel in Egypt was 400 years. They spent 30 extra years. When Moses started stirring in the 390th year, they drove Moses away with, "who made thee a prince and a judge over us?" Moses fled to Midian for forty years. That was what brought their servitude in Egypt to 430 years. They extended the calendar by 30 years.
There is an interesting historical account in the public domain that concerns the calendar of God for Nigeria. In that account, Uthman Dan Fodio was shown a vision in which he was told that the empire which he had built on blood would last for 200 years. That was in 1804. In 2004, the Caliphate publicly celebrated its 200 years of existence. What does that tell us? Where were the Daniels in the land to mark the calendar? Twenty years after, in 2024, the throne is still exerting an influence over Nigeria and exercising power in the politics, economy, religion, as well as the sponsorship of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
At the dot of the 200 years, God made sure that the throne celebrated the calendar for the whole world to know that the time was up for them. It was a valedictory celebration. Unfortunately, Nigerians did not catch the signal.
The Church leaders who, as the gatekeepers over the land, should have given direction to the people, were consumed with the vanity and covetousness of the world. Consequently, they could neither discern the times nor the seasons God appointed for Nigeria. As a matter of fact, when some of them were reminded about the importance of the season, they were offended. Because there was no understanding of visions, the people continued to perish. Prov. 29: 18
Certain thrones are still speaking in Nigeria while, in the calendar of God, they are dead thrones. Their time has run out. It is therefore not strange that death has filled the land. Dead thrones cannot dispense life, only death.
In a previous prayer call, it was mentioned that the currency to pay for empires is blood. Every empire is built on the foundation of blood. Once the duration of an empire expires, if the beneficiaries do not want it to die, they must pay double the amount of blood that was paid to establish it in the first instance. The calendar of an empire ended in 2004, five years later, in 2009, massive bloodshed started in Nigeria. Connect the dots. An empire whose tenure has expired is still tenaciously clinging to power in Nigeria by attempting to double the blood price.
A few months ago, God gave a revelation, that Heaven had ended the tenure of some thrones in Nigeria. However, like Daniel, the people must pray them out so that the demonic Prince of Persia would give way. The major assignment now is to travail in prayer and remind God that His calendar for Nigeria is due. It is 20 years overdue. Gather the wailing women. Call together the mourning women. Jer. 9: 17 - 18. Let them lament the desolation of the land and the breach of the divine calendar.
Let the hosts of heaven mobilize into Nigeria and enforce the divine order. A new light has dawned for this country. It is the era of the Son of God. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, that the King of Glory" may enter Nigeria.
Nigeria, arise and shine, for your light is come. The glory of God is risen upon Nigeria.
1. Dan. 2: 20 – 22
Thank God for revealing to His people the mystery of His calendar for Nigeria. Thank Him for changing the times and the seasons for the country.
2. Dan. 9: 2
Remind God that while His calendar for Israel in Babylon was 70 years, His calendar for Nigeria was 200 years. Call upon God to end the desolation of Nigeria just as He ended the desolation of Israel in Babylon.
3. Ez. 32: 18 – 27
Pray that every dead throne that is still speaking in Nigeria be dismantled and buried in 2024.
4. Isaiah 49: 24 – 26
Pray that every evil structure that is sustaining oppression, regression, and suppression in Nigeria be dismantled in 2024.
5. Rev. 12: 10 – 11
Plead the Blood of Jesus to silence and nullify the power of every blood that has been shed as sacrifice to keep Nigeria in bondage to dead thrones.
6. Rev. 12: 7 – 9
Pray that the hosts of God shall be released by God into Nigeria to drive Satan and his forces out of the country the way they were driven out of heaven.
7. Isaiah 60: 1 – 2 Proclaim the glory of the Lord over Nigeria.
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 27th May - Sunday 2nd June 2024
In furtherance of its efforts at providing solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria, the National Prayer Altar, in addition to its daily prayers for Nigeria, organized a conference to provide practical solutions to the problems of the country.
At the end of the Prayer Conference, the participants agreed as follows:
1. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) is a major obstacle to the peace, progress, and prosperity of Nigeria.
2. The Conference was unanimous that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) fails every test of a sovereign document for a federal system of government and should be decommissioned without further delay.
3. The Conference disagreed with the amendment exercise currently being undertaken by the National Assembly and insists that a fraudulent and illegitimate document cannot be amended; it must be discarded and replaced.
4. The Conference also stated unequivocally that a constitution can only be negotiated, not legislated into existence the way the 1979 Constitution was done via Military Decree 104 and Military Decree 24 for the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
5. Participants called on the ethnic nationalities to fulfil their responsibility and take steps to give Nigeria new constitutional arrangements.
6. The Conference acknowledged that the 1963 Republican Constitution still stands as the only authentic constitution of Nigeria in existence, having been negotiated at several conferences in Lagos and in London, before it was finally approved in July of 1963 at the Constitutional Conference in Lagos.
7. The Conference also acknowledged that the 1963 Constitution was only suspended by Gen. Ironsi’s Decree 1 of 1966; not abrogated.
8. The Conference affirmed that it was an error for the Military to have introduced the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions while the 1963 Constitution was still in place.
9. The Conference appreciated the efforts of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) in the past twenty-five years to resolve the constitutional dispute in Nigeria occasioned by the illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended).
10. The Conference acknowledged the five-fold proposition of NINAS as a veritable roadmap for the consideration of the ethnic nationalities to resolve the constitutional impasse in Nigeria.
11. The Conference agreed that new constitutional arrangements can be introduced in 2024 while a transition can be put in place for the government, till 2027.
12. The Conference lamented the apathy of intellectuals and religious leaders in the country to issues that threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria notwithstanding the genocide that has been unleashed on many ethnic nationalities.
13. The Conference affirmed that the ethnic nationalities do not require the permission of the government to meet and produce new constitutional arrangements for the country.
14. It was equally affirmed that the role of the National Assembly is to make laws and not to produce a Constitution. The responsibility of producing a constitution rests on the indigenous ethnic nationalities.
15. The Conference concluded by calling on all Nigerians to arise and demand new constitutional arrangements for the country, to replace the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which was imposed on Nigeria by the Military.
1. Gal. 5: 1
Pray and reject every instrument of bondage imposed upon Nigeria. It is for liberty that Christ has made up free. Reject before the Almighty God the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which was introduced to place Nigerians under bondage.
2. Isaiah 10: 27
Pray that the anointing of the Almighty God shall destroy the yoke of bondage placed upon Nigeria through the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
3. Ps. 2: 7 – 9
Demand of Heaven that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) be decommissioned in 2024.
4. Matt. 16: 19
Take authority over the forces of darkness sustaining the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to further the program of the kingdom of darkness. Break the hold of Satan and his forces over Nigeria.
5. Ps. 9: 15 - 20
Pray that all the foreign nations that have ganged up against Nigeria shall fall into their pits of bondage and destruction.
6. Isaiah 51: 9 – 10
Pray for righteous indignation and a stirring in Nigeria against every instrument and structure of oppression and bondage.
7. Rom. 4: 16 – 17
Call forth a new constitution for Nigeria, which will promote righteousness, justice, equality, and fairness in the country.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 20th - Sunday 26th May 2024
In 1 Chro. 12:32, the Bible talks about “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” Every season has its peculiar characteristics that demand skillful understanding of how it should be handled. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccl. 3:1). There is a time for war and a time for peace; there is a to love and a time to hate. How one handles a time of war would be different from how one would handle a time of peace. The peculiarity of each season demands wisdom, insight, and foresight.
That Nigeria is in crisis is no longer news. That it stinks globally due to corruption and unrighteousness is neither a secret. The issue now is, what should be done to restore normalcy? What does this season demand?
Several intellectuals and well-meaning citizens have identified the number one obstacle to peace, progress, and prosperity of Nigeria: the fraudulent and illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended). Many analysts have dissected the 1999 Constitution and authoritatively affirmed that, so long as that document is in force as the sovereign document of Nigeria, the country is not going anywhere.
With this awareness, which is in the public domain, it beats the imagination how a country of over 200 million people could fold the hands and allow the situation to persist. Nigeria neither lacks intellectuals nor is destitute of human rights activists, yet a Constitution responsible for daily bloodshed in the land, for the penury of the people and discord amongst the citizens has been allowed to operate for twenty-five years.
This season demands the rising of all citizens in Nigeria to unanimously demand that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) be decommissioned and set aside. New constitutional arrangements are required urgently to initiate the rebuilding of the country. The so-called “amendment” exercise by the National Assembly is nothing but a political distraction. The current exercise would be the 6th alteration to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) without any positive result in the country.
The political class, which profits enormously from the dysfunctional constitution, would not be willing to support new constitutional arrangements. It is not a secret that most of the politicians place their selfish interests above that of the country. However, they are able to persist only for as long as the people permit it. The illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended) acknowledges in its Section 14 (2)a that “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority.” If sovereignty belongs to the people, why would the politicians not listen to the people? It is because the people have not spoken. Individuals and groups are speaking, but "the people" have not spoken.
If Nigerians are tired of suffering, it is time for the people to speak and demand new constitutional arrangements for the country. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) has been given 25 years to operate. That should be enough. The people should organize themselves to raise their voices all over the land against oppression, suppression, and regression.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) should be congratulated for taking up the case of workers in the land, by demanding wage reviews. This is commendable, but it does not provide the answer that this season requires. The season does not demand salary increase. Rather, it is calling for a complete overhaul of governance. It does not matter how much wage increase NLC is able to negotiate, inflation will soon wipe it off. There was a time in this country when the monthly salary of a university graduate was N484.00. A brand-new car was sold for N4,804.00, while a three-bedroom flat could be rented at N200.00 per month. This was in the 80s. Today, all those goods and services are transacted in millions of Naira.
The current season in Nigeria is calling for new constitutional arrangements to renegotiate Nigeria. Why should a Federation have only one constitution? Each federating unit, whether it is state or region, should have its constitution, which it will use to negotiate its position within the union. As of today, there is no union. There is only a geographical area held together at gunpoint. If NLC, as the official representative of the Nigerian workers, is truly desirous of solving the problem of the workers, it should drop the agitation for salary increase and demand new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria.
The combination of the voice of the Nigeria Labour Congress with that of the other trade/professional unions like ASUU, NBA, TUC, NASSU, NMA, NUJ, MAN, NUT, etc, and the voice of the ethnic nationalities will dismantle every resistance to new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria. The people have suffered enough.
Nigerians are not poor people requiring salary increase. They are freeborns whose sovereignty has been hijacked by hostile forces for the purposes of racial, cultural, and political domination. Therefore, the focus of Nigerians should be on regaining their sovereignty and liberty as a people. Consequently, agitating for salary increase while ignoring the weighty matter of the liberty of the people is not the perfect way to go for now.
This prayer call is inviting all readers to become an advocate for the liberty of Nigeria. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) has become an instrument of oppression and regression in the country. The land is mourning because the people are in bondage. It is time to break the chains and dismantle the shackles of oppression.
For additional information, readers might wish to refer to two previous prayer calls entitled "WHO OWNS NIGERIA " (Parts 1 & 2). This prayer call should be shared for awareness, mobilization, and prayers. As we pray, we must be prepared to speak out so that the ethnic nationalities will rise as one to put in place new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria.
Our prayers must be backed with action. Faith without works is dead.
1. Ps 124
Thank God for sustaining Nigeria over the years. The attacks and conspiracies against the country have been many, but God in His mercy has sustained the country.
2. Ps. 133
Pray that God will pour the anointing of unity upon all the divergent groups in Nigeria so that they will act as one to give Nigeria new constitutional arrangements.
3. Matt. 15: 13
Pray that God will uproot any individual or group of individuals that stands in the way of new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria. Pray that such opposing persons shall be neutralized by the power of God.
4. Isaiah 8:9–10
Pray that every foreign nation that opposes the liberty and progress of Nigeria shall be broken in pieces and all their conspiracies nullified by God.
5. Luke 10: 18 – 19
Take authority over Satan and all the forces of darkness contending God’s purpose for Nigeria. Take authority over Leviathan and nullify all its powers with the Blood of Jesus Christ.
6. Isaiah 26:9–11
Pronounce judgment on all evil priests and priestesses servicing satanic altars and shrines in the country. Shut down every portal they have opened to hell.
7. Isaiah 32:13–18
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit all over Nigeria, for the healing of the land and the restoration of the people.
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 13th May - Sunday 19th May 2024
On 11th May 2014, exactly ten years ago, God caused a message to be delivered to His Church, as well as to Nigeria. Amongst other things, the message, tagged "THE WAKE-UP CALL," warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC) should not be permitted to form a government. The message specifically warned Christians in Nigeria, “do not dig the grave of the Church with your thumb”. The message urged Nigerians to beware of APC.
Propelled by the Spirit of God according to Ps. 68: 11, "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it." that message took on a life of its own and went viral. As it was being shared, it provided light and guidance to Nigerians. Eventually, APC discovered what was going on and approached a prominent Church leader in Nigeria to counter and nullify the message. The Church leader consented via a letter on 3rd October 2014. He described the message as, “wickedly false, unsubstantiated, ill-conceived and borne out of mischief.”
Interestingly, the same Church leader had earlier endorsed the message. After the visit from APC delegation, he instructed those who had the CD of the message to dispose of it. His position was strengthened by the APC, which appointed a pastor from his denomination as its Vice-Presidential candidate and used the appointment to campaign that the party had no agenda of religious intolerance.
Following the intervention of that Church leader, some influential Christians went all out to campaign for “CHANGE”, and Muhammadu Buhari became President of Nigeria. Nigerians can now look back, after ten years of the WAKE-UP CALL, and review the consequences of the action of that church leader.
As a direct consequence of that letter, millions of Nigerians have allegedly been murdered in cold blood. Hajia Kalthoum Alumbe Jutami, the Hausa female Emancipator, has claimed in her messages that over seven million Hausa people were murdered in the eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari. (Adolf Hitler killed six million Jews during the Second World War.) Even if this figure was contested, the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen, and the other Islamic terrorists, under APC, cannot be denied. Thousands of Nigerians have been kidnapped and treated in the most barbaric and inhumane manner. Millions of families have been pauperized while those who are able have fled the country. All national infrastructure have collapsed, and a whole election was hijacked in broad daylight. It is no longer strange to see Nigerians protesting on the streets, wailing, “We are hungry”.
It was ten years of hell in Nigeria under APC.
The Lord, Who is plenteous in mercy, gave another word in June 2018 as the country was preparing for another election in 2019. That word was published and delivered at a Christian Conference held in Lagos. Amongst others, the word admonished that the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria should be re-organized. While the word in 2014 dealt with unbelievers, the word in 2018 dealt directly with the Church.
The Church was called upon by God to re-organize itself or lose control of the 2019 elections marking the next milestone in the 20-year cycle of God’s dealing with Nigeria. Rather than seek God’s face concerning the message, some Church leaders gathered in Abuja in July 2018 and denigrated the message.
Today, Nigeria is ruled by a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Under the circumstances, what should Nigerian Christians do? Naturally, the first suggestion would be repentance. A lot of repentance has been done in the Church, and we thank God for that. However, there is a critical group in the Church whose concerted and public repentance is still outstanding. God deals with His people through their leaders and the condition of the leaders before God determines how He deals with His people. The problem on ground was caused by the leaders, therefore they must lead in the repentance. The Word of God makes clear that hell shall not prevail against the Church. However, what would happen if the gatekeepers themselves opened the gate for hell?
God spoke in Isaiah 1: 5 – 7 asking, ”Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence,”
Could anyone deny that this scripture aptly describes the current situation in Nigeria?
This is not a condemnation of Church leaders. What has happened has happened, but we need to work towards a solution. No stone should be left unturned in the effort to obtain divine intervention. Joel 2: 17 – 18 says, “Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.”
We must acknowledge that Church leaders are also humans, capable of error of judgment. Therefore, if any infraction is committed by Church leaders, they should accept responsibility before God and repent. Since Church leaders teach Christians how to confess and repent, they should not be reluctant to do the same.
The Nigeria Church has learnt a bitter lesson, a lesson marked with blood and death. It is a lesson that should not be repeated. Genuine repentance by Christian leaders is the first step in ensuring that such error does not occur again.
1. Prov. 1: 24 – 30
The rejection of the counsel of God in 2014 by Church leaders became collective guilt upon the entire Church. Plead the blood of Jesus to atone for the rebellion of the Church in 2014.
2. Joel 2:17–18
Pray for genuine repentance amongst church leaders so that God’s mercy shall be hastened over the land.
3. Isaiah 52: 3 –
Pray that the mercy of God shall prevail upon the Church and the nation.
4. Ezekiel 21: 25 – 27
Pray that God will uproot and overturn every wicked government in Nigeria and hand the throne over to a righteous ruler.
5. Isaiah 28: 5 – 6
Take authority over the gates of hell unleashed upon Nigeria by the APC. Shut the gates of hell and execute judgment on the forces of darkness wreaking havoc in Nigeria.
6. Ps. 149: 5 – 9
Come against the curses of sorcerers, enchanters, diviners, and prognosticators contending for the throne of Nigeria. Bind the evil spirits working with them and execute judgment on all their forces.
7. Isaiah 32: 13 – 18
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the land for healing and restoration.
Theme: NIGERIA – THE DILEMMA AND THE WAY OUT
Resolving the Constitutional dispute in Nigeria
DATE: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th May 2024
TIME: 9.00 pm – 10.30 pm daily
VENUE: ZOOM (link below)
Started since 18th April, 2022
TIME: 9:00pm – 10:00pm daily (Nigeria time)
VENUE: ZOOM
ZOOM link:
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Meeting ID: 968 0619 0505
Passcode: 024184
NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 6th May - Sunday 12th May 2024
In the prayer call of 25th – 31st March 2024, we posed the question above and drew attention to the need to resolve the constitutional dispute in Nigeria. In that prayer call, we pointed out that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is of doubtful origin, and it is responsible for most of the crises in Nigeria. That prayer call identified four areas in which the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is dysfunctional and a liability to the Nigerian state:
1. Insecurity
2. Corruption
3. Religious intolerance
4. Unemployment & Poverty
In a short viral video clip, Chief Nnia Nwodo, a former Minister of Information, and a former President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, said, “… 49 people selected to write a constitution, wrote a constitution. 40 people in the Supreme Military Council promulgated a constitution for us, under General Abubakar, a government in which I served. I was in the Executive Council; I never saw the draft constitution and I was Minister of Information. It was my responsibility to publicise it to the country. On the day of swearing-in of Obasanjo, we didn’t have a copy of the constitution. I didn’t know who was printing it and my Ministry was supposed to pay for the printing. And, Obasanjo was sworn on a constitution that has not been read by anybody. And the National Assembly could not be constituted until four days after his swearing-in because there was no clean copy of the constitution! You cannot build on quicksand. A country cannot live on falsehood.”
Based on the foregoing, those who claim that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is an illegitimate and fraudulent document cannot be faulted. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) did not pass any credible test to be considered the sovereign document of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. To worsen matters, it has become the source of poverty, sorrow, and death to Nigerians.
What should concern Nigerians now is how to resolve the constitutional dispute and ensure that the country obtains a legitimate constitution. There are four perspectives presently in the public space. They are as follows:
1. Amendment of the 1999 Constitution by the National Assembly
2. Adoption of the 2014 National Conference Report and its draft Constitution.
3. Adoption of the 1963 Republican Constitution and amendment of the same to reflect current realities.
4. A new Constitution developed by the ethnic nationalities.
There is a school of thought that suggests that the quickest way of replacing the illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended) is a return to the 1963 Republican Constitution after due amendments. This school of thought argues that this is the constitution that was negotiated by the ethnic nationalities led by the founding fathers of Nigeria. It was thoroughly debated at various constitutional conferences held in Lagos and in London before it was eventually approved at the Lagos Constitutional Conference which held on 25th – 26th July 1963. This is believed to be the authentic constitution of Nigeria.
It is argued that the 1963 Republican Constitution is still in force because it was only “suspended” by Gen. Ironsi’s Decree No. 1 of 1966. The 1963 Constitution was neither nullified nor abrogated. One immediate advantage in reverting to the 1963 Constitution would be reduction in the cost of governance. Under the 1963 Constitution, Nigeria was funding 5 governments: the Federal Government and the four regional governments. Under the 1999 Constitution, Nigeria is funding 812 governments from the Federation account when one adds up the Federal Government, the 36 state governments, the National Assembly and the 774 Local Governments.
The enormous cost of running government is one of the reasons Nigeria cannot offer free education, free healthcare, and national infrastructure has collapsed. With a political class that is protected from prosecution by the “immunity clause” in the 1999 Constitution (as amended), all the arms of government engage in mad rush to loot whatever is in the national treasury. Consequently, Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world.
There is another school of thought sponsored by the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self Determination (NINAS) that conference of the ethnic nationalities is indispensable to put in place new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria. NINAS has produced five-fold proposition to guide Nigeria into seamlessly developing new constitutional arrangements for the Federal Government and the federating units.
On 16th December 2020, accredited delegates of the Nigerian Indigenous Ethnic Nationalities of the Southern and Middle Belt of Nigeria issued a declaration titled “Notice of Constitutional grievances, declaration of constitutional force majeure and demand for transitioning process for an orderly reconfiguration of the constitutional basis of the federation of Nigeria.” The declaration was signed by a total of 140 representatives of the South and Middle Belt areas of Nigeria. It was carried in full in the Guardian Newspaper on 21st January 2021.
https://guardian.ng/features/notice-of-constitutional-grievances-declaration-of-constitutional-force-majeure-and-demand-for-transitioning-process-for-an-orderly-reconfiguration-of-the-constitutional-basis-of-the-federation/
On whichever side of the divide one stands, one thing is clear, Nigeria requires new Constitutional arrangements. The current 1999 Constitution (as amended) has been proven, beyond doubt, to lack legitimacy. Since sovereignty belongs to the people from whom government derives its power, it is imperative that Nigerians must unite to negotiate new Constitutional arrangements for the country.
The political class must be prevailed upon to place the interest of millions of Nigerians above their personal and political interest. It is possible to take a decision on this issue in 2024 while a transition arrangement can be put in place so that the current elected government officials can complete their tenure.
This is a call for Nigerians to focus all their energy and attention on providing a lasting solution to the problems facing the country by going to the root of the problem. Sovereignty belongs to the people. Prayers should focus on dismantling the illegitimate and fraudulent 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the enthronement of the genuine constitution approved by the people for the people.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
1. Isaiah 10: 27
The 1999 Constitution (as amended) is an instrument of oppression, suppression, and regression upon the indigenous ethnic nationalities of Nigeria. Pray that every power of Satan that is sustaining this illegitimate and fraudulent document shall be nullified and destroyed in the name of Jesus Christ.
2. Isaiah 27: 1; Ps. 74: 12 – 14
Pray that every power and influence of leviathan in Nigeria shall be nullified and destroyed by the power of the Almighty God, in the name of Jesus.
3. Zech. 4: 6
Due to the promotion of personal and selfish interests, the political class would not want to support the decommissioning of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Pray that the anointing of God shall break through every resistance. The anointing of God shall destroy the yoke of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
4. Rev. 12: 11
Pray that every blood sacrifice and occult ritual deployed to keep Nigerians docile and in bondage shall be nullified by the Blood of Jesus Christ. Pray that the Blood of Jesus shall answer their bloods.
5. Isaiah 8: 9 – 10
Pray that every foreign nation that is part of the conspiracy to undermine and enslave Nigerians shall have its peace and tranquillity withdrawn.
6. Isaiah 51: 9 – 10
Pray for a stirring in the land, that many voices shall arise, demanding the abrogation of the 1999 Constitution (as amended). Pray for a stirring in the people and great indignation against every instrument of oppression in the land.
7. 2 Cor. 6: 2
Make a righteous demand from heaven, by the Blood of the Lamb of God, that today is the day of the deliverance for Nigeria.
Theme: NIGERIA – THE DILEMMA AND THE WAY OUT
Resolving the Constitutional dispute in Nigeria
DATE: Friday 17th – Sunday 19th May 2024
TIME: 9.00 pm – 10.30 pm daily
VENUE: ZOOM (link below)
Started since 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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