NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 24th - Sunday 30th March 2025
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices (2 Cor. 2:11)
After the recent declaration of the State of Emergency in Rivers State, a public analyst, Dr. Charles Apoki, made a short videocast on the development, in which he described the declaration as “state capture”. What does “state capture” mean? “State capture” by whom, and for what purpose? While one might agree on Dr Apoki’s analysis of state capture, who has captured the state might not entirely be the President. There are other forces that have long determined to capture the entire Nigerian state for racial, cultural, and political domination through the manipulation of religion.
Nigeria Christians should be reminded that there has been a sinister conspiracy to capture the entire country, not just one state in the country. Rivers State happens to be one of the key states that must fall before the entire country would be in the net. Those who link the State of Emergency with preparations for 2027 elections are correct, but they might not be aware of the full picture.
The sponsors of the politics of religion in Nigeria, in their goal to turn Africa into an Islamic continent, identified seven African countries that should primarily be Islamised: Nigeria, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Congo, and South Africa. Of those seven countries, the most important for them is Nigeria. Since 1983 when the OIC formulated that strategy in London, surreptitious moves were started, to undermine democracy, good governance, and freedom of choice in Nigeria. At present, the sponsors of the politics of religion seem to have found a candidate who would do anything to remain in power.
In a recent prayer call entitled “The Frog in the Pot,” reference was made to a leaked letter which was purportedly written by the Islam in Africa Organization to a leader of Nigeria many years ago. Salient instructions in that letter include, amongst others:
• Place total ban on all forms of worship by Christians, …
• Impose Sharia law on Nigeria, Islamise all universities, colleges and schools and courts of law in the Federal Islamic Sultanate of Nigeria
• Formally proclaim the National Republican Convention, NRC the only national ruling Islamic Political Party and phase out the Social Democratic Party, SDP (which is a party of infidels.) …
It should be remembered that Islam in Africa Organization (IAO) organized the Abuja Conference that produced the communique entitled, “Abuja Declarations 1989”. That letter surfaced in 1990.
Some people might object that SDP could not have been referred to as a “party of infidels” because it fielded a Muslim-Muslim ticket of MKO Abiola and Babagana Kingibe, like the current APC ticket of Tinubu and Shettima. In both instances, it was a Yoruba and Kanuri ticket. What those people who object might not realize is that, to the power brokers in Nigeria, “infidel” does not refer exclusively to non-Muslims but also to non-Fulanis. It is now common to hear the “North” claim that Yoruba Muslims are not real Muslims.
The chosen party of the sponsors of the politics of religion then was the NRC. That might also be why the popular June 12 election was annulled. The “anointed” party did not win. The party of the “infidels” won. If NRC had won the election in 1993, that election might not have been annulled.
Another person might point out that if the instruction from Islam in Africa Organisation (IAO) was that SDP should be “phased out”, how come SDP still exists but NRC, the supposedly “anointed” party, is extinct? The answer was provided by the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) in one of its papers. At independence, there were three dominant political parties in the country: the Northern People’s Congress (NPC), the Action Group (AG), and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). Both AG and NCNC collapsed into NPC due to the greed and carelessness of the leaders of the indigenous ethnic nationalities. Thereafter, every major party that has formed the government in Nigeria has been a mutation of NPC. The NCEF described NPN as NPC 1, PDP as NPC 2, while APC is NPC 3. It is NPC that has been ruling Nigeria since Independence because of the greed of the leaders of the indigenous ethnic nationalities. They were always willing to sell out. So, NRC was stepped down, but it was replaced by PDP while PDP was replaced by APC. It is NPC 3 (APC) that wants to institutionalize a one-party state.
There is an acceleration of the one-party state in Nigeria, and neither SDP nor PDP appear to be the “anointed” party. There are worrisome signals that even PDP and Labour Party are under threat. The current anointed party is APC. Note the number of politicians decamping to the APC.
A former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, warned President Tinubu to desist from attempts to create a one-party state. In the news report carried by Daily Trust of 25th February 2025, “He also warned against attempts to create a one-party state, calling it a dangerous path that could lead to instability,” stating that “Nigeria cannot afford a one-party system. A strong democratic order is essential for national progress and for future generations.” (https://dailytrust.com/bafarawa-to-tinubu-dont-stifle-opposition-uphold-democracy/). Where did the idea for a one-party state come from? A letter from the Islam in Africa Organization (IAO) advocated that Nigeria should transmute into a one-party Islamic state. It is against that background that the development in Rivers State should be viewed.
The most astonishing aspect of the unfolding scenario is that the people most threatened by the conspiracies of the sponsors of the politics of religion are the ones some of whose leaders, for pecuniary gain, are the greatest supporters of those behind the plot. So much information has been put out into the public domain, enough to have cautioned Church leaders and the Christian elites, as well as spur Christians into proactive steps to counter the conspiracy. So far, there has been an indifferent response from the quarters where virile counter actions are expected.
In September 2013, God sent a word, that if care was not taken, in 30 – 40 years, Nigeria would be like Turkey. After giving that word, God made sure that it was published worldwide to wherever Nigeria Christians were. In 2013, twelve years ago, no one would have imagined the calamities, disasters, and tragedies that have befallen Nigeria. If people were told in 2013 about the horrors that APC would unleash upon Nigeria, they would have insisted, “it is impossible”. If Nigerians were told that the 2023 election would be brazenly hijacked and Nigerians would be helpless to stop it, it would have sounded outlandish. What about the hike in fuel price from N87 in 2013 to N1,050 in 2025? Whoever “prophesied” these in 2013 would have been dismissed as a prophet of doom. Twelve years after the warning that Nigeria could be Islamised like Turkey (Constantinople), the only Christian Chapel in Aso Villa no longer observes Sunday worship since the Muslim-Muslim ticket came into power. Christianity has been locked out of the seat of power. Where does it now have influence in the country? Meanwhile, there is no evidence that Church leaders are alarmed. On the contrary, they are breaking bread with Islam.
Rather than take steps to protect the Church, some Church leaders give the impression that the master they now serve is not the one who went to the cross at Calvary. In Matt. 6:24, Jesus Christ said, “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.” Nigeria now has a generation of Christian leaders who see nothing wrong in breaking bread with Islam. They dine at the table of the Lord and dine at the table of Allah, all worrisome indications that should make any God-fearing person to tremble for the Church.
It is true that God has promised a “new Nigeria,” but every promise of God is conditional. When God makes a promise, humans must measure up to the requirements of God for the promise to be fulfilled.
This call is an alert for intercessors not to relent in prayers for the Church and the country. The enemies are both inside and outside the Church. The worst enemies are those in the Church, because they possess the capacity to neutralize the Church from within. Once the Church is compromised from within, it would be unable to resist the enemies from without.
Christian, seek not yet repose. The real enemy is closer to you than you think.
1. Rev. 3:15-19
Repent for the laxity and lukewarmness that currently characterize the Nigeria Church. Ask God’s forgiveness for the lack of zeal for righteousness in the Church.
2. Is. 54:15-17
Nullify, with the blood of Jesus, every projection of sorcery and enchantment directed at making Christians timid, docile, and disunited. Pray for the spirit of boldness to rest upon Nigeria Christians.
3. Jer. 6:13-15
Pray that God will uproot and dismiss every Church leader who, because of greed, places personal interest above the interest of Jesus Christ and His Church.
4. Ez. 34:7-10
Pray that God would speedily judge every Christian leader who compromises the unity and the protection of the Church.
5. 2 Cor. 12:9
Pray that the grace of God shall prevail in every area in which the Nigeria Church is weak and vulnerable.
6. Is. 29:5-6
Pray that God would judge and destroy everyone in the conspiracy to destroy Christianity in Nigeria.
7. Is. 4:4-6
Pray for fresh fire of the Holy Spirit to be poured upon the Nigeria Church for purging and for revival.
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 17th - Sunday 23rd March 2025
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word (1 Kings 18:21).
We received with concern the news that the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) joined Muslims to break the Ramadan fast in Abuja in March 2025. If the information had been otherwise received, it might have been dismissed as fake news, but it was on TV, with the CAN President making his supportive remarks. Our first concern is for our Church leaders, because not everyone might be entirely aware of the spiritual significance of some of their actions.
Some liberalist Christians might be persuaded that there is nothing wrong in a Christian breaking the Ramadan fast with Muslims. We acknowledge that a Christian is free to eat in the house of anyone, whether a Muslim or traditionalist. We also recognize that Section 38(1) of the Constitution provides freedom of religious conviction for all citizens. We do not condemn any religion. However, when it comes to worship, a line must be drawn. When Muslims fast, they do so to Allah. A Christian engaging in that religious rite with Muslims implicates that person as a worshipper of that deity. It is for the same implications that a true Christian would not break kola nut with a native doctor in his shrine, for he becomes a worshipper of the god of that native doctor. Maybe that is an extreme example, but if an apex Muslim leader such as the Sultan should partake in the Christian sacrament of Communion or submit to public water baptism, does it not make an open announcement of his faith in the God of the Christians? A Christian leader at a Ramadan rite is an uncomfortable public statement.
Many Christians are ignorant of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyyar, which allows that an ‘infidel’ could justifiably be deceived, so far as the lie promotes the cause of Islam. Such a lie would not be a sin.
There are two taqiyyar forms in the public space: 1) that Islam is peace, and 2) that we all serve the same God. Taqiyyar is a form of jihad, a stealth jihad framed as “civilization.” It is what has given radical Islam an inroad into Europe and USA. Unwary Christians come under the influence of stealth jihad, and they act against their own interest. CAN appears to have become a victim of stealth jihad.
Whenever it suits their purpose, Muslims usually claim that they and Christians worship the same God. Otherwise, they proclaim that there is no God but Allah. It is taqiyyar. The same God created all humans (Muslims, Hindus, atheists, Christians, and witches), but all humans do not worship the same God. For example, the one whom the Muslims worship has no Son, because they insist that God would have needed a wife to have had a son, and God has no wife. They condemn the doctrine of the Trinity as the idolatrous worship of three gods. They reject the Sonship, Lordship, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and those are pillars of the Christian faith.
If Christians and Muslims worshipped the same God, why do Muslims wage violent jihads to destroy Christians? Over the years, in Nigeria and in several other countries, millions of Christians have been murdered by various vicious Islamist insurgents. The global persecution of Christians by Muslims is highest in Nigeria. Thousands of Christian places of worship have been destroyed, and hundreds of Christian communities sacked by Muslims, yet we worship the same God? Taqiyyar.
If Christians and Muslims worshipped the same God, why was Leah Sharibu compelled by her Islamist abductors to renounce her Christian faith and confess to becoming a Muslim, as the condition for releasing her along with the other abducted Muslim girls? Do the terrorists read a different Koran or serve a different Allah from those with whom the CAN President held a banquet? There are many religions in the world, but there are only two contending spiritual forces, each demanding worship. To which of the two is either of Islam or Christianity connected? Your answer says much.
We are enjoined in 1 John 4:1-3 to “believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world,” and in 2 John 1:7-8 to be careful because “many deceivers are entered into the world” and whoever “confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh” is “a deceiver and an antichrist.”
Religious meals are spiritually significant, because they indicate covenants. For instance, the Holy Communion is a covenant meal, and 1 Cor. 10:21-22 warns: “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?” In the Old Testament, non-Israelites were forbidden from the Passover meal, unless they were proselytes or the property of a Jewish family.
It might be argued that the objective of CAN was to build tolerance and mutual respect, which is a commendable objective. However, the style in the present case is not consistent with the Scriptures, neither is the timing appropriate, especially as Christians are at the moment protesting three significant actions initiated by Muslim leaders in the country:
1. the suspension of Sunday worship in the Aso Villa Chapel while mosques continue to meet regularly in that Presidential Villa,
2. the closure of schools in Kano, Katsina, Bauchi, and Kebbi states because of Ramadan, which even CAN condemned and threatened with a lawsuit,
3. the death sentence by the Supreme Court against Mr. Sunday Jackson for defending himself against a Fulani Muslim attacker on his farm.
These are apart from the countless Christians in IDP camps and the uncountable others in mass graves all over the country, all of them victims of brutal Islamist insurgency. We support tolerance and understanding amongst the various groups in Nigeria, but spiritual Communions have their unpleasant implications.
There are paths to understanding and mutual respect with other faiths in the country without subscribing to their rites. That explains why, in 2015, the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) produced a Strategy Document for CAN so that the Church could build structures to strengthen Christianity in the country as well as promote democracy. To date, that has not been implemented, even though it was accepted and approved by the NEC of CAN. Also, a plan of action was presented to CAN, with strategies for funds to implement the Document as well as provide resources to cater to persecuted Christians. That initiative was destroyed by those to whom it was handed over to in 2016. Another strategy meeting was held by CAN in November 2016 to supplement the initial Strategy Document of 2015. The resolutions of that meeting still await implementation.
If the Church is left without credible action plans to defend itself and promote democracy, Muslims will continue to have a field day in the country. Power respects counter power. It does not respect tears, pleas, or solicitations for ‘peaceful co-existence.’ Power respects power, institutions listen to institutions, and structures obey structures.
Church leaders in Nigeria cannot leave the Church powerless, without plan or structures, hoping that Islamists will have mercy on them and agree to peaceful co-existence. Sharia forbids it. This is not to judge anyone, and none is the custodian of all spiritual knowledge, yet we can look ourselves in the mirror to be better presentable. That is the perspective from which we worry, because the participation of the CAN President in that breaking of Ramadan fast is generally interpreted by Muslims not as a gesture of mutual respect and goodwill but as a sign of weakness, a public admission of the weakness of the Church to Islam.
This tricky drift of the Church towards Islamism was heightened in the past CAN administration, whose lack of veritable support frustrated the Christian political consensus, but brought Muslim presidential candidates into the National Christian Centre for electioneering consultations. When the Islamic Council of Ulama meets to decide which Muslim candidates should receive Muslim support at the polls, do they invite any Christian candidate? The same immediate past administration brought Miyetti Allah into the National Christian Centre, twice, for a conference. Did their conference stop the Fulani ‘herdsmen’ (terrorists) from killing Christians? Taqiyyar.
We sense with concern that the CAN President may have been under great political pressure to do as he did, especially to give the world a ‘positive’ image of Christianity in Nigeria particularly now that the country is coming under a strong global searchlight for Christian persecutions. We cannot compromise the chance to let the world hear our cries. We cannot, by such religious and political subterfuge, join the wicked media to lie about peace in the land when there is none.
If Christians do not wake up and demand accountability and spiritual responsibility from their leaders, they could wake up one day to discover that the Church has been completely compromised. As watchmen, on behalf of the nation, we at the National Prayer Altar join voices with other intercessors to ask the mercy and forgiveness of God for the Ramadan Communion, and to dissociate the nation and the Church from any unholy covenant that may have been activated by that meal and other similar subtle seductions. We pray that God would grant our leaders greater discernment, and make them strong leaders, not men pleasers, for “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb. 10:31).
1). Jer. 3:12-14
Confess the backsliding of the Nigeria Church and ask God for mercy and forgiveness.
2). Ezekiel 44:6-8
Repent of the pollution of the sanctuary by Church leaders who brought non-Christian politicians into the National Christian Centre. Pray that God would not count that against the entire Church in Nigeria. Plead the blood of Jesus to cleanse the Nigeria Church.
3). Mal. 2:1-4
Pray that the God of Balaam would appropriately visit every Christian leader who places personal interest above the interest of Jesus Christ in the Nigeria Church.
4). Mal. 2:7-9
Pray that God would execute His judgments upon every political and church leader misleading Christians or the nation and manipulating the Church for personal advantage.
5). Joshua 24:15
Renounce and dissociate from every agreement and covenant of Church leaders with other gods. Declare that the Nigeria Church shall only serve Jehovah. Declare that you and your house shall only serve the Lord.
6). Jer. 3:15
Ask God to give the Nigeria Church shepherds after His own heart, to lead the Church like Jesus Christ.
7). Joel 2:28-29
Pray for the outpouring of the Spirit of God for revival and the restoration of Nigeria.
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NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 10th - Sunday 16th March 2025
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished (Prov. 22:3).
The human brain reacts sharply to three things: food, beauty, and danger. Instinctively, the brain notes all three. It is not human nature for one to see danger and remain passive. The quest for survival is the greatest instinct in humans. Once danger is sensed, amygdala, the "fight or flight" region of the brain that processes emotional responses, is instantly activated.
Humans rarely respond to situations like the frog which, as demonstrated in a social experiment, would flee when thrown into a pot of hot water. However, if the same frog was placed in a pot of cold water and the pot was placed on the fire, the frog would boil to death. The frog would keep adjusting to the temperature until it boiled to death.
The above analogies are shared against the background of the passive and uncoordinated response of the Nigeria Church to Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, fifteen years after the organized murder of Christians started in the country. By now, it is clear to conscious minds that there is deliberate agenda to exterminate Christianity in Nigeria. Instead of kicking against the agenda, the evidence is that some of the influential church leaders who campaigned for the Islamists to be in power are still working for the Islamists to remain in power. Meanwhile, many other church leaders who are not Islamist collaborators keep watching, passively.
Whenever this point is made, some Christians retort angrily, that someone is 'antagonizing Church leaders.' With due respect, no one is fighting any church leader. If the Church is facing a threat, it is right for those who understand the issues to speak out. If, after speaking out, the Church leaders refuse to take corrective measure, the clarion caller should not be silent but continue to speak to protect the interest of all Christians. As a result of the nefarious agenda of the Islamists, hundreds of thousands of innocent Christians have been murdered while the lives of many more are under threat. Christian leadership is required to be proactive under the circumstances. The passivity with which Church leaders are approaching this issue is disturbing.
Last week, this prayer call raised the alarm that the only Chapel in Aso Villa no longer observes Sunday worship service since the Muslim-Muslim ticket came into power. One is yet to hear any Church leader amplify the protest. After the prayer call of last week, some brethren pointed out that the former governor of Delta State, Mr. Ifeanyi Okowa, had said in a publicly shared news item in 2023 that the Chapel in Aso Villa would be shut for four years because of the Muslim-Muslim ticket! It has now been shut for almost two years! This is the ticket that some Christian leaders openly supported into power. https://www.nairaland.com/7596509/okowa-aso-rock-chapel-closed
The warning of Mr. Okowa has been in the public domain since March 2023. What have Church leaders done to prevent the closure of the Chapel or reverse the action, after it was taken? The Chapel in the Villa was built in 2000 and has been observing Sunday worship for twenty-three years, until the Muslim-Muslim ticket candidates entered Aso Villa. Meanwhile, they rode into power on the shoulders of some Church leaders.
After shutting down Aso Villa, the Islamists have proceeded to shut down schools in four states in the North because of Ramadan. What will they shut down next? In core Arab Islamic nations, no government shuts down schools because of Ramadan. One is therefore compelled to ask, “What is going on in Nigeria?”
It is good that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) responded and even threatened to go to court. However, after a press release and a threat of litigation, what next? Should not a conscientious Church commence mobilization and harmonization of all Christian assets to become more influential in politics and governance? The Islamists of Nigeria have hijacked the apparatus of the State, and they are using it to push their brand of Islam which is based on the doctrine of hate and intolerance.
Christians should remember that what is going on is not a coincidence. It was planned and meticulously executed. Unfortunately, it appears that the Christian leadership in Nigeria lacks survival instinct. Instead of "fight or flight," they merely frown, and continue business as usual. The proverbial frog in the pot comes to mind.
Over the years, a lot of information leaked into the public domain about the plans of Islamists in Nigeria, in collaboration with foreign Islamist organizations and Islamic countries, to transform Nigeria into the largest Islamic nation in Africa. The strategy meeting of OIC which was held in London in 1983 produced a 356-page document on the plans to turn Africa into an Islamic continent. Of that volume, as many as156 pages of the document focused on Nigeria.
The OIC meeting of 1983 was followed by the Islam in Africa Organization (IAO) conference in 1989, in Abuja, which produced the “Abuja Declarations 1989”. The communique issued at the conference detailed the plans of the Islamists to, amongst other nefarious plans, “,,, eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-muslim religions in member nations (such religions shall include Christianity …)” It beats the imagination that an information like this would be in the public domain yet some Christian leaders would mobilize to bring Muhammadu Buhari into power in 2015 and support a Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2023.
In 1990, a document from IAO also leaked into the public domain. The document detailed instructions on how Nigeria should be transformed into an Islamic state. Some alarming instructions, with impunity, were given by that Islamist organization to a sovereign country, as if Nigeria was a vassal state.
It is a fact that when the Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) and the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) launched the Christian Political Consensus project in 2018 to harmonize Christian presidential candidates, that initiative was frustrated by some Church leaders. On 30th November 2018, the day the Christian Political Consensus meeting was held in Lagos, CAN released an advertorial, which was published in PUNCH newspaper that it had dissolved NCEF. The plan was to create credibility crisis for NCEF. The purported dissolution was null as CSMN (and not CAN) established NCEF.
On 10th December 2018 when the Elders met in Abuja to commence deliberations, CAN issued a statement in the press that it would “interview” both Christian and Muslim presidential candidates on that same day. Instead of harmonising Christian candidates to produce one strong candidate, the Church leaders brought Muslim presidential candidates to the National Christian Centre.
What is narrated above in summary is not an attempt to denigrate Church leaders but an effort to awaken Christians in Nigeria to the danger that is facing them and their faith. Historically, in most nations where Islam displaced Christianity, the Muslims succeeded through the collaboration of influential Christians. A good example is Syria in 634 AD. Syria was where the followers of Jesus were called Christians for the first time in Antioch (Act 11:26). Syria became an Islamic nation when two priests, Jonah and Romanus, betrayed Damascus and Bosra, two major cities in Syria. Jonah agreed to show the Muslims the way to take Damascus in exchange for immunity for himself and his fiancée when the city was captured, and the other Christians were slaughtered. Damascus fell but his fiancée committed suicide when she knew what her would-be husband did. The city of Bosra fell after priest Romanus converted to Islam and led the Arab forces through a secret way to take the city. From 634 AD till date, Syria has remained an Islamic nation.
Christians in Nigeria must not act like the frog in the water on fire. This is no time to be passive. We are not advocating violence or any act of vandalism. However, Christians ought to commence plans, with the two institutions established by the Church, for the purpose of providing leadership. CAN and CSMN should be planning together on mobilizing and harmonizing Christians. There would be an election in 2027 yet there are no signs that the Church is prepared.
This is no time to harbour grudges or maintain division in the Church. Leadership must place the interest of the followers first, by strengthening unity amongst all the various Church groups. All the Christian fellowships managed by laity leaders must be involved in the preparation to provide a righteous government for Nigeria. For good things to happen to a land, good people must plan and execute the plan. A righteous government will not come merely because some people have fasted and prayed. It will come because, after praying and fasting, they worked. It is for the same reason that people will not win election because someone prophesied over them or poured anointing oil upon their head. You win election because you have structures. If a candidate has no structure, it does not matter who poured the anointing oil, that candidate might not win.
This is the reason we say that the problem of the Church is a leadership problem. It is the leaders who will organize the followers to build the structures. The Church in Nigeria must not be the frog in that pot on fire.
God bless Nigeria.
1). Ps. 129
Thank God for not permitting the Islamists to overrun Nigeria and the Church of Christ in Nigeria.
2). Is. 8:9-10
Pray to cancel every agenda against Christianity in Nigeria, and against the country. Decree that it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.
3). Mal. 3:3-5
Pray that God will purge the Nigeria Church and dismiss all collaborators with Islamists from His Church.
4). Ps. 133
Pray for unity for the Church to plan together and work together.
5). 2 Cor. 12:9
Pray that the grace of God shall be sufficient for Christians in Nigeria to plan and organize effectively against the agenda of hell.
6). Is. 51:9-11
Pray for revival, that the power of God shall be demonstrated again in the Church and in Nigeria
7). Is. 33:20-22
Pray that the Lord would mediate and advocate for us, and the new Nigeria shall come forth.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 3rd - Sunday 9th March 2025
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem (2 Chro. 28:24).
The Bible records many ungodly kings and queens. Amongst them, in the Kingdom of Judah, were Amon, Manasseh, Queen Athaliah, and Jeconiah. God was so angry with Jeconiah that he cursed him and his descendants with barrenness, according to Jeremiah 22:30: “Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.” That king left an evil legacy.
As evil as those rulers were, none of them shut the temple of God, only King Ahaz did, as a man wholly given to idolatry. In his attempt to please the king of Assyria, Ahaz emptied the temple and shut the door. By shutting the door, he stopped the worship of God because, in those days, God was only worshipped in the temple. Consequently, divine wrath broke out upon the land. In 2 Chro. 28:19, the Bible says, “For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.” The entire land mourned and suffered because of the transgression of a wicked ruler.
The land of Judah suffered a humiliating defeat from the northern kingdom of Israel when 120,000 soldiers of Judah were killed in one day, and some of the survivors were stripped naked and taken captive to the northern kingdom. It took the intervention of God for the prisoners to be released and sent back home. It was therefore not surprising that his reign was cut short, and he died at the age of thirty-six, having ascended the throne at the age of twenty. Even Manasseh, who was another wicked king, ruled for fifty-five years. Manasseh did not close down the temple.
There is terrible consequence on a land that symbolically shuts its door against God. When the ruler sitting on the throne openly demonstrates hostility against God, the entire land suffers the consequence. When God is told in plain terms that the throne of the land does not welcome Him, that land forfeits the attributes of God - light, life, and peace.
The report should therefore be of concern to discerning Christians in Nigeria, that since the present administration got into power, the Chapel in Aso Villa has been shut, and Sunday worship no longer takes place there in the Villa. In the eight years of President Buhari, with all the atrocities that that government committed, the Chapel remained open.
On 11th July 2023, PM News carried a rebuttal by the Presidency that the Chapel was not closed, but that the President was yet to appoint a new chaplain. The rebuttal insisted that “there are weekly fellowship going on at the chapel and mid week fellowship on Tuesday …” https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2023/07/11/aso-villa-chapel-not-closed-tinubu-yet-to-appoint-new-chaplain-oluremi/
It has been almost two years since that rebuttal, but current reports indicate that Sunday worship service has not started. Why would it take almost two years to appoint a chaplain? So far, the name of the chaplain of the Aso Villa Chapel under the present dispensation has not been heard. The name of the chaplain under president Buhari was not hidden.
The Aso Villa Chapel was built under President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000. Upon assuming the office of the president of Nigeria in 1999, he noticed that there were mosques in Aso Villa but there was no church building. He proceeded to build the Chapel. There have been two Muslim presidents after Obasanjo but none of them shut the Chapel, until the present Muslim-Muslim-ticket candidates came into office.
What makes the situation more painful is that the Muslim-Muslim-ticket candidates were promoted and supported into office by some prominent Church leaders. CAN and PFN wrote congratulatory letters to President Tinubu after the controversial 2023 elections. One Bishop was so incensed against anyone opposing the Muslim-Muslim ticket, after eight years of Muhammadu Buhari as president, that he pronounced a curse on any Christian that would not vote for them. Now that the presidency has told Jesus Christ in plain terms to stay away from the governance in Nigeria, what are those Church leaders saying? Bearing in mind that this administration has been in office for almost two years, would those Church leaders claim that they are unaware that three Mosques operate inside Aso Villa, but the only chapel has been reportedly shut?
To worsen matters, there are indications that some Christian leaders who supported the Muslim-Muslim ticket have not withdrawn their support for the same government that increased the price of fuel from N197 to N1,050 per litre. The APC party met fuel at N87 per litre in 2015 when it came into power. Today, fuel sells for N960 in most filling stations. The suffering is so bad that many Muslims from the northern parts of the country openly express regret at supporting the Muslim-Muslim ticket.
On the economic front, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) reported that in the first year of the Tinubu administration, 767 manufacturing companies closed down, while goods worth N350 billion remained unsold in 2023. The Association attributed the development to “various economic difficulties, including exchange rate volatility, rising inflation, and a general worsening of the investment climate.” https://nairametrics.com/2024/03/06/767-manufacturing-companies-shut-down-in-nigeria-n350-billion-goods-unsold-in-2023/
One area in which the government claims considerable success is the fight against insecurity. However, official reports belie this claim. The National Bureau of Statistics in its report published in 2024 states that 614,937 Nigerians were killed in the first year of this administration, while 2.2 million people were kidnapped and N2.2 trillion paid as ransom to kidnappers. In the eight years of president Buhari, the official figure of those killed was 63,111. What the figures indicate is that those killed in the one year of the Administration that shut the Chapel is ten times more than those killed in the eight years of Buhari. When people reject God, the consequences are terrible.
As New Testament saints, we agree that worship of God is not restricted to a building because the Spirit of God dwells in each believer. However, it is symbolically significant to have worship rise to heaven from the throne in the land. Locking down the place of worship of Jesus Christ in the Presidency is a total rejection of the grace and mercy of God upon the country. Is anyone still wondering why Nigeria continues to sink deeper into the mire, despite countless promises from the government.
If the Chapel is shut, where is the altar of righteousness that should be speaking for the land from the throne? Even if a president is not a Christian, there should be an altar where Christians around him can link up with heaven for the country. An altar is the link between the physical and spiritual. The implication is that the altar speaking at the throne of Nigeria is not connected to Jehovah. How can healing come upon the land?
Constitutionally, shutting the door of a Christian place of worship while permitting another religion to thrive in the State House is a violation of the secularity of the country. The constitution forbids what is going on. It is a direct statement that government has adopted one religion as state religion in violation of Section 10 of the constitution which states that “The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.”
Christians are not vindictive people who will demand that other places of worship in the State House be also shut. Christians will rather insist on the secularity of the State and compliance with the Constitution. The Chapel must be re-opened.
By this development, it should be clear to the Christian community that the architects and sponsors of the “Politics of Religion” in Nigeria are unrelenting in the pursuit of their objectives to turn Nigeria into an Islamic theocratic state. Whenever this issue is raised, some Christian elites claim that it is “fearmongering”, “divisive” and unwarranted “alarm”. That was how many Christian leaders responded in 2014 when the warning first came. In fact, a prominent Church leader wrote a letter and described the warning as “wickedly false, unsubstantiated, ill-conceived, and mischievous”. Ten years after the warning, with hundreds of thousands of Christians in the grave, and Islamist terrorists sprouting all over the country, would anyone deny that there is a pernicious religious agenda in Nigeria?
In the prayer calls entitled “POLITICS OF RELIGION” and “THE DAY OF VISITATION”, the Christian community was asked to pay attention to its leadership. Christians must devise ways of getting Church leaders to take side with the suffering masses of Nigeria instead of constantly supporting the status quo. Even if some Church leaders are no longer interested in going to heaven, they should at least consider the humanity they share with members of the Church, as well as the non-Christian masses in the land. They should join in the efforts to get good governance for Nigeria. The current political class has discredited itself through unbridled greed and avarice. The incompetence of these politicians stinks to the high heavens, and their capacity to corrupt every institution in the country in unparalleled in the world.
The Church leaders should start by championing the call for the re-opening of the Chapel in Aso Villa and ensuring that the worship of God, through Jesus Christ, resumes. It is time to proclaim, “Lift up your heads O ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye ancient door, and the King of Glory shall come in.”
1. Deut. 21:5-9
Let God know that Nigerian Christians did not shut the Chapel at the throne of Nigeria, neither did they approve of it. Ask God to have mercy upon Nigeria and not impute the sins of wicked rulers upon the country. Plead the blood of Jesus Christ.
2. Ps. 55:22
Pray that, as God judged Ahaz, He would judge all rulers who reject the worship of the true God in Nigeria.
3. Isa. 14:12-15 (Read in KJV)
Take authority over every evil spirit contending with the worship of Jehovah in Nigeria. Bind and cast them down into hell.
4. Zech. 3: 1-5
Plead the blood of Jesus to cleanse Nigeria and atone for every sin that has been committed by the country against God.
5. Ps. 144:11-15
Pray that God would deliver Nigeria from the hands of strange children so that times of refreshing can come upon the land.
6. Ps. 24:1-2
Pray and rededicate the throne of Nigeria, the seat of Government, and the entire country to the Almighty God through Jesus Christ.
7. Ps. 24:7-10
Decree that every spiritual gate in Nigeria should open for the King of Glory to enter and reign over the country.
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Monday 24th February - Sunday 2nd March 2025
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation (Luke 19:42-44).
The “day of visitation" refers to a time when God will intervene in a person's or a nation’s life, for judgment or for salvation. It can be interpreted as a day God would reveal His justice upon a person or a nation, based on their deeds or in terms of the purpose of God concerning them.
It says in Gen. 50:24: ”… Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
In Ruth 1:6, Naomi ”… arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.”
1 Samuel 2:21 tells us that after many years of traumatic barrenness, ”… the Lord visited Hannah””
Divine visitation could be for deliverance and salvation or for judgment because of the wickedness of a people or a person. For the Canaanites, God said, ”And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”
In 2013, God sent Luke 19:42-44 to Nigeria, warning Christians of the danger in missing divine appointment for the country. That year was a year in the history of Nigeria; it marked the 100th year of the Amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates. According to the terms of the Amalgamation, Nigeria was supposed to be renegotiated, after 100 years, by the ethnic nationalities. They were to decide what they would thenceforth with the country. A new agreement was supposed to commence in 2014.
In appreciation of the terms of the Amalgamation, President Jonathan was persuaded to organize the 2014 National Conference. It was a “Kairos” moment, an opportune time for the country, but the Church missed the signals.
In 2014, God sent a message to Christians in Nigeria, which believers dubbed the “Wake Up Call”. In an unprecedented move, God gave a word that broke through every barrier in the Church. That word broke every denominational, tribal, and doctrinal barrier in the Church. It broke through international barriers as Christians in the Diaspora received the word and circulated it. ”The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.”
Unfortunately, resistance to that word came strangely from some influential Church leaders. While Church members received the word as a message from God to be acted upon, the influential Church leaders and their Christian elites placed personal interest above the word of God and misled the entire Christian body. With the benefit of hindsight, no one can deny that choosing those 2015 agents of “CHANGE” brought about the ruin and calamity Nigeria has witnessed in the past ten years.
God in His mercy is sending signals of another divine visitation upon Nigeria, and the Christian community must be sensitized to be ready to seize the next “Kairos” moment. Nigeria must not miss the next season of divine visitation. If the first visitation was missed, the next visitation can also be missed if Christians do not take adequate precaution and make necessary preparations.
As published in a previous Marathon Prayer call, God sent two signals pointing to 2026 and 2027. The first word revealed that forty years after the prophecy of Pastor Elton, which was given in 1986, Nigeria would transit from the phase of corruption into the phase of righteousness and glory. Forty years after that prophecy, would be 2026.
The second word from heaven stated that fifty years after FESTAC ’77, Nigeria would receive forgiveness for the sin of idolatry that the festival represented in 1977. Fifty years after 1977 is the year 2027.
Heb. 6:18 assures us ”That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:” When God gives two signals about the same thing, the matter is settled. Joseph told Pharaoh in Gen. 41:32 that the dream was shown to him twice because the matter was established by God, and it would definitely come to pass. A new Nigeria is around the corner.
Having these promises, let Christians begin to prepare as follows for the visitation of God upon the land:
1. Prayer must be intensified for national deliverance from the stranglehold of the forces of darkness. Those forces tenaciously hold on to Nigeria through the various acts of bloodshed, adultery, and idolatry in the land. Those sinful acts are not by accident but are being deliberately orchestrated by evil spirits to keep the land in bondage.
2. Christians must consciously work towards the unity of the saints. They should consciously build Christian political consensus. Unless God chooses another method of crowning a “David” for Nigeria, the available channel for getting to the throne is politics. At present, Christians are not influential in the political arena. It is not because Christians are weak or few, but primarily because they are not organized to participate in the political process. All the Christian groups involved in various aspects of politics and governance need to unite to provide a “David” for Nigeria. The Christians must agree on a point of convergence and speak with one voice.
3. The Christian body must agree to build a funding platform that will provide a pool of funds for the political process. Some of the Christians that would offer to serve might not have the required funds to campaign or sponsor the logistics that electioneering requires. The solution is for the Christians to crowd-fund those who are going to be sent to take the kingdom. As the Scriptures say, ”Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?" (1 Cor. 9:7).
4. Education of the saints on kingdom matters must begin. Many Christians do not know the difference between the government of the Kingdom of God and the government of the kingdom of the world. For many Christians, support for a candidate is based on ethnicity. That must stop. God is looking for a leader through whom He would work righteousness, justice, and fairness in Nigeria. Christians should look for a candidate that is Kingdom of God minded. A change of attitude towards politics is required.
5. The Christian community must begin to demand accountability from its leaders. The weakest point in the Nigeria Church is its human leadership. The promotion of selfish personal interest is strong amongst many Church leaders. Going by precedence in the 2015, 2019, and 2023 elections, Church leaders possess capacity to truncate the coming divine visitation. If Christians do not hold their leaders accountable, and get them committed to the promotion of collective interest, the leaders might frustrate the next divine visitation.
The deliverance of the land is at hand. May the children of the Kingdom of God be willing to be delivered in the day of God’s power.
1. Ps. 40:1-3
Give thanks to God for delivering Nigeria from the miry clay.
2. John 13:34-35
Pray for brotherly love and unity in the Body of Christ, so that Christians will work in one accord to usher in divine visitation.
3. Nahum 1:9
Pray that affliction shall not come a second time. Decree that Nigeria shall not miss divine visitation again, as in 2015
4. Ezekiel 34:7-8
Raise a lamentation against those shepherds who place their personal interest above the interest of the Body of Christ and the entire country. Pray that God would render them powerless.
5. Eph. 6:10-13
Take authority over every evil spirit that wants to keep Nigeria in bondage. Bind all those forces of darkness and cast them back into hell.
6. Deut. 12:2-3
Overthrow every satanic altar in the country and pronounce judgment on every satanic priest and priestess servicing altars of evil in the land.
7. Isaiah 60:1-2
Proclaim to Nigeria, Arise shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
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Monday 17th - Sunday 24th February 2025
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him (Eccl. 8: 6).)
This prayer call was first published in June 2024. It is being repeated now because its message is apt for the season that Nigeria has entered into. As events unfold in the country, there is need for the saints to focus prayers against dead thrones still disturbing the land. They must be buried forever.
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, querying, "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 2025.
4. Isaiah 49: 24 – 26
Pray that every evil structure that is sustaining oppression, regression, and suppression in Nigeria be dismantled in 2025.
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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Monday 10th - Sunday 16th February 2025
A controversy is currently raging in the public domain over plans to establish Sharia Courts in the South West of Nigeria. Attempts were made by some Muslims to launch Sharia Court and Sharia Arbitration Panel in Oyo and Ekiti states of Yorubaland. Both moves encountered disapproval from the governments of the states and a stiffer resistance from the Muslim population in Yorubaland. It would be amazing to those who do not understand the difference between Islam in the North and Islam in the West of Nigeria. They might be wondering that it is even Muslims in the South West who are in the vanguard of the rejection of Sharia.
In the prayer call of Sunday 24th – 30th June 2024, we carried an article entitled “WHAT DO YORUBA PEOPLE MEAN BY ‘SERIA’?” In that prayer call, we explained Yoruba people's perception of Sharia. They associate “seria” (Sharia) with suffering and excruciating pain. In recent times, that perception has broadened to include injustice, because some elites from the North steal billions from the state treasury without any repercussion while a 12-year-old boy who stole a phone could have his two arms cut off. Yoruba Muslims do not want that brand of Sharia promoted by the Muslim North. Some Yoruba Muslim intellectuals have pointed out in the raging controversy that there are Muslim arbitration panels operating in some areas of Yorubaland, but they do not intrude into the larger society.
Christians need to understand how the raging Sharia controversy affects them, their faith, as well as their country. That understanding would take us to the root of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the global sponsor of Sharia. The object of the Muslim Brotherhood in sponsoring global Sharia is not religious piety but the intent to establish the global Islamic State. That's politics and power.
The first thing to understand is the difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is a religion, while Islamism is a political ideology that teaches that wherever Islam is, Muslims must dominate. Islamism is a political ideology, like democracy, communism, socialism, and welfarism. Muslims in the South-West practice Islam as a religion while their counterparts in the North practise Islam as a political ideology. The leaders of Islam in the North are mostly Islamists who manipulate the religion of Islam for cultural and political domination. That is the underlying reason why the brand of Islam in the North is intolerant and violent towards other religions and non-Muslims, while Muslims of Yorubaland engage in peaceful co-existence with non-Muslims, because for them, Islam is essentially a religion.
In the run-up to elections in 2027, the Muslim North is demonstrating desperation to regain power, and has resorted to the manipulation of religion to split the South-West, having identified it as a crucial voting bloc. The desperation is confirmed with the intervention of the Sultan of Sokoto in the raging debate. He spoke through an Igbo convert to Islam, further highlighting the determination to split, not only Yorubaland, but also the South. Most Yoruba Muslims were not pleased with the statement made on behalf of the Sultan of Sokoto, and they voiced their objections openly.
While Christians practice their faith under the Biblical injunction to “follow peace with all men”, they should understand that not all men are committed to the same ideals. Islamism was established with “jihad” in mind. Current Islamism dates to 1924 when Mustafa Kemal, the “Atarturk”, dismantled the Ottoman Caliphate and embraced secularism and western civilization so that Turkey would develop. Some Islamic fundamentalists felt then that his action was a betrayal of Islam, so in 1928, Hassan Al Banna led some fundamentalists in Ismaila, a village in Egypt, to establish the Islamic (Muslim) Brotherhood. At its inception, the Muslim Brotherhood had two objectives:
1. To implement Sharia worldwide
2. To re-establish the global Islamic state known as the Caliphate.
The creed of the Brotherhood is: “Allah is our objective; the Koran is our law; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.”
In addition to establishing global Sharia, the Muslim Brotherhood aims at dismantling two critical institutions:
1. Western civilization which it traces to a Judeo-Christianity ideology
2. Democracy – Representing liberty, freedom of choice, and freedom of expression
Islamism is averse to human rights, democracy, and western education. All three aversions are prominent in northern Nigeria, and surreptitiously spreading all over the country. At present, Nigeria is not practicing democracy in its true sense because votes do not count, and the ballot box has been replaced by the courts in declaring “democratically elected” leaders. Some of those holding elective positions in the country were not elected at the polls but appointed by the courts. That is not democracy. It is Sharia. Democracy is deliberately undermined, and Sharia is promoted.
Islamism entered Nigeria in 1962. Sheik Gumi, Snr. accompanied the Sardauna on his Islamic Unification trips to different Islamic nations. While in Egypt, Sheik Gumi came across a handbook of the Muslim Brotherhood. He brought it to Nigeria and started implementing it. That was how Islamism supplanted the Sufi Islam which was the traditional religious practice in northern Nigeria. The ideology behind Islamism is the Salafist/Wahhabist ideology with roots in Saudi Arabia.
Some Christians engage in the politics of ethnicity, not realizing that the political terrain has changed, and the country is now playing the politics of religion. The politics of tribalism ended with the trio of Azikiwe, Sardauna, and Awolowo. Politics in Nigeria today is determined by religion, and those who understand it are building upon the jihadist Abuja Declaration of 1989. As many Christian leaders did not understand the present politics of Nigeria, they were easily manipulated to take positions that were against their interest. In 2014/2015, many Christian leaders conspired to remove a Christian president and install a core Islamist as the President of Nigeria. In the 2023 elections, they had not learnt their lessons. While the Islamists pushed their gains and demanded a Muslim-Muslim ticket, some undiscerning Christian leaders threw their weight behind those Muslims without realizing that they were implementing the Abuja Declarations of 1989. Some salient portions of the Abuja Declaration are as follows:
• To ensure the appointment of only muslims into strategic national and international posts of member nations; (e.g. Muslim-Muslim ticket)
• To eradicate in all its forms and ramifications all non-muslim religions in member nations (e.g. Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, ISWAP, Al Qaeda etc)
• To ensure that only Muslims are elected to all political posts of member nations. (In the first five offices in Nigeria, nos. 1,2,4, & 5, are Muslims)
• To ensure the ultimate replacement of all Western forms of legal and judicial systems with the Sharia in all member nations before the next Islam in Africa Conference. (e.g. the removal of CJN Onnoghen and his replacement with Justice Tanko, a Sharia lawyer, in a Common Law country)
For Nigeria to have peace, it must retain its status as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and multi-cultural society. The promotion of one religion for political and cultural domination will bring doom upon the country. Fortunately, Muslims in the South-West have seen through the exploitation of religion and are stridently opposing it. Meanwhile, some Christian leaders still act as if nothing has gone wrong, yet Christians are the main target of Islamism, as confirmed by the rabid terrorist attacks on Christians and Christian communities in the North. Islamism has done great damage to Nigeria. It entered Nigeria in 1962 and, under democracy, has been ruling since 2015. Nigerians should look back and assess the state of the country from 2015 to date. Even some Arab Islamic states cannot tolerate Islamists. It would be recalled that both Egypt and Tunisia, in the wake of the Arab Spring revolution, placed Islamists in power. Within one year, both countries conducted a counter-revolution and threw them out.
Under the circumstances, Christians must unite internally and collaborate externally. There must be political cohesion within the Church while efforts must be made to collaborate with other non-Christians in the country for the common good of all. All efforts must be geared towards protecting and promoting democracy. Votes must count, and only the ballot box must produce elected officials, not any court in the land. If there is contention over results, there must be fresh election. This implies that there must be an electoral reform before the 2027 elections. All the loopholes that INEC manipulated in 2023 must be plugged. The incursion of Islamism into the politics of Nigeria must stop so that the politics of merit can commence.
God bless Nigeria.
1). Ps. 124
Thank God for preserving and delivering Nigeria from forces that were determined to enslave the country.
2). Isaiah 8:9-10
Pray that God would scatter all local and international forces of Islamism that plot to take Nigeria captive.
3). Col. 2:14-15
Cancel every declaration, communique, or resolution by Islamists to take Nigerians captive.
4). Ps. 94:20
Plead the blood of Jesus and nullify every law of mischief that promotes iniquity in Nigeria. Decree righteous laws upon Nigeria.
5). Isaiah 45:8
Pray for righteousness, liberty, and justice to cover Nigeria as the waters cover the sea.
6). Ps. 75:6-7
Pray that God would empower righteous people to become stronger in Nigeria and prevail, while the wicked and the ungodly shall be weaker and of no influence.
7). Isaiah 43:18-21
With thanksgiving to God, call forth the new Nigeria.
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Monday 3rd - Sunday 9th February. 2025
At present, the catchword amongst Nigerians, particularly the Christian community, is “New Nigeria”. Most Christians are eagerly looking forward to a turnaround in the affairs of the country. Further encouraged by prophecy, they are optimistic of the emergence of righteousness, justice, and prosperity in the land. However, while we await the “New Nigeria”, we should ask ourselves, “What happened to the Old Nigeria?” If we do not understand what caused the collapse of the “Old Nigeria”, those same factors could afflict the “New Nigeria.”
The answer to that question will take us to 1913, a year before the Amalgamation of the Northern and the Southern Protectorates in 1914. The Northern Protectorate was receiving annual subvention from the British Crown while the Southern Protectorate was declaring surplus. The colonialists decided to merge both protectorates and use the surplus from the South to fund the deficit from the North.
At a colonial government dinner in 1913, Lord Harcourt (after whom Port Harcourt was named) used metaphor to describe what the colonialists had in mind when he said, “We have released Northern Nigeria from the leading strings of the Treasury. The promising and well-conducted youth is now on an allowance “on his own” and is about to effect an alliance with a Southern Lady of means. I have issued the special license and Sir Frederick Lugard will perform the ceremony. May the union be fruitful and the couple constant! The Nigerians are not designed to be a great “Trust” but a great “Federation”.
A quick analysis of this short quote would reveal some facts about Nigeria. First, to the colonialists, “northern Nigeria” was not a geographical space. It referred to “the promising and well-conducted youth”. Second, southern Nigeria was perceived as a wealthy “lady of means” who would use her wealth to sustain her husband, the “promising and well conducted youth”, in a marriage contracted by the British, so that the British Crown would stop giving him “allowance.” The “promising youth” in that metaphor was the Fulani ethnic stock, and the wealth from the South was meant to be an “allowance” for him. Therefore, to understand Nigerian politics and powerplay, anytime one comes across “north” or “northern” in politics, “Fulani” should reasonably be substituted. As a geo-political expression, the North ceased to exist in 1967 when Gen. Gowon created the 12-states structure. Nevertheless, till today, the term tenaciously dominates politics and power in Nigeria. The North is not a geographical space in Nigerian politics, it is an ethnic group.
The sponsors of the Amalgamation considered their move a masterstroke. Lord Lugard, on 1st January 1914, gushed, “I trust that as one united country, Nigeria will increase in prosperity and wealth and its people in happiness.” On the other hand, the colonial officers in the Southern Protectorate considered the Amalgamation a disastrous move. Ian Nicolson, a Colonial Officer in Lagos castigated the Amalgamation when he described Lugard’s administrative plan as “trampling on all the carefully nursed seedlings of civilized government, law and legislature, and substituting authoritarian adminstrocracy in which the whole emphasis was away from the coast, away from the law and education in its widest sense’ and concludes that Lugard’s amalgamation places Nigeria in a state of arrested development …” Today, Nigerians agonize over the state of the country, but few people realize that the development of Nigeria was arrested 111 years ago.
In mid-1914, six months after the Amalgamation, the Times of Lagos, wrote in an Editorial which said, “The Amalgamation of 1914, is, broadly speaking the conquest and subjugation of Southern Nigeria by Northern Nigeria. Northern Nigerian system, Northern Nigerian laws, Northern Nigerian Land laws, Northern Nigerian Administration, must be made to supersede every system in Southern Nigeria.” If we remember what “North” means, then we shall understand what the Times wrote.
Every attempt to break out of the “arrested development” has been ruthlessly quashed by the North. We shall mention a few instances.
Under the leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Yorubaland made great developmental strides. Chief Awolowo was implicated in a case of treason and was sent to jail while the North supported Chief Akintola to ferment crisis in the West. To date, the West has not recovered its development pace.
In 1975, Murtala Muhammed as military Head of State conducted a “purge” of the Civil Service in which 10,000 career civil servants were dismissed. Those dismissed were mostly career civil servants of southern extraction. In the outcry that followed, government set up a Commission of Inquiry headed by late Monsignor Pedro Martins, the then Chaplain of the Army. According to Chief Philip Asiodu in a Vanguard interview in 2015, “the debacle of 1975 when 10,000 people were asked to retire or dismissed within two months was unfortunate … that act was quite unjust because there were procedures in the civil service for discipline … Later on, when the late Monsignor Pedro Martin was asked to look into the cases of the dismissals, his Report said that 90% of those dismissed did not deserve dismissals”. For producing such a report, Murtala Muhammed retired Pedro Martins from the Army. The dismissed Federal civil servants were replaced by people from Local Governments in northern Nigeria.
There were two consequences of the purge.
One, corruption entered the Civil Service. Most of the people affected suddenly found themselves without houses, cars, or financial back up. Many of them died an untimely death. Those who survived the purge started putting something aside for the “rainy day”. Presently, the Civil Service in Nigeria is the most corrupt institution in the country.
Second, mediocrity entered the engine room of government. The people brought in from the North were not as educated as those that they had replaced. Today, mediocrity is a standard malaise in Nigeria. The average Nigerian would prefer to patronize imported items than made-in-Nigeria goods because the people know that whatever is ‘made-in-Nigeria’ rarely has quality. The combination of corruption and mediocrity made sure that the development of Nigeria was in a perpetual state of arrest.
One may also mention the admission criteria into government-owned Unity Schools in which candidates from the South were required to score as high as 139 points to gain admission while those from the North were admitted with as low as 14 or 9 points. All of them were expected to sit for the same exams and receive the same certificates upon completion of their studies. Of course, it was ground for mediocrity and corruption. Besides, those from the North freely entered the Civil Service and ran the government!
Those expecting a new Nigeria should understand the malady that killed the Old. The solution is to renegotiate Nigeria, starting with a new Constitution. The current 1999 Constitution (as amended) is a tool of “development arrest”. President Tinubu should summon courage and adopt the draft constitution of the 2014 National Conference. That is the easiest way to a new constitution within the shortest possible time. It would be the first step in breaking the yoke of arrested development. The new constitution should include regional autonomy and a secession clause in which any ethnic group that is no longer interested in the union may exit the Federation. The liberty to leave or stay in the Federation would promote mutual respect and regard for human lives, while the regional autonomy would enable each zone to develop at its own pace.
Renegotiating Nigeria should not be used to play politics of second term. This was the mistake made by former President Goodluck Jonathan. Instead of implementing the report of the National Conference in 2014, he wanted to wait untill after the election in 2015, hoping that he would get a second term. The rest is history. The North was prepared to set the entire country on fire to prevent his second term so that he would not be able to implement the report of the National Conference. Therefore, President Tinubu should do whatever is needed to be done now, to destroy every yoke arresting the development of Nigeria. The starting point would be the constitution. It would be his memorable legacy to Nigeria.
In the meantime, the intercessory community should continue in prayers for the country. It is written, “I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: 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” (Isaiah 62:6-7).
God bless Nigeria.
1). Ps. 94:20-21
Pray to dismantle the law of iniquity upon which Nigeria was birthed as a country.
2). Isaish 10:27
Pray to destroy every yoke of ‘arrested development’ placed upon Nigeria from 1914.
3). Ps. 11:3
Pray that God would lay a new foundation for Nigeria, to replace the foundation of oppression and injustice upon which the country was birthed in 1914.
4). 1 Cor. 3:11
Pray that Jesus Christ, the eternal Rock of Ages, shall be the new foundation for Nigeria.
5). Ps. 105:24
Pray that God would increase Nigeria greatly and make her stronger than all her enemies locally, and internationally.
6). Zech. 8:9
Pray for wisdom and courage for the government to give Nigeria a new Constitution which will promote righteousness, justice, and equality in Nigeria.
7). Matt. 6:10
Pray that the government of the Kingdom of God shall be established over Nigeria. Amen.
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Monday 27th January - Sunday 2nd February. 2025
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight (Num. 13:33).
When anyone elevates their problems and challenges above the power of the Almighty God, they display a mentality that is best described as “the grasshopper syndrome”. The giants, the descendants of Anak, did not call the Israelite spies “grasshoppers”. It was the Israelites that described themselves as “grasshoppers”. In doing so, they not only belittled themselves, they belittled the Almighty God and created the impression that the giants were stronger than God. To worsen matters, the entire nation agreed with them, and they kept a vigil of tears, each man standing at the door of his tent. Only Joshua and Caleb remained resolute. Strangely, those were the same ones who had witnessed God’s judgments upon the idols of Egypt. They experienced the deliverance of Passover when the firstborn sons of the Egyptians died but none died amongst the Israelites. The parting of the Red Sea was an amazing miracle which was confirmed by Jonathan Gray, an archaeologist, and Ron Wyatt.
At the Gulf of Aqaba where the children of Israel crossed, the Red Sea was 5,000 feet deep, but God had elevated a section of the seabed by 4,000 feet and created a smooth walkway that was 2,952 feet wide stretching 8 miles (13km) to the land of Midian in Arabia, on the other side. Entering the sea at that spot was a gentle 6 degrees which provided carts and humans a comfortable slope to enter the walkway. The children of Israel walked through 1,000 feet of a wall of water on either side of them for 13 kilometers. The water did not crash down on them because, as Ex. 15:8 says, “And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.” God congealed the sea!
The children of Israel watched as the congealed water walls came crashing down on the Egyptian army, killing them all. They saw God bring water out of a dry rock, and He rained bread from heaven everyday. After living in the miraculous for two straight years, they got to the border of the Promised Land and concluded that they were “grasshoppers”. God was so furious that He sent them back into the wilderness for another thirty-eight years until all the generation of ‘grasshoppers’ died. Only then could their descendants enter the Promised Land. Christians who exhibit the “grasshopper syndrome” remain in the wilderness.
As we approach the 2027 elections, Nigeria Christians must beware of the “grasshopper syndrome”. Some common apprehensions in the country include the notion that the politicians have amassed excessive wealth to compromise the elections. President Tinubu is reported to have said that only death could stop him from getting a second term. The Fulanis, being masters of politics, are strategizing for 2027. If someone should consider these apprehensions, one might be tempted to conclude that in 2027, elections would be business as usual. However, what does God say?
In 2023, God spoke through one of our brothers that forty years after the prophecy of Pastor Elton, Nigeria would experience righteousness and glory, after a phase of corruption in which the country would stink globally. Pastor Elton gave the prophecy in 1986, and forty years after that would be 2026 when Nigeria should transit to the phase of righteousness.
In 2024, God also said that fifty years after FESTAC ’77, Nigeria would receive forgiveness for the sin of idolatry, then the nation would enter righteousness. Fifty years after FESTAC is 2027, which is the year of the next election. Therefore, 2026 and 2027 are critical years in the prophetic calendar of God for the country.
Now that Nigeria is at the border of its Promised Land, will Christians express a “grasshopper syndrome,” or proclaim, like Joshua, “we are able to take the land”? God has endowed the Christian community with enormous potentials to deliver righteous leadership for Nigeria. Let us consider the number of voters in the Church.
In the 2023 elections, President Tinubu was declared winner by the Supreme Court based on eight million votes. The Catholic Church has an estimated membership of 21 million while the Anglican Church has an estimated 18 million members in Nigeria. These two denominations alone have an estimated 39 million members. Bearing in mind that voters are registered from 18 years, these two denominations could easily have produced twenty million voters to counter the eight million votes that brought Tinubu into power. We have referred to only two denominations. There are many more in their category. What stopped Nigerian Churches from uniting to produce righteous leadership for Nigeria?
It would amount to criminal negligence if the Christian community in Nigeria does not unite to provide righteous leadership for Nigeria by 2027 in fulfillment of the prophetic calendar of heaven. In two separate prophecies, both pointing to the same period, God has declared that it is time for Nigeria to transit from the wilderness into the Promised Land. Will the Christians act like ‘grasshoppers’?
The past ten years of APC in power have been disastrous for Nigeria. From 2015 when APC made its debut into political power, it has inflicted sorrow and blood upon the citizenry. Today, according to the Cable Index, there is a total of 133 million poor people in Nigeria. This is made up of 45.5m in Northwest, 20.5m in North-East, 20.2m in North-Central, 16.3m in South-West, 19.7m in South-South, and 10.9m in the South-East. Under Buhari, Nigeria became the poverty capital of the world.
With regards to security, a major newspaper in the country cited the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) as reporting in December 2024 that 614,937 Nigerians were killed between May 2023 and April 2024. This is horrific, if true. That figure exceeds those killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, estimated at 67,000 people. The Bureau of Statistics is also cited to have reported that 2.2 million Nigerians were kidnapped/abducted within the same period while N2.2 trillion was paid as ransom. The number of Nigerians kidnapped under APC government from May 2023 to April 2024 is more than the population of 15 different countries in the world.
In the eight years of Muhammadu Buhari, as APC presidential candidate, 63,111 Nigerians were killed, according to Nigeria Security Tracker (NST). When Tinubu took over in 2023, the number of Nigerians killed in one year reportedly rose to 614,937. Yet, the APC wants to return to power in 2027.
Going by these disturbing figures, one can conclude that Section 14(2)b of the 1999 Constitution as amended which says, “The security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government” is of no paramount importance to the APC-led government. Shockingly, the response of the Tinubu administration to poverty is a handout of N75,000 to ten million poor people. If ten million out of 133 million poor people receive the handout, what will happen to the remaining 123 million poor people? Besides, what would Nigerians do with N75,000, which cannot buy a bag of rice or fill the tank of an average vehicle twice?
We have outlined the figures above to underscore the imperative of Christian political unity to align the Church with the prophetic calendar of God. The situation facing the country is serious and desperate. Every effort should be made to ensure that Nigeria enters in through the door of deliverance that heaven has opened for the land.
The greatest threat to Christian political unity is the rivalry of some Christian denominations and the promotion of personal interest by some of the Church leaders. It is imperative, in the overall interest of all Nigerians, that all differences be set aside and the Christian body function as one, to usher in a righteous government in 2027. We reiterate that it shall amount to criminal negligence on the part of the Nigeria Church if it cannot unite to produce, promote, and vote into office, righteous and God-fearing rulers for Nigeria. The oft-repeated tendency of some Church leaders to endorse corrupt and incompetent candidates must not happen again.
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the umbrella body established to forge unity amongst the various Christian denominations must ensure that all the denominations speak with one voice to adopt credible candidates into the various political offices, while Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN) should be supported to fulfill its role as the socio-political arm of the Church. All the various groups in the country working towards the emergence of the New Nigeria must be prepared to work together in the spirit of Christ, to birth a country that will truly flow with milk and honey.
Nigeria cannot continue to operate as if the Body of Christ does not exist in this country. The light of the Church must shine and overcome the darkness that is covering the land. It is time for the manifestation of the sons of God. The New Nigeria must come forth.
1. Zech. 1:12-17
Thank God for bringing to an end the indignation of heaven against idolatry in Nigeria.
2. 1 Cor. 1:10
Pray for Nigeria Christians to unite and work in harmony to birth a new Nigeria.
3. Eph. 6:10-13
Take authority over every spirit of division and strife working through ethnic or denominational rivalry. Bind those foul spirits from causing disunity in the Church and cast them out.
4. Matt. 12:29
Take authority over the satanic strongman and all forces of darkness working against righteousness and godliness in Nigeria.
5. Rev. 12:11
Plead the blood of Jesus to neutralize and overcome all rituals, sorcery, and blood sacrifices by evil politicians in the land.
6. Ps. 34:21
Execute judgment on all priests and priestesses servicing satanic altars in the country. Decree that the evil of their doings shall consume them.
7. Num. 17:6-9
Pray for a mark of divine approval on all the people God has approved to hold political offices in the country.
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Monday 20th - Sunday 26th Jan. 2025
And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever (Revelation 11:15).
In the prayer call of 11th – 17th December 2023, we wrote a treatise entitled “THE BATTLE FOR THE THRONE”. In that earlier prayer call, we pointed out that every kingdom has a throne, and whoever controls the throne controls the kingdom.
As Nigeria draws close to another election season, it is important to clarify the goal of Christian involvement in the political process. Emerging signals reveal that some Christians do not see any problem with whoever wields power in the country, so long as that person is their preferred candidate. To have one’s preferred candidate in power is one thing, building the Kingdom of God on earth, is another.
Christ left His disciples with two major assignments:
1. Soul winning
2. Establishing the presence and power of the Kingdom of God on earth
There are two spiritual kingdoms operating on the earth. They are the Kingdom of God, headed by Jesus Christ, and the kingdom of the world, headed by Lucifer, as the prince of the world. The assignment of Christians on earth includes promoting the principles and practices of the Kingdom of God in preparation for the return of the Master Who will establish its fulness on earth. For this reason, Jesus Christ taught His disciples to pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10).
For Christians, therefore, it is not sufficient that a preferred person is the president, or that a president has good policies. Christians should be more concerned with, “which kingdom is ruling Nigeria? Is it the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of the world?" That is easy to answer simply by observing the policies and actions of the government.
Since Independence in 1960, access to the throne of Nigeria has been through the “law of iniquity”. Successive governments have come into power through dubious, wicked, and treacherous actions. The results of such governments have been deceits and acts of wickedness. It says in Psalm 94:20-21, "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood." This Bible verse summarizes the character of successive governments in Nigeria. The country is yet to have a government that can be considered righteous.
The purpose of God is that a government shall emerge in Nigeria reflecting the character of the Kingdom of God. According to Psalm. 89:14, four pillars uphold the throne of God, and these are: “righteousness, justice, mercy, and truth.” "Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face." (NKJV)
God desires that the law of access to the throne of Nigeria must be through righteousness, justice, mercy, and truth. These four values have been lacking in the process of emergence of successive governments in Nigeria. Consequently, governance has been by subterfuge, wickedness, corruption, and bloodshed.
The task of the Church is to facilitate the emergence of a government that will reflect the character of the throne of God so that Christ would be enthroned upon Nigeria. No matter the intercession and supplication of the saints, Christ will neither sit on, nor endorse, a throne of iniquity. The throne must be established by righteousness before Christ will honour it with His Presence. Until Christians unite and organize to produce a righteous government, it is not possible to claim that Christ reigns over Nigeria. Undoubtedly, God intervenes in our national affairs and that is the reason the country has not imploded. However, the consequence of the throne of iniquity in the land is starring all citizens in the face. Presently, wickedness and iniquity are running the affairs of Nigeria.
Under the circumstances, what should be the response of Christians? Should some Christians still work to support the throne of iniquity, under the guise that it promises to do some good work? Or should they cooperate with the Holy Spirit to birth a righteous throne for the country?
These questions become pertinent because of a disturbing trend in Christian engagement in politics. Most Christians who participate in politics and governance seem not to know the difference between the throne of iniquity and the throne of righteousness. To some Christians, government is government. Some Christian leaders are secular in their political engagements. They forget that it is Nigeria that is secular, the Church is not. The Church recognizes the secularity of the State, out of respect for other citizens’ freedom of worship, but the Church itself is not secular but sacred. Therefore, when some Church leaders and some Christian elites endorse a government that gained access into power through the law of iniquity, those Christian leaders present themselves as enemies of the Kingdom of God (James 4:4). Anyone who joins Lucifer to strengthen a throne of iniquity cannot claim to belong to Jesus Christ.
Therefore, those Christian leaders whose politics tilts towards worldliness should reappraise their stand. Their commitment in the world will determine their position in eternity. It would be impossible for an individual who spent his life defending and promoting the throne of Satan to expect that Jesus Christ would welcome him into the Kingdom of God. This is probably one of the reasons the Lord will reject many of those who served Him.
Jesus Christ declared in Matt. 7:21-23, "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
Some of those that the Lord will reject could have served Him meritoriously, but classified as “workers of iniquity,” they would be rejected from eternal life. Their association with the throne of iniquity while on earth would be used to judge their eternal reward. Anyone who supports Lucifer to strengthen his kingdom can never receive eternal rest in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. On that day of judgment, money would be meaningless.
This is one of the reasons we are appealing to Church leaders and Christian elites to join in the efforts to enthrone a righteous ruler over Nigeria. The current political class is corrupt and discredited. Their politics is characterized by deceit, occultism, unrighteousness, and every manner of abominable work. It is embarrassing that some prominent Christian figures in the country support them and are canvassing support for them to remain in office.
The Christian community can produce righteous leadership for Nigeria, but the Church must unite. The key element in delivering a throne of righteousness for Nigeria is Christian unity. This can only be done when Christians understand and accept that they must not associate with a throne of iniquity. The events of the 2023 elections confirm that the government in power did not ascend the throne through righteousness but by the law of iniquity. The throne of iniquity shall not have fellowship with God (Ps. 94:20).
General Overseers, Bishops, Church Officials and the Christian elite should desist from supporting and endorsing thrones of iniquity in the country. They should rather join hands to birth a righteous government that will provide the platform for Christ to reign over Nigeria.
The government of the Kingdom of God shall be established upon Nigeria. Amen.
1). Eph. 1:17-19
Pray that God will endow Christian leaders in Nigeria with the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to enable them to understand the difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world.
2). Ps. 133
Pray for unity amongst all the various Christian denominations and ministries. Pray that Christians shall be of one mind to produce a righteous government for Nigeria.
3). Gal. 6:14
Pray that the cross shall work deeply in Christian leaders and crucify every lust for money, self promotion, and self interest.
4). 2 Cor. 2:11
By the blood of Jesus, nullify every manipulation and projection of sorcery to divide Christians and hinder political unity amongst the saints.
5). Isaiah 59:19
Raise a banner of the blood of Jesus and barricade in the spirit realm every plan of evil politicians to sustain a throne of iniquity over Nigeria.
6). Isaiah 43:18 19
Pray that God will do a new thing in Nigeria and bring forth a righteous nation.
7). Rev. 11:15
Decree that the kingdom of Nigeria has become the Kingdom of God.
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Monday 13th - Sunday 19th Jan. 2025
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle (Deut. 2:24).
After promising Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the land of Canaan, by an everlasting covenant, God gave the Israelites a curious command as they were about to possess the land. In Deut. 2:24, God instructed them to "begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle." That God has promised an individual or a nation a gift does not imply they should fold their arms and wait. There is a battle to be fought for the manifestation of every promise of God. For the Israelites in the Promised Land, there were giants daring them to go in and possess the land.
In Matthew 12:29, the Lord asks, "Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house?"_ Matthew 11:12 states, " And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force".
The catch phrase in the mouth of many Christians in Nigeria is “The New Nigeria”. Christians are waiting for a restored country filled with righteousness, justice, and peace. In anticipation of the new Nigeria, a lot of prayers and fasting are going on. That is good. However, prayer should not be the only preparation for the manifestation of the new Nigeria. The other side is to “contend in battle”.
It is in contending in battle that Nigeria Christians have a serious challenge. The response of the Church over the years to issues of serious national challenge confirms that Christians in Nigeria are strong in “faith” but weak in “works”. The notion is that having prayed, God would do the rest.
If that attitude does not change, the new Nigeria might be delayed. The new Nigeria would still come, because when God makes a promise, it will come to pass. If a generation does not claim the promise, the next generation would. Therefore, if the promise of the new Nigeria is to be appropriated by this generation of Nigerians, the Church must get militant. The concept of militancy here is not with reference to carrying guns and exploding bombs all over the country. Militancy means that the Church must be prepared to plan and be determined to execute its plan.
A major deficit amongst Christians is the ability to plan. Almost everything is spiritualized and left for God after they have prayed. Meanwhile, in dealing with man, God separates what He would do for man, from what man would do for himself. God only does what man cannot do. If a problem can be solved on the earth, God will not provide the solution from heaven. If an information can be provided on the earth, God will not provide it from heaven. Revelation is God telling an individual what no one can tell him on the earth. There are problems of man that God will not solve from heaven, but man must solve it on the earth.
This is the reality that nations like China, Singapore, Malaysia, not to talk of Europe and USA, have accepted. God gave man brain for man to solve his problems. Even in Israel, where the manifestation of God was rife, God never went to the battle while Israel stayed at home. God always met Israel on the battlefield. The people must be prepared to engage the enemy before God would come and help them.
At present, Nigerians are groaning under cruel taskmasters who pretend to be statesmen. This group of devourers hijacked the state ten years ago with no intention of leaving in 2027. They have stolen, killed, and destroyed (John 10:10). If they are left in office for another ten years, they will continue to steal, kill, and destroy. Majority of the citizens are tired of them. They have replaced governance with propaganda.
If one should ask the average Nigeria Christian what he is doing to get rid of bad government, he would respond with “we are praying”. Ask again, “after the prayers, what are you going to do?” You will hear, “our Church is fasting. After the fasting, you will see what will happen in this country.” Nothing will happen. Faith without works, is dead.
At the National Prayer Altar, we believe in prayers and fasting. The Prayer Altar prays every night for Nigeria, and it will clock three years of unbroken prayer exercise by April 2025. However, we strongly affirm that practical works based on careful planning must be added to prayers. We have often expressed this through some of the interventions we have made on national issues. Everyone ought to pray and work. It is not sufficient to call ourselves to prayer and fasting for Nigeria without adequate strategic planning for Nigeria.
The Nigeria Church has the capacity to transform the country by virtue of its potentials. Christians constitute the largest demographic group in Nigeria. They are the most educated, the most civilized, and the most skilled. They constitute the largest group of academics, intellectuals, scientists, technocrats, business entrepreneurs, skilled artisans, business magnates, and professionals in all fields. Even the wealth of Nigeria, be it oil, gas, ports, water ways, and the bulk of the arable land are on Christian lands. Yet, in Nigeria today, Christians are underdogs. The problem? Christians do not plan; they only pray. Faith without works, is dead.
Even when a plan was prepared, like National Christian Elders Forum did for the Church, some Church leaders killed that plan in 2016. To date, the Nigeria Church has no plan against insurgency, poverty, sexual immorality, corrupt and incompetent government, and apparently no plan to establish a righteous government. Only calls to prayer and fasting!
It can change, and it must. What has been lacking is proper leadership. If Christians will agree and rally round the structure that previous Church leaders built for socio-political engagement of the Church, credible efforts can commence to prepare for the emergence of the new Nigeria. The Nigeria Church has two leadership bodies: the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Christian Social Movement of Nigeria (CSMN). While CAN was established in 1976 to build Church unity and it is managed by the clergy, CSMN was established in 2001 for socio-political engagement of Christians, and it is managed by the laity. Both bodies were established by the five Church groups that make up Christianity in Nigeria. They are the only two groups, so established.
A central mobilizing and harmonizing body is required because of differing denominational and sectional preferences. If Christianity is going to utilize its enormous potentials for societal transformation, Christians must be harmonized to work in unity. Hitherto, Christian political assets have been divided, turning Christians into minority groups during elections.
For 2027, Christians in Nigeria must speak with one voice and consciously present a competent presidential candidate on a credible political party platform. For this to happen, Christians must accept a leadership institution to drive the process. Whoever says Christians should not participate in politics has not read Isaiah 9:6: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder". Christ is the Head, and the Church is His body. The Government is resting upon the “shoulder,” which is His body. It is the responsibility of the Church to provide righteous leadership for Nigeria, and the channel to do that is politics. We must begin to plan.
It would be a shame on all Christians if devourers should return to power in 2027. It would be to our collective condemnation, if the new Nigeria does not manifest as God has promised.
In the meantime, Christians in each denomination/ministry should establish a “Social Forum” for Christians interested in politics and governance to interact. They will work with CSMN to mobilize all the members of their assembly in preparation for the emergence of righteous government in Nigeria. We must match our faith with works. The new Nigeria shall emerge.
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1. John 17:21-23
Pray for unity and peace amongst all Christian groups in Nigeria to birth a righteous and just government for the country.
2. Rom. 16:17-18
Pray that God will silence and incapacitate those who cause division amongst Christians.
3. James 1:5
Pray for divine wisdom to plan and overcome the wiles of the devil and the craftiness of politicians.
4. 2 Cor. 2:11
Pray against every attack and manipulation of Satan and his forces to destroy the Christian political consensus project.
5. Isaiah 9:6
Pray that the Nigeria Church shall be empowered by God to carry the responsibility to birth a righteous and God-fearing government in Nigeria.
6. Ex. 31:1-6
Pray that everyone that God has filled with wisdom and ability to birth the new Nigeria shall come forth.
7. Rev. 11:15
Proclaim that the Kingdom of Nigeria has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.
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Monday 6th - Sunday 12th Jan. 2025
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat (Gen. 3:6).
The story of humanity started at the Garden of Eden, so did human woes. As we commence another year, it would be good to retrace how humanity got into its present distress, and review what is called “the original sin” of man. At the beginning of this year, a look at the beginning of humanity might offer clues to a successful and peaceful year.
A literal reading of Gen. 3:1-2 shows that a “serpent” deceived Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. That has been the common belief over the ages. A deeper look at the root word translated “serpent” reveals something different. The Hebrew word translated “serpent” is nachash, sometimes pronounced “nahash.” It means, “serpent, shining one, one who shines”. There are Bible scholars who believe that it was “a shining one” who spoke to Eve. It says in 2 Cor. 11:14: ”And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.” Revelation 12:9 provides more clarification on the identity of the “serpent” when it says, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.”
The Scriptures confirm that the devil deceived Eve and she ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17). After eating it, she gave the same to her husband, and he also ate. This is where the story gets interesting. Was Adam also deceived by the devil? The Scriptures state emphatically in 1 Tim. 2:14, “And Adam was NOT deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Adam knew that the devil lied. He knew that they were not supposed to eat of that tree, yet he went ahead to eat the fruit. Satan did not deceive Adam; so, why did Adam willfully disobey God?
We could reconstruct the Genesis account of the creation of man to give us a clearer picture of our aim in what might have been responsible for Adam’s choice. After the creation of man on the sixth day, God rested on the seventh. It was after the day of rest that God assigned Adam the responsibility of tending the garden and giving names to all the animals (Gen. 2:18-20). We do not know how long it took Adam to give names to all the animals. Zoologists spend years in the university to study animals, but Adam named them all. While undertaking that assignment, Adam was alone, and God confirmed that there was neither help nor companion for him. It was at that point that God created Eve and brought her to Adam.
Adam was put to a deep sleep from which he woke up to find a flawlessly beautiful woman by his side. There are many beautiful women in the world, but none could have been as beautiful as Eve. The reason is, when she was created, there was no sin, so her beauty was perfect and flawless. To a man, the most beautiful thing on earth is a woman, while to a woman, the most beautiful thing is a baby. So, imagine a man who had been alone on planet earth suddenly being gifted with the most beautiful woman in the world! For Adam, Eve could do nothing wrong. Whatever Eve wanted, she got from him. Satan watched and decided that Eve was Adam’s weakness.
That was where the problem of humans started. Adam loved the gift more than the Giver. As far as Adam was concerned, pleasing Eve came first. Even though Adam knew that they should not eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, and he had not been deceived by the lie of the devil, he could not say “no” to Eve. There was a contest in the Garden of Eden between God and Eve for the heart of Adam. Unfortunately, Eve won. God became furious and drove the two of them out of His garden. The gift must never replace the Giver.
That “original sin,” as we may describe it in this context, is repeated by many descendants of Adam in various ways, but the consequences remain the same. Whosoever places the gift of God above God vacates the garden of God.
Interestingly, this “original sin” is not committed by unbelievers only. It is found amongst born-again Christians. There are regenerated Christians whom God has blessed with gifts which, unfortunately, have taken precedence over God. There are Christians who cried out to God for a good job. Having got it, the job got more honored than the God who gave it. That person disdains God at the beginning of each week, going late to worship on Sunday, even though they are very punctual at work on other days.
There are Christians whom God placed in important positions, but who ended up compromising truth and righteousness just to ‘keep their job’ and remain ‘relevant’ amongst their peers. Even when they know the righteous demands of God, they choose to forsake His standards and act in ways inconsistent with the will of God. Pleasing the job becomes more important than pleasing God the Giver of the job. Yet, if one should ask them where they would spend eternity, they would point in the direction of heaven. How can someone repeat the “original sin” and hope to be in the garden of God?
Examples abound of Christians who placed ministry, marriage, business, political appointment, children, including foreign visa, above the Giver. In so many ways, descendants of Adam keep re-enacting what occurred in the Garden of Eden, without considering the consequences. Adam unwittingly turned Eve into an idol because, whatever one places above God becomes an idol to that person. The sad truth is that, in our generation, many Bible-believing Christians have turned the gifts of God in their lives into personal idols. No idolater shall find favour before God.
As we commence another year, let Christians search their hearts. The gift of God must not replace God. The commitment and devotion of man to God must not be violated. In other words, in this New Year, PUT GOD FIRST. On the scale of preference of many professing Christians, God occupies a lower place, meanwhile, they expect Him to put them first in His blessings. Some of those who desire God to take their matter seriously treat Him with levity and disdain. Whoever places the gift of God above God will vacate the garden of God.
May we not misplace our priority and end up losing favour with God. Pleasing God must come first in all things. In 2025, Put God First.
1. Ps. 92:1-4
Thank God for grace to enter 2025 peacefully and in good health. Thank God for grace to abide in the faith.
2. 1 John 1:8-10
Confess every sin of placing personal interest above the command and purpose of God.
3. Ps. 90:13-17
Pray for restoration into God’s favour in 2025 in every area of your life where self-will or disobedience might have affected God’s favour.
4. 2 Cor. 5:18-19
Christ came to reconcile God and humans. Pray that the blood of Jesus will cleanse you from every controversy with God, and restore you into the fulness of divine favour in 2025.
5. 2 Cor. 6:14-18
Pray for personal consecration in 2025, so that your obedience to God shall be perfect.
6. Ps. 128
Pray that all members of your family shall walk before God and be perfect in 2025 and retain favour of God.
7. Joel 2:21
Pray for Nigeria, that in 2025, God shall restore the country into divine favour.
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Monday 30th Dec. 2024 - Sunday 5th Jan. 2025
Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day (2 Kgs. 6:31).
In 2 Kings 6:25 to 7:2, the Bible narrates an agonizing experience in Israel. The Syrian army had besieged the land and caused a famine that got so extreme, it led to cannibalism. Two mothers negotiated to eat their children one after the other, but the second mother reneged after eating and surviving at the expense of the other’s child. The cheated mother cried to the king for justice. Even though the Bible does not say other atrocities committed by the desperately hungry in their attempt to survive the famine, that singular incidence of infant cannibalism was sufficient to stir the king into murderous rage.
The response of king was, “… God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day" (1 Kings 6:31). What was the fault of Elisha that his head was threatened? Was it the prophet that invited the Syrian siege? Was it he that encouraged the women to eat a child? No, but the king seemed to have held Elisha responsible for the calamity that befell the land because he knew that the prophet had the unction to speak into the situation and change it for the better. The king was furious because Elisha did not speak. Why was the prophet silent until then?
Despite the horrors around him, Prophet Elisha seemed to have been basking in his prophetic serenity, in his house, chatting with “the elders” of the land. If he had any distress, it did not show until the king had issued the threat. Elisha knew at once that danger was coming, then he made the proclamation that released the food to the gates of the city. Until his peace was disturbed and his life was threatened, Prophet Elisha did not respond to the tragedy around him, even though the solution was in his mouth. The first thing the prophet did was to complain that his life was being threatened by that “son of a murderer-” The second thing he did was to embark on self-preservation. He instructed those around him to “shut the door.”
In every generation, there are people that God has raised and empowered to stand for truth and righteousness. The world recognizes this and concludes that “evil triumphs when good men do nothing”. Every generation has “good men” empowered by God to stem the tide of evil. The problem is that, like Elisha, they sometimes become too comfortable to be bothered by the evil going on in their environment. Whenever good men permit themselves to be distracted, and they focus on personal comfort rather than bother about national interest, evil triumphs.
In 1998, after the death of Gen. Sani Abacha and Chief MKO Abiola, Nigeria faced a crisis that could have led to the implosion of the country. In the ensuing tension, a group of elders arose in the land. They were not religious leaders, but they were influential, and their voices commanded attention. They started as a group of nine, made up of Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Chief Solomon Lar, Senator Francis Ellah, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Bola Ige, Dr. Iyorcha Ayu, Prof. Jerry Gana, Alhaji Sule Lamido and Mallam Adamu Ciroma. That group, known as the G9, which later became G18, and gave birth to G34. It was the G34 that metamorphosized into the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The intervention of those elders helped to stabilize the country and give birth to the current political dispensation which Islamist extremists have corrupted with the politics of religion. Those were elders who spoke when it was imperative. They were not silent.
Nigeria is currently going through unwarranted distress because certain voices that should be speaking are silent. What happened to the country during the 2023 elections should not have been permitted by men and women of good conscience. There were credible and influential voices that should have strategized to resist the obvious perversion of justice and due process. Unfortunately, like Elisha, they were silent while evil and unrighteous men hijacked the government.
Today, propaganda is fast replacing good governance. There are feeble attempts to assure Nigerians that the people who hijacked government meant well for the country. If someone should steal a car and is caught while using that car to carry orphans to school, does that apparent act of kindness justify the theft? Would the owner of the stolen car be persuaded to not seek redress because the car is being used to “help” the needy?
To worsen matters, those who hijacked power in Nigeria are not using it for the benefit of the people. Within seconds of the swearing in, they introduced an unscripted, unplanned, and ill-conceived verbal policy that increased the price of fuel from N195 to N540 per litre. The price of fuel further rose to N617 in 2023, and it is currently over N1,000 per litre. Some vehicle owners spend about N120,000 to fill their tanks in a country where government is still struggling to pay the minimum wage of N70,000. Does it make better sense to kill corruption or kill the people with hunger?
Most ridiculous of all, after ‘tightening the belt’ of Nigerians to the point of strangulation, the hijackers proceeded into a life of flamboyance and extravagance. A new presidential jet was purchased at over N150 billion, and a “presidential yacht” at N5 billion, with legislators receiving new SUV’s estimated at over N160 million each. Meanwhile, the house of the Vice President was completed at total cost of N21 billion, all by people who hijacked the government and promised that they meant well for the country. A Yoruba proverb states, the eye that will see eventide does not make dirt in the morning.
What occurred in Nigeria during the 2023 elections should not have been permitted. Both INEC and the Judiciary should have been checked, but the voices that should have spoken were silent. To date, those voices are still silent. The calamity is not so much the hijacking of government by unrighteous politicians but the muteness of the voices that should be screaming.
If voices did not arise from the political arena, what about from within the Church? God empowered certain people in the Church with unction, like Elisha, but they, too, have become comfortable, like Elisha, chatting away in their homes and at their endless “conventions,” while mothers are eating their children in the land. While we are unaware of reported cases of parental cannibalism in Nigeria, there are growing reports of underage girls prostituting themselves and taking the proceeds home to their famished parents, which is a kind of cannibalism. Should the prophets wait until widespread and public parental cannibalism before their anointed voices will speak to break the siege and open the gates again to bread? Of increasing concern are the many Christian intellectuals and elites who speak in glowing terms of those who should be prosecuted for treason, but seem to see nothing wrong with injustice and unrighteousness.
As the National Prayer Altar pointed out in its conference communique after the 2023 elections, tribalism was not the determinant of the outcome of the elections. The 2023 election was the outcome of the unbridled determination of Islamists, who corrupted every institution in Nigeria to ensure their flagship political party remained in power. This should be of concern to non-Islamists in Nigeria.
After the 2015 elections, the Forum of Christian Elders reviewed the state of the country and concluded that, having gained control of power in Nigeria, the Islamists were going to embark on two programs:
First, ensuring that Nigerians are impoverished so that whomsoever they offered money would do their bidding. As predicted by the Elders, the process of impoverishing Nigerians started with Buhari, and it has been accelerated by his successor. Poverty in the land is an agenda of the Islamists.
Second, the Elders predicted that the Islamists would provoke war in the land. The chaos of war would enable them to exterminate all those who could resist their plan to turn Nigeria into an Islamic theocratic state. The attempts to provoke a war in the land are behind the violence from non-state actors across the land. Nigerians should not be deceived into thinking that what is going on is tribal politics. It has nothing to do with ethnicity. The Muslim-Muslim ticket should be a constant reminder that Nigeria is dealing with the politics of religion. Christian elites should be well guided.
The land is in distress. The people have been deliberately impoverished while security of lives is no longer certain. God in His faithfulness has positioned certain voices in the land to speak to promote justice and righteousness. Those voices are within and without the Church. Unfortunately, those divinely-appointed voices are silent. Wherever they are, they should begin to speak to prevent further calamity from befalling the land. The prophets must not be silent anymore.
1). 2 Kings 6:31
Pray that every voice appointed by God to speak for justice and righteousness in Nigeria but which has remained silent should be disturbed by God until they speak.
2). Exodus 34:5-7
Pray that everyone who participated in bringing suffering and sorrow upon the masses of Nigeria shall not be guiltless before God.
3). Ezek. 11:1-2
Decree that those who give wicked counsel in Nigeria, leading to bad governance and the collapse of the economy, shall receive fiery judgment for their evil.
4). Ps. 68:1-2
Pray that every political party that promotes corruption, bloodshed, and electoral malpractice shall cease to exist.
5). Isa. 28:14-15, 18-19
Pray that every politician who gained entry into politics through satanic rituals and covenants shall be destroyed by the same forces of darkness.
6). Ezek. 22:23-28
Pray that every Church leader who endorses unrighteous politicians shall partake of their judgment.
7). Lam. 3:21-23
Pray that as Nigeria enters 2025, God will show mercy to the people and deliver them from taskmasters. Amen.
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Monday 23rd - Sunday 29th December 2024
Monday 23rd - Sunday 29th Dec. 2024
THE REASON FOR THE SEASON
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. (Matt. 1:21)
As we celebrate the birth of Christ, we congratulate the global Christian community for grace to be alive to witness Christmas 2024. In view of the merriment and celebrations that accompany Christmas, it is good to remind ourselves why Christ came.
There are different perspectives on the purpose for which God gave His only begotten Son. Those perspectives are defined by individual needs and expectations. However, the purpose for which Christ came is clearly enunciated in Matt. 1:21: "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins." The primary purpose for which Christ came was to save from sin those who believe in Him.
When we call Jesus Saviour, we need to understand what He saved us from. On this matter also, opinions differ. There are Christians who believe that Jesus came to save them from poverty. Others believe He saved them from witches, and there are young wives who believe the Son of God came to save them from their mother-in-law. From the perspective of heaven, Jesus is “Saviour” because He saves from sins.
It is absurd many Christians who proclaim Jesus Lord and Saviour still live sinful lives. Their concept of Christ as Saviour is inconsistent with the purpose of God for sending His Son. Can a Christian claim Christ as Saviour while being unsaved from their sins?
Our worst enemy is neither Satan nor demons, even though they are malevolent foes. Our worst enemy is our personal sin, which opens the door to Satan.
Jesus boldly proclaimed, ..."for the prince of this world cometh, and hath found nothing in me" (John 14:30). The first aim of any believer, who desires to live a victorious Christian life, is to overcome sin in their life, because sin gives Satan legal grounds to operate. Where there is no sin, Satan is helpless.
In John 8:36, the Lord promised, "If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed". Free from what? Verse 34 gives the answer: free from sin. Jesus did not promise to make us free from Satan but from sin. Anyone free from sin is free from the powers of darkness. Satan is not the taskmaster. Sin is. Satan is merely the executioner. Without sin, Satan has nothing to execute.
In 1 John 3:8, the Scriptures declare that the "purpose" for which Jesus came was to "destroy the works of the devil," referring to "sin". Therefore, when Christians commit sin, or find excuses to remain in sin, they seldom realize that they are handing themselves cheaply over to Satan and his demons to oppress and destroy them. The only entities that profit from the sin an individual commits are devils and demons. The individual committing the sin does not gain anything, no matter the pleasure they seem to derive from the sin; the "fleeting pleasures of sin" that attract eternal punishment. The forces of darkness would usually do everything possible to seduce, entice, provoke, and stimulate someone to commit sin. Once they do, it's a mighty victory for the devil.
To appropriate fully the purpose and the work of Christ, we need to understand the two-fold victories that Christ purchased for us at Calvary. First, through His blood, Christ secured the “forgiveness” of sin for humanity, while through the cross, He gave us “deliverance” from sin. Unfortunately, many Christians appropriate the “forgiveness” from sin but do not press further to receive “deliverance” from sin.
The blood of Jesus will atone for every sin that is confessed, but it does not stop the person from repeating the sin. Only the cross can do that. To be “delivered” from sin, one must go to the cross. Only the cross provides deliverance from sin. Unfortunately, in this generation, not many preachers and church members like to talk about the cross, because of its demands. When a pastor does not teach the cross, he denies his members victory over sin, which ultimately implies the victory of Satan over those members.
Churches often ring with shouts of “the blood of Jesus”, but one rarely hears similar cries of the “cross of Jesus”. Meanwhile, it is the cross that Jesus commanded that His followers should carry. "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me" (Luke 9:23). When Christians neglect the provision God has made for a victorious Christian life, what else do they expect God to do? Deliverance from sin, which should be the goal of every Christian, is found in the cross. Romans 6:6 says, "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin". The problem of man is a nature of sin referred to as "the old man", which is also called “the Adamic nature”, or “the sin nature”.
The book of Romans distinguishes between the sin of man, and sins of man. The “sin nature” is likened to a factory that produces a product, while the “sins” are the various products. To stop the products from entering the market, the factory must be shut down. The sin is the principle while the sins are the conducts, the manifestations of the principle ruling the life of the individual. We all inherited the same sinful Adamic nature, but our expression of “sins” differs. That is the reason “sin is sin” before God. What matters is the principle guiding the life of the individual. Is it the “old man”, or the “new man” created in the image of Christ? The conduct of the individual reveals the principle that is at work in their life.
The provision God has made to destroy the Adamic nature is to crucify it. Our old man was crucified with Christ, and we must live in this reality. This calls on Christians to adopt the “crucified life”. As Christians, we must affirm Galatians 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
As we celebrate Christmas, we should remember that Christ came to atone for our sins and deliver us from the sin nature so that we can reclaim the glory of God. When Adam sinned in Eden, he and Eve lost the glory of God. The first consequence of their sin was that they realized they were naked. They lost the glory that clothed them.
Whenever a Christian sins, he loses glory. He does not lose his life, nor lose his job, neither does his house go on fire. Yet, something terrible happens to him. Every time one sins, one loses glory. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23).
Let us persevere and live the crucified life, the life of self-denial, so that we can attain to the fulness of the glory of Christ. Rom. 8:18 says, "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us".
Christians are called to be glorified with Christ. There is nothing in this world that can be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." (Rom. 8:29-30). We are called unto glory. Sin is the enemy.
Merry Christmas.
1. Eph. 1:3-5
Thank God for blessing you with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places. Thank Him that you are predestined to be adopted into the family of God.
2. Rom. 6:14
Decree that sin shall not have dominion over you.
3. Rom. 6:6
Pray to crucify every manifestation of adamic nature in your life to the cross of Jesus. Pray for the power of the cross of Jesus to grant you total deliverance from the sin nature.
4. Luke 9:23
Pray for grace to live the crucified life and to exercise self-denial for the sake of Christ.
5. 1 John 3:8
Pray that every work of the devil in your life and in the Church shall be destroyed, in the name of Jesus.
6. Eph. 4:11-15
Pray for revival and restoration of sound doctrine in the Nigeria Church.
7. 1 Tim. 2:3-4
Intercede for salvation of souls.
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Monday 16th - Sunday 22nd December 2024
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth (Mal. 2:15).
A few weeks ago, we delivered a message entitled “Godly Seed.” Thereafter, God kept drawing our attention to the condition of youths in this generation. Based on that, the National Prayer Altar organized a seven-day seminar entitled “The Challenge of Godly Parenting: Gen Z.” Seven consecutive speakers provided different perspectives on the same challenge.
Ours can aptly be described as a broken generation, resembling that of Noah before the flood, marked by violence, sexual decadence, and carelessness. As the bedrock of society, the family unit is the starting point for fixing a dysfunctional generation. The age of Noah might be excused for lacking knowledge and light, but not ours, because we have the complete Scriptures, and we understand God’s requirements for producing godly children. Admittedly, there was the strong evil influence of fallen angels (or “sons of God”) in the days of Noah; our generation is witnessing the same demonic invasion. Nevertheless, our generation has the Scriptures, the blood of Jesus, and the name of Jesus to counter demonic invasions.
In Mal. 2:15, God made it clear that the purpose of marriage is to produce “godly seed”. A successful marriage is not defined by the prosperity or wealth of the couple but by the godliness of their children. This is where a lot of families (unfortunately, some Christian families also), have failed the test of marriage. Any Christian marriage that does not produce godly children, according to the character of Christ, cannot be described in the presence of God as successful.
Between God and many Christians in this generation, the parameters for measuring a successful marriage differ. While God expects “godly seed” from a marriage, some families think that material resources or financial status is what God is looking for. Families need money to fulfil obligations, but the pursuit of wealth should not take precedence over the godly upbringing of children.
Abandoning God’s word to adopt secular wisdom on bringing up children, this generation has run itself into trouble. For example, Dr Benjamin Spock, contrary to the Bible principle on the rod of correction, insists that “Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent.” Inspired by that deviant paediatrician, generations of parents started to decline their application of the “rod of correction” in bringing up children. In many western nations, if a parent should spank their child for misconduct, they risk being arrested. What does the Bible say?
“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame” (Prov. 29:15).
“Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul” (Prov. 29:17).
“Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying” (Prov. 19:18).
“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).
There are parents in our generation who consider it “wicked punishment” to smack a child for wrongdoing. Unfortunately, theirs is “wicked love.” No parent loves their child more than God does. If God says the rod of correction drives foolishness from the heart of a child (Prov. 22:15), no paediatrician or child psychologist knows better. The word of the Creator cannot be contested by His creatures. It takes a disciplined person to enforce discipline. People who prefer self-indulgence to self-discipline would only transfer their attitude to their children. Ironically, they hate the result in later years.
In this call to prayers, we assert that there is nothing wrong with children in this generation. The problem is with the parents. The carelessness and indifference with which many people approach parenting is what has produced a broken generation of youths who are rebellious, cultists, drug addicts, sexually immoral, and indifferent to the things of God. Children learn by imitation of what they see their parents and other elders do. Parents are the first set of people that children trust. When parents are not available to provide the guidance and counselling that the child needs, they transfer their trust to their teacher and to social media. Where parents are available, the child will not be swayed by distractions outside the home.
The difference between children of older generations and those of this generation is that children of this information age have a lot of options that children at other times did not have. So, if parents are not available, social media, teachers, counsellors, and of course, peer pressure, fill the gap. When a child carries a smart phone, the entire world is at their fingertips.
Most Christians in this generation, under the influence of the erroneous prosperity message in the Church, are consumed with the desire to make wealth. Consequently, they devote their time to what matters to them most: business and career. Many parents entrust the responsibility of bringing up their children to housemaids and expensive schools. Schools will impart knowledge and education, but character formation is done at home. Therefore, the responsibility is on Christian parents to review how they are parenting, whether they are following the Owner’s manual, the Word of God, or they are subscribed to secular reasoning and expecting godly results from their children. Secular reasoning will produce secular results; obedience to God will produce Godly seeds. The choice is up to the parent.
For those willing to adopt Godly standards in bringing up their children, the following suggestions would be helpful:
1. Parents should activate “home training” for their children. Most children encountered on the streets display lack of home training. Home training comes with spanking, whenever it is necessary. This does not advocate “wicked punishment”; it prevents “wicked love” in which a child is left to decide what is right or wrong. The Bible commands: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6). Train the child from home.
2. Parental love is spelled T-I-M-E. Devote quality time to be with your children and to answer their questions. Housemaids and expensive schools are no substitutes for godly parenting.
3. As Christians, ensure daily family devotions. If your family sets time aside to eat, that family must set time aside for family devotion. It is at the family devotion that children learn to apply the Word of God to practical situations. Each family should pray and study the Word of God together. It is also at the family devotion that parents impart godly values to their children.
4. Set good example for the children. In Col. 3:18-20, God commands the husband to “love” his wife, the wife to “submit” to her husband, and children to “obey” their parents. Before a family can have “obedient” children, father and mother must fulfill their obligations. In effect, love + submission = obedience.
5. In this age of “digital addiction”, introduce “cyber-fasting” for everyone in the family, including the parents. This could be a day in the week during which no one surfs the internet, goes on social media, or plays any game, for some hours. Teach your children to develop the ability to resist the addictive influence of social media.
6. For families with children far from home, it is possible to connect daily to study the Word of God as a family, by using some Bible Apps. One of such Apps is “You Version” which enables a group to read the same Bible passage and make comments for everyone in the group to read. With this App, parents can ensure that their children in secondary school dormitories participate in the daily family devotion.
7. In this age of LGBTQ, cultism, drug addiction, sexual immorality, and other vices, parents should pray daily for their children and soak them in the blood of Jesus Christ.
It is possible to bring up godly children in this generation if parents are willing to do it. May our hearts be willing to produce godly seeds for God.
1. Job 39:13-18
Confess and repent of the negligence of many Christian parents towards godly parenting.
2. Luke 17:26
Pray for soberness amongst Christian parents, that they would not get carried away by worldliness, as in the days of Noah, when the judgment of God caught them unawares. Pray that Christian parents would be diligent to bring up their children in the way of God.
3. Gen. 18:17-19
Pray that Christian parents shall be committed to raising children that shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment, as God confessed about Abraham.
4. Mal. 4:5-6
Pray forgiveness and reconciliation for families with problems between children and parents.
5. Is. 54:13
Pray that God would teach our children.
6. Joel 2:28-29
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on youths in this generation.
7. Eph. 6:4
Pray that fathers in this generation shall be diligent and responsible to provide godly leadership to their children.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th Dec. 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. 18:24-25).
On Wednesday 4th December 2024, the National Prayer Altar held a press conference in Lagos to address the vexing issue of moral decadence and sexual perversion in Nigeria. The press conference was a follow-up to the issues raised in Part 1 of this discourse. Excerpts from that press conference make up this prayer call.
At present, Nigeria is reeling under the crushing weight of social disorder, injustice, corruption, and the unimaginable suffering of the populace. A lot of prayers have been said and are still being said. While we thank God for the prayers, the situation seems to be getting worse. God pointed out in Isaiah 59:1-2 that His hands are not too short to save, neither His ears too heavy to hear, but sin causes God to hide His face.
Mercifully, God is shining His light to show Nigerians, particularly the Christian intercessory community, where the problem lies. Politicians are not too strong for God to handle them, neither are the terrorists too mighty to be neutralized. Satan has smuggled into Nigeria an abomination that he knows will incur the wrath of God. That abomination is explained in Lev. 18:24-25. The Amorites who committed it then were cast out of the land of Canaan and Israel moved in to take their place, but not without being warned not to make the mistake of those they had replaced. Israel ignored the warning, and was also cast out. That abomination is what God is pointing to in Nigeria. We may now understand why foreign terrorists have multiplied in Nigeria, each group bent on land-grabbing. The signal seems to have gone off in the spirit realm that there is a land available for them to take over.
Sadly, through the unfortunate patronage of some western nations, the obnoxious counterculture that expresses itself as homosexuality, lesbianism, cross-dressing, and all the weird contours accommodated under the deplorable LGBTQ umbrella, is fast spreading in Nigeria, and the populace is being subtly desensitized to its social evils by describing it as a “lifestyle.” The Bible calls it sodomy.
That behaviour is unacceptable to us because our culture forbids, our religions forbid it, and our law has proscribed it. Unfortunately, many in the upper rungs of the social ladder have been publicly implicated. Strangely, they have not denied it publicly.
Nigeria has many problems. While we work to improve the country, we should not open the door to additional problems. Sodomy does not promote any land; it incurs the wrath of God. The nations that promote sodomy are gradually declining.
As people of faith, we affirm that “righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Sodomy is sin against God and humanity. As watchmen, we publicly confess, repent of, and renounce sodomy in Nigeria. We condemn LGBTQ in all its ramifications, as well as its sponsors in the country.
In Leviticus 18 God warns that sexual perversion pollutes the land, forcing it to “vomit” its inhabitants. Nigerians have been emigrating in droves through borders and through the many mass mass graves that dot our landscape. Is the land already vomiting its inhabitants?
God warned that when the polluted land vomits its inhabitants, a new race will take it over. In the past few years, various land grabbing terrorist groups have begun to play that role: Boko Haram, Fulani ‘herdsmen’ militia, Al Qaeda, ISWAP, bandits, and lately, Lakurawa. Is the consequence of sodomy starring Nigeria in the face? That is an existential threat.
According to Rom. 1:26-28, when a people wilfully reject the knowledge of God, He hands them over to a mind that is depraved, degenerate, and perverted. When the Nigeria Church transferred allegiance from Christ to Mammon, under the guise of the “prosperity message”, the Church provoked the spirit of jealousy (Ez. 8:3). The proliferation of sexual perversions in Nigeria came with the prosperity message. It is time to return to the message of the cross of Jesus.
At the press conference, the National Prayer Altar made the following recommendations:
1. Sunday 15th December 2024 to be declared a day of prayer and fasting for the sins of sodomy, sexual perversion, and all doctrinal errors in the Church.
2. Government should strengthen legislation against sodomy by including “cross dressing” in the 14-year jail term for homosexual offenders. Those who promote or justify homosexuality should also be prosecuted under the same law.
3. Homosexuality and lesbianism, having already been criminalized in Nigeria, should not be considered “freedom of choice,” for the same reason that drug trafficking and armed robbery cannot be classed under freedom of choice.
4. The National Film and Video Censors Board should ensure greater policing of entertainment materials in the country.
5. The Ministry of Education should ensure that compromising materials are removed from the curricula of schools, and there should be greater monitoring of school dormitories.
6. Nigerians should expose politicians and religious leaders who engage in homosexuality, and they should be barred from public offices.
7. Foreign NGOs that sponsor deplorable projects in Nigeria should be exposed and prosecuted.
8. Parents should activate “home training” for their children. Godly character-building should commence from the homes. All Christian families should ensure they have family devotion to instill Godly values in the children.
It is written, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Pro. 14:34).
1. Ez. 9:3-4
Condemn and renounce sodomy and sexual perversions in Nigeria. Proclaim before God that you are not part of it neither do you endorse it in any way.
2. Isaiah 29:6-8
Pronounce judgment upon all who sponsor and promote LGBTQ in Nigeria. Decree that only they shall bear the consequence of their evil actions.
3. John 8:34-36
Ask God’s grace for repentance and deliverance for those entrapped but wiling to be free.
4. Eph. 1:7
Plead the blood of Jesus to cleanse and justify Nigeria from the destructive consequence of sodomy.
5. Nahum 3:4-6
Pray that any preacher involved in sodomy or lesbianism shall be exposed in the name of Jesus.
6. Jer. 3:15
Pray that Nigeria shall have a new generation of leaders that will promote Godly family values and righteousness in governance.
7. Isaiah 54:13
Pray that God shall shield children and youths them from the evil influence of LGBTQ.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 2nd Dec. - Sunday 8th Dec. 2024
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8).
William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions, served the Lord in India for many years. He was very concerned about his son, Felix. The young man had promised to become a missionary, but he reneged on his vows when the Queen of England appointed him ambassador to Burma. Carey wrote to his friends, asking prayer for his son. He said, “Pray for Felix. He has degenerated into an ambassador of the British government when he should be serving the King of kings.”
If Felix were a brother in the present-day Church, he would have been crucified by his own brethren if he turned down the appointment as British ambassador to Burma and became a missionary. Some Christians would have cursed his ‘overzealousness.’ Felix’s choice, which his father described as “degeneration”, would have been the ‘perfect choice’ of many professing Christians today.
The modern Church has managed to produce many Christians whose priorities in life are not in alignment with the preference of heaven. Consequently, we have a disconnect between what Christians are and what the Scriptures call them to be. That disconnect has created a conflict within the Church, so that many believers struggle between what they read in the Bible and what their environment demands of them. To resolve the dilemma, we must return to the Scriptures for what Jesus empowered Christians to be and to do.
In one of our previous prayer calls, we pointed out that God gave the Old Testament saint the power to get wealth (Deut. 8:18) but gave the New Testament saint power to witness (Acts 1:8). It can be said therefore that the materialism that elevates the “power to get wealth” is inconsistent with the reality of New Testament life.
The word translated “witness” in Acts 1:8 is the Greek work martus, which has the same toot as “martyr”. What the Lord was saying, in effect was, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be martyrs unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
To help us to better understand what the Lord was saying in Acts 1:8, we shall render it thus, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall die for me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
Some people had to die for Christ before the gospel could reach us. That was the call that Peter, James, Paul, Matthew, Thomas, and all the other disciples of Jesus Christ obeyed; that was the call that enabled them to serve Christ in their generation. Everywhere the gospel has made impact, people have laid down their lives in obedience to Acts 1:8. The Church of Jesus Christ makes impact where men willingly lay down their lives, passions, ambitions, and reputation for the sake of the gospel. It is only when the corn of wheat falls and dies that it brings forth much fruit (John 12:24).
In our generation, God’s call for His people to be witnesses has been diverted into a call for the “power to get wealth”. That is the reason we lack men and women who are willing to defend the righteousness of Christianity with their last breath. The result is a Church that is making itself irrelevant to heaven, and lacks impact on the earth. The power of the Church is made manifest where there are people willing to lay down their lives, as Jesus commanded. The Scriptures confirm in 2 Tim. 2:11: “It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.”
Today, the Church is reeling in scandals upon scandals, and the positive impact of Christianity is no longer strong on the society. As the salt of the earth and the light of the world, the Church is failing in its commission because there are fewer people willing to be “witnesses” for Christ. Being a “witness” as Jesus commanded in Acts 1:8 is more than going out on evangelism or conducting outreaches. It implies a life that is unwavering in obedience and commitment to Christ, even to the point of death.
A “witness” for Christ in a government ministry in Nigeria, at the risk of demotion or even dismissal, should reject his ‘share’ from extra-budgetary allocations. A “witness” for Christ in politics should not steal public funds, even at the risk of not winning re-election. The “witness” for Christ in University administration should keep from embezzlement of funds, and “witnesses” for Christ in the Police, Customs, and the Army should reject inducements to abuse power and extort money from defenceless citizens.
One major area where “witnesses” are lacking is the altar. Most of those who lead the Church in this generation have shown, by words and actions, that they did not receive the power to be “witnesses” for Christ. Much of the crisis of credibility assailing the Church flows from the pulpit. The “hirelings” who have invaded the altar should be cast out. Those who get more committed to the power to get wealth than the power to die for Jesus should not be given recognition as “servants of Christ.” They are priests of Mammon.
Until Christians begin to take a stand for everything Christ represents, whatever it costs, they will make little impact in their generation. A life surrendered to the Lord lasts longer than the life that pursues the vanities of the world. The disciples were lowly and uneducated men, their only recognition being that they had “been with Jesus”. Peter, James, and John did not sit with the elites in the palace where Caesar held court; they were not one of the Senators who ruled the Roman empire. However, today, we call our sons “Peter,” “James,” and “John,” while we call our dogs “Caesar,” “Nero,” and “Brutus.” That’s the difference between lives committed to Jesus and the rest.
We received power after that the Holy Ghost came upon us. That power was to enable us to take a stand for Jesus, even if it meant death. Anyone who claims to have received the baptism in the Holy Ghost but cannot stand for truth and righteousness needs to check the power that they received. Therefore, “pray for Felix” and for every Christian whose priority in life is like that of Felix. Anyone who has placed temporary comfort and worldly recognition above the call of Jesus requires prayers. It is not wisdom to jeopardize eternal glory for temporal luxury and fame.
Every Christian must stand for Christ while there is time. For Christians in Nigeria, it is time to place righteousness above material and temporal needs. The involvement of Christians in acts of corruption must cease. Rather, they should stand for truth and righteousness at every point. That is the way to the new Nigeria. God bless you.
1. Eph. 2:8-9
Thank God for your salvation. It is by grace that we are saved. Thank God that the gospel came to Nigeria.
2. 2 Cor. 5:21
Thank God for the sacrifice of atonement through Jesus Christ. Thank God for that sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven and we are saved.
3. 2 Cor. 5:15
Pray for total commitment to Christ by all Christians. Pray that in all things, Christians shall receive grace to place Christ first.
4. 1 John 2:15-17
Pray that the glamour and fake beauty of the world will not seduce Christians away from Christ.
5. Philp. 1:20-21
Pray for purposeful determination by Christians, to do the will of God.
6. John 10:11-13
Pray that God will uproot all hirelings from the Nigeria Church, who teach errors and lead Christians away from the Good Shepherd.
7. 1 Pet. 1:13-16
Pray for the spirit of sanctification to rest upon Nigeria Christians, to be separated from sin and evil, and to be consecrated to God and His ways.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 25th Nov. - Sunday 1st Dec. 2024
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye (Matt. 7:3-5).
At present, Nigeria is going through a lot of upheavals, economically, socially, and emotionally. All accusing fingers are pointing at the people in government, with the greatest accusation going to the president of the country. While we are not excusing the APC government or the president, there are other directions in which to also point our accusing fingers.
What role have citizens played to bring Nigeria to its sorry state? What moral ground do Nigerians have to complain against disarray in the country when, at individual levels, many Nigerians are corrupt, wicked, and self-seeking?
We cannot to talk to all Nigerians, but the Bible gives us authority to address the Christians. In 2 Chro. 7:14, God says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
God confirms here that His people have “wicked ways,” that only if they repent would He hear their cry from heaven and heal their land. The conclusion is that Nigeria is going through distress because of the “wicked ways” of the “the people of God.” From all indications, the indignation might persist until the people forsake their evil ways and return to righteousness.
A few months ago, a senior official of the Central Bank of Nigeria was arrested for various acts of corruption. The stolen funds credited to that individual ran into trillions of Naira. A particular monetary policy of his, had thrown the entire country into a spin for months, to the point that a distraught man stripped himself naked in a banking hall as he was unable to withdraw his money to feed his family. When that former CBN official showed up in court after being arrested, he was carrying a Bible as big as the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. That was understandably a Christian, who identifies as one of ‘the people of God.’
Just last week, a Vice Chancellor in southern Nigeria was removed from office by the Federal Government for fraudulent claims to being a professor. His defence was described by Premium Times as “tissues of lies and misinformation.” He is a Christian. There are scandals upon scandals involving Christians in political and administrative offices, as well as in other spaces of the traditional ‘marketplace.’ The late Archbishop Benson Idahosa was reported to have said, “Many are called, but few are thieves.”
That raises a very important question: What are all the preachers in the country doing? If the Church was established by God for spiritual and moral reformation, what kind of Christians are being produced by the ministers of the gospel? There is neither reformation nor morality in the lives of many Churchgoers in Nigeria. Some of the most wicked, greedy, mean, and vindictive people in this country call themselves by the name of God. Unfortunately, many of them are even called pastors. The grave lawlessness and impunity of politicians seems kindergarten when compared to the character of some “men of God.” It could mean looking for trouble to demand accountability from some church leaders. To them, it is an affront to be called upon to account for their actions and decisions.
When Church leaders demonstrate such impunity and recklessness to accountability, what would they impart to their churchgoers? They make laws that target others but exclude themselves. Does God practise such double standard? Even corrupt politicians step down once their tenure is over, but many pastors would scheme their way on. Ironically, they preach morality.
If Nigeria is in distress today, the Christian should look in the mirror. Before pointing at the speck in the eyes of Tinubu the President, Christians should remove the log in their own eyes. God did not say, “If the president will turn from his wicked ways…”; He said, “If My people, which are called by my name ….” God is not waiting for Tinubu to change before healing Nigeria. He is waiting for Christians to change. Psalm 51:6 says, “thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” Christians should admit the role they played and are still playing in the calamities of Nigeria. When Christians collect bribes in government ministries, fornicate, and break laws without remorse, what do they expect would happen to the country?
If no one will talk to us, let us talk to ourselves. Nigerian Christians, we are not doing well in godly character. Many Christians have adopted the hypocritical and pretentious character of the Church leaders, most of whom are hirelings. They are not good shepherds. It is the Church leaders who cause division amongst the saints, and they are the people who introduce satanic doctrines that ridicule Christianity and inflame greed and vanity in the people of God.
It is good that some Christians are praying for Nigeria. It should go on. However, beyond prayers, Christians should individually appraise their character, whether it is Christlike or not. In name, many Christians follow Christ, but in character, they follow Satan. If the Church should embraces righteousness as a way of life, Nigeria will turn around for good, without delay.
Prophet Hosea wrote, ”Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up” (Hos. 6:1). It is a call for Christians in Nigeria to become Christlike. Because of the iniquity of the Church, the land is mourning. Let us call ourselves to order and stop following charismatic liars in the Church whose god is their belly.
It appears that this generation of ministers was trained in hypocrisy and greed. When they speak, they condemn immorality and corruption in the Church, but they do worse than what they condemn. The unfortunate thing is that their congregations know this, but “they love to have it so” (Jer. 5:31).
It is time to proclaim repentance in all churches. Nigeria requires healing, and the Church should quickly facilitate divine intervention. The situation in the country should not be worse than it currently is. May God have mercy on us and heal our land. Amen.
1. 2 Chro. 7:14
Confess the “wicked ways” of the people of God, and pray that God would purge the Church.
2. Mal. 3:3-5
Pray that God will purge pastors and all ministers of the gospel in Nigeria and hasten the judgment He has decreed against those who pollute His sanctuary.
3. Eph. 1:7
Plead the blood of Jesus to atone for the sins of Christians in Nigeria. Pray that God will have mercy and purify His Church.
4. Ps. 75:6-7
Pray that God would promote righteous and God-fearing men/women in the Church, to occupy leadership positions.
5. Isaiah 26:9-11
Pray that God would have mercy upon Nigeria and judge evil, wherever it is found.
6. Joel 2:28-30
Pray for revival in the land.
7. Matt. 16:19
Take authority over Satan and all the forces of darkness behind bloodshed, kidnapping, corruption, and perversion in the land. Bind and cast all those evil forces out of Nigeria.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 18th October - Sunday 24th November 2024
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full (Gen. 15:16).
Whenever iniquity is full, judgment follows. God has programmed the land in such a way that, whenever the iniquity of the people living on it is full, the land vomits them. It is a divine ordination. In Leviticus 18, God listed the iniquity of the Amorites, the descendants of Noah through Ham and Canaan. The Amorites had filled the land of Canaan with acts of sexual perversion that activated the divinely programmed judgment. This judgment occasionally takes a long time before it falls. In the case of the Amorites, it took four hundred years, while God was patient if the people would repent. Within that period, the replacement people were being prepared in Egypt.
While Israel was preparing to replace the Amorites in Canaan, God warned them about the laws of the land. They were not to commit sexual perversion, otherwise what had been programmed into the land would be activated against them. Israel thought that God was unserious. They filled the land with perversion. God’s covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did not save them. The ten northern tribes were vomited out completely, and they lost the land. The southern tribe of Judah, probably assuming that the Amorites and the northern tribes of Israel were not as special to God as they, also filled the land with perversion, and the land vomited them into Babylonian captivity.
God is warning Nigeria that her iniquity is becoming full. Already, the land has started vomiting its inhabitants. It is called the “japa syndrome.” People are being forced to leave the country in droves. Some leave through the airports, some through land borders, while others “japa” by trekking through the desert, and multitudes more are vomited into their graves. The land is vomiting its inhabitants because of the weight of iniquity upon it.
Those preparing to take over the land have arrived. They started arriving as Boko Haram. It was followed by Fulani Herdsmen, then, Al Qaeda, Islamic State West Africa Province, Ansaru, Bandits, and the latest group is called Lakurawa, that arrived from Niger Republic. They all have one thing in common: land grabbing. The land is already calling for fresh people to inhabit it. If Nigerians think that they are more special than Israel, they will soon realize that they are not, if there is no national rethink. If God could cast out Israel from the land that He swore by an oath to give to Abraham and his descendants, He will cast out any people who violate His moral standards.
What is “the iniquity of the Amorites”? Leviticus 18 summarises it as acts of sexual perversions that violate God’s moral code. Topical amongst them are: homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, incest, and paedophile. Nigeria is outwardly known as a religious country, but under its veneer of religiosity lurks the dark passions of men and women; a stench and an abomination to God. Homosexuality in Nigeria has its roots in the core north, where there are public male prostitutes called “Yan Daudu” or “Dan Daudu.” They are common there.
Homosexuality in Nigeria became a national malaise under a military ruler who ran a cult of homosexuals in the army. Members of that cult, who were referred to as his “boys,” were favoured with juicy political and administrative appointments in his government. A retired military officer boldly granted an interview in the media and revealed sordid details of the perversion that entered the army through that military ruler. The officer stated that male “bottom power” was the basis for officers’ progress in the military.
Because that evil was not checked, it was also adopted by those seeking political power in Nigeria. It is now reported as an epidemic in political circles where “godfathers” demand sodomy for political sponsorship. In the 2023 elections, some of the prominent candidates were allegedly involved in sodomy. The virus has also entered the entertainment industry in Nigeria. Many celebrities are alleged to be sodomites.
A few weeks ago, a blogger published three lists of male celebrities in Nigeria involved in sodomy. The shocking thing was that those listed did not head to the court to clear their names. Even if the legal option was not considered, it was expected that anyone falsely accused of such a grievous lifestyle in this culture would at least have done a rebuttal, yet those are the influencers on social media, that youths follow, emulating their lifestyle.
Not only in the entertainment industry but also in the banking sector it is now reported that promotion and retention of jobs in some banks is based on “bottom power.” Some banks are already notorious for employing beautiful young women and sending them out to prostitute their bodies as “marketers,” to obtain deposits from rich men. Homosexuality is fast becoming the qualification to access juicy contracts and business opportunities in the land. In secondary school boarding houses, homosexuality and lesbianism are becoming rampant. The iniquity of the Amorites is spreading in the land. The street name for it is “Agege” – not the Agege area in Lagos city, but “a-gay-gay.”
If this evil were restricted to secular circles, it might have been dismissed as a manifestation of the sin nature. Shockingly, a major Christian denomination was embroiled in a scandal a few days ago, that some of its pastors were sodomizing teenage boys. The scandal led to the suspension of two pastors while investigation continues. Who, but God, knows what is going on in other denominations and in other religions?
The matter escalated when a prophetess from USA, Sister Celestial, gave a five-hour prophecy on Nigeria in which she described the National ID of the country in heaven as sodomy. That prophecy not only described what goes on in the country but has raised the alarm that the evil has attracted divine displeasure, and God is poised to judge the land on account of the sodomy of some of the people, particularly the leaders. When political leaders get involved, it becomes a national sin. (A short clip of the prophecy is below.)
The desperation to survive is making many people vulnerable. As the economy shrinks, men become desperate to earn income and some yield ground to abominations.
As a country, Nigeria by legislation rejects sodomy in all its ramifications. We also, as citizens, reject LGBTQ and we condemn its sponsors, locally and internationally. Homosexuality is not an “alternative lifestyle” (as some have chosen to euphemistically call it), it is the highest degradation of humanity by Lucifer the enemy of God and man. Men who would otherwise loathe to touch faeces, use their manhood to pack it. When people reject the knowledge of God, they slide into a state lower than animals (Rom. 1:18-28). There is no record that animals indulge in sodomy. As dirty as the pig is, it does not; neither the goat reputed for stubbornness. It is depraved men and women, who have lost the knowledge and glory of God, who indulge in it.
In Nigeria, we have three grounds for rejecting sodomy: cultural, religious, and legal.
1. Our culture as Africans forbids sodomy.
2. Every religion practised in Nigeria is opposed to sodomy.
3. Legally, sodomy is prohibited in Nigeria by virtue of the law promulgated in January 2014. Whosoever is convicted of homosexuality is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
For the foregoing, it is time to speak out against this evil and condemn it before it destroys us as a people and cost us the land that our ancestors passed to us. They gave us this land, not sodomy.
The time has come to expose all those engaged in sodomy in Nigeria, and shame them publicly. The time has come to insist that every homosexual politician be exposed, and never be allowed back into political leadership. We should not put people into political offices only for them to use their authority as leaders to defile the land and bring curses upon us.
The Church must publicly condemn and renounce sodomy in Nigeria. That is necessary, to show God that sodomy has been judged in Nigeria, so that He would no longer need to judge the country on account of the same abomination. Such an action would be a first step to avert the potential judgment on the land for “the iniquity of the Amorites.” Christian leaders should be proactive on this matter.
Parents should also start talking to their children and warn them against sodomy. The critical education called “home training” must be activated in families. Boys and girls must be trained to resist and reject LGBTQ advancement. Once this critical education is applied at home, children will resist it wherever they encounter it. May God deliver us and heal our land. Amen.
1. Prov. 28:13
Confess the sin of sodomy in Nigeria. Acknowledge that the land has been polluted and the moral standards of God have been violated; that the people of the land have sinned against God.
2. Lev. 18:22-25
Condemn the sin of sodomy and all manners of perversion and pollution in Nigeria. Pronounce judgment on all who do it.
3. Ez. 22:23-31
Stand in the gap for Nigeria. Plead with God to judge only those who pollute the land.
4. Ez. 8:7-12
Pray for divine exposure and public shame of all who engage in sodomy and the defilement in Nigeria.
5. Joel 2:28-29
Pray that the youths in the land shall be delivered and preserved from the evil of LGBTQ. Pronounce judgment on Nigerians and foreign nationals who sponsor and promote LGBTQ in Nigeria.
6. 2 Kings 9:4-10
Pray that God will raise a righteous ruler in the land, who will execute judgment on all sodomites and all those who defile the land with bloodshed, perversion, and corruption.
7. Prov. 22:6
Pray for families, that parents shall be diligent to inculcate home training into their children; for peace and unity in marriages, to ensure that children grow up under proper parental guidance.
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MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 11th October - Sunday 17th November 2024
The shattering sounds started in the middle of the night. You were horrified to hear rapid gunshots in your neighbourhood, mingled with screams of fear and terror. Some neighbours were screaming for help. You could clearly hear some shouting, “They are killing us! They are killing us!” As you jumped out of bed in terror, there was loud banging on your gate, with gunshots, right in front of your house. The killers were trying to break in! As they banged your gate, the killers were screaming, “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!!” At once you knew the Islamist terrorists were in your neighbourhood, on a mission to murder all Christians they would find.
There was no time to search for decent clothes, mobile phones, or your ATM card. Your only instinct was survival. In your panic, you forgot where the children were in the house. You could only shout “Everybody, run, run!” As you were giving the command, you were on your way out, in a mad rush to the only escape route, the backyard fence. It remains a mystery how you managed to scale the fence. As you landed on the other side of the fence, you ran as fast as your legs could carry you far away from the house you sweated to build for your family. Even the members of your family were nowhere to be seen. Everybody had to take care of themselves.
You joined other survivors in a long trek through the night into the next community, about five kilometres away. When you looked back, at what was your home, the skyline was aglow with orange colour from burning houses. The terrorists were setting buildings on fire and killing every Christian they could sight. There were thirteen people in your house that night, but you could only see yourself. Your senses were numbed. You just trudged along like a zombie. In your confusion, you asked yourself repeatedly, “Where are the Policemen?” “Where was the Army?”
When the survivors arrived at the next community, in the early hours of the morning, they found their way into a government premises that became the IDP camp. With no clothing, no food, and no money, everyone was at the mercy of the elements. Some of the people in the host community provided wrappers for those who fled naked, and shared the little food they had. This was to be the pattern of survival for many months. No one showed up from the government. To worsen matters, no one showed up from the Church.
The most painful part of the experience was the lack of empathy from fellow Christians. You then asked, “Where is the love of Christ?” After a few days, representatives of an NGO arrived to interview the survivors, and they also brought some food relief. That was when you inquired about the Church in Nigeria. How is the Church doing?
The officials of the NGO reported that life continued as usual. The Christian brethren kept contributing money to build Cathedrals, while some “men of God” increased their fleet of exotic vehicles. A mega pastor travelled to USA with an entourage of 50 members for a 'special program' while the Church leaders from the apex body of Christianity visited the president in Aso Villa. They did not raise the issue of Christian IDPs, so that they would not offend the president. They took a group photograph with the president, and they assured him that they were praying for him to succeed and win re-election.
Then, you asked the NGO official, “Don’t they know that we are here?”
“Yes,” replied the NGO official, “they know that you are here, but they don’t care. You are not their priority.”
“But”, you protested, “Jesus said we should love one another?”
The NGO official looked at you in the face, and said bluntly, “There is a lot of difference between what the Lord said, and what men do.”
As you thought about this conversation with the NGO officials in 2014, it dawned on you that it is now 2024. You have been in the IDP camp for ten years, still, the Church has not come. Many Cathedrals have been built within that ten-year period, and many exotic vehicles have been bought, but the Christian IDPs remain neglected and abandoned.
This is a real life story, of which some Christian would say, “God forbid”. Unfortunately, some Christians are going through this situation, and some have been in the IDP camps for over ten years. They did not commit any crime.
Watchman Nee wrote in one of his books that the highest principle in the universe is the vindication of God. In every situation, God must be vindicated. In the case of the persecuted Christians in Nigeria, God made sufficient arrangements for the persecuted Christians to be taken care of, and the genocide to be prevented. In 2014, while Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor was the president of CAN, God initiated a program of fund mobilization to take care of persecuted Christians in Nigeria and a Strategy Document to be implemented to curtail the excesses of the Islamists. Pastor Oritsejafor accepted the proposals and was instrumental in getting both approved by the National Executive Committee of CAN in 2014 and 2015 before his tenure came to an end and he vacated the office. If those plans had subsequently been executed, the trajectory of Nigeria today would have been different because, the right steps would have been taken. God made adequate arrangements to take care of the persecuted Christians. God is vindicated.
After Pastor Oritsejafor left office as the president of CAN, those who took over from him had other priorities. God did not neglect the persecuted Christians, men did. According to the plan of God, no Christian in Nigeria should have remained in an IDP camp as of 2024.
If some Church leaders acted the way that they did, how about the individual Christians? Should they also follow suit? On Judgment Day, we shall stand as individuals before Christ to render account. If each Christian in Nigeria should contribute a minimum N500 a month to support persecuted Christians, a pool of funds should be available to succour the brethren languishing in the IDP camps.
What has happened to the persecuted Christians could have happened to any Christian. They did not commit any crime, neither did they offend God. They only chose to be Christians, just like every other Christian. Their misfortune is that they were born in the part of the country where the Islamists operate. How many Christians would wish to be neglected the way the IDPs have been neglected by the Nigeria Church?
It is time for all Christians in Nigeria to repent and change their attitude towards their persecuted brethren. While it may not be possible to reach the Church leaders who evidently live in another realm, individual Christians can still be reached. The reader of this prayer call has been reached and he/she can reach other Christians. Let us join hands to demonstrate the love of Christ. We can afford to give, no matter how little it may be.
For more information about how to support persecuted Christians, please visit www.layfaithful.org/donate
May we not encounter this kind of evil in the days of our pilgrimage on earth. God bless you.
1). Matt. 25:31,41-46
Confess the sin of Nigeria Church in neglecting the persecuted Christians in the country. In neglecting the persecuted Christians, the Church neglected Christ.
2). Rev. 3:19
Pray for genuine repentance in the Church, that will propel Christians to take care of the persecuted Christians.
3). Rom. 2:5-6
Pray for the judgment of God on all in the Church who callously prevented help from reaching the persecuted Christians.
4). Isaiah 26:5-8
Pray God’s judgment on all the terrorists and their sponsors, locally and internationally, for their unprovoked and unwarranted attacks on the saints of God in Nigeria.
5). Matt. 25:30
Pray God’s judgment on all government and security officials who failed in their responsibility to protect persecuted Christians.
6). Isaiah 40:1-5
Pray for comfort, encouragement, and strength for the persecuted.
7). Isaiah 45:12-13
Pray that God will raise righteous leadership in the country, that will execute judgment on all religious fundamentalists and ensure that the Christian IDPs return to their ancestral homelands peacefully.
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