Monday 24th February - Sunday 2nd March 2025

 

THE DAY OF VISITATION

 

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. Amen