The NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 24th – Sunday 30th Nov. 2025
REVEREND NEBUCHADNEZZAR
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him (Jer. 27:6-7).
On 1st July 2016, God gave a vision in which He made it clear that His word to Nigeria was Jeremiah 27. That message was delivered in November 2016 at the annual National Prophetic Conference in Ibadan. It was explained that Buhari carried the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar, and he would not die, and after him would come “his son, and his son's son” (Jer. 27:7). It was further explained that unless the Church genuinely repented, there would be three generations of "Nebuchadnezzar" to trouble the land. Following that message was a call for national repentance. Christians generally participated, but Church leaders did not.
In August 2021, God spoke directly to a group of Christian Elders in Lagos, who wrote, “We heard expressly from the LORD that He is ANGRY with the leadership of His Church in Nigeria ... that He did not command His Church to be silent and He will hold everyone concerned individually and collectively responsible and accountable for the unrestrained run of evil in the land.” None of the Church leaders who received that letter responded, even though it reached many of them by hand.
Now, there is another call for prayers in the Church. Will the leaders, whom God is waiting for, offer genuine repentance? Will the Church leaders who endorsed APC and facilitated its coming to power in 2015 come out and publicly renounce their actions the same way they publicly promoted APC? Will they who negated the warning from God in 2014 that APC must not be allowed to form a government, come out now to renounce their deeds? Will those Christian leaders who received money from corrupt politicians and offered them “Christian” support in the elections of 2015, 2019, and 2023 come out publicly to confess and repent of their treachery? Will those who are already transacting business for 2027 elections desist and return the money that they have received? Will those callous Church leaders who were taking money from Muslim leaders and politicians while their brethren are languishing in IDP camps renounce their compromise?
Sometimes, prayer seems cheaper than repentance, even though the cost at last is larger. During the National Prophetic Conference of November 2016, God said, “Nigeria Christians are praying and fasting, but they are not repenting”. Based on that word, under the auspices of National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF), National Prayers of Repentance commenced in 2018. It was on the third occasion in 2020 that God spoke from Matt. 3:8: "Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance;” in effect, produce evidence that the Nigeria Church has repented. To date, that evidence is not available.
A video of this message to the Church was produced on 14th June 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KgSD1GJvU&list=UULFtx_qQ69M0sTjSgXzos7h0A&index=182
There are calls now to prayer, but not to “repentance”. For some Christians, there's nothing in the Church to warrant the wrath of God, manifest in the ongoing atrocities of the terrorists. Prov. 16:7 says, "When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him," and in Jer. 27:7, that " And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come." Nigeria is in the era of “his son”. Only genuine repentance can save the country from the era of “his son’s son,” according to that message delivered in 2016.
“If God be for us, who can be against us?” Paul asks rhetorically in Romans 8:31. But the other side of the coin is, if God be against us, who can defend us (1 Samuel 2:25)?
In Jeremiah 27:6, God introduced King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon as “my servant.” That is an honourable title generally reserved for priests, pastors, and preachers. We call them servants of God. Wasn’t God making a mistake by ascribing that hallowed title to a heartless heathen king? If that were even a Cyrus, who supported the restoration of the Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of the temple, we would understand, but a vicious Nebuchadnezzar! Hmmm… Scripture asserts that truth is usually confirmed “in the mouth of two or three witnesses.” In Jeremiah 25:9 and 43:10 also, that king is repeatedly and publicly introduced by Jehovah as “Nebuchadnezzar…my servant.” In other words, Rt. Rev. Nebuchadnezzar of the ‘Babylon Province’ was no less a servant of God than Elijah or Jeremiah or Peter or Paul; no less anointed for his 'special divine assignments' than any other "servant" of God.
The servants of God are not all priests; they are not all Jews (Romans 13:6). Rev Nebuchadnezzar was a “servant” of God, but of a different order than that of the priesthood of Aaron.
Every minister is ordained to serve. Evangelist Nebuchadnezzar was also ordained to minister to the Lord, in a very strange way. He invaded Jerusalem and deported a first batch of about 10,000 Jews comprising princes of Israel, several nobles, and the finest craftsmen from the holy land to Babylon (2 Kings 24:14-16). That number included Daniel and Ezekiel who became a prophet in diaspora. That vicious invader was “Nebuchadnezzar … my servant.” He besieged Jerusalem the capital city of Judah. The siege caused God’s people much pain. That tormentor, according to God, was, “Nebuchadnezzar … my servant.”
Bishop Nebuchadnezzar broke down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt down her gates, making that city such a global reproach that, even after many years, the news of its desolations troubled Nehemiah into months of tearful intercession (Nehemiah 1:1-4; 2:1). That destroyer was God's “servant.” Apostle Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple of God and carried away the sacred utensils to the heathen land of Babylon (Daniel 5:1-4). He was “Nebuchadnezzar … my servant.”
In his eventual capture of Jerusalem the seat of David’s throne, the city was burned down, countless people were killed, and others more taken away as captives into far away Babylon, forcing Prophet Jeremiah into his sombrous Lamentations. The General Overseer of the inflictors of those disasters was an ordained “servant” of the Most High God. His peculiar ‘ministry’ was to kill, conquer or destroy the people of God and other stubborn nations.
God warned in Jeremiah 34:2 as well as in other places, that He would “give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.” In Jeremiah 27:6, He said that He had already “given all these lands” as well as the “beasts of the field” to that man ordained to kill, to destroy, to trouble the rebellious people of God. He was a special Man of God, an “MOG.”
You should fear when your God hires your enemy against you, because He has been unable to get your penitent attention otherwise. When that happens, your real problem would not be the ‘enemy’ but the Offended God that has hired him. Fighting such an enemy is a waste of time, energy, and resources. You will never win, no matter how much you fast, no matter how many prophets of Samaria you hire to curse him, no matter how many times you ‘bind and loose.’ Your only hope would be to make peace with the Master of that oppressor – the Offended God.
Sadly, it is usually easier to pray than to repent. Our cities have been ruined and our women raped, still we pray. Our young men have been exiled by force of a merciless economy to faraway lands from which many of them will never return, still we pray, contending against the uncommon servants of God than turn to the One that has commissioned them against us. From polluted pulpits and stained pews we have impotently cursed Apostle Nebuchadnezzar day and night, yet he blossoms into a global head of gold while we dwindle and die as the famished feet of clay.
When Solomon backslid, “the LORD stirred up an adversary” against him. When he still would not repent, “God stirred him up another adversary … Rezon the son of Eliadah” (1 Kings 11:14, 23; 2 Chronicles 21:16). Terrorists on divine assignment!
Not only against stubborn individuals but also against stubborn sinning communities God deploys the same approach (1 Chron. 5:26; 1 Sam. 26:19). When God hires your enemies against you, you waste your prayers fighting them, as some have done for many days. Alas, when shall the Church repent, throw the lying and greedy prophets out of the sanctuary, go prostrate before the Lord in sincere tears, and say, “O Lord, have mercy upon us”? Sometimes, it is easier to pray than to repent, even in the throes of death. We seem to be there now, but God wants genuine repentance, not more prayers.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Neh. 1:5-11
Proclaim and pray in repentance on behalf of the Church.
2. Dan. 9:5-10
Pray in repentance on behalf of Nigeria.
3. Joel 2:15-17
Repent on behalf of the priesthood in the Nigeria Church
4. Mal. 3:2-3
Pray that God shall purge from the Church all ministers who defile the sanctuary.
5. Matt. 3:8
Pray that God shall grant grace to the Nigeria Church to produce the fruit of repentance.
6. Ps. 80:4-7
Pray that God will have mercy upon Nigeria.
7. Joel 2:18-20
Pray that for the sake of Jesus Christ, God will remove His indignation from Nigeria and pity His people.
