MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 2nd Dec. - Sunday 8th Dec. 2024
PRAY FOR FELIX
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).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 25th Nov. - Sunday 1st Dec. 2024
PULL OUT THE LOG FROM YOUR OWN EYES
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).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 18th - Sunday 24th November 2024
THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES
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 Lak Urawa, 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.
PRAYER POINTS
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. Amen
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 11th - Sunday 17th November 2024
THE NEGLECTED ONES
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.
PRAYER POINTS
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. Amen
The MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 4th - Sunday 10th November 2024
THE PROPHETIC DECLARATION TO NIGERIA CHRISTIANS
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins (Isaiah 58:1)
Some years ago, the Lord gave a revelation to an elderly Nigerian evangelist concerning the state of the Church in Nigeria. In that revelation, the leader of a large denomination in Nigeria was leading a massive crowd along a road. His sheep dutifully followed him. Suddenly, the leader was blind in both eyes. The congregation, following, could only see his back and was unaware that disaster had struck the leader. The blind leader had veered off the road and run into a bush. The congregation followed, none of them raising an alarm that they had left the road. The deeper the leader went into the bush, so relentlessly the people followed.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 28th October - Sunday 3rd November 2024
THE PARABLE OF THE FISHLESS FISHERMEN
by John M. Drescher
“And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4:19).
Now it came to pass that there was a group that called themselves “fishermen.” And lo, there were many fishes in the waters all around; in the streams and lakes, and the fishes were hungry. Week after week, month after month, and year after year, those fishermen met at meetings and talked about their call to fish, the abundance of fish, and how they might go about fishing. Year after year, they carefully defined what fishing meant, defended fishing as an occupation, and declared that fishing was always to be a primary task of fishermen.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 21st - Sunday 27th October 2024
UNDERSTANDING THE WORD OF GOD: LOGOS AND RHEMA
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1).
In the past few weeks, we have been examining various issues in the Church in anticipation of the much-awaited revival. Expectedly, some of the prayer calls elicited notable responses, especially from some who considered their concept of “Christianity” challenged. In the past few prayer calls, we have posed questions like, “Where did the prosperity message come from?”, “What is the purpose of the Church?”, and last week we sought to highlight the misalignment of Old and New Testament principles, resulting in a distortion of heavenly focus for many New Testament saints.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 14th - Sunday 20th October 2024
THE JUDAIZING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH
The Scofield Reference Bible laments what it describes as “the Judaizing of the New Testament Church,” referring to a practice in the Church in which the principles, regulations, and practices of Judaism are applied to New Testament saints. According to Cyrus I. Scofield, the practice has greatly hindered the Church from fulfilling its mission, both to God and to men.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 7th - Sunday 13th October 2024
THE TRAGEDY OF A REVIVAL
I see a crowd
I see cash
I see cars
But I do not see Christ
- Pastor S. G. Elton
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 30th Sept. - Sunday 6th October 2024
3 THINGS CHRISTIANS MUST KNOW
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him (Eph. 1:17).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 23rd - Sunday 29th September 2024
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH?
”When purpose is not known, abuse becomes inevitable” Myles Munroe.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 16th - Sunday 22nd September 2024
WHERE DID THE “PROSPERITY MESSAGE” COME FROM?
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matt. 6: 24).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 9th - Sunday 15th September 2024
THE SILENT CONSTRUCTION SITE
When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built (1 Kings 6:7).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 2nd - Sunday 8th September 2024
THE HYPOCRISY OF A FATHER
Years ago, in Germany, there was a young Jewish boy who had a profound sense of admiration for his father. The life of the family centred around the acts of piety and devotion prescribed by their religion. The father was zealous in attending worship and instruction and demanded the same from his children. While the boy was a teenager, the family was forced to move to another town in Germany. In the new location, there was no synagogue, and the people all attended the Lutheran Church. Suddenly, the father announced to the family that they were all going to abandon their Jewish tradition and join the Lutheran Church. When the stunned family asked why, the father explained that it was necessary to help his business. The youngster was bewildered and confused. His deep disappointment soon gave way to anger and a kind of intense bitterness that plagued him throughout his life.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 26th August - Sunday 1st September 2024
VANITY PROJECTS
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent (Acts 17: 30).
he NATIONAL PRAYER ALTAR
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 19th - Sunday 25th August 2024
AT THE BORDER OF THE PROMISED LAND
“… ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. (Isa. 62:6–7).
Two seemingly contradictory revelations from heaven were shared last week at the National Prayer Altar. While they appeared to be conflicting, to the discerning, both revelations were saying the same thing: a new Nigeria is going to be birthed.
In one revelation, a sister saw two Cherubim in a prayer posture, in-between them the Ark of the Covenant. From the mercy seat came forth the coat of arms of Nigeria. In her dream and in her flesh, the sister started screaming for joy, until her husband woke her up, wondering what 'nightmare' was making her to scream in her sleep. The import of the revelation is clear: a new covenant-country is about to emerge.
In the other revelation, a 15-year-old girl who has demonstrated prophetic integrity said she was shown that the military took over power, and great calamity came upon the country. She reported that the Lord said to her that "the Church should rise up and pray immediately against the military takeover and the calamity prepared to befall our nation Nigeria."
Both revelations are saying the same thing, that there is a plan of goodness for Nigeria from God, but Satan has not retired from from his evil plots. It is left for the Church to decide on which side the pendulum should swing.
In the wake of some protesters in northern Nigeria carrying the Russian flag during the just concluded national protest against hunger, the signal of a military takeover should not be taken lightly by intercessors. It would be a great setback for Nigeria if the military should return to power. If there should be another military incursion into power, it is not difficult to predict from which section of the geographical and religious divide in the country the coup plotters would come from. Of greater apprehension would be their allegiance to the oppressive forces seeking to dominate Nigeria. The implication of such a takeover is that all the obnoxious attempts to appropriate the lands of indigenous ethnic nationalities, which have been resisted through the instrumentality of the Constitution, would be done without any hinderance. The military rules by decrees, not by a constitution. RUGA can be imposed by a decree, and the water ways can be appropriated by a decree.
The issue now is no longer whether one approves of the APC or not. There is a greater danger looming over the horizon, and the Church must intensify prayers for God’s divine intervention. Some apparent compatriots have shown that they are determined to persist in evil, irrespective of its cost to the country. They are forces that kept mute in the eight years of Buhari’s misadventure with power.
As mentioned in the prayer call entitled “When Will the Church Save Nigeria?”, Christians must accept responsibility for birthing a new nation, and ensure that their words and conducts match their utterances in prayer. It is not enough that Christians travail in prayers for the country. They must, in addition, ensure that they live exemplary lives that will promote righteousness in the land.
The season calls for greater circumspection by Christians about the role of Church leadership in national affairs. On multiple occasions, the spiritual authority of the Church was misused by some Church leaders who were merchants in the sanctuary, to endorse evil leaders in the country. The pursuit of selfish interest in the Church is what brought Nigeria to its knees. Christians must be on the alert to demand accountability from such transactional leaders. It is not rebellion to resist Church leaders whose actions threaten the corporate interest of the Church. The often repeated intimidation is that only God can correct His servant. That has no basis in the Scriptures.
Nigeria is at the brink of destiny. Heaven has shown that a new country could either arise out of the Holy of Holies or the country could suffer a setback and begin afresh. The Church has the responsibility of ensuring that a covenant country emerges.
Let no one be in doubt about the future of Nigeria. A new country shall emerge. God has spoken it. When God speaks, it comes to pass. What we do not know is how quickly we would cooperate with Him to bring His will to a pass in the country. The children of Israel reached the border of the Promised Land two years after they left Egypt. There at the border, they rebelled and returned into the wilderness for an extra thirty-eight years, until that generation of rebels perished.
This generation of Christians in Nigeria must be careful. Upon them lies the responsibility for the emergence of a new Nigeria. The weak link in the Church has been its leadership. The transactional spirit that many Christian leaders have exhibited has done great harm to the Body of Christ and to the country. They have been able to get away with it because their Christian brethren do not demand accountability from them, under the guise of respecting spiritual leaders. Transactional leadership in the Church must cease. The Church of Jesus Christ is not a commodity to be put up for sale to any politician.
In this season, “watch and pray” is indispensable. All Christians must be on the alert, physically and spiritually, all over the country. Satan must not be permitted to set the country back tragically at the border of the Promised Land.
PRAYER POINTS
1). Isaiah 43:18–19
Thank God for the vision of a new Nigeria. Thank God that it shall come, and it shall not fail.
2). Isaiah 14: 27
Decree that no conspiracy by the kingdom of darkness will frustrate the emergence of a new Nigeria.
3). Isaiah 46: 9 -10
Decree again that, concerning Nigeria, the counsel of the Almighty God shall stand. The new Nigeria shall come forth.
4). Zech. 1:18–21
Pray for the release of the four carpenters of heaven, to scatter all the forces that are working against God’s purpose for Nigeria. Take authority over the forces of darkness that are oppressing Nigerians.
5). Isaiah 29:5–8 Pronounce judgment upon all the forces threatening a military takeover in Nigeria, to promote sectional ethnic and religious interests. Cancel all their plans. Decree that they shall be like chaff before the wind.
6). 1 Pet. 4:17
Pray that God will arise and judge all Christian leaders who collaborate with the enemies of God and the foes of Nigeria, for their selfish interests.
7). 2 Cor. 12:9
Pray mercy and grace for Nigeria, that the country shall not fail at the border of the Promised Land.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 12th - Sunday 18th August 2024
WHO SHOOK THE JAR?
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matt. 5:9).
“A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.”
- James Freeman Clarke
REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE ON:
"ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: UNMASKING THE PUPPET MASTERS"
8th April 2023
BACKGROUND
The National Prayer Altar is an interdenominational and international platform of Christians who meet daily at 9pm to pray for Nigeria. The National Prayer Altar commenced daily prayers on 18th April, 2022.
As a company of intercessors committed to the birth of a new Nigeria in which righteousness, justice, and peace shall reign, the National Prayer Altar is alarmed at the ethnic conflicts that have trailed the 2023 governorship election in Lagos State. Of particular concern is the tension being created between the Igbos and the Yorubas, the two major nationalities in the south of Nigeria.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 5th - Sunday 11th August 2024
WHEN WILL THE CHURCH SAVE NIGERIA?
LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy (Hab. 3: 2, NIV).
John Calvin wrote: “When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers”.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 29th July - Sunday 4th August 2024
THE 9TH AGENDA
Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3: 3).
A few weeks ago, we published under the prayer call entitled “The Samoa Agreement,” the 10-point agenda of Alice Bailey aimed at the establishment of the New World Order. That satanic 10-point agenda currently guides the policies of most Western nations. Today, we shall revisit that agenda for the purpose of prayers on another issue that is of paramount importance to Nigeria. First, we need to represent the entire agenda to enable us to understand the context within which today’s prayer call is based.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 22nd - Sunday 28th July 2024
THE GODLY SEED
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell (Prov. 23: 13 - 14).
In a viral video on social media, a Muslim cleric based in Florida, USA, was boasting to a Muslim congregation that churches were “emptying out” because the younger generation was no longer interested in Christianity. He bragged that Church buildings were becoming empty, and Muslims were purchasing the properties.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 15th - Sunday 21st July 2024
THE VISION OF THE TREE
A few days ago, during our regular prayers, a brother shared his unique experiences over days, culminating in a profound dream with significance for Nigeria. A flash interpretation to the dream was provided. This indicated that it was a vision about a great political figure who was soon to fall in the country after his house of beasts shall have risen against him as his leviathan powers are judged. Days later, a more insightful interpretation was provided, with an impressive clarification of the season that now is. Both the vision and that interpretation are provided below.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 8th - Sunday 14th July 2024
THE SAMOA AGREEMENT
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants (Lev. 18: 25).
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 1st - Sunday 7th July 2024
THE POVERTY OF COURAGE
And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. (1 Sam. 17: 24).
Last week, during the nightly intercessory prayers for Nigeria at the National Altar, a distinguished professor, while leading prayers, lamented what she called the “poverty of courage” in the land. Evil, corruption, unrighteousness, injustice, and perversion have pervaded the land because “men” are no longer standing as “men”.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 24th - Sunday 30th June 2024
WHAT DO YORUBA PEOPLE MEAN BY “SERIA”?
This prayer call analyses the impact of political ideologies on Nigeria. There are currently two conflicting political ideologies contesting for supremacy in the constitution. The consequence of the contest is the dysfunctionality of the Nigerian state. It is in the interest of Nigerians that this contest is resolved in favour of the political ideology upon which Nigeria was established as a country.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 10th - Sunday 16th June 2024
NLC: THE CONSTITUTION IS THE PROBLEM, NOT WAGE INCREASE
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors, there is safety (Prov. 11: 14).
We commend the leaders and members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), with all their affiliate bodies, for rising to the challenge of defending the rights of the ordinary citizen in Nigeria. The recent nationwide strike of the labour should be a wake-up call to a self-seeking and heartless political class, that it can no longer continue to take Nigerians for granted.
In the prayer call of 25th – 31st May 2024, we carried an article entitled “WHO OWNS NIGERIA?” In that prayer call, we highlighted the 1999 Constitution (as amended) as the bane of the Nigerian society. We further highlighted four areas in which the 1999 Constitution (as amended) negatively impacts Nigeria.
The 3rd – 4th June 2024 warning strike of NLC aims at negotiating better wages for Nigerian workers. This is a noble objective, but it falls far from the goal of making life easy for all Nigerians. It does not matter how much salary increase labour leaders are able to negotiate, inflation will wipe it off as soon as it arrives. Nigeria is no longer productive, because it runs a dysfunctional constitution that chokes the life out of the constituent units in the country and prevents them from working. Therefore, any salary increase at this time will harm the economy. It will be too much money chasing too few goods.
There was a time in Nigeria when the monthly salary of a university graduate was N484.00. At that time, monthly rent for a three-bedroom flat was N200.00 in some cities, while a brand-new car was N4,804. This was in 1984. Today, both the rent and the car are priced in millions while the monthly salary of the graduate must be in six figures for it to make sense. Even for a graduate earning a monthly salary of N100,000 today, he will have to make do with the minimum basics of life to survive the month.
Therefore, when NLC and TUC repeatedly propose certain figures as new national minimum wage, what do they think would happen to the economy? Are we going to purchase a loaf of bread for N100,000? If labour is piqued with the irresponsible legislators who allocate to themselves humungous monthly salaries and allowances, the solution is not a tit-for-tat humongous salary increase across board. An eye-for-an-eye will make everyone blind.
There is a better way to handle the problem, and it will not cost the labour unions any extra effort, but it will guarantee maximum benefit for everyone in the country. The same nationwide strike and shutting down of services (excluding essential services) is all that is required, and far-reaching rewards will accrue to all the citizens.
The problem of Nigeria is not lack of money. Nigeria is a stupendously rich country, but its sovereignty has been hijacked. At present, Nigerians are not free citizens in their country. Some faceless forces have hijacked the liberty of the people and turned them into “dhimmis”, second-class citizens, in their country. What labour is doing is akin to slaves going on strike in a sugarcane plantation for better treatment. Even if they obtain the better treatment, they are still slaves. Is it not better to fight for freedom?
The sponsors of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) usurped the sovereign right of Nigerians to give the country a constitution and organize Nigeria according to their wish. Nigerians are suffering today because they did not organize Nigeria in its present manner. It was done by a group of forces, who blatantly lied by claiming that “WE THE PEOPLE” of Nigeria produced the 1999 Constitution (as amended) when, in fact, WE THE PEOPLE knew nothing about it. It is an act of treason. It is that illegitimate constitution that has locked up Nigeria in a cell of poverty and death. This is what NLC and TUC should resolve and not wage increase.
In the prayer call of 25th – 31st March 2024, we highlighted four areas (amongst many others) in which the 1999 Constitution (as amended) is harming Nigerians.
Those four areas are:
1. Insecurity
2. Unemployment and poverty
3. Religious intolerance
4. Corruption
If leaders of labour could concentrate on getting a new Constitution for Nigeria, they would resolve these four harmful points, as well as the many unnamed others. Then, there would be no need for any salary increase. Employment opportunities will blossom. There would be peace and safety all over the country. The cases of insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism will die a natural death. Productivity will increase all over the country and each constituent part will generate its electricity and provide effective transportation system for the people. The quality of education will improve, and it will be free. Quality healthcare will be accessible to all citizens and the brain drain of medical personnel will cease. The cost of foodstuff will drop as farming activities will resume in full scale all over the country. All these will make life easier for all the citizens.
There are two ways to go about the new Constitution:
1. There could be a demand for an immediate return to the 1963 Republican Constitution. This can be achieved within a few months with minor amendments. A transition program can be put in place for the current political office holders till 2027 when their tenure will end. If the country can revert to the Independence Anthem, why can it not revert to the Independence Constitution?
2. The other option is for a conference of ethnic nationalities to be convened for the various constituent units to renegotiate Nigeria and develop a new constitution from their negotiations.
All these can be achieved in 2024.
The fraudulent and illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended) acknowledges in its Section 14 (2)a that “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority;” This being the case, labour should reclaim the sovereignty of the people over Nigeria so that the country can be organized by the people in a manner that will benefit the citizens. The sovereignty of Nigeria has been hijacked. This is the reason votes no longer count and courts have replaced the ballot box.
If NLC and TUC are truly desirous of helping Nigerian workers, they should focus on resolving the constitutional dispute in the country and leave wage increase. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
God bless Nigeria.
If this prayer call makes sense to you, kindly share it until it gets to leaders of NLC and TUC.
PRAYER POINTS
1). Prov. 11: 14
Pray for Godly counsel to guide Nigerians in positions of authority and influence so that they can use their positions to lead the country aright.
2). 2 Samuel 15: 31; Ezekiel 11: 2
Pray that God will overturn every evil and wicked counsel that is working against the peace and progress of Nigeria. Pray that God will silence all evil speakers within and outside Nigeria.
3). Isaiah 28: 14 – 15
Pray that every covenant that some political leaders have entered into with forces of darkness, that makes them insensitive to the suffering of the people, shall be annulled, in the name of Jesus Christ.
4). 2 Cor. 11: 13 – 15
Pray for the swift judgment of God on Church leaders who entered into covenant with marine spirits and traffic with the occult while claiming to be servants of Jesus Christ.
5). Isaiah 27: 1
Take authority over the spirit of leviathan and bind its power and influence over Nigeria. Pray that the judgment of God shall come swiftly upon leviathan, and it shall be cut off from Nigeria.
6). Isaiah 25: 6 – 8
Pray that all Nigerians shall arise in one accord and demand a new constitution for the country. Pray that the veil and the spell placed upon the country shall be destroyed.
7). Col. 2: 14 – 15
Decree and nullify every constitution, decree, treaty, ordinance, byelaw, and any regulation in Nigeria that causes oppression, suppression, and regression of the country and the people. Amen.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 3rd - Sunday 9th June 2024
THE CALENDAR OF GOD
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. (Eccl. 8: 6).
God is Sovereign. For every purpose upon earth, God has a time and a judgment. Once the calendar of God starts running, it can neither be interrupted nor abrogated. There are instances in which God gives man an idea of His calendar. A situation might not seem pleasant or palatable, but it could fit into God’s eternal purpose. Under such conditions, it does not matter how much prayer, fasting, or cries one offers, the calendar will run its full course.
However, because God is sovereign, He might also decide to break into His calendar and accelerate events, as indicated in Matt. 24:22: "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened". Whenever God breaks into His own calendar, it is amazing grace.
In His dealings with nations, God establishes programs of action to purge, prepare, or preserve the people, for His purpose. We see two examples of such dealings with Israel in which the nation went through a calendar of fire to prepare and purge the people to fulfill God’s purpose.
That is where it gets interesting. Once God commences His calendar, its termination or fullness of time is left to the people. If they are alert, they will terminate the calendar at its fulness of time. However, if the people are rebellious or careless, they could extend the calendar. This is true for nations as well as for individuals.
In Daniel 9: 2, Daniel wrote, "In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Daniel was on the alert, waiting for the seventy years to be accomplished for the Jews in Babylon. He did not pray before the seventy years were completed, because he knew it would not work. The prophetic calendar had to run its full course.
Daniel was still on his knees when the answer came from heaven. "And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation" (Dan. 9: 20-21). Heaven was waiting for the nation to arise and demand a termination of the calendar of judgment. Only one man understood the times and the seasons. That single individual ended the calamity for the entire nation.
We find another example in Gen. 15: 13. God told Abraham, "... Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years" The calendar of God for Israel in Egypt was 400 years. They spent 30 extra years. When Moses started stirring in the 390th year, they drove Moses away with, "who made thee a prince and a judge over us?" Moses fled to Midian for forty years. That was what brought their servitude in Egypt to 430 years. They extended the calendar by 30 years.
There is an interesting historical account in the public domain that concerns the calendar of God for Nigeria. In that account, Uthman Dan Fodio was shown a vision in which he was told that the empire which he had built on blood would last for 200 years. That was in 1804. In 2004, the Caliphate publicly celebrated its 200 years of existence. What does that tell us? Where were the Daniels in the land to mark the calendar? Twenty years after, in 2024, the throne is still exerting an influence over Nigeria and exercising power in the politics, economy, religion, as well as the sponsorship of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
At the dot of the 200 years, God made sure that the throne celebrated the calendar for the whole world to know that the time was up for them. It was a valedictory celebration. Unfortunately, Nigerians did not catch the signal.
The Church leaders who, as the gatekeepers over the land, should have given direction to the people, were consumed with the vanity and covetousness of the world. Consequently, they could neither discern the times nor the seasons God appointed for Nigeria. As a matter of fact, when some of them were reminded about the importance of the season, they were offended. Because there was no understanding of visions, the people continued to perish. Prov. 29: 18
Certain thrones are still speaking in Nigeria while, in the calendar of God, they are dead thrones. Their time has run out. It is therefore not strange that death has filled the land. Dead thrones cannot dispense life, only death.
In a previous prayer call, it was mentioned that the currency to pay for empires is blood. Every empire is built on the foundation of blood. Once the duration of an empire expires, if the beneficiaries do not want it to die, they must pay double the amount of blood that was paid to establish it in the first instance. The calendar of an empire ended in 2004, five years later, in 2009, massive bloodshed started in Nigeria. Connect the dots. An empire whose tenure has expired is still tenaciously clinging to power in Nigeria by attempting to double the blood price.
A few months ago, God gave a revelation, that Heaven had ended the tenure of some thrones in Nigeria. However, like Daniel, the people must pray them out so that the demonic Prince of Persia would give way. The major assignment now is to travail in prayer and remind God that His calendar for Nigeria is due. It is 20 years overdue. Gather the wailing women. Call together the mourning women. Jer. 9: 17 - 18. Let them lament the desolation of the land and the breach of the divine calendar.
Let the hosts of heaven mobilize into Nigeria and enforce the divine order. A new light has dawned for this country. It is the era of the Son of God. "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, that the King of Glory" may enter Nigeria.
Nigeria, arise and shine, for your light is come. The glory of God is risen upon Nigeria.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Dan. 2: 20 – 22
Thank God for revealing to His people the mystery of His calendar for Nigeria. Thank Him for changing the times and the seasons for the country.
2. Dan. 9: 2
Remind God that while His calendar for Israel in Babylon was 70 years, His calendar for Nigeria was 200 years. Call upon God to end the desolation of Nigeria just as He ended the desolation of Israel in Babylon.
3. Ez. 32: 18 – 27
Pray that every dead throne that is still speaking in Nigeria be dismantled and buried in 2024.
4. Isaiah 49: 24 – 26
Pray that every evil structure that is sustaining oppression, regression, and suppression in Nigeria be dismantled in 2024.
5. Rev. 12: 10 – 11
Plead the Blood of Jesus to silence and nullify the power of every blood that has been shed as sacrifice to keep Nigeria in bondage to dead thrones.
6. Rev. 12: 7 – 9
Pray that the hosts of God shall be released by God into Nigeria to drive Satan and his forces out of the country the way they were driven out of heaven.
7. Isaiah 60: 1 – 2 Proclaim the glory of the Lord over Nigeria.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 27th - Sunday 2nd June 2024
COMMUNIQUE
NIGERIA: THE DILEMMA AND THE WAY OUT
In furtherance of its efforts at providing solutions to the challenges facing Nigeria, the National Prayer Altar, in addition to its daily prayers for Nigeria, organized a conference to provide practical solutions to the problems of the country.
At the end of the Prayer Conference, the participants agreed as follows:
1. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) is a major obstacle to the peace, progress, and prosperity of Nigeria.
2. The Conference was unanimous that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) fails every test of a sovereign document for a federal system of government and should be decommissioned without further delay.
3. The Conference disagreed with the amendment exercise currently being undertaken by the National Assembly and insists that a fraudulent and illegitimate document cannot be amended; it must be discarded and replaced.
4. The Conference also stated unequivocally that a constitution can only be negotiated, not legislated into existence the way the 1979 Constitution was done via Military Decree 104 and Military Decree 24 for the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
5. Participants called on the ethnic nationalities to fulfil their responsibility and take steps to give Nigeria new constitutional arrangements.
6. The Conference acknowledged that the 1963 Republican Constitution still stands as the only authentic constitution of Nigeria in existence, having been negotiated at several conferences in Lagos and in London, before it was finally approved in July of 1963 at the Constitutional Conference in Lagos.
7. The Conference also acknowledged that the 1963 Constitution was only suspended by Gen. Ironsi’s Decree 1 of 1966; not abrogated.
8. The Conference affirmed that it was an error for the Military to have introduced the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions while the 1963 Constitution was still in place.
9. The Conference appreciated the efforts of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) in the past twenty-five years to resolve the constitutional dispute in Nigeria occasioned by the illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended).
10. The Conference acknowledged the five-fold proposition of NINAS as a veritable roadmap for the consideration of the ethnic nationalities to resolve the constitutional impasse in Nigeria.
11. The Conference agreed that new constitutional arrangements can be introduced in 2024 while a transition can be put in place for the government, till 2027.
12. The Conference lamented the apathy of intellectuals and religious leaders in the country to issues that threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria notwithstanding the genocide that has been unleashed on many ethnic nationalities.
13. The Conference affirmed that the ethnic nationalities do not require the permission of the government to meet and produce new constitutional arrangements for the country.
14. It was equally affirmed that the role of the National Assembly is to make laws and not to produce a Constitution. The responsibility of producing a constitution rests on the indigenous ethnic nationalities.
15. The Conference concluded by calling on all Nigerians to arise and demand new constitutional arrangements for the country, to replace the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which was imposed on Nigeria by the Military.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Gal. 5: 1
Pray and reject every instrument of bondage imposed upon Nigeria. It is for liberty that Christ has made up free. Reject before the Almighty God the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which was introduced to place Nigerians under bondage.
2. Isaiah 10: 27
Pray that the anointing of the Almighty God shall destroy the yoke of bondage placed upon Nigeria through the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
3. Ps. 2: 7 – 9
Demand of Heaven that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) be decommissioned in 2024.
4. Matt. 16: 19
Take authority over the forces of darkness sustaining the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to further the program of the kingdom of darkness. Break the hold of Satan and his forces over Nigeria.
5. Ps. 9: 15 - 20
Pray that all the foreign nations that have ganged up against Nigeria shall fall into their pits of bondage and destruction.
6. Isaiah 51: 9 – 10
Pray for righteous indignation and a stirring in Nigeria against every instrument and structure of oppression and bondage.
7. Rom. 4: 16 – 17
Call forth a new constitution for Nigeria, which will promote righteousness, justice, equality, and fairness in the country.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 20th - Sunday 26th May 2024
NIGERIA: THE DILEMMA AND THE WAY OUT
In 1 Chro. 12:32, the Bible talks about “the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do.” Every season has its peculiar characteristics that demand skillful understanding of how it should be handled. “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccl. 3:1). There is a time for war and a time for peace; there is a to love and a time to hate. How one handles a time of war would be different from how one would handle a time of peace. The peculiarity of each season demands wisdom, insight, and foresight.
That Nigeria is in crisis is no longer news. That it stinks globally due to corruption and unrighteousness is neither a secret. The issue now is, what should be done to restore normalcy? What does this season demand?
Several intellectuals and well-meaning citizens have identified the number one obstacle to peace, progress, and prosperity of Nigeria: the fraudulent and illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended). Many analysts have dissected the 1999 Constitution and authoritatively affirmed that, so long as that document is in force as the sovereign document of Nigeria, the country is not going anywhere.
With this awareness, which is in the public domain, it beats the imagination how a country of over 200 million people could fold the hands and allow the situation to persist. Nigeria neither lacks intellectuals nor is destitute of human rights activists, yet a Constitution responsible for daily bloodshed in the land, for the penury of the people and discord amongst the citizens has been allowed to operate for twenty-five years.
This season demands the rising of all citizens in Nigeria to unanimously demand that the 1999 Constitution (as amended) be decommissioned and set aside. New constitutional arrangements are required urgently to initiate the rebuilding of the country. The so-called “amendment” exercise by the National Assembly is nothing but a political distraction. The current exercise would be the 6th alteration to the 1999 Constitution (as amended) without any positive result in the country.
The political class, which profits enormously from the dysfunctional constitution, would not be willing to support new constitutional arrangements. It is not a secret that most of the politicians place their selfish interests above that of the country. However, they are able to persist only for as long as the people permit it. The illegitimate 1999 Constitution (as amended) acknowledges in its Section 14 (2)a that “sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority.” If sovereignty belongs to the people, why would the politicians not listen to the people? It is because the people have not spoken. Individuals and groups are speaking, but "the people" have not spoken.
If Nigerians are tired of suffering, it is time for the people to speak and demand new constitutional arrangements for the country. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) has been given 25 years to operate. That should be enough. The people should organize themselves to raise their voices all over the land against oppression, suppression, and regression.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) should be congratulated for taking up the case of workers in the land, by demanding wage reviews. This is commendable, but it does not provide the answer that this season requires. The season does not demand salary increase. Rather, it is calling for a complete overhaul of governance. It does not matter how much wage increase NLC is able to negotiate, inflation will soon wipe it off. There was a time in this country when the monthly salary of a university graduate was N484.00. A brand-new car was sold for N4,804.00, while a three-bedroom flat could be rented at N200.00 per month. This was in the 80s. Today, all those goods and services are transacted in millions of Naira.
The current season in Nigeria is calling for new constitutional arrangements to renegotiate Nigeria. Why should a Federation have only one constitution? Each federating unit, whether it is state or region, should have its constitution, which it will use to negotiate its position within the union. As of today, there is no union. There is only a geographical area held together at gunpoint. If NLC, as the official representative of the Nigerian workers, is truly desirous of solving the problem of the workers, it should drop the agitation for salary increase and demand new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria.
The combination of the voice of the Nigeria Labour Congress with that of the other trade/professional unions like ASUU, NBA, TUC, NASSU, NMA, NUJ, MAN, NUT, etc, and the voice of the ethnic nationalities will dismantle every resistance to new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria. The people have suffered enough.
Nigerians are not poor people requiring salary increase. They are freeborns whose sovereignty has been hijacked by hostile forces for the purposes of racial, cultural, and political domination. Therefore, the focus of Nigerians should be on regaining their sovereignty and liberty as a people. Consequently, agitating for salary increase while ignoring the weighty matter of the liberty of the people is not the perfect way to go for now.
This prayer call is inviting all readers to become an advocate for the liberty of Nigeria. The 1999 Constitution (as amended) has become an instrument of oppression and regression in the country. The land is mourning because the people are in bondage. It is time to break the chains and dismantle the shackles of oppression.
For additional information, readers might wish to refer to two previous prayer calls entitled "WHO OWNS NIGERIA " (Parts 1 & 2). This prayer call should be shared for awareness, mobilization, and prayers. As we pray, we must be prepared to speak out so that the ethnic nationalities will rise as one to put in place new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria.
Our prayers must be backed with action. Faith without works is dead.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ps 124
Thank God for sustaining Nigeria over the years. The attacks and conspiracies against the country have been many, but God in His mercy has sustained the country.
2. Ps. 133
Pray that God will pour the anointing of unity upon all the divergent groups in Nigeria so that they will act as one to give Nigeria new constitutional arrangements.
3. Matt. 15: 13
Pray that God will uproot any individual or group of individuals that stands in the way of new constitutional arrangements for Nigeria. Pray that such opposing persons shall be neutralized by the power of God.
4. Isaiah 8:9–10
Pray that every foreign nation that opposes the liberty and progress of Nigeria shall be broken in pieces and all their conspiracies nullified by God.
5. Luke 10: 18 – 19
Take authority over Satan and all the forces of darkness contending God’s purpose for Nigeria. Take authority over Leviathan and nullify all its powers with the Blood of Jesus Christ.
6. Isaiah 26:9–11
Pronounce judgment on all evil priests and priestesses servicing satanic altars and shrines in the country. Shut down every portal they have opened to hell.
7. Isaiah 32:13–18
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit all over Nigeria, for the healing of the land and the restoration of the people.
MARATHON PRAYERS
Monday 13th - Sunday 19th May 2024
A WAKE-UP CALL
On 11th May 2014, exactly ten years ago, God caused a message to be delivered to His Church, as well as to Nigeria. Amongst other things, the message, tagged "THE WAKE-UP CALL," warned that the All Progressives Congress (APC) should not be permitted to form a government. The message specifically warned Christians in Nigeria, “do not dig the grave of the Church with your thumb”. The message urged Nigerians to beware of APC.
Propelled by the Spirit of God according to Ps. 68: 11, "The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it." that message took on a life of its own and went viral. As it was being shared, it provided light and guidance to Nigerians. Eventually, APC discovered what was going on and approached a prominent Church leader in Nigeria to counter and nullify the message. The Church leader consented via a letter on 3rd October 2014. He described the message as, “wickedly false, unsubstantiated, ill-conceived and borne out of mischief.”
Interestingly, the same Church leader had earlier endorsed the message. After the visit from APC delegation, he instructed those who had the CD of the message to dispose of it. His position was strengthened by the APC, which appointed a pastor from his denomination as its Vice-Presidential candidate and used the appointment to campaign that the party had no agenda of religious intolerance.
Following the intervention of that Church leader, some influential Christians went all out to campaign for “CHANGE”, and Muhammadu Buhari became President of Nigeria. Nigerians can now look back, after ten years of the WAKE-UP CALL, and review the consequences of the action of that church leader.
As a direct consequence of that letter, millions of Nigerians have allegedly been murdered in cold blood. Hajia Kalthoum Alumbe Jutami, the Hausa female Emancipator, has claimed in her messages that over seven million Hausa people were murdered in the eight years of President Muhammadu Buhari. (Adolf Hitler killed six million Jews during the Second World War.) Even if this figure was contested, the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen, and the other Islamic terrorists, under APC, cannot be denied. Thousands of Nigerians have been kidnapped and treated in the most barbaric and inhumane manner. Millions of families have been pauperized while those who are able have fled the country. All national infrastructure have collapsed, and a whole election was hijacked in broad daylight. It is no longer strange to see Nigerians protesting on the streets, wailing, “We are hungry”.
It was ten years of hell in Nigeria under APC.
The Lord, Who is plenteous in mercy, gave another word in June 2018 as the country was preparing for another election in 2019. That word was published and delivered at a Christian Conference held in Lagos. Amongst others, the word admonished that the apex body of Christianity in Nigeria should be re-organized. While the word in 2014 dealt with unbelievers, the word in 2018 dealt directly with the Church.
The Church was called upon by God to re-organize itself or lose control of the 2019 elections marking the next milestone in the 20-year cycle of God’s dealing with Nigeria. Rather than seek God’s face concerning the message, some Church leaders gathered in Abuja in July 2018 and denigrated the message.
Today, Nigeria is ruled by a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
Under the circumstances, what should Nigerian Christians do? Naturally, the first suggestion would be repentance. A lot of repentance has been done in the Church, and we thank God for that. However, there is a critical group in the Church whose concerted and public repentance is still outstanding. God deals with His people through their leaders and the condition of the leaders before God determines how He deals with His people. The problem on ground was caused by the leaders, therefore they must lead in the repentance. The Word of God makes clear that hell shall not prevail against the Church. However, what would happen if the gatekeepers themselves opened the gate for hell?
God spoke in Isaiah 1: 5 – 7 asking, ”Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence,”
Could anyone deny that this scripture aptly describes the current situation in Nigeria?
This is not a condemnation of Church leaders. What has happened has happened, but we need to work towards a solution. No stone should be left unturned in the effort to obtain divine intervention. Joel 2: 17 – 18 says, “Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.”
We must acknowledge that Church leaders are also humans, capable of error of judgment. Therefore, if any infraction is committed by Church leaders, they should accept responsibility before God and repent. Since Church leaders teach Christians how to confess and repent, they should not be reluctant to do the same.
The Nigeria Church has learnt a bitter lesson, a lesson marked with blood and death. It is a lesson that should not be repeated. Genuine repentance by Christian leaders is the first step in ensuring that such error does not occur again.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Prov. 1: 24 – 30
The rejection of the counsel of God in 2014 by Church leaders became collective guilt upon the entire Church. Plead the blood of Jesus to atone for the rebellion of the Church in 2014.
2. Joel 2:17–18
Pray for genuine repentance amongst church leaders so that God’s mercy shall be hastened over the land.
3. Isaiah 52: 3 –
Pray that the mercy of God shall prevail upon the Church and the nation.
4. Ezekiel 21: 25 – 27
Pray that God will uproot and overturn every wicked government in Nigeria and hand the throne over to a righteous ruler.
5. Isaiah 28: 5 – 6
Take authority over the gates of hell unleashed upon Nigeria by the APC. Shut the gates of hell and execute judgment on the forces of darkness wreaking havoc in Nigeria.
6. Ps. 149: 5 – 9
Come against the curses of sorcerers, enchanters, diviners, and prognosticators contending for the throne of Nigeria. Bind the evil spirits working with them and execute judgment on all their forces.
7. Isaiah 32: 13 – 18
Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the land for healing and restoration.
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