Nigeria: Occupy Till I Come - Bring Back Our King!

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The News from Nigeria

• Nehemiah heard about the distress, affliction, trouble, disgrace, appalling physical, emotional, financial, dangerous conditions of the remnant in Jerusalem and broke down in deep repentance and intercession.
• Ezra heard about the sin, iniquity, transgression, immorality, decadence, disobedience, wickedness, rebellion of the whole land and he also broke down in repentance and intercession.
• Hear the news from Nigeria, hear the news of what is happening to our people, the suffering the pain, the agony, the inequality, the pain, the distress, the hunger, the cry, the suffering, problems plaguing the majority of families, young, old, elderly, students, workers, in our nation.

We have wearied God with our sins…

Micah 3:6 & 7a

O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of servants (AKJV).

“Dear people, how have I done you wrong? Have I burdened you, worn you out? Answer! I delivered you from a bad life in Egypt; I paid a good price to get you out of slavery (MSG).

Isaiah 43:24

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities (AKJV).

You wouldn’t even bring sheep for offerings in worship. You couldn’t be bothered with sacrifices. It wasn’t that I asked that much from you. I didn’t expect expensive presents. But you didn’t even do the minimum— so stingy with me, so closefisted. Yet you haven’t been stingy with your sins. You’ve been plenty generous with them—and I’m fed up (MSG).

Prayer points| Confession on behalf of the church  

• Lord, we have dealt terribly with You and Your people, we have wearied You with our iniquities and disobeyed Your commands.
• We have replaced the worship of our God with the worship of money.
• We have defiled the offerings of the Lord and corrupted His sacrifices, our leaders like wolves have devoured your people all in the name of Jesus.
• We have turned the temple into business and empire building, and made merchandise of the people of God.
• We have turned the gospel to be a means of gain, and made our God appear as a weakling.
• We have misrepresented You, we have given occasion for Your enemies  to blaspheme You and spit in Your face.
• We have denied the cross, we have trampled upon the sacrifice of our Lord.
• We have cut off the toes of the people of God so that they have become incompetent in their profession as Christians.
• Our iniquities have risen up to You as a stench, our transgressions and our bloodshed are crying out for vengeance and retribution.
• The word “born again” has become a odour in the whole land.
• We have sold our souls to satan, we have joined hand and connived with Your enemies against You and we have done it in the name of Jesus.
• We have gone AWOL pursuing assets instead of ACCESS to you, gold instead of GOD, cash instead of the CROSS, dollars instead of DISCIPLESHIP.
• We have left our primary calling to be light to the gentiles of our land and to preach the gospel in every corner of Nigeria.
• We have left the commission to make disciples and evangelize Nigeria to take up the commission to fill our bellies, our pockets , build our church empires.
• LORD HAVE MERCY ON US, HAVE MERCY, OH LORD, HAVE MERCY ON US OH LORD OUR GOD

Unrest in the hearts of the people

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

Strive: discussing, quarrelling, arguing, contending, disputing, complaining, debating, conversing, deliberating, reflecting, pondering, thinking.

Prayer points  

• Lord, begin to cause an unrest, a disputing in the heart of the Nigerian Christian against the gospel we have received, believed and become.
• Lord, let your people begin to question and query this gospel, this fragmented gospel that we all were born into, that has no capacity to truly save us and deliver us from sin.
• Dear Holy Spirit, please begin to convict and convince your children that there must be more to the gospel than this.
• Let us begin to revolt Lord in our spirit, Lord cause an unrest in the hearts of your children that will make us to begin to question what we have believed and are living our lives for in the name of the gospel.
• Dear Holy Spirit, please use the instrument of your word to show your children that the king ruling over them now is a tyrant, a tormentor, a dictator, an oppressor his name is mammon, his name is the old man, an associate and affiliate of satan himself.
• Lord, let the hearts of your people begin to rebel against him and his instrument of mass destruction, hirelings who call themselves “Men of God”.
• Let the heart of your people begin to yearn for you who delivered them from the hands of this philistine in the first place.

 

Bring Back our King!

2 Samuel 19:9

And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? (KJV)

So now, why are you [leaders] doing nothing about bringing back the king? (AMP)

Therefore why are ye so slow to bring the king again? (GNT)

Why is no one talking about bringing back the king? (GW)

Why are you taking no action to restore the king? (LEB)

So what are you waiting for? Why don’t you bring the king back? (MSG)

Prayer points

• The only means by which King Jesus will be brought back to sit upon His rightful throne in Nigeria is the means of the “Mystery of the Gospel” preached it His entirety.
• Let the gospel come afresh to us in Nigeria, let the gospel be preached as though we are a heathen nation oh Lord we pray.
• Enlighten our eyes again, let us see Jesus Christ and what he came to do afresh, let us turn to Jesus Christ and let the veil upon our hearts be removed in the name of Jesus.
• Lord, let Your church, Your children in Nigeria begin to turn from the adulterated, incomplete gospel that we have heard, believed and imbibed over some decades now.
• Let the “Mystery of the Gospel” spread like wild fire and let us no longer defer to Saul.
• Lord, deliver our Davids, our Jonathans from the hand of Saul and the doctrines that Saul has perpetuated over the years.
• Bring the cross alive on our pulpits again, oh! turn us unto You afresh , turn our eyes towards our redeemer upon the cross. O Lord, bring the cross centered gospel to your people again.
• We appeal to the cross, we appeal to the blood of Jesus concerning Your church in Nigeria Oh Lord. We plead with You O Lord.
• Raise for us out of Zion Your rods in Nigeria, Your Moses, Calebs, Davids, Jonathans, Samuels, Deborahs, Esthers, Nehemiahs, Ezras, Marys, Peters, Pauls, Johns,  raise them Lord, raise them Lord.

ALMIGHTY GOD, ALMIGHTY GOD

NIGERIA WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME 4X

ALMIGHTY GOD, ALMIGHTY GOD

NIGERIA WILL PREACH THE CROSS 4X

ALMIGHTY GOD, ALMIGHTY GOD

NIGERIA WILL FOLLOW CHRIST 4X

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Europe: Give Me This Mountain - Rods like Priscilla

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Psalm 110:1-7 (KJV)

The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.

He shall judge among the heathen; he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore, shall he lift the head.

Acts 18:2

A certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla;(because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

• Sister Priscilla was an exile, a stranger, a foreigner, a pilgrim who had been sent out of her own country.
• As a refugee, her life could not have been easy, certainly not in the initial period they were sent out.
• There was no indication that they were believers when they took Paul in, the Scripture said they were of the same trade, tent makers.
• Paul continued in Corinth for a year and six months, living in Priscilla’s house.
• By the end of that time Priscilla has believed and become the gospel that Paul preached.
• So much so that Paul took her husband and herself with him on his next journey.
• He left them in Ephesus to cater for the church in Ephesus while he went to Jerusalem.

Romans 16:3

Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus

1 Corinthians 16:19

The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

2 Timothy 4:19

Salute Priscilla and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus

• She opened her house to all the brethren, if you were in town and you needed somewhere to stay, no problem you know at whatever time you got to sis Priscilla's house you had a warm bed and some food.
• She worked hand in hand with her husband to raise a church in their house.
• She spotted this young man who needed a handler, a disicpler, and she took in Apollos who under her husband’s hand was taught the mystery of the gospel.
• She prayed many into the kingdom and laboured in prayer until Christ was formed in them.
• How many people went through Sis Priscilla’s hand and home? Only eternity will tell.
• She did not have an office, a title or a ministry yet she was a mother of many, a rod in God’s hand used in the early church to bring many to maturity in Christ.
• Incidentally, there was no mention of her own children, perhaps she did not have any; or did she?
• Difficult as her life was, traumatic as it was for her to be thrown out of her home as a Jew, this woman was not seating down nursing her wounds.
• Childless as she may have been, she was not weeping for her lot in life, she was not focussing on that situation as soon as she received the gospel from Paul and believed, she set out to work and fulfil her own part in the preaching of the gospel.
• She served under her husband, deferring to her husband, following his lead under the hand of Paul.
• No complaints, no moaning, no recourse, no catering to her own needs, her own security, her own life, she was sold out completely.
• She was a woman submitted to and under her husband’s God given authority, she received and obeyed instructions from him as he received from Paul.

SHE WAS A DEAD WOMAN WALKING, ALLOWING CHRIST TO DO HIS OWN THING INSIDE OF HER LIFE.

• Priscilla was available for God to use as He pleases.
• Priscilla was accessible to God, He could call her to get up and go at any time and she would obey.
• Priscilla as reachable by God, she was easy to reach, easy to get to, easy to get hold of by her Lord.
• Priscilla was at hand and on hand for her Master, after the Lord had emptied her of the old man that dominated her. She also presented her body, her body parts, her husband, her home, her life, her time, her security, they were no longer hers because she died.
• She had smashed her life up before her Master, so He took hold of her life and raised for Himself other lives through her. Multiplied disciples were raised through her life and  nations released from her womb.

THE QUESTION FOR US TODAY IS, ARE YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL EVACUATED OF THE OLD MAN AND AVAILABLE FOR YOUR MASTER’S USE?

Prayer Points

• These prayers are for those who are ready to make this commitment of availability to their Master.
• If you are one of us who has died already at the cross, please begin to offer your cadaver, your carcass to your Master.
• Offer Him your evacuated body, if you have not emptied it yet, empty it before the Lord this day and hand it over to Him deliberately with your own mouth.
• Tell your Master, Lord I am available, I am your Priscilla, take hold of all of me, all that I am, all that I was, these are all at your disposal.
• Lord Jesus inside of me, please instruct me on how to serve under the hand of my husband and defer to him, not be his instructor but rather his student. SoThat together we may become the Aquila and Priscilla to those the Lord will bring along our way.
• Lord Jesus inside me, please instruct me on how to serve my husband so that without a word, he will be won to this way of Calvary and together we will serve you. While I am waiting, I am available and at your disposal for you to live your life and bring many to Calvary through this life of mine.
• Lord in my singleness instruct me on how to serve not as a loose cannon but as a woman under authority, bringing many to the way of Calvary.
• Pick up your pen and book if you have not done so, write the list of all your family members, friends, and colleagues who are yet to hear the message of the cross the way the Lord has presented it to you. Let those who already have a list, please update it and pray like this:
• Lord, break every barrier, blockade, barricade, wall set up against the gospel in the hearts of the people on my list.
• Lord, remove every veil of deception, every fragmented gospel that our people have received, believed, imbibed and become.
• When the heart turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Father, please turn these hearts to You, begin a work in the hearts of our people.
• Make them restless, agitated in their spirit about the state of their lives.
• Break their hearts with genuine repentance and let them begin to cry out for help; Lord, I am available, when it is time, direct me to them. Lead them to me, so I can share the mystery of the gospel by my words and by my life in Jesus name. Amen.

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Nigeria: Occupy Till I Come - The Lord Reigns

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1 Chronicles 16:31 NKJV

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.

Revelation 11:17 NKJV

We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

Psalm 90:1-2 NKJV

Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. ² Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

•       The Lord reigns over the entire nation of Nigeria – over every soul; over every circumstance; over every problem  in families, over the state of the economy, over the government; everything and everyone.

•       From everlasting to everlasting, the Lord  is God in Nigeria. He brought forth Nigeria for Himself and He knows exactly what to do to bring eternal glory to His name, in spite of the impossible situations that abound. There is hope for Nigeria.

•       Let us announce the Lord’s reign over Nigeria. Give Him thanks because He has taken His GREAT POWER  and REIGNED.

Prayer Points|  The Lord Reigns Over Nigeria

Colossians 1:15-18 NKJV

¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. ¹⁷ And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. ¹⁸ And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

•       Lord, every soul and everything in Nigeria was created through You and for You; all thrones, dominions, principalities and powers  in this nation are subject to You. You are the Lord and You reign on high.

•       You see every situation; You know every heart and You know what to do to deliver the people of Nigeria. Have Your way in every heart.

•       Psalm 139:7-10. Where can the souls of men in Nigeria go from Your Spirit? Where can they flee from Your presence? If they go up to the heavens, You are there. If they make their bed in the depths, You are there. If they rise on the wings of the dawn, if they settle in the far side of the sea; even there, Your hand will guide them, Your right hand will hold then fast.

•       You are the head of the body, the church. Rule and reign over Your church in Nigeria. Take the preeminence and bring to birth by Your Spirit, new creation men, all over the nation.

Colossians 1:12-14 NKJV

¹² giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. ¹³ He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

•       Lord, show Your mighty power over the souls of men in Nigeria; deliver men from the power of darkness and make them partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

•       Psalm 139:11-12. If they say, “Surely, the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to You.  The night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You. The darkness of the nation of Nigeria is not too dark for You. Please reveal Christ to Your people and save them according to Your glorious power.

•       Psalm 57:3. Send from heaven and save the people of Nigeria. Every soul is included in the redemption through Your blood. Send forth Your mercy, Your love, Your faithfulness and Your truth; establish Your reign over the nation of Nigeria, by virtue of the finished work of the cross.

•      We agree with this prophesy concerning Nigeria:

Micah 4:1-3 NKJV – The Lord’s Reign in Zion:

•       Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the Lord’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And peoples shall flow to it.
² Many nations shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
³ He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.

•       So shall it be in Nigeria in the name of Jesus – Amen.

Corruption in Nigeria

Genesis 6:11-12 NKJV

The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

•       Corruption in the lives of the people in a nation is what makes the nation corrupt.

•       The blatant corruption in Nigeria is well documented. Wikipedia presents many theories for the cause of the corruption in Nigeria:

–      “Some blame greed and ostentatious lifestyles as a potential root cause of corruption.”

–      “another major cause of corruption is ethnicity called tribalism in Nigeria.”

–      “Some analysts have also blamed colonialism for the amount corruption.”

–      But we know that the corruption is inside man. It is inherited from the sinful nature. “…their corruption is in them, and defects are in them.” Leviticus 22:25.

•       The problem of Nigeria is the Nigerian. Sin is the root cause of corruption inside the Nigerian and the gospel is only instrument that can root it out.

The Gospel is the Hope for Nigeria

Romans 1:16 NKJV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

•       Nigeria was 56 on the 1^st of October 2016. It was reported on that day that the attempts to restructure Nigeria are unending. (Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/nigeria-56-unending-attempts-to-restructure-nigeria/)

•       Why? The nation is looking for transformation through infrastructure, education,  political stability, financial stability, technological advancement, a constant supply of water, an unhindered supply of electricity e.t.c.

•       The gospel is the only effective weapon that can change Nigerians from the inside.

•       Many people are calling for change in Nigeria and declaring themselves as agents of change but they do not realise that the power for transformation is the gospel.

•       For any genuine transformation in this generation, the gospel must be preached again in its fullness.

Prayer Points| The Gospel is the Hope for Nigeria

Isaiah 53:12 NKJV

And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

Colossians 1:14-18 NKJV

 …in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

•       Lord, You bore the sin of every transgressor in Nigeria and You made intersessions for each transgressor. Bring us into Your intersession by Your Spirit.

•       By virtue of the finished work of the cross, we ask for the soul of every man in Nigeria to come to the cross for the death of their corrupt nature.

•       We stand in the gap for Your people. Hear the groaning of their hearts caused by the burden of their sinful nature. Bring what You did on the cross to bear in their lives.

•       Let the gospel, the only weapon that can bring genuine transformation, be known.

•       Show Your power over the nation of Nigeria.  Be merciful to Your people. Many do not even know what the lack, so they cannot seek You. Help them to seek Your face.

Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

•       Lord, send Your word to every heart and help them to believe the gospel. Open their eyes to see their deliverance from the their corrupt life.

•       Take away their heart of stone and give them the heart of Jesus, through the power of the gospel.

•       Let the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ be preached in its fullness in the life of every Nigerian. Open their ears and let them hear. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

•       2 Chronicles 16:9. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.   Lord, you are looking for those who You can commit Your gospel to in order to preach it in Nigeria; those who will be the answer to the cry for transformation.

•       Work on the lives on such men and make them usable for Your purpose in Nigeria.

HE IS THE LORD

He is the Lord, and He reigns on high,

He is the Lord.

Spoke into the darkness, created the light,

He is the Lord.

Who is like unto Him, never ending in days?

He is the Lord.

And He comes in power when we call on His name,

He is the Lord.

Show Your power, O Lord our God,
Show Your power, O Lord our God, our God.

Your gospel, O Lord, is the hope of this nation,

You are the Lord.

It’s the power of God for our salvation,

You are the Lord.

We ask not for riches, but look to the cross,

You are the Lord.

And for our inheritance give us the lost,

You are the Lord.

Send Your power, O Lord our God,
Send Your power, O Lord our God, our God.

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