Nigeria: Intercessors Arise!

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Hebrews 10:12-13 (NKJV)
But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

Ephesians 2:6-7 (NKJV)

...and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:34 (NKJV)

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.


Prayer for Ourselves

• Let us thank God for what He has done for us. Thank Him for offering up Himself for our sins, thank Him for including us in His death and burial. 

• Thank Him for the work of the cross that raised us up together with Him to a higher plane - higher than principalities and powers, higher than the rulers of darkness, higher than spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 

• Lord, thank You for this supreme vantage point, thank You for this awesome privilege. Help me to walk in the reality of my new location every day. 

• Lord, we are here to pray for Nigeria because, even now, You are at the right hand of God making intercessions for us and You are waiting for the time when Your enemies will be made Your footstool.

What will God do when the time comes for Him to make His enemies His footstool?

Psalm 110: 1, 5-7

¹ The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,
Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

⁵ The Lord is at Your right hand;

He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
⁶ He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
He shall execute the heads of many countries.
⁷ He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He shall lift up the head.

What is Jesus doing while waiting for God to fulfil His promises?

Hebrews 7:25 (NKJV)

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. 

• Lord, as we are seated with You, keep us waiting with You for what God will do among the nations. Help me to know that – to those who eagerly wait for You, You will appear a second time apart from sin for salvation. Hebrews 9:28.

• Lord, I have need for endurance so that while waiting, I do not become discouraged, Don’t let me draw back, but let me believe to the saving of the soul. Hebrews 10:39.

Nigeria Needs Intercessors  

• Tribal conflicts - Biafra agitators are making threats that northerners should leave the Igbo region and the northerners have issued the same threat. 

• Devastating riot between Hausa and Yoruba communities in Ile-Ife, killing 46 people and wounding 96 in March 2017. 

• Conflict in the Niger Delta region because of oil began around 20 years ago and is still ongoing. 

• People are preaching hate and deliberately aiming to bring Nigeria to disunity, to calamity and to irretrievable destruction. 

• Famine in parts of the country- the number of children affected is approximately 450,000 and 14 million people need humanitarian assistance. 

• Social problems – Corruption, poverty, greed, poor education, terrorism, domestic violence. 

• Infrastructure problems – electricity shortages, limited water supply. 

• Problems with the economy, rich getting richer, poor getting poorer.

   

The answer to all these problems is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

No social program or government strategy can bring revival to the hearts and minds of men. Men, women, girls and boys in Nigeria must hear the complete gospel, repent and be baptised into Christ.

To intercede is to plead on behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble. Nigeria is in trouble - We also must arise and intercede for her from our location in Christ.

Deborah Arose…

Judges 5:6-7

“In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, and the travelers walked along the byways. ⁷ Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel.

The Result…

Judges 5:31

“Thus let all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But let those who love Him be like the sun  hen it comes out in full strength.” So the land had rest for forty years.

Prayer for Nigeria 

• Lord, help us to arise – arise to intercede.
• Set my heart ablaze with Your compassion for souls pouring into hell.
• Lord Jesus, You took me to Calvary to get rid of my sin and to give me Your life. Help me to arise in Your righteousness, like Deborah. Let me not be silent again.
• Arise in me, O Lord, let Your enemies in Nigeria be scattered.
• Let those who love You in Nigeria be like the sun when it comes out in full strength.
• Raise men and women at every gate that will shine for Your cause in Nigeria.
• Help them to arise in boldness.
• Equip them with the mystery of the gospel, the only answer to the mystery of iniquity that is already at work in the nation.
• Silence the foe and the avenger that is raging against the purpose of God.
• Let the land of Nigeria have rest, O Lord. 

Prayer for the President

Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord,
Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

• Pray that He will yield to the counsel of God.
• Pray for his health.

Pray for the Vice President

(Acting as President at present)

Ephesians 6:10-20

• Thank the Lord for giving us a man who fears Him to be in this position at such a time as this.

• Pray that he will rule with wisdom from heaven, not with the wisdom of men. Help him to walk circumspectly as wise, redeeming the time in these evil days.

• Lord, grant that he will be strong in You and in the power of Your might.

• Uphold Your Servant by Your Spirit.

• Pray that He will put on the whole armour of God so that He will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

• Reveal to him, Christ and Him Crucified. Let Him be sure always that He is there to represent the purpose of God. Let his time in office be known to have advanced the purpose of God in Nigeria.

• Give Him utterance to open His mouth and boldly make known the mystery of the gospel.

• Help him to take a stand for righteousness, knowing where he is positioned – higher that principalities and powers. Whenever he gets to a decision gate, help him by Your Spirit to choose Your way. Let him not be confused but be clear minded always.

• Don’t let him every forget that he is Your ambassador in Aso Rock.

Prayer Burden -  Revival in Nigeria

Pray for:

• The complete gospel to be re-stated in the Church.
• Unity of the Body of Christ.
• Widespread knowledge of the mystery of the gospel through the Church.
• National Repentance.
• Great exploit of souls and multiplication of disciples in every place.
• The establishment of the purpose of the mystery in every facet of life, reaching every citizen of Nigeria in every tribe and tongue.
• Leaders that yield to the counsel of God and carry mind of Christ.
• Righteousness to be established in the nation.

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Nigeria: The Greatest Invitation

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Matthew 11:28 Living Bible (TLB)

“Come to me and I will give you rest—all of you who work so hard beneath a heavy yoke. Wear my yoke—for it fits perfectly—and let me teach you; for I am gentle and humble, and you shall find rest for your souls; for I give you only light burdens.”

Matthew 11:28-30 Amplified Bible (AMP)

“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavily burdened [by religious rituals that provide no peace], and I will give you rest [refreshing your souls with salvation]. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is easy [to bear] and My burden is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

“Come to me all of you who are tired from the heavy burden you have been forced to carry. I will give you rest. Accept my teaching. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will be able to get some rest. Yes, the teaching that I ask you to accept is easy. The load I give you to carry is light.”

Matthew 11:28-30 The Message (MSG)

“Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

                          

Matthew 11:28-30 King James Version (KJV)

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Prayers

• Let us thank God for this great invitation that He graciously, in mercy, extend to us to all everywhere.

• Let us thank Him for the grace to accept the invitation; we know there are still millions who have not heard it, so they cannot accept what they have not heard.

•  Lord, give us grace as we carry the life of Jesus, to make Him known to others as we see the end time closing in on us.

• Give us grace to continue in this commission of making Christ known.

• Make us men and women who will continue to cry: “...that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering.”

Acts 26:19-20 King James Version (KJV)

“Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.”

Peter in Acts 2:38 “Repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

John the Baptist in Matthew 3:2 “Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Jesus in Mark 1:15  “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”

  

Prayers

• Make us obedient to the heavenly vision that all must forsake their sins and turn to God and prove their repentance by doing good deeds. Acts 26:19.

• Father, as sowers, we go sowing the seed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and preparing the hearts of men to respond and accept this great invitation.

• Create a fertile ground in the hearts of men, women, children etc. in Nigeria to receive the engrafted word that is able to save them.

• Let their hearts be that good soil that brought forth hundred, sixty and thirty fold.

• Lord, let this simple message of the gospel return to the Churches in Nigeria.

• Build  Your Church, Lord, and deal with every gate of hell rising against her.

• Father, let Your children release their lives to be properly taught to become useful vessels in Your hand who are released to teach others.

• Raise and flood Nigeria with disciples who have forsaken all for the excellency of gaining Christ.

  

Daniel Hymn

Standing by a purpose true,

Heeding God’s command,

Honor them, the faithful few!

All hail to Daniel’s band!

o   Refrain:
Dare to be a Daniel,
Dare to stand alone!
Dare to have a purpose firm!
Dare to make it known.

Many mighty men are lost,

Daring not to stand,

Who for God had been a host

By joining Daniel’s band.

Many giants, great and tall,

Stalking through the land,

Headlong to the earth would fall,

If met by Daniel’s band.

Hold the Gospel banner high!

On to vict’ry grand!

Satan and his hosts defy,

And shout for Daniel’s band.

Gleaning from Daniel 1:1-21

• The Lord gave King Nebuchadnezzar victory over Jehoiakim of Jerusalem. Daniel 1:1
• God gave Daniel a conviction that no man on earth, not even a king can change. Daniel 1:8
• God gave the superintendent a special appreciation for Daniel and symphathy for his predicament. Daniel 1:9
• God gave Daniel favour with the steward appointed by the superintendent. He agreed to the diet test (ten-day diet of only vegetables and water rather than the king’s rich food and wines). Daniel 1:14
• God gave these four youths great ability to learn. They soon mastered all the literature and science of the time. Daniel 1:17
• God gave Daniel special ability in understanding the meanings of dreams and visions. Daniel 1:17

Output of Daniel's Life

• None of the young men impressed the king as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
• They were put on his regular staff of advisors.
• In all matters requiring information and balanced judgement, the king found these young men’s advice ten times better than that of all the skilled magicians and wise astrologers in his realm.

Prayers

• Let us thank God for the youth in our nation.

• Ask God to birth the life of Jesus in our youth.

•  Lord, raise disciplers who will disciple them into their destinies.

• Open the eyes of our leaders to know and see that these ones cannot and must not be ignored. Help them to see the importance of investing in the youth today.

• Make them young men and women who will have a true purpose and dare to make it known. Make our youth as bold as a lion, give them courage to be able to challenge injustice in their own generation.

• Let their conviction in the true gospel be so strong that nothing in life or no one can make them turn away or deny their conviction.

• Who we raise today determines the leaders of tomorrow. What we are seeing in Nigeria today, is the output of what we sow many years ago Father, teach us to sow aright today so You can reap a harvest of souls.

• Make them youth who know You so that they can do exploits for You. Daniel 11:32

• Father, raise the Josephs, Esthers, Daniels, Timothys of our own generation and empower them through the Mystery of the Gospel.

The Mystery of the gospel’s great,

Jesus came in the flesh,

To save and show the only life.

Acceptable to God.

Unless the Lord builds a house, the builders work is useless. 
Psalm 127:1 Living Bible

• We ask that You teach us, teach our leaders, teach the Church how to build the next generation according to Your pattern, after the only life You gave to show; the only acceptable life to You - the life of JESUS!!!

Following the recent UK elections, seven Members of Parliament (MPs) of Nigerian descent were elected.

• Let us thank God and ask that God will guide them in all they do.

• Pray that God will make them true ambassadors of Christ and Nigeria.

• The eyes of the world will be on them to see who is inside these ones. Pray that they will be defined by the life of Christ not by their root. Pray that they will carry the servant heart of Jesus.

• Pray that the ones that already know the Lord will be bold to stand for Jesus and the ones that are not, will come to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

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Nigeria: Salvation for All

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Prayer for Ourselves 

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 
“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence. ³⁰ But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— ³¹ that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.” 

• Let us thank God for making us His divine choice. It is not by works of righteousness that we have done but it is only according to His mercy that He has saved. 

• Thank Him for calling us to Himself through the gospel and for revealing His hidden wisdom to us in a mystery. It is because of Him that we are in Christ Jesus. Lord, You have become for me, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. Hallelujah! Take all the glory, Lord. 

• Thank the Lord that He is here, thank Him for His blessing, thank Him for His Spirit that quickens us and helps us to stand on the premise of ‘Not I but Christ’. 

• Thank Him for His mercy that has brought us into His intercession for Nigeria. “…It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.” – Romans 8:34b.

Romans 6:13 

“And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

An instrument is:

A tool for precision work to achieve a desired end.

A device that required skill for proper use. 

• Lord, I present myself to You as one who is alive from the dead. I present my members (my mind, my will, my thoughts, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my feet – all my members) as instruments of righteousness to God.

• Make me skilled in the word of righteousness, that by reason of use, have my senses exercised to discern both good and evil – Hebrews 5: 13-14. 

• Please grant grace and strength in my inner man to cast down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. - 2 Corinthians 10:5. 

• 2 Corinthians 13:5 - “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you are disqualified.” 

• Am I really walking in the principles of Christ that I have learnt? Do I understand the gravity of every sin? Lord, have mercy on me and purge me from every dross. 

• Lord, impress on my heart Your burden for Nigeria and qualify me as an instrument to bear it and discharge it, to pray down Your will in heaven until You achieve Your desired end for the nation.

Prayer for Nigeria

  

God’s Promises   

Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV)

So he answered and said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 60:22 (NKJV)

“A little one shall become a thousand, And a small one a strong nation.
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”

Prayer Burden

• Revival in Nigeria.

• The complete gospel to be re-stated in the Church.
• Unity of the Body of Christ.
• Widespread knowledge of the mystery of the gospel through the Church.
• National Repentance.
• Great exploit of souls and multiplication of disciples in every place.
• The establishment of the purpose of the mystery in every facet of life, reaching every citizen of Nigeria in every tribe and tongue.
• Leaders that yield to the counsel of God and carry mind of Christ.
• Righteousness to be established in the nation.

Isaiah 56:1-8 - Salvation for the Gentiles

Thus says the Lord:

“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.

² Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

³ Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”

⁴ For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
⁵ Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.

⁶ “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—

⁷ Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;

For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

⁸ The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.”

This is what the Lord does to ‘the son of the foreigner who joins himself to the Lord’:

God will give him a place and an everlasting name in His house.
He will not be cut off.
God will bring Him to His holy mountain by Himself.
He will make them joyful in His house.
He will accept the offering of their life.

PRAYER POINTS

• Lord, You are the one who gathers the ‘outcasts of Isreal’. Please gather all who do not identify with Christ from every corner of Nigeria. Bring them to Your feet by a miracle. Give them a place and an everlasting name in Your house.

• Reveal Yourself to muslim souls in Nigeria. Every soul belongs to You. Please Lord, let them have a revelation of who You are. Show them Your face. Deliver them from evil, for thine is Thy kingdom.

• Lord, open the eyes of athiests, to idol worshippers and those who serve other gods in Nigeria. Turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in You.  - Acts 26:18.

• Lord, You said that all nations will come, even the foreigners. “For My house shall become a house of prayer for all nations.” Let it be so in Nigeria. Let there be an increase in Your kingdom from the muslim community, from the idol worshipers, from the atheists, from all who are outside the church.

• Raise disciples that are bold and courageous, disciples that can engage with these communities, and take the total counsel of God to them in wisdom. Let there be an ingathering from these communities.

• Please Lord, heal our land restore comfort to us and all who are crying for revival in Nigeria. Let there be great testimonies of the revelation of JESUS in the lives of anyone who is crying to you, “Here I am, a dry tree.”

• Let there be a great exploit of souls and multiplication of disciples in every community in Nigeria in the name of Jesus.

   

HYMN: 
GOD IS HERE AND THAT TO BLESS US

God is here, and that to bless us
With the Spirit’s quickening power;
See, the cloud already bending,
Waits to drop the grateful shower.

Let it come, O Lord, we pray Thee,

Let the shower of blessing fall;

We are waiting, we are waiting

Oh, revive the hearts of all.

God is here! we feel His presence
In this consecrated place;
But we need the soul refreshing
Of His free, unbounded grace.

God is here! oh, then, believing,
Bring to Him our one desire,
That His love may now be kindled,
Till its flame each heart inspire.

Saviour, grant the prayer we offer,
While in simple faith we bow,
From the windows of Thy mercy
Pour us out a blessing now.