INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY SERVICE || LIVE || 1st OCTOBER 2021

by lifting up our hands unto the lord and let us say [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] father we bless you lord we bless you lord we bless you lord [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it is necessary for us to properly situate this anniversary it is occurring in a very special month in the bible calendar this month of september that has gone into october coincides with the seventh bible month called history and it is about the most important month in the bible calendar because there are not less than four holidays it begins with the first day the feast of trumpets and then gets to the 10th day of that seventh month with the day of atonement and then the 15th day is the day of the feast of tabernacles or in gathering and that the first day that 15th day is a holy convocation and then the eighth day because for seven days the children of israel will live in boots to keep our life the remembrance of the fact that for 40 years in the wilderness the god of heaven took care of them and they do it every year this is the season this is a time in which we are gathering before the lord to give him thanks over this nation to glorify him and then to make our petitions and supplications unto him so this is the this is a very auspicious uh prophetic season and the god of heaven has brought us together so let us begin by giving him praise giving him thanks i would want us to do it prophetically and i want everybody to participate quickly i will be leading us from psalm 136 i will be leading all you'll be doing is lifting up your hand let this be the summary of our thanksgiving as a nation that despite all odds challenges god has still kept us together as a nation he is worthy of our thanks and our praise before we do every any other thing today so if you don't mind um i will be reading from the book of psalms 136 as i read them out you will lift up your voices and you will be declaring for his mercies and just forever for his mercies endures forever after that i will just pray a short opening prayer and we will commence to is proceeding are we together all right so what will be your response with lifted up voices for your message his mercies and just forever say it loud again oh say it like today is our day for his mercy's endures oh nigerians give thanks to the lord for he is good everybody oh give thanks to the god of gods oh give thanks to the lord of lords to him who will learn those great wonders to him who by wisdom met the heavens to him who led out the earth above the waters to him who made the great lights he made the sun to rule by day he made the moon and the stars to rule by night to him who struck egypt in the first born and he brought out israel from among them with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm to him who divided the red sea into he made israel pass through the midst of it but he offered true pharaoh and his army in the red sea to him who led his people through the wilderness he struck down great kings he slew famous kings sion the king of the amorites and all the king of bashan he gave their land as a heritage a heritage to israel his servant one who has remembered us nigeria in our lonely state he has rescued us from all our enemies he gives food to all flesh lift up your hands and give thanks to the god of [Music] be heaven glory great things he has done so love him [Music] is [Music] so praise the hallelujah [Music] through jesus almighty god the creator of the ends of the earth the father of the spirits of all flesh the god of the heavens and the earth we thank you for this auspicious day thank you for your faithfulness in keeping us thank you for the grace of election we have as a nation to be the largest concentration of the black people of the act thank you for choosing us to be a missionary nation and to fulfill prophetic destiny we bow before you today as we commemorate our 61st independence anniversary we bring the entire nation of nigeria the 36 states including the federal capital territory and the entire 774 local government area we appear before you we declare your lordship your supremacy we declare your superiority over all the powers of darkness over all other thrones we come before you god as we recognize that you're a holy god of pure eyes and to behold evil we begin by confessing our multitudinal sins transgressions iniquities for we know we know that he are most holy god we ask for mercy for pardon we ask you to forgive us our personal sins our sins in the church societal sin sins of our leaders the sins of lies the sins of deceit the sins of lukewarmness the sins of disorderliness lawlessness sexual immorality immorality with which you are feel the land violence we confess the sins of of denominational pride disunity ignorance lord we are guilty of selfish ambition for which cause we kill our men we confess our sins of idolatry convictiousness prayerlessness we are lord guilty of occultism we are guilty of political authority we kill and maim at will forgive us and have mercy do not treat us as our sins who deserve we guilty of bribery corruption absence there is oppression and injustice in the midst of the land this bloodshed most of which we have seen to be menacing and meaningless lord we ask for mercy we are guilty lord of abortion assassinations all forms of ritual killings and extrajudicial killings we come today on the merit of the blood of jesus that you may give us a hearing as a mention o god hide your face from our sins as a people and accept our petitions accept our supplications and by reason of this convocation move us forward as a nation we sprinkle the blood of jesus as a token of ransom and redemption over the length and the bright of nigeria oh god hear the cry of your people oh god and run some nigeria from the grave and from the shadow of death let your light shine in this season let your people rejoice and give you thanks we declare this meeting open in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit and let the people say let the people shout a louder amen national anthem we take the national anthem [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] shall never be [Music] oh oh god of creation oh god [Music] [Music] and on as is [Music] is [Music] next thing defends him all hell the power of jesus [Music] oh [Music] jesus [Music] y'all [Music] lord [Music] lord [Music] every [Music] just [Music] lord [Music] me oh [Music] jesus just [Music] oh [Music] [Music] let's welcome barista pastor berry let's be seated for our first scripture reading we're reading from ezekiel chapter 36 from verses 12 25 to 38 ezekiel 36 25 to 38. now before i begin this reading let me just make one notation the relationship that nigeria has with this passage in fact the whole chapter is prophetic in nature that is because this whole chapter was a prophecy that was giving about nigeria in 1996 in the united states of america this was at the height of nigeria's ostracization among the committee of nations back in those days so as we read please also prophesy then i will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean i will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols 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 i will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them then you shall dwell in the land that i gave to your fathers you shall be my people and i will be your god i will deliver you from your uncleanness i will call for the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you and i will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields so that you need never again bear the reproach of farming among the nations then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations not for your sake do i do this says the lord let it be known to you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways or house of israel thought says the lord god on the day that i cleanse you from all your iniquities i will also enable you to dwell in the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt the desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by so they will say this land that was desolate has become like the garden of eden and the wasted desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited then the nations who are left all around you shall know that i the lord have rebuilt ruined places and planted what was desolate i the lord have spoken it and i will do it thus says the lord god i will also let the house of israel inquire of me to do this for them i will increase their men like a flock like a flock offered as holy sacrifices like the flock of jerusalem on its feast days so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men then they shall know that i am the lord amen [Music] so call him worship the king of gloriosa [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] recite [Music] this [Music] [Music] oh [Music] delight to worship [Music] is [Music] let's welcome mrs rolly uduam the former first lady of data state for the second reading [Music] i'm reading from psalm 46 god is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble therefore will not we fear though the head be removed and though the mountains we carried into the midst of the sea though the waters thereof around and be troubled though the mountains check with the swelling thereof there is a river the stream sweep off shall make glad the city of god the holy place of the tabernacles of the most time god is in the midst of her she shall not be moved god shall help her and that right early the eden raged the kingdoms were moved he uttered his voice the earth melted the lord of hosts is with us the god of jacob is our refuge come behold the works of the lord what desolation he had made in the earth he make it was to cease onto the end of the earth he breaked the bow and caught a despair in sunder he burned the chariots in the fire be still and know that i am god i will be exalted among the eden i will be exalted in the earth the lord of hosts is with us the god of jacob is our refuge amen but him stand up stand up for jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] stand up stand up for jesus [Music] it must not suffer [Music] is [Music] is [Music] up stand up for jesus [Music] is [Music] stand up for jesus [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] stand up stand up for jesus [Music] [Music] me [Music] let's welcome pastor obi the original manager of sterling bank [Applause] plc praise god we'll take a child reading from the book of deuteronomy chapter 17 from verse 14. i read when god come unto the land with the lord thy god give a day and shall possess it and shall dwell daring and shall say i will set a king over me like as all the nations that are about me thou shalt in any ways set him king over thee whom the lord thy god child shoes one from among thy brethren shall thou said king over thee thou may not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself not cause the people to return to egypt to the end that he should multiply horses for as much as the lord has said unto you ye shall henceforth returned no more that way neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turned not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold and it shall be when is seated upon the throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priest deliver it and he shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the lord his god to keep all the words of this law and these statues to do them that his heart's been not lifted up above his brethren and that he turned not aside from the commandments to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of israel this is the word of the lord okay the last hymn thy kingdom come oh lord [Music] christ begins [Music] see [Music] where is the strain of peace and purity and love [Music] sees [Music] [Music] shall be no more [Music] oppression lost crime shall be thy face [Music] our before and come in thy great might revive our lord in eyes which this [Music] the last [Music] yet our eyes [Music] our eyes you ready alone why we welcome daddy barista and mecca went back [Music] [Music] school [Music] now [Music] me [Music] oh hallelujah [Music] let us pray together and dear heavenly father this day is the day you have made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it and father we thank you for gathering us this morning for this independence anniversary service lord we pray that you would mercifully speak to us by the ministry of the holy spirit from your word and lord that you will touch our hearts our minds our spirits our souls and even our bodies lord that you would help us to understand your word your will and love that you will transform us and enable us both to will and to do of our own good pleasure thank you our god and our father but we have prayed with thanksgiving in jesus name and everybody said amen please be seated good morning everybody today is the 61st independence anniversary of our dear country in nigeria and i'd like to first of all begin by thanking god who has kept nigeria together if you have been following [Music] the goings on the history of this country and if you have been listening to the holy spirit it is a mystery except for the message of god that something else has not happened in this country so let's give the lord a hand i don't know i don't understand how god does it but at least from what he says and from what we read we believe that god has shown us his faithfulness as a country because of his name because of his name he told the children of israel at one time he says it's not because of you that i do these things that i do he says i do it because of my name and we also want to thank him for his mercies upon us as people because in the last two years quite a few of people quite a few people have died uh not that dying for a christian is the wrong thing but there are people who die and you think these people have gone before time and we're still alive some of us have come very close but god said okay don't worry carry on so we want to thank god for keeping us alive can you say thank you lord for keeping me alive can you say that can you really say that let's say it one more time thank you lord for keeping me alive i also want to thank god for giving us the strength to keep praying because sometimes when you look at what's going on and you listen to the news or read some of these things that they write you shake your head and sometimes you don't feel like praying but you remember that god answers prayers and you keep praying so we thank god and i want to thank all of you for your faithfulness in continuing to pray and please before i go on be a little more careful a little more observant for your health and for your safety don't just go up and down go to bed wake up some of you who are too young well that may not apply to you but for some others please be a little more careful say amen somebody now i would like to ask you to turn your bibles to ezekiel chapter 36 ezekiel chapter 36 where uh brother berry read ezekiel chapter 36 we're looking at 25 25 downwards i'll just take a few words from there and share with you what god has said on the 22nd of august at my wife's 70th birthday the lord gave us a prophecy and he gave us a reference as to what he planned to do when israel sorry somebody somebody was present the lord behind us yes he spoke to us from a time when he was looking forward and the 70th year of the then captivity of israel was complete and he told them what he was going to do and he made it clear to them at that time that they would do this they will enjoy this but he was not doing it because of them he was doing it for his own namesake now today the lord has as it were brought this scripture which he spoke to us in the united states i remember the lady uh to whom this you know who this scripture was given i remember brother steve uh brother intiensi and myself in the leadership were there and she said to us that many people wanted to do business with nigeria at that time but that so many horrible things were happening in nigeria that in fact it was the chatter the talk in the u.s don't talk nigeria don't touch nigeria don't talk nigeria but when she prayed the lord spoke the words of this passage to her and said i will visit that country and i will do this i'll do this and so when we came and we had all the things that were going on you could you could see that we were all deflated we were all sad we're all just walking up and down like ghosts she called us together and said let me give you a scripture to describe what god is going to do in your country she spoke to us she shared this scripture we prayed into it but after some time of course the fire began to go down but this season especially this morning it is important that we revisit it 25 then i will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean i will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols say amen now if god says i will clean you i will sprinkle water on you clean water we should rejoice because god can see us inside out and of course he has the purest water to wash us with you know some of you had the privilege of being watched by your mother a big auntie and they gave you a thorough wash i mean they cleaned you so so clean that you didn't even want to touch the ground but god is going to do much better and he's talking about the entire nation he says i will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean if god says you shall be clean say amen i will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols now look at the next one he says 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 say him and somebody god says he will give us a new spirit a new heart and put a new spirit within us oh lord please hasten this and give you a heart of flesh then he says i will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will keep my judgments and do them say amen somebody now these promises these scriptures are so powerful they are so real to me and they should be so real to you don't just read them as words believe them as promises i will put my spirit within you when god will put his spirit within us which one will we do we'll be fine and then he said he will cause us he will cause us to walk in his statutes and keep his judgments and do them so we'll be fine we'll be fine say we'll be fine oh come on say we'll be fine say amen we'll be fine then you shall dwell in the land that i give to your fathers you shall be my people and i will be your god i will deliver you from all your uncleannesses i will call for the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you which means that there will be plenty to eat there'll be plenty to buy there'll be plenty to sell there'll be no farming amen it says i will deliver you from all your uncleannesses i will call for the grain and multiply it and bring no famine upon you and i'll multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields so that you need never again bear the reproach of farming among the nations now this then comes well i'm not going to call it the bad part no no not the hard part but this one is we will then see our sins for what they have been it says then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good and you will look yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and your abominations not for this not for your sake do i do this look at that says the lord let it be known to you be ashamed and confounded for your own ways o house of nigeria thus says the lord god on the day that i will cleanse you from all your iniquities also i will also enable you to dwell in the cities and the ruins shall be rebuilt the ruins shall be you see you're not sounding like people who are going to be built that is when we will be ready to walk we will be clean to walk god will be dictating what we will do we will work and we will really understand what it means to rebuild a country some of these places in nigeria where sometimes you don't even want to go to most of those places will be rebuilt the desolation land shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by so they will say look at people this land that was destroyed has become like the gathering of eden and the western desolate and ruined cities look at wasted ruined desolate cities three adjectives shall be an unfortified and inhabited then the nations which are left all around you shall know that i the lord have rebuild the ring places and planted what are desolate i the lord have spoken it and no no no no no some of you are not paying attention god says i will do it say again i will do it [Applause] god bless you give the lord a hand but now this is our job this is what we will need to do now he says thus says the lord god i will also let the house of israel inquire of me to do this for them i will increase their men like a flock and so on so our job this morning is to ask the lord to do this for us to do this for us god says i will do this but the time has come very close but now that we're reading it god says i will ask let the house of israel inquire of me to do this for them how many of you would like to ask god to do this for us let me see your hands yeah god bless you some people are not too sure some people are not too happy some people are not too well if he does if he doesn't that's his business all we'll do is come to church you see you could go away from this service this morning a changed person you could leave this doors a completely transformed person you could have hope in your heart you could have the promise of god in your heart you could you could have a looking forward an expectation in your heart to say lord you have promised this day what do i have to lose i trust you you will do it you're faithful you know how to do it you have the strength it's there and we're alive and we're god's people so lord do it for us lord do it for us let's say that again oh look at that the people over there we lost them okay let's hear you lord do it for us what about the people here what about the people in the media what about the people here what about the people over there yes i like that lord do it for us but we want to ask the lord to do it for us we're not going to bother with so many things this one is the promise of god he says this land this place that needs the people need cleansing i will sprinkle clean water on you i will wash you i will i will look after you i look after you good i will then do an operation open your chest as it were take out the bad spirit and throw it out and give you a new spirit i give you a new heart and i will cause you i will teach you how to walk in my way and to do my will with your word day i'm fine if god would cause me god will be the engine god will be the director to teach me how to walk in his will to do his will ah i am done i'm finished so i bring you good news this morning that god has promised this words and he will do them he will do it so what do we have to do present yourselves for worship don't run away because you know some children when they say what they start crying they start running up and down but you just present yourself and be watched only don't let your opportunity to be watched be missed don't let god come looking and not see you looking for you and not see you so be always constantly present in the place where god can get hold of you and worship read the word of god allow the word of god to keep beginning the process of washing you and one of these days we will see it come to pass amen so please when you walk up and down on the road in your houses in your places of work don't work like people who have no hope oh this world is bad this nigeria is finished everything is gone no just in your heart keep thanking god you have promised if you like open it read it isaiah chapter 36 verse 25 to the end it's all good and those of you who have come from other churches that are not dominion city please share this with your pastors share this with your brethren pray through this scripture with your family pray from time to time with the brethren in the churches that you attained and tell them this is the word of god it is in the scriptures this was given to an american lady way back in the 80s i think it was 1983-86 i can't remember now and tell them that one of the people to whom this word was spoken to by the person who received it from the lord spoke to you this morning you don't need to mention my name just say somebody who was there at least i have done this morning this job of presenting this promise to you letting you know i was there when it was received and it was there that we had it and on this 61st independence anniversary we've shared this word with you say amen somebody as we prepare to pray for our nation i would like you as a priest at one point in this prayer to bring all of nigeria before the lord to say lord behold the church behold the families behold the workers behold the teachers behold the politicians behold mamas and daddies and uncles and everybody even the children behold all of us we all need to be washed we all need to be cleansed if there is one country that needs to be cleansed it is nigeria because all kinds of things are happening but when god cleanses us i believe this country will run it will fly amen well i can see some of you you're not convinced you're not too sure but when it comes to parts it will be glorious [Applause] um [Music] call with me let's do a little digestion of this then we'll get into prayers and close please provide each one of them a mic i want to sing that song god bless nigeria project the words [Music] yes [Music] please make sure everybody has a mic okay beautiful okay let's sing it [Music] we are one great mighty nation all the people of the earth may believe and dying service to you [Music] as we follow truth and love in this land forever [Music] [Music] sweet [Music] we are one great mighty nature of the people of the earth [Music] [Music] true blessed by god [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] everybody sing it together [Music] amen i want to say special thanks to daddy for that message and then of course to all of us for being here today i want us to begin just to make your welcome [Music] barista better thank you who is the national coordinator of intercessors for nigeria i'm past okay right there my writing glad to see you again sir you know um let's start with prophecies concerning nigeria we have just about 30 minutes so i'm going to kind of take it because many people don't know before we go first i want to ask again i know that human beings are born with purpose but do nations have purpose size do nations have purpose for existence because i want to know if there is a purpose for this our country yes what do you think sir nations have purpose um that is the very short answer to that um question and the bible lets us know that nations are appointed by god for purpose and nigeria belongs squarely in that category you mentioned prophecies about nigeria just before he does that so you don't think we're the one coming up with this acts chapter yes 77 verses 26 26. if you want to read it for us yes 17 17 verse number 2656 and he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwelling so that they should seek the lord in the hope that they might group for him and find him though it is not far from each one of us three things in verse 26 god made every nation of man 26 first the man projecting god made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth god is the one that did that number two god determined ahead of time their seasons for manifestation kingdom say pre-appointed times in other words each nation of people have their season to fulfill their own destiny yes and that's what happens god has that appointed time and is predetermined then the thought is that he even determined the boundaries of their dwelling now what if i ask people who say nigeria is man's creation is a creation of the british the creation of maybe people like lord lugard and so on and so forth how do you answer them in the face of the scripture well this this scripture is a comprehensive answer to uh those questions god has predetermined nigeria's existence through british i think it was uh one of your analogies that you usually use is that in the same way that people have parents that nations also have parents just the way it is israel came out of egypt nigeria came out of britain the way god ordained it going by the scripture we just read just like human beings have purpose but it's true human beings that we come here god didn't drop you from the sky it's only the first man he created the rest of us came to parents that's how all other nations were parented by some other nations even america came out of britain so don't say because britain was the instrument for midwife in us that we are not a creation of god then you are not a creation of god because human beings true your parents are human beings that were used to bring you here just like you a creation of god with a purpose even though the vehicle for getting you here is a father and a mother with the same way with nations so let's leave that side alone let's look at some prophetic words that god almighty has set concerning nigeria it will be good if all of us can at least bring up one one no matter no matter how whether you're able to put it in fullness or yes pastor ben can you get me a copy of that book i just want to put it on here again i believe that every nigerian should read this book especially those that are ruling us it's called nigeria in prophecy this is not the only one there is a purpose and destiny of our nation these are prophecies that have been given concerning nigeria and they came from different parts of the world so there's no way those men could have had a meeting to lie for example you have people like rahabanka you have people like paelton you have some that came from jews you have some that came from israel you have some that came from america you have some that came from caribbeans you have some that have come from other african nations you have some that have come from our own people here you have some that have come from benign there is no way they heard a conference to agree so you need to know what god has said concerning your nation and i'm putting up that book and uh i've asked for intercessors for africa to put it up on on the internet so that people can necessitate i will keep advertising this book you know the e-copies go check if it's already there if it's not the output pressure after this meeting for it to come online so that people can get it from all over the world nigeria in prophecy god's prophetic agenda yes go ahead sir i would i would combine two very quickly the first one is from page 13 of this book a prophecy by uh prophet shima joshua from 2001 part of it says the church in nigeria will be directly involved in placing leaders in nigeria some pastors shall participate in the running of the affairs of this nation now uh pastor pastors are going to be involved yes in governors of the nation actually ministers ministers you know because pastor here is not the title yes but it's the function um so the church in niger will be directly involved in placing leaders the church will perform king making functions in nigeria let's all take note of that those who think that church church or god's people should not be involved in politics let me ask two of you sir uh buddy do prophets do ministers at the scriptural bases that ministers have a role in civil affairs in political affairs in public affairs men of god or should they just be in the wilderness praying or in the temple offering incense yes yes sir maybe we check this scripture in psalms 78 psalm 78 to the last two verses of psalm 78 put it up i need more evidence that ministers some people don't even know that christians are supposed to be involved you think you're supposed to just go to church and fly to heaven and now they're talking about prophets men of god priests pastors getting involved in public affairs there are so many examples in the bible let's see the one you're bringing yes um so this talks about david david operated on that three anointings and one of which is the prophetic grace and unction he says from verse 71 from following the ills that had young he brought him to shepherd jacob his people and israel his inheritance so he moved from being a pastor to a king yes political 72 says so he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his hand let me read it one more time so in case please go back to verse 2 70 i want to start from 70. he also chose david his servant and took him from sheep food so if you are putting looking after sheep to you as a pastor check if god is calling you for public service now there are some people that are according to public servants that are just tied up in churches he's a person that is pastoring sheep i notice that the founding father not the not the the one that gave birth to the nation of jesus abraham even abraham and their founding father moses they were all shepherds it looks like from shepherding people you'll learn how to shepherd nations look at it he chose david he's seven and took him from the sheepfold verse 71 from following you that had young he brought him to shepherd jacob his people and israel his inheritance remember 72 so he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his son if we can bring this shepherding heart and this integrity required in pursuit into governance you can transform the whole country sometimes ministry is the best training ground for kingship i'm also aware that not all ministers are called into that so you need to draw the boundary yeah but this is powerful any other scripture that proves that somebody can actually uh when you look at uh second someone at chapter 23 second summon chapter 20 23 29 23 okay 23 yes yes now he says now these are the last words of david thought says david the son of jesse now he spoke as a man look at the next thing thought says the man raised up on high the anointed that's the chosen of the god of jacob and the sweet summit of israel this this one before you even comment i want to bring out that some inspired it can be for music ministry this worship leader absolutely that wrote over of almost a 150 psalms most of them were written by him when you said 150 psalms that you are talking about chapters yes each a verse in the psalm is a sound it is heavily anointed deeply prophetic a man that operated at this level who was who used to wear an airport he was a function as a priest as a king and even as a prophet that's the kind of leader god gave to israel to be in government in public verse 2 verse 2. now this is the man speaking hear what he said the spirit of the lord spoke by me now some of us here we don't i can't hear god have you heard people say that before i can't hear god so how does god speak look at him he said the spirit of the lord spoke by me when you speak to anybody here god is speaking did you hear that and his word was on my tongue the next verse the god of israel said the rock of israel spoke to me now he said he who rules over men must be just ruling in the fear of god david if you look at this every business is not just shepherding as a pastor if you are selling granolas you are a shepherd people who don't know who you are they are traveling in a bus they stop by the way they buy things from you their lives depended on whatever you give them they could die they could live by the quality of what you presented to them on the way you are their shepherd when you sell mangoes when you sell oranges if you are working in an office you are supposed to sign the paper and you refuse to sign it you are supposed to be a shepherd so justice you must be just fearless whether your father is hot or your mother benefits you must be just do what is right because you don't know who is coming right after you ladies and gentlemen because of of time can you see the word shepherd that was used for david when he was dealing with sheep when he moved to leading a nation god used the same word so a leader a governor a politician is actually doing a pastor a whole nation they just don't know if not they should have been properly trained for that do you know that the manager of a bank is also doing the same thing over the bank yes sir the father and mother is doing the same thing over the family yes sir the one that is heading the business is doing that's what he's raising now this thing is not only for pulpit function but is any other scripture that proves that you can actually go ministers can be involved in public whether it's directly or as helping to bring in leaders in in first samuel chapter 7 it's a whole path it's a whole chapter talking about the function of somewhere who was a priest and a prophet who began to lead the nation of israel he led them for a number of years before he and before he anointed saul and also later on anointed david did you hear that long before israel got a king their first king they were led by men of god it was a man of god a prophet that brought them out of egypt and now in this period somewhere that was a prophet and a priest also became a judge he managed to transition over the nation of israel and finally he was the one that anointed the first two kings yes there are no tests at all that you know messed up then he corrected that by anointing david so men and women of god are supposed to have get involved before we even talk about every believer remember that you're you all are kings and priests every believer is supposed to be responsible take responsibility for the well-being the outcomes that we see in our nations can we get one or two more prophecies before i go into something else yes there's one i like so much [Music] okay why he's finding his own if you have any you can give us or if you have a second one i because every one of the prophecies here are amazing now look at this at page 3 1983 national prayer conference christian student social movement cssm this year was the year of the coup that ousted the chagrin government the lord spoke to us as we were gathered in prayer in port harcourt not even aware that a coup had taken place he said son of man say to nigeria though you have passed through the valley of the shadow of death though says the lord you shall not die but shall leave now when you look at a lot of the things that are happening in nigeria today they are just the valley of the shadow of death all the storms are the valley of the shadow of death all the terrible things unspeakable things and know that when those students were listening when god was speaking to them in 1983 some of them never believed that it could get to a point where a nigerian would want to blow up himself but look at where we are today and if you can listen to the salmon from our father today look at what he said god spoke through a prophet somebody in far away united states through our fathers to tell us he will wash us he will cleanse us we're going to be coming to that yes i want to get some more prophecies no your mic is not okay be going because time is gone let me make a reference to that prophecy that prophecy came the prophecy from isaiah that it came in an international christian chamber of commerce conference it was a business conference and it says i will wash you has a complicated reputation but when god washes us that reputation will change and for those who don't have any faith anymore in nigeria let me tell you something um prophecy is not the human view of event it's like getting the ego view or the pilot's view i was once going to the island from the mainland of lagos and i got to todd milan bridge and the whole place was blocked with traffic but there was a man on a helicopter reporting giving direction on radio so you tune in with your radios he tells you which direction he was redirecting the traffic so based on his because i was there in the traffic i didn't know what was going on the man said follow the surreal study on roads that a tanker fell and blocked the road if you don't want to waste your whole day here redirect then he also gave some of that route and i didn't waste time you see the point of tuning in his view is not from the ground he is up there he sees what you cannot see from the ground that's prophecy you might be seeing the immediate god sees where how the whole thing is going to end god sees the end from the beginning so when he gives you that view listen he said my words are higher than your ways my thoughts are higher than your thoughts because we see what is obvious now what they are reporting now but what will tomorrow look like you don't know what about the next year you don't know five years that you don't know there is somebody who sees the future better than we see today so that's the purpose of prophecy let's go ahead sir i have my own now let me read it page number two um this is a very popular prophecy given by by sgl10 it says nigeria and nigerians will be known all over the world for corruption your name nigeria will stink of corruption but after a while a new phase of righteousness will come people from the nations of the earth will hold the nigerian and say we want to follow you to your nation to go and learn righteousness to go and learn what right so it looks like that bad part the first part before the movie changes you know while you're watching a movie looks like the actor is about to die they're going to throw him down from the helicopter and other the man who produced the movie is relaxed you that is watching you are having heart attack the person that wrote the script is relaxed this is the man that has the whole script hallelujah he said we'll start our bad first yes but i can also announce by the spirit of god i can tell you this one decision for the change he has started amen amen do you want to give us one or two more before we switch to something because we are going to look at how to produce this thing how to work it out yes um let's see there's another one um from 1983. this was in limuru uh in in kenya it talked about the preparation god is putting um african christians through um well i can quote some of it from my memory okay when he's getting it i would like him to get it it says if you have the new one it's right here it's okay as precious metals are formed in the deep and dark parts of the earth under very great pressure so i am forming my precious jewels in the hard and difficult conditions of africa i shall display them soon and their lives will affect the world wow i don't know if you know if you have been watching global events nigerians are even these last few days another one a doctor was appointed kind of physician general for the state of florida yes and it's happening in so many fields world trade organization you know africa development african development bank so many fields you know so and this is just four tests you can imagine what is coming ahead okay now we're going to go to the the text ezekiel 36 yes that takes is going to be broken up into parts the first part is verse 25 to 27 that's where we read it as one of the scriptures reading today that one also spoke from it now look at the first part then i will sprinkle clean water upon you you shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols i will cleanse you then next verse a new heart will also give you and the new spirit would have put within you and i'll take away the stony heart out of your flesh and i'll give you a heart of flesh 27 and i'll put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my status and you shall keep my judgments and do them now two things i will make a commentary but when we finish talking i will raise a question what is it that god is saying here is that personal transformation is what precedes national transformation if you don't change people first forget about changing that country that's true if you don't build human beings first forget about building a nation it's the quality of human beings that you have there that decides the quality of that nation do you see and this is the scripture that many of us have preached from when it comes to the new birth experience i i usually refer to this as the anatomy of the new but if you want to really understand the transformative work that happens inside a human being when god changes his life he becomes a brand new man you can get an idea by reading the scripture you see transformation of individual lives is what precedes or what produces the transformation of a nation you want a brand new nation get a brand new people and you don't get them by importing new people you get them by transforming the lives of the people that are there and what is the nature of this transformation it is spiritual and moral transformation god wants to tackle the nature of man because the heart of the human problem is is the problem of the human heart if you look at what is going on in our country the killings the kidnappings the corruption the violence is human beings that are doing that you want do you know who in britain uh maybe about a week or two weeks ago and we spent about maybe two weeks there and the part where we were staying a part of the country only white i think i only saw one black person there who was staying in a house i noticed no bugler proof people will be inside their house watching tv and they leave their windows open when i saw how the lags they were there were two times we went out to go and buy something we just closed that door we didn't lock it we closed it somebody else was coming to come and find us so instead of locking and going with the key we just closed the door and left the door open and when they came they went in brought in all the things they needed to bring in there was no worry about this and that of course we googled the environment and found that that crime rate is almost very low now i i was with prophet sanborg in his house one time in the u.s and i was going for a conference but i was staying in his house and then he would take the key and put right in front of his house and go i noticed that there were no bugs approved no nothing he will put the key under the carpet so that if i come back first i will take the care and enter if he comes back first and all of that i said proof no no no this is too exposed he's in the front he said there's nothing we don't have those kind of problems here you are worried because you are thinking about nigeria so and i was just thinking about this place you know no security don't know this and you sleep with such you breathe peace in the air it is the quality of human beings yes we need to get this number one point right god must change us before he can change our nation because nigeria is not the problem i think it was somebody i was saying if you export all nigerians to the u.s not all parts of u.s now us2 is beginning to decay but some parts i'm bringing all those guys over here that place will become third world and here will become first world within five to ten years because it's the quality of human beings is the quality that's why they are not gonna allow armed robbers murderers in heaven if you allow them heaven will become hell that's why they are god nothing that defies nothing evil or wicked is going to because the world of justice justice a world of love so if you allow those people they will turn into another type of republic so do you see the reason i'm raising this is because we're going to talk about our own responsibilities where do we focus our most important efforts is he restoring god's moral values and righteousness people in people we want it in the society but it has to come into people because it's people that create all the problems all the demons troubling nigeria are inside people can i say it again all the demons troubling this country are inside people i've never seen a demon jump on the road and kidnap a boss they do it by getting access to some human beings and using them to carry them so let's get that one right let's get it right what do you guys think about this i would transform our claims to another why is he focusing his effort on the people i thought he would say i'll cleanse your educational system i will cleanse your judicial system i will cleanse your economy he's talking about changing people as a means to changing the society yes let me uh show us a scripture today daddy was ministering and he mentioned ezekiel chapter 36 at verse 37 and i think that is the key to celebrate our anniversary today all over the world wherever nigerians are this is the key he said i will yet for this be inquired of i mean this is king james the amplified version says this thought says the lord god for this also i will let the house of israel or nigeria inquire of me to do it for them it is time now for us to say lord begin with me do this in me start this transformation with me do this in my family do this in my village start doing this in my community do it do the church yes do this in the church do listen start when we begin to ask him because the promise is waiting is for us to submit the check and let god begin to do it he has promised to do that and that's why he was that he was asking us you are not excited about this god promised who cannot first say i would do this but now he added the condition in verse 37 you asked me to do it i will let you ask me so listen ladies and gentlemen it's just like the provision of salvation jesus had died on the cross provided salvation provided forgiveness provided healing provided deliverance but the individual must come and ask for it that's the same thing when god gives a promise it's like a check the individual has to take it now and go and catch it in prayer so the first responsibility when it comes to national transformation where we start is prayer it doesn't end there but that's the first the ground zero without it is not going to happen because if you notice all this i will i will transform i will probably clean water on you i will cleanse you tells you that it's not just something that we can do only by ourselves think about salvation can a sinner save himself can a man bound by drugs free himself so there has to be a divine intervention but it is that man that will cry to god in repentance in humility and ask jesus to intervene in his life to cleanse him is that man that must repent and in humility ask god for the intervention without that he can sit down and wait for eternity that god will do it god will not do it so it's the same way we have to rise up in prayer and now ask god to fulfill his word in our lives and just like it is with salvation we we're also the ones that must bring repentance on behalf of our nation and after that repent i will ask god to save there is national salvation not just individual salvation there is a divine intervention on a nationwide scale yeah say something about this before okay before i bring a scripture okay oh oh sorry um first samuel chapter seven once again this uh samwell's intervention somehow started by gathering the people and told them in verse three of first summer chapter seven if you are returning to the lord with all your hearts read yourselves of your foreign gods and ashtoreth and commit yourselves to the lord and serve him only then he would deliver you out of the hands of the philistines because at this point the philistines were oppressing the children of israel very strongly verse 4 says so the israelites put away their bowels and asteroids and served the lord only and then samuel gathered them at misbah and interceded with the lord for them that's verse five and when they assembled he drew water symbolically like what we see in ezekiel chapter 36 verse 25 he drew water and poured it out before the lord and on that day they fasted and they confessed their sins before god with somewhere serving as their leader then their oppressors heard what was going on and i said go back go back i want to i just want to read our life he left it out when they confessed they said we have seen we have seen yes we have sinned against the lord and somewhere the leader of israel you know those who sinned against yes so then go ahead and then verse seven it says that the philistines heard about it and gathered together and came up there to attack them when the israelites head of it they were afraid because of the philistines they started crying out and telling somewhere do not stop crying to the lord for us that he may rescue us from the hand of the philistines somewhere made a sacrifice verse 10 verse 9 rather and after he had done you know finish the sacrifice which is a sacrifice that jesus did for us he they engaged the philistines in battle and this time around there was a difference because god became involved he thundered with a loud thunder against the philistines this is verse 10 now and the fl and threw the philistines into such a panic that they were routed before the philistines so we can see this narrative of repentance being sprinkled with water of this intercessory leadership and prayer and then victory over look at the three elements there is repentance and humility before god confessing of sin there was intercession and then after that there was action they didn't just stop with prayer they took responsibility and went to fight because that's also very important when esther said you fast for me i and my meetings were fast she didn't say that's what would stop he said then i will go before the king there is what is called political action which involves all types of responsibilities we're going to now do the things that we should do voting electing leaders doing all the things that we should do but we're repentance and intercession has led the way it clears the road for divine intervention and that was why god turned that intervened in this situation so we are seeing the principles this national affairs what is involved but i want to raise something else back on the scripture that we read ezekiel 36 verse 33 to 36. to see how powerful this subject of repentance and so on is look at what trust said the lord god in the day that i shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities in that same day i will cause you to dwell in the cities and the west shall be built now notice god is not going to come down and build houses for you build roads for abusive that is man's responsibility but with that same day when we humble ourselves repent make atonement and then intercede then the process that will reach the restoration begins waste cities can be rebuilt and west cities can be built all over again look at the next verse verse that is 34 and the desolate land shall be tilled whereas he laid desolate in the sight of all that passed by verse 35 and they shall say this land that was desolate is become like the garden of eden and the waste and desolate and real cities have become fenced and are inhabited verse 36 then the hidden that i left round about shall know that the lord built the ring places and planted that that was desolate i the lord have spoken it and i will do it so um i want to say this national development economic prosperity always full of spiritual and moral transformation you see how revival paves way for national reformation for national development when you are doing this spiritual you are doing repentance you are doing interesting you don't think what's the connection between this and building roads what's the connection between this and our economy i don't see the connection why are they always talking prayer that's the foundation because once the the uncerem is cleaned up it becomes possible for the nature to to respond favorably just like it is with human beings we live in a do our kingdom principle where what you see in the physical is a reflection of what is going on in the spiritual in other words kingdoms and nations as you see them here it reflects the character of the kind of powers evil spirits or spiritual powers and beings that control it in the spiritual when we bring repentance and bring intercession then all of these forces of evil can be cleaned out like what daniel did and the praise of passion and then the natural life the quality of life of human beings in the society can begin to reflect a new order the order of heaven lord jesus said let your kingdom come let your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven two points i have raised one is that the change begins with human beings if we are praying for nigeria to change let's also target prayer on people that's why timothy said paul was writing to timothy he said let prayer and so because you should be made for all men then for kings and those in authority these are human beings then it will have effect on our national life let's target the people in our nation let's target our leaders because it changes in the people that will trans translate to changes in the nation then let's also understand that when we bring repentance and bring intercession for our nation it creates a different atmosphere under which others aspects of national life can now prosper if we leave demons and wicked spirits to be running our affairs because of our iniquities then the physical world will be a reflection the national life will be a reflection of that which is why um god first of all focuses on the heart i will give you my a new heart i'll put a new spirit within you because once that process of uh regeneration is done inside of you then what comes out the manifestation of it becomes renewal becomes development okay i'm going to lead us to conclusion and this is where we're going to go all of us will speak the responsibility of the church you have already given us one intercession but i want to show us a scripture ephesians chapter 1 verse 21 22 and 23 so that i can you know emphasize this everywhere i go the lord has given me a big body to help awaken a work in the body of christ to our responsibility as a church look at it okay from verse 19 when god raised jesus from the dead what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the walking of his mighty power which he wrought in christ when he raised him from the dead set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places verse 21 far above principalities powers might dominion every name that is to be named not only in this world but also in that which is to come so this dominion of christ supersede everything you can find in any human government anywhere in this world and it supersedes anything you can find in any form of spiritual government whether they are demons or angels or whatever but he also includes this world doesn't matter who the pharaoh is or who the president is who whether is united nation or whatever where policies are made his authority supersedes all this i'm reading this to push us to solution and look at what he said in the next verse and had put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church verse 23 which is his body ladies and gentlemen these were in trying to tie it up i want to show us this as powerful as jesus is with all this authority and dominion that he has over principalities over nations over and combined with the fact that he has paid the price to purchase all people back to god in his exalted state today at the right hand of god he is head over all things to the church and the church is his body what is the implication of that i want to bring a balance please during the uh the last congress of intercessors for africa i was shouting that balance we just came from prison summit in i had a day i took our shout shouting on this god told me this is where nigerian christians have made their greatest blunder i came from uk i was in uk i was screaming this imbalance he said i am the head but the church is the body the implementing arm of christ is his body he said for example i have plans i have decisions i have things i want to do what i cannot do it without my body he said for example you now look look look at body hair look at his head look at his body vision is in the head you can see the two eyes and the head sees this book wants to get it let's see how the head takes the book is the hand that will pick it is the leg that will carry the body to there to pick it up now look at the brain the decision making um is in the head leadership direction is the brain that's the head one of the functions the head have five functions and all these organs are those ones for example communication is part of the responsibility of the head or command or instruction but when the head has made a decision like the scripture we have read that he asked us to come and inquire of him and we hear him say i will do it i will do it you can wait for 100 years and it will not be done do you know why the purpose of god depends on the people of god on the church on the church you see how jesus said it in a different place i am the vine you are the branches have you seen a tree that bears fruit without these branches no it does not happen just like a man cannot have a child without his wife that's how christ cannot reproduce without the church the church is his bride he is the head we are the body we don't make the decisions we find out what his will is our job is the implementation you see after prayer there is execution sorry let me go ahead sir let me show you this uh on page six of the prophecy this handout as we prayed this in 1984 abadan prayer conference christian student social movement as we prayed at a large gathering of many campuses at the abaddon polytechnic the lord spoke again during a very deep session of prayers while most of us were on our faces on the floor now hear what the lord said the lord said my church in this nation is my hope for the continent of africa now listen carefully one of the problems we have is that when god says this we think that oh god is talking about the church in africa he didn't say the church in africa he said the continent whatever africa and africans are supposed to accomplish the church either does it or nothing happens and if the church in this nation is going to be god's hope is that my hope for the continent of africa what do you think is his hope for nigeria the church nigeria do you guys see what issue we need to be taught of being co-laborers with god labor us together with god that god does not do it alone when god's people are out of alignment the purpose of god might not fail all together but if we remain hanging till he finds a man i think it was genesis chapter two i think verse four said when god was making the earth another there was no plans of the field no whatever why because god has not found a man to till the ground in many scriptures you see him saying the same thing i sought for a man when it comes to intercession that's our number one responsibility god needs people that will take responsibility to do it but at the same time god is now expecting the church to start raising leaders that can be deployed to all these firsts to go and get things done right god did not come from heaven and just throw david at israel it was somewhere he walked through a human being to intron a righteous leader so if we don't vote if we don't get involved if we are not aware what is happening we just pray we are doing our responsibility partially for example the last two elections in this country i just want to give us an understanding the last two election that has happened go and check the number of votes that came from the so-called predominantly christian part of the country while our cousins are stuffing the ballot box you hear 2.7 million 1.8 million and all of that you go down to you see 270 000. i'm i can call some states now you go down to you see but on churches they fill up everywhere we expect god to come from heaven and read the election because he said i will do it i will do it let me give you another example we have been reading today in ezekiel i will do it i will proclaim what upon you i will do this let's not go and preach the gospel and see how god will do it who did he give the responsibility of preaching the gospel angels no jesus no he told him sit at my right hand till i make your enemies your footstool and someone one thing said the lord will send forth the rod of your strength out of zion that scripture will be reading today where god said i will do it i will will never happen it happens where god's people will go out and start disciplining their society disciplining the nation there is a god part the part of changing people we cannot do is only the holy spirit that can do that we can convince people of sin but the part of preaching the gospel god will not do and i'm going to give us a scripture to back it up yes go ahead before i give up let me quickly uh draw our attention to acts chapter nine uh looking at verses three to six this is the encounter of uh paul near damascus and i believe this is one of the reasons why paul was so effective because paul asked two questions there in verse three uh sorry in in verse four oh sorry verse five brother paul asks who are you lord who are you you and jesus introduced himself the next question paul asked is i wish what shall i do we have had god today the next question we should be asking god is what shall i do not what shall the church do is what shall i what shall i wash your life go ahead sir go ahead let me at this point contribute this scripture from jeremiah chapter 51 immediately pastor talked about psalm 110 this came into my spirit jeremiah 51 and from verse number 20 jeremiah 51 verse 20. he says you are my battle axe and weapons of war for with you i will break the nation in pieces with you i will destroy kingdoms with you i will break in pieces the horse and its rider with you i'll break in pieces the chariot and his rider with you are breaking pieces man and woman with you are breaking pieces old and young with you are breaking pieces the young man and the maiden with you also are breaking pieces of shepherd and his flock with you out breaking pieces from under his yoke of oxen with you i will break in pieces governors and rulers so you discover that this this emphasis must be a take-home message god is a doing god god is an interventionist god he does not want things to remain the way they are because he didn't create this world for the devil he wants this world to go his way and like pastor said we are the only hand he has this with us he will break in pieces whatever that is not right and we must believe him to use our feeble efforts all he wants is for us to be knowledgeable to be envisioned and to be consistent that your feeble effort will be translated into something that will bring down kingdoms bring down farmers bring down people who are against the purpose and the will of god thank you once god finds a man that aligns with him a man he can use the rest becomes history god is searching for davidic kind of leaders at the highest level of leadership in this country at the state level at the local government level at the different companies at industries in churches in our homes servant leaders shepherding leaders like we have read today fathering leaders everybody to take responsibility where you are be planted local while you have a national outlook start from that you are small place and start walking things up all the way to a whole nation let me read this and then with it we can now pray it is isaiah chapter 11 that's this scripture changed my life when i understood it verse nine this is the scripture that talks about the seven spirits of god he started by talking about there shall rise a road out of the root of jesus you know god was going to raise somebody raised a leader and now he was talking about jesus and then he will put his spirit upon him he listed all of that the spirit of the lord shall rest upon him spirit of wisdom and all that then it defines what his leadership would do what his type of leadership would do in israel go to verse six the wolves shall dwell with the lamb the leopard shall lie down with the kids these are human beings so this society is not just the animal kingdom i know that when he comes this will also affect the animal kingdom the calves and the young lion the fat lead we you know the fact that together a little child shall lead them can you imagine a society where even a little child can lead i'm not talking about the maturity of a child where you don't have to be so exceptional to get people to cooperate to behave verse seven the cow and the beer shall feed the young one shall lie down together the lion shall eat straw like the oxen that's it the suckling child shall play in the whole of abs and the wind child shall put his hand on the cochranities then look at verse 9 they shall not nor destroyed in all my holy mountains for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the lord as the water covers the sea so this level of transformation in a society is caused by the saturation of the knowledge of god as the water covers the sea the first part is through the outpouring of the seven spirit of god prayer will cause such a thing to happen but this last part is the saturation of that society with the knowledge of god's values and principles then this thing will now regulate the behaviors of human beings a society that is like a jungle where the lion bounces on the goat people the strong prey on the weak the the ones who get power use it to their own advantage and oppress the rest of the people it's a jungle it's like the wide what the the animals are doing in the forest so the lord asked me what is this thing that i did here that made a lion so humble so meek now they can stay with a goat and not eat it what is this thing miracle that i did here that made and that's how life used to be in the garden of eden that's how it is in heaven when you pray thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth the animals in heaven don't eat each other and when the lord returns that's how it will be so if we want society to look like this we must now seek for the knowledge of truth the knowledge of god's values the knowledge of righteousness the knowledge of god to saturate that place as the water covers the sea it will do something to the behaviors and the quality of lives of human beings this is why to change nations god did not give us guns he didn't give us bullet he didn't give us bomb he told us to go and possess nation what did he give us the gospel because truth is what brings transformation values righteousness is what brings transformation righteousness exalts a nation sin is a reproach to any people [Music] so do you see where again the head of the church depends on his body because we are the ones given the responsibility to go and make disciples of all nations when you are in the classroom as a teacher you are teaching mathematics but you also injecting godly values into your children those two points when you are a leader you find time to not just care about making money but you also care about the quality of human beings in your company and pastors do their parents do their part we are going to have a new nation this work of rebuilding is actually rebuilding people the collapse of moral values the collapse of righteousness the vanishing of the fear of god is the greatest undoing of any nation if we want when you have a leader like i have people under me i'm not like a lion eating them up oppressing them you want something to regulate your leaders you want the behavior of people to each other to change two principles are brought out in this chapter one is the outpouring of the spirit of god but the other is the saturation of that place with the knowledge of god as the water covers the sea what if every nigeria is helped to understand this book what it contains god's purpose for nigeria do you know that this will kill majority of our of the different ethnic agitations what if every nigerian is brought to understand god's principles and righteousness and moral values as it relates to relationship with each other and relationship to form a tribe to drive one tribe to another and as a list of governance and leadership principles biblical principles for governors what if everybody is brought to understand that and then pledge to live by that do you know what is going to happen who have a brand new country what if we can get every christian to become practicing christians who have a brand new country this area is part of our responsibility restoring truth is the quality of messages being preached in churches that decide the quality of the congregation and this quality of congregation decides the quality of society truth is what brings transformation ignorance and deception brings destruction truth is what brings transformation knowledge of truth is what sets people free is what transforms we who are god's people need to take back responsibility we who are the church need to take back responsibility because we are the ground and pillar of truth when it was given this major responsibility by god how we have welded that weapon is part of the challenge today so it's not enough to pray the people causing problems are human beings like you and i they need to be changed their lives need to be changed and until they are changed they will remain a problem to the society so we had given responsibility to go reach them with the gospel and then disciple them disciple them jesus said teaching them to obey all things whatsoever i have commanded you failure to do this has grave consequences not only for us as god's people but for our nation what if we get 100 pastors in this country that god has given a voice who would dedicate that voice to the moral and spiritual transformation of this nation and leave the jokes and the distractions alone do you know what will happen in a couple of years there is a responsibility we have to collaborate with god to partner with him to see his purposes come to pass we start with our prayer life with our prayer for the nation just like we've already done but we move on to areas of helping to bring other people to the knowledge of christ and to disciple them where their lifestyle where their value system conforms to god's word then can you imagine who will kill you again if you if we all start doing it who will kidnap other people's children who will guns and rape another person we we have a responsibility that we have not done you being a good person is not enough we have a responsibility where the light of the nation we are the salt of the earth and of course we also have another responsibility many of us should now go take responsibility in different fields of leadership in the public space in the marketplace and make sure that the institutions that we lead where we walk is transformed first and gradually this will result in what we are praying about what we are looking forward to i want us to pray all of us will raise one prayer point then i will go to moment one but she will raise the last and then all of us will read us if it's possible let's snail down or if you have something with your knees god will hear you while you are seated but you know let us pray if you are elderly you don't have to kneel down put a lot of young people here a lot of you know middle mid age people here let's pray very severe please lead us one prayer for nigeria and pray and then passed okay body high and then finally make sure there is a mic finally we're going to ask mummy to pray and then that will conclude and that will be the end of this myth let us pray at this point i would like us to cast our minds to the discussion the part of the discussion where we saw the questions that apostle paul asked jesus i would like you in your own capacity in your own formulation in your own words to ask those same questions ask for a personal revelation of god for you who are you lord who are you lord and the second question ask god to give you a task to give you an assignment to give you direction to give you purpose what would you have me do lord what would you have me do that is our first prayer who are you lord personal revelation and second what would you have me do [Music] so so right our dear heavenly father we thank you for the awesome privilege of being elected and chosen by you we thank you for bringing us to this place of meeting with you to this place of encounter of interaction of connection of communion with you lord we pray for each and every one of us here and those who are watching and listening around the world we pray and ask that you would reveal yourself you will give each of us a particular qualitative memorable meaningful revelation of who you are to us that this revelation is one that we would carry one that will provide a foundational undergirding for our walk with you that the quest of our lives will be always to know you in increasing measure we pray also secondly that you would give us direction about purpose about tasks about assignments that you would want us to do and that lord you would help us to be highly productive in so doing that lord we will never lack for direction nor be unsure of what you want us to do we ask for these because we have prayed in jesus name amen get your mic but start for national repentance repentance and then whatever else god put in your head prayer yes a dear father and our god [Music] we thank you and bless you for this privilege we have to come to you we have already related the fact that we're carrying out this convocation in the moment of the day of atonement and so we come knowing who you are we bring our nation before you we acknowledge before you that we have sinned and fallen short of your glory oh god as a people we have done unprintable things we have done wickedly our god we have filled our land with violence with convexiousness we have come into a bracket of time when no man in this land is sure of his life this is what we have brought ourselves to like we have learned there is no no demon that is afflicting us but the demon inside of us the demon of disunity violence the demon of occultism the demon of injustice we have yielded our lives and our ways to be corrupted by these demon spirits and so lord we come today to you on this auspicious day and we ask that you would forgive us as a nation father there are four principle ways of judging christian or godly leadership leadership that is righteous leadership leadership that is just leaders leadership that is truthful and leadership that has mercy on these four counts we have failed as a people at every level of leadership we have turned our backs to you we have gone our ways we have operated in tribal pride denominational pride a father we have filled the land with bloodshed lord we have operated as though we are above the law we have used our positions to secure things for our cronies to the detriment of the larger society my father our wickedness have risen above our head and we cannot even look at you but you whose nature it is to have mercy and to show compassion we plead with you as a nation the whole states and abuja the whole 774 local government areas we kneel on their behalf and we plead that you open a fountain lord a fountain so that our sins will be washed away so that will be cleansed as you have promised so that we you will wash us and guide our feet out of evil out of wickedness out of godliness father we sprinkle the blood of jesus christ over the nation over the peoples over the youth the children we sprinkle the blood of jesus let it flow like a mighty flood to bring us into a new season to bring us into a new day to bring us into that nigeria that is in your heart that nigeria of your dream father bring us to that point we ask that you give us a visitation the bible says that through the tender messages of our god that the dead spring from on high will visit us to give us light in this season because we have found ourselves sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death therefore come along and guide our feet into the way of peace guide our feet into the way of favor into the way of restoration into the way lord of gratitude living lives that appreciate and acknowledge what you're doing our god and our father we ask that in this our season in this day this particular day that your light will shine upon this nation and that the the power of god will shake away the wicked from the heavens over this nation establish us as a people oh god and cause your will to prevail cause your will to prevail and take hold of all thrones and authorities that oppose your will and your grand design for nigeria thank you for hearing us oh god as we proclaim today that you are our king you are our law giver you are our judge and you will save nigeria thank you for hearing us for in jesus powerful name we have prayed amen [Music] i would like everybody to just pray one prayer and then i will summarize and that is where god said i am allowing nigerians to now ask me to do this so let each one of us ask the lord all that you said to us in ezekiel 36 where we read today i am asking you now to do this in my life your parents your children your spouses your business your community your local church ask the lord to please do that then and on the whole nation that thing he said he what he would do let's ask him now to do that let's operate in the name of jesus christ so father we come to you weeping so [Music] so [Music] baby smush as we make ourselves in jesus powerful name we have prayed heavenly father the god of nigeria the god of our fathers who spoke to our fathers and today our fathers have spoken to us our fathers told us lord they said that god said he will do he will do he will do all that you said you would do at ezekiel chapter 36 from verse 25 to 37 lord our fathers also told us that you are asking us to come to you from all our little homes villages communities local government areas states this entire nation and all the nigerians everywhere on the face of the earth we come to you the god who is inexhaustible in grace and mercy father we ask you take us begin to do what you said you would do we are willing that psalm 110 it did say that in the day of your power your people shall be willing father we are willing the church is willing the nation is willing all of us are kneeling and willing we surrender and submit to ourselves for you to suggest control command direct lead all of us in the part of a nation that is cleansed with a new heart cities that were desolate and now inhabited give us the wisdom to rebuild to build the waste to begin to build infrastructures economies education things that need to change to bring this nation to glory help us to be just help us to be just when nobody sees us to be just in the business place to be just with our families to be just with anything we do help us to be shepherds of other people father help us we cry to you that you will fulfill this word that you have spoken as we yield ourselves to be the hands and legs and whatever else that is needed to make your world come true so do lord and be glorified in jesus name we pray amen get a mic please come forward pray for the church in nigeria and pastors leaders spiritual leaders and churches this thing will start with us yes go ahead father we thank you today we lift up the church in nigeria which is your body it is true us that you said you will execute what you want to do because we are your battle axe father like we had this morning until we align with you until your body aligns with you things will continue to be in this array father today we ask in the name of jesus christ help us to align with you beginning from the leadership of the church down to the congregations and the members bring us into alignment with you that we may understand your will and that we will carry it out in the mighty name of jesus christ we bind every form of division among your body we bind conflicts among leaders and among the body of christ in this nation in the mighty name of jesus christ let your hand come upon us to awaken us to our responsibilities to awaken us to what we need to do and not just to awaken us but empower us also father to do it in the mighty name of jesus christ we pray thank you father we give you glory we give you praise in jesus mighty name amen come come come get the mic all the professionals marketplace even your cba and all the different sectors the desolation everywhere education everywhere everywhere as god from emergence of marketplace leaders daniels and joseph and nehemiah's who rebuild all this ask god to help us father we thank you this morning and we give you praise thank you for this gathering and thank you for what you are doing father in this season where you are looking for men to rebuild the way cities for men to rebuild the nation we ask in the name of your son jesus christ you will raise men and women professionals in various fairs who will come up and rebuild the nation in the name of jesus you are raising davids you are raising jesus you are raising jehovah's men that are professionals in their right walking in places doing their businesses lord you will raise them in the name of jesus for you have said that you want to repeal the waste places father starting from the church starting from your body raise men and women that are passionate for you that understand your dealings and your workings that will take hold and take responsibility of their various fears in the name of jesus over the educational sector lord raise men men that will be passionate for the new generation that is coming up men that will be passionate to take the educational sector and instill in the children the values and the morales that you desire for them in the name of jesus father we have learnt this morning that it takes your morals and your values to change men lord raise men that will use their various platforms to institute these things in the lives of men and women in the name of jesus doctors medical professionals people in various fairs even our brothers in diaspora who are there they are hungry and they are desirous to be a part of the rebuilding father in the name of jesus raise them raise them for this nation in the name of jesus so that the prophetic word will come to pass in the name of jesus father in our various institutions both public and private raised men and women men of integrity men that will be able to speak your word with boldness men that will be able to stand for what is right men that will be builders of systems men that will be builders of processes in the name of jesus men that will not cut out or the devices of the enemy in the name of jesus raise men of wisdom men of wisdom men that understand how to build things how to restructure things how to repair things raise this men who will be able to operate like revelation chapter 5 verse 10 as priests and kings they will understand the dealings of god in their various areas and they will be able to execute raise men and women that will execute in these days thank you precious father blessed be your holy name in jesus precious name amen one moment before i go to mummy uh tony can you please come come and get the mic for the youths we just came from enugu god said a lot about the young people teenagers young people universities let there be a massive move of god among our young people not east west and south father we thank you you said in your word that in the last days you will put out your spirit upon all flesh but you are specific about our sons and our daughters the young people the teenagers father we we ask right now oh god let there be an outpouring an outpouring of revival on our young people in the secondary school start a movement lord raise apostles in our secondary schools raise pastors raise evangelists raise builders in our secondary schools raise teenagers with integrity teenagers that will stand for righteousness lord we bring repentance for the courtism we bring repentance for the abortion amongst the young people we bring repentance for the bloodshed and lord we present them before you lord we ask oh god look upon our young people with your mercy and let an emergence begin from our schools let the move of your spirit begin from our campuses and our secondary schools raise for yourself teenagers that are placed for you teenagers that will preach the gospel with boldness teenagers that will stand for righteousness in our schools in our campuses lord do it again lord and begin in our time begin with us oh god raise leaders oh god from amongst us who will go back to the schools step the button again in our hearts raise men and women that will go back into the primary secondary schools universities people who will go with the body to ignite passion to ignite your fire in the hearts of all the young people father we believe and we thank you for in jesus mighty name we have prayed amen get a mic for mommy mommy please pray for our homes if things are broken down from families and whatever else god puts in your hand our father and our lord want to thank you for the opportunity that you must get a game from before you father we pray concerning our our homes are not body god is coming out from there not watch you and lord we plead with you each one of us have come from a home lord forgive us the path that we have played that has not been that has brought this nation to this level that we are in we do not presume that we are clean plead with you for mercy mercy lord have mercy upon us have mercy on our fathers and others have mercy on our young children have mercy on our maidservants and men servants have mercy upon us and deliver us do for us what you said you will do in the name of jesus i want us to do something those of us that are here and those that are watching something that astrology taught us to personalize [Music] some prayers and some things that god has promised in this ezekiel passage i beg of you today to look at ezekiel that is verse 26 and 27 he says a new heart also will i give you and a new spirit will life within you i will take away tony heart out of your flesh and i will do a heart of personalize this please tell god my name is sosuanzo i need in this new heart i need this new spirit within me i need you to look at my heart that i have now where i'm kneeling down or where i am there are some stones there i want you to take out of my heart and give me a heart of flesh and i would like you to put your spirit within me so that i can walk in your statutes so that i can keep your judgments and through them all of the men of old david and many people that god called he normally puts a new spirit within them the spirit of god he puts within them and they become new people they become new they have they they have new hearts david had it when the lord anointed when someone anointed him it was recorded that the spirit of god came into him and he became a new man when god when a soul was anointed the same thing happened to him he became a new man david cherished the spirit of god that he gave him on that day and walked and cooperated with that spirit and the result [Music] we can see in what he did for god but saul had that same spirit he did not cherish the spirit he did not recognize he did not relate with the spirit as he ought to plead with god as you are you this is your mouth that you have used to ask god to put his spirit within you [Music] decide that that spirit that has come now because as you have prayed god has answered he doesn't his ear is not death he has he has had what you have prayed and this is a solemn occasion god is looking for people to put his spirit within and you are asking him to do it for you that will not come down but the spirit will come upon you as you are going from here [Music] begin to listen to how you will do new things things that you never do before in your places of work how you will do new things how you will do justice how you will keep god's statue go out from here like a person that god has put the spirit within within our father and our god as your handmaiden who has pulled upon you all these many years more than 40 years cried to you wept many times over this nation nigeria [Music] and now who have said that you have come you have entirely into nigeria and that you want to give each one of us here a new heart and you want to put your spirit within us i plead with you almighty god to do this now do it now ah jehovah onion hollow no look do it now look at all of us that are kneeling down here and look at the ones that are in their various places watching put this spirit it was just one day that you put your spirit within david a shepherd boy and he became a great king you are the same god you have not changed i beseech you i pledge with you as a mother and as your handmaiden put your spirit upon these ones in the name of jesus take away all the stones from our hearts and put the heart of flesh let us live here a changed person change people let us leave this place as people that have let your presence with a new spirit within us and help us as we go from here to cherish this new gift it is a gift from you the holy spirit is a gift we don't deserve but you give it lord if him is a human is he is he is a oh give him to us this spirit this spirit that will lead us to do righteousness to do justice to do everything that you want done in this nation god give this spirit to us let us not leave your presence empty we do not presume that we have it we don't presume lord we ask afresh that should be peaceful all that this lord this time next year we are not coming to ask for the same thing go with your children as they leave this place let them go out with newness of life let people see it when people when you did it for saul when he left the presence of somewhere he began to prophesy people said he saw also among the prophets there was a change and that's what i desire and that's what i'm asking you for all of us the time has come that this change should come over us do it in jesus name thank you heavenly father have your way have your way in nigeria have your way in nigeria jesus name we pray just before that it concludes i want to take a stand on behalf of anambra state election is around the corner there and all sorts of things are going on and then extend it to nigeria for 2023 heavenly father i stand here um from an umbra state but i want to say that i i knew before you in shame in humility because of what is going on in that place killing of innocent people violence everywhere people thinking that money can be used to buy life or buy power by whatever lord we ask for your mercy upon that state i speak on behalf of every man and woman from that step no matter where they are in this country around the world let your mercy come upon us lord intervene in an umbrella state i say fall as a first fruit as a sign of what you're going to do in nigeria in 2023 overrule the council of wicked men and women overrule the council of demonic powers and principalities who want to turn that place into a theater of war and make life unbearable for your people overrule their council stamp your authority and your influence over that land and redeem that state from the crutches of wickedness from the colleges of wicked men from the hands of evil powers and forces that have ganked up like vultures to feast on the life of people what the high almighty has planned how they will re-election how they will have their way overrule their council for there is no power but of god give us a new kind of leadership in an umbra state give us transformational leadership in that place election is just about a month or they're about a way divorce a servant leader somebody that is coming to serve the people to serve the state give us a shepherd leader lord it won't be too hard to ask you to give us a dvd kind of leadership even in the midst of what is going on we ask for your intervention lord the egyptians are ordinary men there are no spirits their horses are flesh they are not iron there is nothing impossible with you intervene oh god and i stand as a priest raised from that land to raise a cry lord and i extend it over the whole nation of nigeria in 2023 election is coming again and just before we get to the pulling but all of this violence overrule this situation in this country overrule the council of men overrule the council of men who think that they hold this country in their pocket overrule the council of politicians wicked men and women principalities and powers who have pocketed nigeria in their pocket overrule their country show us mercy lord show us means give us a leader give us leaders across us friends men of righteousness men of integrity men of courage to do what is right men of vision and foresight lord meant to have the competence to implement the changes and do the rebuilding that needs to be done give us a new kind of leaders fathering leaders shepherding leaders transformational leaders servant leaders let this be known that this is what the lord has done because after this coming election it will be clear to all men that god has intervened do we that only your name and name alone will be glorified like you spoke to the children of israel he said i'm not doing this because of you i'm doing it for my holy name's sake do it that your word your cancer which you spoken over this nation may come to pass and now following the footsteps of mummy lord give us a new heart in a new spirit do this surgery not only in those of us who are here in all churches in all among all leaders spiritual leaders pastors do it among our youths do it among our political leaders do it among our leaders of industry in the marketplace do it across the north to the east the south the west is give up make us a brand new people give us brand new hearts put your spirit within us cause us to now walk in your ways cause us to walk in righteousness cause us to be people that fear you do this start with an unbreasted lord there must be a reason why that state comes ahead of all the other states use it to set an example of what you can do cause a new season to come upon our nation a season of rebuilding restoration a season of righteousness being enthroned in every sphere have your way at the end of it or let your name be glorified in jesus mighty name amen please give a mic to that he went back so that he can conclude the whole a god on our father we come before you this day standing on all the prayers that your priests your people have prayed lord this is the 61st independence anniversary of our country and father we want to ask you most solemnly to please enter into a covenant with us because by ourselves we can do nothing lord we use this scripture that you have given us reminded us of today ezekiel chapter 36 verses 25 to 38 as the scripture lord which we will stand on to draw up a covenant with you [Music] lord we begin with asking you to begin and fast-track the process of sprinkling clean water on us and we shall be clean cleanse us from all our filthiness and from all our idols give us a new heart and put a new spirit within us take the heart of stone out of our flesh and give us a heart of flesh put your holy spirit within us and cause us to walk in your statutes and we will keep your judgments and do them then we shall dwell in the land that you have given to our fathers we shall be your people and you will be our god but you will deliver us from all our uncleannesses you will call for the grain and multiply it and bring new famine upon us and you will multiply the fruit of our trees and the increase of our field so that we need never again bear the reproach of farming among the nations then we will remember our evil ways and our deeds that are not good and we will lock ourselves in our own sight for our iniquities and for our abominations lord you said not for our sex you do this let it be known to us we'll be ashamed and confounded for our own ways o house of nigeria thus says the lord on the day that you cleanse us from all our iniquities he will also enable us to dwell in the cities and the ruins shall be rebuilt the desolate line shall be tilled instead of lying desolate in the sight of all who pass by so they will say this land that was desolate has become like the garden of eden and the western desolate and ruined cities and now fortified and inhabited then the nations which are left all around us shall know that you the lord have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate you the lord have spoken it and you will do it thus says the lord god i will also let the house of nigeria inquire of me to do this for them to do this for them you will increase our man like a flock like a flock offered as holy sacrifices like the flock of jerusalem on his first days so shall the ruined cities be filled with flocks of men then they shall know that you are the lord father we plead with you to write this in your records again as a covenant that we make with you today lord the time is very near and lord we need a new heart lord we need you to heal our hearts and enable us because out of the heart proceeds all the issues of life and the heart is very wicked lord we need you to deliver us from the iniquities of our hearts the hatred for one another in our hearts the satanic wisdom that we have imbibed lord the prayerlessness that is in our hearts lord we ask that you will deliver us deliver us deliver us and give us a new heart a new spirit a new heart a new spirit to see differently to hear differently to hear you to speak to you with sincerity with honesty lord we pray that you would help us beyond ourselves help us help us lord help us help us help us lord be merciful to us help us but as we go from here today let the work of transformation that has started continue and never stop help us cause us to do your will cause us to do your will cause us to pray cause us to be transformers cause us to be renewed to be transformed to be revived lord turn us around have mercy upon us thank you father thank you lord raise us up raise us up raise us up to walk in righteousness and in the fear of god help us to develop love one for another the east for the west the south for the north the north for the south lord we pray that in this nation you will do your work quickly so that your name will be glorified we pray with thanksgiving as you pour out your spirit upon us we pray with thanksgiving in jesus name and everybody said amen [Music] yes you can it should be a good time to sound it somebody can hold your mic for him you want to sing something go ahead ask and i'll give you the nations if that's what you want to see if it's another thing go ahead okay let's give our offering while they're singing [Music] whatever you need [Music] you said your glory will fill the earth [Music] like water you said [Music] is [Music] whatever you need you can't reject the song [Music] you said your glory will fill the earth [Music] [Music] nations [Music] [Applause] is [Music] to [Music] we'll see [Music] you've got times and seasons in yours [Music] is [Music] but you [Music] [Music] is amen what a service just before we share the grace remember the book nigeria in prophecy is on internet is you can access it nigerian prophecy the publication of the intercessors for nigeria it will help everyone of us and help spread it to other people direct people to the site so they can go and download it and know what god is saying i want to really say special thanks to every one of you that came out to for this special independent service and i want to honor all the members of intersections for africa those here and those that joined us all the dominion city families that joined us all the men and women from all over the world that are part of this service i want to honor the leadership of intercessors from nigeria here pastor okeechobee manuel god bless you sir and you know pastor barista a better one but god bless you especially of course our national coordinator bodhihani uzoma god bless you sir i'm looking for a title to you know and of course our one and only mommy buddy god bless you man thank you sir and of course you don't have to the one and only father of african nation african transformation daddy barista america [Applause] thank you for celebrating for putting the events together and pastor ben thank you all the people that walked you one way meanwhile you guys sound like angels god bless you thank you can we stand up and sing the national anthem [Music] to serve our father we love strength [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] where [Music] may the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god the father and the fellowship of the holy spirit be with us now forevermore amen surely goodness and message shall follow us all the days of our lives and we shall dwell in the house of the lord forever and ever amen i'm told that there is a small refreshment there for leaders and all all ministers of the gospel and other leaders in leaders of international south africa that came you

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