A SPEAKING CHURCH

In the past few days Nigerians have been really hurting and we all know why. I got involved in a discussion with my collegues recently and I could see the depth of pain and hurt Nigerians are going through. Its amazing that this feeling cuts across the entire strata of society.

In the midst of all this we are tempted to show our anger and frustration at the government and any other person that gets in our way. A kind of transfer of agression right? And of course we can justify our actions, cant we? I feel differently though. As believers our perspective to all this should be different. And if you see differently, you should speak differently shouldn't you? So what's my point?

This is the time for the church to arise and begin to speak! There's this song Israel Houghton wrote sometime in '99 (I think) titled "We Speak To Nations". The song starts by talking about the decadence and terrible condition society is in but much later in the song, emphasis is laid on us,the Church, speaking FREEDOM to nations. The chorus goes:

We speak to nations, "Be Open"
We speak to nations, "Fall On Your Knees"
We speak to nations,
"The Kingdom is coming near to you"
Oh, we speak to strongholds, "Be Broken,"
"Powers of darkness, you have to flee"
We speak to nations,
"The Kingdom is coming near to you"
We speak to you, "Be free, yeah be free"

This, I believe is the position the church should take in this season. Let us be a speaking Church, a speaking people. Declaring the Kingdom of God. It is said of Abraham that he "then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do." Paul further testifies to us that "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart"(Romans 10:8).

This is the Church's finest hour, let us arise and fulfill our destiny!

'Nuff said.

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