STILL ON THE SPEAKING CHURCH

A look at the country and you can become so frustrated and most definitely voice your disgust at the system and also tear it down. I got into that position recently when I looked at the country particularly after some incidents took place in my area. Some boys just put the entire area in darkness just because they wanted to make a few bucks. I was really put off. What angered me most was that this problem is not of social infrastructure but one of wrong attitudes and mentalities.So how do we reconcile what we see in the nation with what our position should be when it comes to speaking?

I read Ezekiel 37 recently ,and though we've usually seen it from a very selfish view, God showed me another perspective. Ezekiel said

"God grabbed me. God's Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun." Eze 37:1,2(the Message)

I don't know about you but if I were Ezekiel, after seeing such a sight and asked to speak (prophesy) to these bones, I would have argued with God on the possibility of the bones living again. It is impossible, I would have said. But something is instructive of what the responses of the prophet. He never for once hesitated. He recognized his limitations so when God asked, "Son of man, can these bones live?"he just said, "Master God, only you know that." This must be our response too.

Ezekiel simply spoke what he had heard God say. That means we need to spend time with God so He can tell us the things He wants us to say to Nigeria. We owe our nation a responsibility to listen to the heartbeat of God, find out what His thoughts are and then proclaim them loud and clear. This is the time for us to pray prophetic prayers, speaking BECAUSE He has given us a word for the nation.

"I am God, the only God you've had or ever will have—
incomparable, irreplaceable—
From the very beginning
telling you what the ending will be,
All along letting you in
on what is going to happen,
Assuring you, 'I'm in this for the long haul,
I'll do exactly what I set out to do,' Isa 26:10 (The Message)

Nigeria, listen to the word of the Lord:

Behold, God will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring people to the land of Nigeria. And you shall know that I am the Lord [your Sovereign Ruler], when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people.

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