General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Friday night ,brought up a spiritual way out of Nigeria’s current challenges, asking the crowd of worshipers, who attended the February Holy
Ghost Service, to pray to God to dismantle all ‘gates’ behind the
menace.
Declaring
‘holy war’ against what he described as a reign of terror in the
country, Pastor Adeboye asked members of RCCG, who had commenced a month of
fasting and prayers, to add a prayer point aimed at arresting the menace
of Boko Haram before the end of the month.
“His
words: As we wait on the Lord in fasting and prayer this month, I want
you to include two items in your prayers: I want you to ask God to deal
with the enemies of Nigeria speedily; that before the end of this month,
all the problems of Nigeria would be over.”
According
to him, “if we all join forces and cry to God, He will do for us. The
second prayer I want you to pray; remember I’ve asked God for a special
70th birthday present of 70,000 children, join in prayer that God would
release those that are still hanging in the air this month.
“I want 70,000 new babies, so that by the end of this year there will be no barren left in our churches.”
Preaching
a sermon entitled, “Lift up your head oh ye gates,” Adeboye urged the
crowd of worshipers at the Redemption Camp not to be too sanctimonious
about the prayer against terror, stressing that from the days of John
the Baptist, the Kingdom of God suffers violence and it’s only violent
that can take it by force”.
Explaining
the effects of biblical gates, he said there are national gates where a
whole nation can be in trouble because certain gates refuse to open,
pointing out that “every gate that is holding the children of Nigeria
captive must come down crashing in the name of Jesus Christ.”
At
intervals, the General Overseer, whose wife had earlier led the
congregation to pray for peace in every part of the country, sent
spiritual missiles to all harbingers of terror in the country who have
created fear and terror.
