Forty-six clerics, under the aegis of the ‘National Prayer Altar’, has begun prayers and fasting for the country, as a result of the hardship bedevilling Nigeria.
The South-West and South-South Coordinators, Pastor Bosun Emmanuel and Prof. Kontein Trinya, in a statement yesterday, said the prayer is also for national public repentance.
They condemned prophecies that did not come to pass as expected, adding that they did so but because the tithes and offering boxes – have been threatened.
Part of the prayers read: “Oh God of all creation, We Your children come to You this day according to Your word in 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV): “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
“O Lord, we have lamented in secret and cried in the open, and hereby add this public confession of our transgressions. We bow our knees to You, O Lord. We fall upon our faces before You. In our pride and arrogance, we have wagged our fingers at You and insisted that we have committed no sin against You, because of the ostensible ‘successes’ in the little kingdoms and domes and shells that we have built for ourselves.
“We have not remembered the dungeons from where You mercifully picked us up. Our apparent successes have become a stench in Your nostrils.
“We’ve made Your word scarce in the land, because we have become conformers with the world instead of transformers of the world by Your Spirit.
“In the present state of our nation, You answered us according to the idols in our hearts. We challenged the word that You sent to us. We have been forced to cry to You in this season essentially because our comfort has been threatened”.
