NIGERIA IN PROPHECY Hello, Nigerian! Im led of God to quickly re-ignite your passion—if I may—towards ensuring that the prophecies hanging over our dear nation, NIGERIA, comes to reality. Ill start up with some SOCIO-SPIRITUAL info about our nation... She is the most developed Black Country in Africa. She is the largest black nation on earth One in every five black people is a Nigerian. Nigerians are found in almost every nation on earth. Some of the world’s best brains in almost every field of science and technology are Nigerians. The world’s present fastest computer was invented and designed by a Nigerian resident in the U.S.A. God has put under her soil almost every known mineral resource, from crude oil to natural gas, and from bitumen to uranium. She has them in both large and minute quantities. Nigeria has more universities than any other black Africa nation. Nigeria has more surface waters and inland lakes that are very suitable for both agriculture and hydroelectric purposes than many nations of the world. Nigeria earns more money a week from crude oil export than the annual budget of some nations. And now...to some really interesting SPIRITUAL STATISTICS! Nigeria has almost 23 million active Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians—one of the largest in the world! There are more born-again Christians in Nigeria than all the born-again Christians in all other African countries combined. The Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES), a member of IFES—the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students—is the largest Christian students’ body in the whole world. Nigeria is the home of the world’s largest monthly prayer meeting—the Holy Ghost night of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) that attracts between 850,000 to 1 million Christians every month. The world’s two largest church auditoria are located in Nigeria. - The 1 million-seater Holy Ghost arena at the Redemption Camp of the RCCG and - The 60,000-seater ultra modern auditorium of the Winner’s Chapel of the Living Faith Ministries at Otta near Lagos. Europe’s present largest quarterly prayer gathering is being organized by a Nigerian minister - The London Festival of Life is organized by Pastor E.A. Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Great Britain’s largest church was founded and is pastored by a Nigerian—Pastor Matthew Asimolowo of the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC). A Nigerian—Pastor Sunday Adelaja founded and Pastor Soviet Union’s largest church in Kiev, Ukraine. Enough of all these making you feel good about Nigeria. The question now is “why is it that in spite of all these bountiful blessings, Nigeria is still one of the poorest, violent, turbulent, and underdeveloped unstable countries in the whole world?” True—The nation has suffered immeasurably from bad spiritual and political leadership. But i’m rest assured that “Nigeria shall rise...and The Eagle will fly again!” What makes me so sure? Its because “It is time for the fulfilment of the prophecies over the Nation!” When the Almighty speaks, it is as good as done because it will certainly not return to Him void. Indeed, heaven and earth may pass away but not a jot of His word will go unfulfilled. His covenant will He not break neither will He alter the things that have gone forth from His mouth (Psalm 89:34). When He speaks, He makes it good; when He starts something, He accomplishes it. That is the nature of our God, the Creator and of Possessor of the whole of Heaven and earth. Incidentally, the myriad of challenges that Nigeria has been besieged with even since independence has been so overwhelming that many Nigerians have become discouraged into thinking that God has given up concerning the nation. For many, the rising hopes of the hay days have become replaced with despair, despondency and pessimism. That is why I will attempt to reel out some of the time tested prophetic words of the Lord over Nigeria for our understanding and education so that by them, we might wage a good warfare. These words of prophecy have been found to be consistently repeated by God from the seventies till now. Many matured men of God have judged and critically analysed these prophecies, so I believe in theirauthenticity and definite fulfilment—and thankfully, some of them have come to pass accurately. Some of these profound and encouraging prophecies are stated below: GODS PROPHETIC WORDS ABOUT NIGERIA At the Holy Ghost Convention (1983) in Ilorin, (Kwara State), The Lord said “I will endow your men and women with three specific anointings in these last days:Nigeria shall fulfil my counsel for the black race, the race that has been despised and enslaved. I will show forth my glory on the despised and enslaved. An unusual anointing to minister my word in power. An unusual anointing for research and discovery in science and technology. An anointing for making money—business breakthroughs. Everything you do, I shall cause it to prosper. The way America is held in high esteem that every man in the world desires to go there, so shall I make Nigeria. No black man would like to die without visiting Nigeria to see my wonders. (Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God has confirmed and emphasized this prophecy times without number). There was a prophecy in form of a vision through the late Pa S.G. Elton of Ilesha, God showed him a vision in which he saw a great revival engulfing the whole Nigeria, starting from the southern part of the nation and spreading to all other parts. Reinhard Bonnke said during one of his crusades in Nigeria, “Watch out for the country calledNigeria, she will teach America true Christianity” God said in a meeting that in His appointed time, “He would raise His Josephs and Daniels who would know how to build, plant and preserve and conserve and administer in Nigeria”. 1983 - Brakenhurst Conference Center, Limuru, Kenya. The event here was at the Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) Evangelical Conference, which attracted several evangelical Bishops and church leaders from all over the world...“Africa, I can see the face of Jesus on you, His glory and His radiance. Thus saith the Lord to Africa, though you have been called dark up till now, you shall be called dark no longer. For out of you shall come great light that shall shine to the uttermost parts of the earth” 1983 - At the first National Convention of the Full Gospel Business Mens Fellowship International (FGBMFI) Held at Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt. A visiting delegate from New Mexico, USA spoke about visions of black men that God was giving him while he was in his home country. When he asked about who the black men were, the Lord then explained to him that these black men were Nigerians. He had never visited Nigeria before and the Lord told him he will soon take him there because the nation Nigeria was a nation he planned to use in revival. He then spoke on in prophecy: “Thus saith the Lord, Nigeria and Nigerian Christians will be used by the Lord to preach the gospel in the market places of the world in these last days.” Pastor S.G. Elton spoke prophetically in this meeting concerning two key African nations, saying that Africa is like a gun pointed down. Its turret and muzzle is South Africa. Its trigger is Nigeria. He said the days will come when Apartheid (then at its peak in South Africa) will be removed from South Africa. In those days, he said the Trigger of the Gun of Africa (Nigeria) would begin to fire for Gods purposes. Robert Liardon: In this year 1983 also, spoke about a vision he received of the Lord, he saw Jesus weeping over the African continent. In this vision, he said he saw as the tears of the Lord dropped on Africa, three lights sprang up from three locations in Africa: the little nation of Swaziland in Southern Africa, the East African nation of Uganda, and also from the West African nation of Nigeria. He said as the Lord continued to weep over the continent, these three lights fused into one mighty light that flooded the entire African continent. 1984 - Ibadan Prayer Conference CSSM - As we prayed here at a large gathering of many campuses at the Ibadan Polytechnic, the Lord spoke again during a very deep session of prayers while most of us were on our face on the floor. The Lord spoke in prophecy saying: “My Church in this nation is my hope for the continent of Africa” 1998 - ICC Nigeria National Conference: Rohan Smith, a white American delegate to the Nigerian National Conference of the International Christian Chambers of Commerce held at the Excellence Hotels Ikeja, in 1998 had a remarkable vision, which he stated as below: “While I was praying at the end of Emekas message, I saw a vision of a local African market place. It was looking dinghy, dirty and filthy. Then the vision changed. I saw the market transformed into a new environment. Gold, diamond and precious stones of various types were stacked neatly and well arranged on a table. I saw an oil font springing up from the table. I also saw in this new market environment, neatly dressed people in three distinct groups: Men, Boys and Babies (Little children). Then I saw trucks full of gold bars moving across the borders of the countries of Africa. I saw a blood stream flowing ahead of the trucks into villages into which the trucks were coming. As the blood stream entered into the villages, it exploded into white light which enveloped the villages” Thus says the Lord, “There is a wave of prosperity coming from the Lord into Africa. The objective is for the salvation of the peoples of Africa. Idolatry will be overthrown in Africa as part of this move. Beware however that you do not replace Idolatry with materialism when the release of the wealth comes” 2002 - Gods Word to Nigeria - Cindy Jacobs of United States The Lord says to Nigeria, “I have given you a missionary spirit and I am surely going to change the nations of the earth through you. But now I will give you the anointing to change your nation. The Lord says I am going to begin to unravel the corrupt system in Nigeria that men will say it is impossible, but I say with God all things are possible. There is going to be a revival in the universities and this revival will be of a large magnitude, that the revival in the universities will affect the secondary schools and primary schools. And God will change Nigeria to the next generation. And the Lord says the unity of the leaders is coming. Its going to uproot and dethrone the occult, for I am going to overthrow the occult spirit. And I am going to use Nigerians to heal the rest of Africa, because what happens in Nigeria will affect the whole continent. The Lord says - Im going to use the Nigerians in Russia. There will be many churches planted in Russia. The Lord says Im going to use your nation. Im going to use you in the Middle East. God says Im getting ready to change many things. Im getting ready to expose the occult in the highest level. In next few months, Im going to begin to tear it down and Im going to make it shift and there will be a day when violence shall no longer be heard of in the streets of Nigeria. And it will be one of the safest nations on the face of the earth; says the Lord God. (Cindy Jacobs is an American intercessor and a prophetess. She gave this word at a global prayer conference in Guatemala, in year 2002). That God has continued to speak persistently concerning our nation Nigeria is an indication of God’s undying love for this nation as well as His immutable counsel to use this nation for His glory. A little wonder therefore that the hordes of hell have continued to launch the fiercest assaults available in the domain of darkness at this nation so richly blessed and endowed by God. All of satan’s orchestrations against the nation in the past 49 years have been his frantic efforts to hinder the fulfilment of God’s prophetic mandate over her. True, weve made some terrible mistakes as a nation.While readin an article on the Nigerian flag recently in the encyclopaedia Britanica, I discovered that a competition was set up in 1959 for people to submit there samples of what the flag should be. Of the thousands of entries that were made, Michael Taiwos own won...but do you know that green-white-green wasnt all that Michael submitted in his entry? He also added a red quarter sun on the white stripe which according to him signifies Divine Protection. But alas, the committee set up removed that! What were they saying? WE DONT NEED ANY DIVINE PROTECTION! And God had stood aloof, observing Nigeria from a distance. (My thoughts). However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear [their prayer] from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country. (2 Chronicles 7:14). Threshingfloor online magazine ©2014 eyiokotie@gmail
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