PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 24/7 PRAYER CHAIN FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST & NIGERIA, April 25 - May 1, 2021
THANKSGIVING: “Oh, give thanks to the Lord for He is good! For His mercy endures forever” – Psalm 107.1. Truly, our God is good, else COVID-19 could have crushed us, persecution could have buried us, Herdsmen could have halted the Church, etc. Let us thank Jehovah for His awesome goodness to us as individuals, to the Church, and to Nigeria.
REPENTANCE: A house with several children from unknown sources was recently discovered in Benin; places where lots of young girls are held as sex slaves and used to generate human milk and other products of humans have been discovered around Nigeria. Of the students of Greenfield University abducted, 3 have been found dead. Clearly, but for God’s extravagant grace, Nigeria would have suffered a worse fate than Sodom for her manifold iniquities. “Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom” – Isaiah 1.9. P-L-E-A-S-E, let us repent in any way we know to do for ourselves, the Church and for Nigeria. Even this is enough pray for the week
THEME: Turning the raging evil tide; healing the land. 2 Chron 7.14: “If my people, who are called by my name, shall HUMBLE themselves, and PRAY, and SEEK MY FACE, and TURN FROM THEIR WICKED ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
PRAYER POINTS
- Nineveh already had its expiry date for total destruction pronounced. They humbled themselves and all fasted – kings, commoners, adults, babies, animals etc. Please weep before God to show us how to humble ourselves in Nigeria to avert looming disaster; including humbling ourselves in God’s house where the love of titles has made vast numbers of ministers become “Rev Dr” without first degrees; and even campus fellowship leaders now bear titles of “Papa”, “Our Papa” etc
- Hezekiah already had his obituary announced by God through one of the greatest prophets of all time. He prayed. Obituary was cancelled. Please earnestly to God teach us how to pray to change the drums of secession to united songs of joy
- Daniel and his partners did seek the face of God until they had a precise revelation of another man’s dream and the meaning of it, with significance for centuries until the second coming of Jesus Christ. Pray that the Lord will give us grace to seek His face and secure a precise revelation of the lasting solution to Nigeria’s travails to establish righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost and sustainable progress until Jesus Christ returns.
- Levi was accursed for over 400 years (Jacob’s day to Moses): “Cursed be their anger… I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel” (Gen 49.7). In a crucial moment, he despised evil, sided with God and became God’s super-favourite (the Levites): Exo_32:26 “Then Moses…said, Who is on the LORD'S side?....And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.” Pray that Nigerians will turn en masse to the living God in this crucial moment in our nation. Pray especially that Christians shall turn from their evil ways in their marriages, studies, businesses, jobs and even ministries
- Let us specially mourn before God over the abducted students that have been killed, for about 100 Nigerians slaughtered in the week in Zamfara (two consecutive days), Nassarawa (Friday), Benue, Kaduna etc. Pray for God to intervene, that our country be no more a field of innocent blood. Pray for God to console the families.
- Mal 1:11 “For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, says the LORD of hosts.” On the strength of God’s word here and elsewhere, pray that more Muslims than ever before will come out of Ramadan embracing Christ and exalting the true God
- Pray for missionary groups like CAPRO, Great Commission Movement, NEMA and congregational ministries. Ask God for more guidance and strength to reach out and win the Muslims in even greater numbers, especially in Southern Nigeria where Muslims have immigrated in large numbers and the atmosphere is more conducive
- Pray that God will intervene on behalf of ministers of God and believers who are under any siege, harassment, oppression of the devil and his agents. Pray that God will shield, deliver and strengthen them to wax greater, not give in to the wiles of the devil. Also pray that God will heal and restore any sick or hospitalized brethren.
Pray OTHER PRAYERS as led or burdened
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