A Letters to the Nigerian Christian

If anyone ever was in doubt that our dear nation needed healing, events leading to the next general elections should clear your doubts. The big question is: where will help come for Nigeria? The Psalmist tells us that our help comes from God alone.

God can heal any disease, even national diseases.

Only God can do what all men have failed at. His word tells us, ‘except the Lord builds the house, the laborer works in vain’. In 2 Kings 7, there was a nation so sick that mothers took turns to kill their babies for food. Yet within 24 hours, God healed the nation. In today’s Nigeria, we read of mothers selling their new born babies to raise money for subsistence. The God who healed that nation will intervene and heal our land too in Jesus’ name.

God is still healing nations. Not more than 20 years ago, Rwanda’s civil war almost wiped out that nation. Today, God has helped to turn that nation into a pride of Africa.

Some have argued that Nigeria’s problem is a deep-seated psychological dysfunction. The average Nigerian leader would rather hop on a plane to get medical attention, rather than fix our hospitals. Still God can heal and give uncommon wisdom to those who need it most as He did for King Solomon in the Bible.

God works with men and women to bring the required healing

When God wants to heal or reverse a negative trend, He chooses to partner with mankind. God is desperately looking for men and women who will work with Him to heal our nation, Nigeria.

God worked through Daniel’s prayer and fasting to bring deliverance to his nation. God worked through David’s courageous challenge of Goliath to prevent the defeat of the nation of Israel. He worked through Elijah’s bold confrontation of King Ahad, Jezebel and the 450 prohets of Baal, to cleanse the land and bring abundance of rain to the drought that hit Israel.

God is always looking for a man who will stand in the gap and work with Him to heal the land.

What does God require of us to heal our land? 

1. Repentance

2 Ch. 7: 14 “If my people, which 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.”

It is impossible to expect God to move in our land, if we are as a people do not turn from our sinful ways. This is especially true of those of us who profess Jesus as our Lord. Our own obedience must be complete before we can ask God to punish the disobedience of the world. (2 Cor. 10: 6).

God is a just God and He is not partial. If we who are called by the name of the Lord do not repent of our sins, we make it impossible for Him to move to heal our land.

2. Prayer

Joh. 14: 14 “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”

We need to raise the intensity of prayer for our nation. Most of us spend quality time praying fervently for our personal needs but hardly pray a blessing for the good of Nigeria. Without national prosperity, personal wellbeing will continue to be a mirage. If we don’t pray for our nation, we cannot enjoy the fullness of our own personal blessings. For example, if you have all the money in the world, and the nation still has armed robbers prowling, even the prosperity will mark you out as a target.

God answers prayers and so we must pray. We must pray for wisdom for our leaders in government and in business. We must pray that no enemy of this nation will go free, that God will send His angels to fight them in the streets, afflict them to their homes and generally close the heavens over them. Then we must pray fervently that God will open heavens over our dear nation and make His face to shine on us.

3. Righteousness

Prov. 14: 34 “Righteousness exalts a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.” 

If we all just do the right thing, Nigeria will transform in no time. Today, everywhere you look, people continue to make selfish choices that ultimately deprive the next man of his right to our commonwealth. I am not speaking about our leaders in government. I speak about even those of us in the Church who claim to be followers of Christ. We must all decide to do what is right by God and by our fellow man.

Make a decision to pay your taxes. Refuse to bribe or facilitate. Treat others the way Jesus would treat them. That facilitation fee you pay to the Consultant to get your passport is nothing more than fresh oil for the machinery of corruption.

If we who are the ‘salt of the earth’ refuse to do the right thing, Nigeria will not make progress.

Let those who are made righteous by Jesus, begin to live righteously whether any one sees us or not. Let us speak the truth in love, without fear or favour. Let your light shine bright in the midst of a dark world.

Then Jesus, the Sun of Righteousness will arise over our nation, with healing in His wings!

God bless Nigeria and may all the enemies of Nigeria be wiped out in Jesus’ name!

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Olusola is the Senior Pastor of RCCG NewSprings, a passionate teacher of the Word of God and an accomplished Human Resources Consultant.