Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, a clergyman, says despite its darkness and chaos the country is currently going through, it would emerge stronger and better, Church Times Nigeria has reported.
Osinbajo, who is a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), stated this on May 21 at the National Prayer Breakfast held in Abuja, the nation’s capital.
The theme of the Prayer breakfast was “The Birth of a New Nation.”
“The new nation is birthing already,” he said. “It is covered by a cloud, but the cloud will pass, and God Almighty will take all the glory for the birthing of a new nation.”
Osinbajo, a professor of law, said the theme of the breakfast was significant, adding that there was a need collective prayers, faith, hope and action.
He said the breakfast “comes at a time of great travail and tribulation for the nation: in the throes of a pandemic for well over a year, leading to a severe economic downturn, loss of jobs and livelihoods; and as we climbed out of the recession, we have been faced with an unprecedented scale of insecurity, in different zones of the nation.
“By the time we know that every time that a nation where the lives of the children of God is challenged, it is God’s call to people to take action. It is an opportunity for God to demonstrate that He is God over nations, that He is the creator of the Heavens and the earth, that He knows the beginning from the end. But God also wants us to know that He has ordained to speak to life.”
Recalling the works and prophetic actions of some biblical characters, the vice president said they also played crucial roles in nation building.
He said, “So, the Scripture has consistently shown us that children of God are central to the birth of a new nation, the rebirth of nations. They must desire the change, cry to God, be ready to make the sacrifice of repentance.”
Osinbajo, in reference to the scriptures, described God’s people as the salt of the earth, saying “As we are the salt, we are also the light, the light ends the darkness; it marks the end of the night of weeping and marks the glorious sunlight of the morning of joy. So, the pouring of the salt into the source of the water, the source of the problem, is the prophetic act we perform today.
“We, the salt, are also poured today by prayer and prophecy, to the source of our nation’s problems. And as we pray and prophesy, a new nation will be birthed; one where, like the city to which Elisha went, the land was healed, the people prospered and peace and joy prevailed.”
He thanked the organisers, as well as the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), and former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd) whom he described as the “father of the Nigerian Prays movement.”
Osinbajo Gowon “for his commitment and dedication to this nation from his youth, when he was Head of State when he led the fight to keep Nigeria one, to his later years as an elder statesman where his well-seasoned words uttered in Godly wisdom have counselled our nation’s leaders for decades.”
