{"id":7534,"date":"2018-02-03T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2018-02-03T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T07:34:34","slug":"christians-only-material-nigeria-and-africa-on-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=7534","title":{"rendered":"Christians Only Material: Nigeria and Africa on my mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Sam Kputu<\/strong><br \/>\n1. With all the posts, pictures and public commentaries, Where does the *FEAR factor* the enemy and his agents orchestrates end and the *PRAYER and FAITH factor* God&#8217;s command and promises offer begin?<br \/>\n2. Should we, as believers and missionaries, not have *a different message and attitude* from the rest of the world at this season of serious National challenge?<br \/>\n?<strong>MAY WE BE A SHINNING LIGHT<\/strong>?<br \/>\n<strong>May we be a shining light* to the nations<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A shining light to the peoples of the earth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Till the whole world sees the glory of Your name<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May Your pure light shine through us<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May we bring a word of hope to the nations<\/strong><br \/>\nA word of life to the peoples of the earth<br \/>\nTill the whole world knows there&#8217;s salvation through Your name<br \/>\nMay Your mercy flow through us<br \/>\n<strong>May we be a healing balm to the nations<\/strong><br \/>\nA healing balm to the peoples of the earth<br \/>\nTill the whole world knows the power of Your name<br \/>\nMay Your healing flow through us<br \/>\n<strong>May we sing a song of joy to the nations<\/strong><br \/>\nA song of praise to the peoples of the earth<br \/>\nTill the whole world rings with the praises of Your name<br \/>\nMay Your song be sung through us<br \/>\n<strong>I see and speak HOPE for NIGERIA and AFRRICA,<\/strong> even in the midst of all our failures and challenges ~ because of God&#8217;s eternal purposes and covenant. <strong>I therefore choose to remain prophetic and missional,<\/strong>\u00a0rather than just political and despondent, as I see much of the Church becoming.<br \/>\n<strong>I SEE A NEW NIGERIA and AFRICA ~ IN THE LIGHT OF GOD&#8217;S WORD!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Shall we DARE to PRAY&#8230; BELIEVE&#8230; WORK and HOPE!!!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u25cf\u25cfKputu, a Lagos- based minister, heads an international missionary organisation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Kputu 1. With all the posts, pictures and public commentaries, Where does the *FEAR factor* the enemy and his agents orchestrates end and the *PRAYER and FAITH factor* God&#8217;s command and promises offer begin? 2. Should we, as believers and missionaries, not have *a different message and attitude* from the rest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}