CAN declares June 26 national prayer day

Posted by admin Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics Saturday, June 18th, 2011

President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayo Oritsejafor, has declared Sunday, June 26, 2011 a National Prayer Day for the nation.
In his special message after a prayer retreat yesterday in Canada, where he is currently on missionary duty, Oritsejafor appealed to Nigerians, “particularly Christians and our Muslims brethren to please observe Sunday, June 26, 2011 as a special day of prayer for our country and all our leaders that God’s mercy and supreme will may prevail over our nation.”

“We should pray for God’s intervention, mercy and deliverance from every evil machination of the devil and his human agents. “The security challenges in our nation need divine intervention now more than ever before. From the look of things, human efforts have failed. Nigeria as a nation has been swimming from one problem to another; and now from militancy to full scale terrorism. “We need God’s help at this precarious period of our life as a nation. Sporadic bomb blasts in parts of the country in the last one year portend danger of insecurity and anarchy.

“Also, our economic and political challenges are in need of God’s help. Where human efforts, wisdom and strength end, God’s own begins. We should all acknowledge our failure as humans, humble ourselves before God in prayers and ask for His help at this needy hour.

“In II Chronicle 7: 14, God says “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal land.” This is what we as Nigerians must do now – to humble ourselves, seek His face in prayers and repent or turn away from our evil way deeds, then, the merciful God will heal our land (Nigeria) of all her woes.

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