Persevere, Depend on God amid Challenges: Christian Leader Encourages Nigerians

The Church leader emphasized the need to keep praying saying, “We know that even at the point where we think that all our abilities have been exhausted and we have come to our wit’s end, that is when our God will come forth in the form of power.”

Archbishop Okoh also urged the government to be thoughtful about the people’s experiences.

“No government will be happy and celebrating when its people are suffering and in hunger. It doesn’t give it a good name,” he said on the sidelines of the event themed “In His Hands.”

At the event, the guest speaker, Prophet Isa El-Buba, urged Nigerians to seek God’s divine intervention for their challenges through prayer saying, “The power to fix a nation comes from above through prayer.”

“The only way our nation can be fixed is by divine intervention. We need the supernatural hand of God to rest on our leaders,” he said and added, “We can see that when leaders are exhausted in terms of wisdom and knowledge, they need a supply of wisdom from above, and when wisdom comes, leadership begins to do what is proper.”

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“The message is that we pray and we ask God to release a new dimension of wisdom for our leaders to be able to lead the people right. When the head is alright, the whole body will be alright too,” he said.

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