ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 2. NO 43. 08-06-14.} THE BROKEN COVENANT! First, they said we should re-direct the street protests of “BRING BACK OUR GIRLS” campaign to the Boko Haram terrorists and not to the Nigerian Government; second, they organized some ‘rabble-rowsers’(thugs), to molest our motley crowd without success; third, they alleged that we were 90 per cent, members of the opposition parties; fourth, they sent their Police to disperse us from the streets because, “insurgents might take advantage of our empathetic innocence and penetrate our rank and file;” fifth, as Civil Society Groups and International Observers criticised their undemocratic interventions, they sent their ‘Oga Police At The Top’, to announce that peaceful protest was not banned in Nigeria, sixth, they now GAG THE PRESS from publishing the TRUTH by seizing and destroying Newspapers at gun-point, in a country operating under the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT and defended their barbaric action as NORMAL ROUTINE CHECKS! It is written, “……there is nothing new under the SUN. Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new?’ It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.”[Ecclesiastes.1:9b-10]; and that, “Their leader will be one of their own; their ruler will arise from among them. I will bring him near and he will come close to me, for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?” declares the LORD. “So you will be my people and I will be your God,” [Jeremiah.30:21-22]. Is this crop of Nigerian politicians, from 1960-2014 really from among us according to the purposive will of God? Chapter II, Section 14(1-2) of the 1999 Constitution state as follows, (1) “The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be a State based on the principles of democracy and social justice. (2)It is hereby, accordingly, declared that – (a) sovereignty belongs to the people of Nigeria from whom government through this Constitution derives all its powers and authority; (b) the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government; and (c) the participation by the people in their government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution. Sovereignty means, the power of a country to control its own government and according to our Constitution, this power belongs to Nigerian citizens! Are these usurpers, who have virtually ruined the economy of this blessed nation, like the biblical prodigal son, and have systematically destroyed its peace and security, by turning Nigeria into a fierce battle field for insurgents - most especially in the last four years – REALLY FROM AMONG US? These set of vicious and heartless people who steal our COMMONWEALTH so brazenly with impunity, live in opulence and openly flaunt their ill-gotten wealth before the over 100million Nigerians, who dwell in abject poverty; are they truly from among us? The answer is a capital NO! They are from another planet; they are alien to our collective sensibilities, morals, culture, tradition, institutions….they are alien to the doctrines of obedience to all holy laws, statutes, commandments, precepts and decrees; the fear of GOD is far from their understanding! There were some people known as Egyptian Task Masters who, at a period of time, held innocent children of God in bondage of slavery and there were many corrupt officials who also at one time held sway in the notorious cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; but when God rose in defence of His people, the task masters were providentially drowned in the Red Sea, while the covetous officials were consumed by BRIMSTONE AND FIRE from Heaven! [Exodus. 14:10-31; Genesis.19:12-29]. The TRUTH is that our people have been agonizing under successive insensitive and wicked government officials for TOO LONG, they have been pushed to their wits end and are groaning under the yoke of bondage, especially when the slaughter of human beings escalated from 2009 and recently, when over 200 innocent adolescent, school girls were abducted for over 55 days by Boko Haram terrorists and are yet to be rescued! Globally, mothers are wailing, our women are crying and weeping and government says, “ Go and weep in SAMBISA FOREST, maybe Boko Haram will have pity and release your daughters!” THEY ARE WRONG! THEY ARE NOT IN ANY POSITION TO MOCK US BECAUSE OF THE USURPED, TEMPORAL AND TRANSIENT POWER AND PROSPERITY WHICH THEY HAVE UNGODLY ACQUIRED! The LORD has heard our groaning and He has arisen to fight in our behalf! The Word of God says “And God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.”[Exo.2:24]. Nigerians have been groaning under the bondage of the task masters and all covetous officials in government since Independence in 1960 and the LORD has remembered the struggles, labour, sweat, blood and HIS COVENANT WITH OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. Some opportunists took advantage of our new status in 1960 to vandalize the TREASURY; men in starchy khaki uniforms took over from them and thereafter, there was a coalition of the two groups under BABANGIDA, followed by ABACHA/ SHONEKAN /ABDUSALAM; the rest is story, story! It was said that a horrendous amount of government money was discovered in the residence of the very First Federal Finance Minister during the First Coup that the soldiers in anger tied him to a military truck, dragged him all over Lagos Streets until he was certified dead from various degrees of bruises and lacerations! Though our fellow country men and women have resigned to fate and are claiming that they are ‘suffering and smiling,’ we reject this demonic belief! The Word of God says, “When men are cast down then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person, He shall deliver the island of the innocent and it is delivered by the pureness of Thine hands.”[Job.22:29-30]. Nigerians have been down-trodden for too long…. 100-years of amalgamation, and we are still counting! Our endurance is superlative….we have been yoked, robbed enslaved, brutalized, cheated, side-lined, kidnapped and raped, mentally, physically and spiritually and subsequently abandoned to our fate, IN A ‘DEMON-CRAZY’ THIRD WORLD; now we are being deprived of our CHIBOK GIRLS, and some Nigerian Oga says we should keep quiet? We will not keep quite because we have dragged them before the LORD’S COURT where they cannot escape DIVINE JUSTICE! The Bible says, “…. A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, LAMENTATION, WEEPING, AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN AND REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE HER CHILDREN ARE NO MORE! [Jeremiah.31:15-17]. In spite of this very painful scenario, the LORD has a WORD for all Nigerian citizens, women, mothers and fathers, “RESTRAIN YOUR VOICE FROM WEEPING AND YOUR EYES FROM TEARS, FOR YOUR WORK WILL BE REWARDED”, DECLARES THE LORD. “THEY WILL RETURN FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY, SO THERE IS HOPE FOR YOUR FUTURE,” declares the LORD. “YOUR CHILDREN WILL RETURN TO THEIR OWN LAND”. AMEN! How must we be engaged while we wait patiently for GOD to fight in our behalf? *Remember that SOVEREIGNTY belongs to the people of Nigeria and that 2015 is the divine set-time for us to drive out these aliens in government for the Holy Spirit to appoint leaders from among us! *Remember that our weapons of warfare are not carnal but are mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. [2Corinthians.10:3-5]. *Remember that your VOTE IS YOUR POWER TO EXERCISE YOUR SOVEREIGNTY; go out to all designated centres, register and collect legitimate voting cards. *Shun all forms of intimidations through bribery and educate the masses that the bribe monies were the initial monies stolen from the nation’s treasury to deprive citizens of all basic amenities of life! *Remember that all governments since 1960, have BROKEN THE COVENANT THAT THE SECURITY AND WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE SHALL BE THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF GOVERNMENT! *Be determined to vote for the God-chosen and God-fearing candidates who will uphold the tenets of the Constitution and serve as good leaders and not RULERS and SPOILERS! *Remember that party manifestoes are false documents fit for your incinerators; watch out for the credible men and women within your vicinities, shine your eyes, encourage such, even if they have not shown interest in partisan politics, vote for such people to take you out of our present predicament and bondage; they dwell with you and you know them! *Watch unto prayer and pray without ceasing; a prayer-less life is a powerless life! If Jesus Christ, the one and only Begotten Son of God, felt it necessary to rise before the breaking of the day to pour out His Heart in prayer to God, how much more ought we to pray onto Him who is the Giver of every good and perfect gift and Who has promised all things necessary for our good in Nigeria! God has heard our groaning; He never forgets His children, and His seeming silence, (as some may think), does not mean that He is not attentive or not planning! Oliver Cromwell, the British Puritan of the 17 Century, once told his soldiers just before a great battle: “Know ye soldiers all, that God always comes to man’s help in the nick of time;” and the ‘Men Who Prayed’, say, “Yes, God is always on time; never behind and never ahead. Happy is the man who learns to wait as he prays, and never loses patience with God.” On Good Friday, Satan and his demons rejoiced that Jesus Christ was crucified, but on Sunday, He was resurrected from the dead and He is alive forevermore! The “Black Legs” of this nation and sponsors of Boko Haram may rejoice over our challenges for now; but, let us believe the Word of God which says, “But all who devour you will be devoured; all your enemies will go into exile. Those who plunder you will be plundered; all who make spoil of you, I will despoil. But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD. See, the storm of the LORD will burst out in wrath, a driving wind swirling on the heads of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His Heart. In the days to come, you will understand this! [Jere.30:16-17a, 23-24]. Amen. If you have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour, don’t miss this great opportunity as you pray this prayer: Lord Jesus; I confess that I am a sinner who needs to be saved through the grace of the New Testament of your Blood, shed on the Cross at Calvary; I renounce every sin in my life and accept you as my Lord and Saviour. Please forgive me and write my name in the Book of Life. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you have been admitted into the family of sons and daughters of God, who are born-again. Congratulations. Please look forward to more divine revelation in the next edition of Zion B-BC Newsletter as you share this with friends and remain blessed in the Lord. [For weekly access,to this newsletter, log on to: facebook.com/zionfaithbible.believingchurch & Zfbbc1.blogspot.com]. I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08058436756 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com . th