ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 74. 11-01-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32). NOW IS THE APPOINTED TIME FOR THE 2015 ELECTIONS! “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under Heaven; a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”[Ecclesiastes. 3:1-8]. *Some eminent and acclaimed servants of God have suggested that the February 2015 dates, slated for Nigeria’s general elections be postponed for at least SIX MONTHS, to adequately address and defeat insurgency for fear of an escalation of terrorism because they seemed to have forgotten that the battle against Boko Haram is the LORD’s battle! Thus saith the LORD: “Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee with the right hand of my righteousness. “Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be shamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing: and they that strive with thee shall perish. “Thou shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. “For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not: I will help thee.”[Isaiah.41:10-13]. *LET US BELIEVE THE TESTIMONY OF GOD RATHER THAN THAT OF MAN! *It is very imperative for children of God to appreciate DIVINE PROVIDENCE which can be interpreted to mean God’s constant touch in the affairs of men. *God’s foresight, care and attention, forethought and superintendence to ensure an expected and perfect future end for all creation, especially the regenerated and converted beings, are the major spiritual ingredients of divine providence! *The continued preservation of Nigeria as a nation since the period of amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates from 1914 to 2015 proves that God’s providence is working out all things according to the counsel of His purposive will. *This year of elections calls for collective walk of the Saints by faith and not by sight because the insurgency caused by the thoughtlessness of Boko Haram, and which had claimed up to one million innocent souls since 2009, is neither hidden nor shrouded before our creator. No! *He says that he will save this nation and contend with those who contend against us and feed them that oppress us with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: “…….and all flesh shall know that I the LORD ‘am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”[Isa.49:26]. *The import of this divine intervention is an indication that the battle against the perennial insecurity, especially at this turning point in our political landscape, is beyond human capability or comprehension. It is not by might nor by power but by my Spirit, says the LORD OF HOSTS![Zechariah.4:6; compare 2Chronicles.20:1-24]. *The expectation of the detractors is to witness a break-down of law and order or an outright outburst of large-scale civil disobedience that could lead to a conflagration of full-scale war but we have God’s assurance that He is in absolute and perfect control of Nigeria! *According to divine revelation, the detractors of this nation are none other than the selfish and egoist politicians within the various political parties and their accomplices who are trusting in the “advantageous” position of incumbency to retain political power at all cost! *They have perfected their strategies which they believe are infallible but forgetting that the providence of the infinite God, is the care, preservation and the government He exercises over all creation in order that they may accomplish the ends for which they were created through His eternal power which is constantly at work and which precludes all manner of human fortune, luck and chance! *In the Old Testament Book of Numbers, Chapters 22-24, are documented detailed conspiracy between an enthroned King named BALAK, his council of elders and a prophet of God, BALAAM, to abort the divine providential plan for Israel, the chosen and anointed children of God from getting to the promised land! The King described them as, a company that had licked up all that were round-about his empire, “as the ox licketh up the grass of the field”![Num. 22:1-4]. *However, Balaam who was pressurized by the King with carnal gifts was warned by God not to take up the contract because the people in question were blessed and very precious to Him, but the man of God, overwhelmed by the spirit of covetousness and the desire to get rich and become very famous, danced to the King’s orders instead of God’s! *It is very pertinent to remind every living soul in these last days of divine grace that whether Man likes it or not, THE WILL OF GOD WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN BECAUSE HE IS PRE-EMINENT AND SOVEREIGN OVER ALL CREATION! *In spite of the fact that he was spurred by greed to carry out the King’s orders, God arrested his entire intellectual capacity of soul and spirit and he took up the following parable saying: “Balak the King of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come defy Israel. “How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied? “God is not a man that He should LIE, neither the son of man that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? “Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and He hath blessed: and I cannot reverse it. “He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. “Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!” [Num. 23:7,8, 19,20,21,23]. *Political campaigns in Nigeria are usually characterised with warfare, violence, brigandage, mud-slinging thuggery, murders, assassinations, arsons, the power of incumbency to perpetrate all of the above and the 2015 edition is already exhibiting such traits! *What the electorate need to hear from these candidates are campaigns based on their manifestoes, ideologies and agendas for the citizens, not that of calumny and debasement! *There are two major gladiators on the political turf, the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), but fillers from the campaign fields are indicating that the “dog wants to go back to its vomit”! There have been reported attacks on campaign trains and scores of wounded people are on admission in various hospitals in the South-South and South-West geo-political zones of the nation! Nigerians should not quickly forget that God has promised to RAISE FROM AMONG US, THE CREDIBLE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WOULD RUN A RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT IN THIS NATION FROM 2015 AND BEYOND! *They have emerged according to the purposive plan of God; the detractors have recognised them and are bent on dislodging them at all cost but what happened in 2007 and 2011, before during and after the elections would not be divinely permitted! *King Balak hired Balaam, a renowned man of God to carry out his dirty job of contending with the purposive will for His good people and he failed because no one contends with God and lives to recount the story! Balaam eventually perished in his sin and was slain in a war![Num.31 8b]. *Many unscrupulous servants of God have been contracted by modern BALAKS, in Nigeria to “fast and pray” to change the handwriting on the wall in their favour forgetting that the ultimate providence rests squarely in the Hands of the sovereign God who is very meticulous when it comes to the supervision and government over all of His creation in the universe! *Did you know that the infinite care that God takes of His creation from the numbering of each hair of each head and falling of each sparrow and the unfailing upholding of all the vast planets and satellites by His own power is nothing short of an awesome act of providence?[Matthew.10:29-31; Luke. 12: 6-7]. Hear the word of the Preacher: “Though a sinner do evil an hundred times and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before Him. “But it shall not be well with the wicked neither shall he prolong his days, which are as shadow; because he feareth not before God.” [Ecclesiastes. 8:12-13]. *Mr. President has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC], to ensure that all registered and eligible voters collect their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) before the general elections without fail and we believe that the electorate, armed with this mandate should be ready to perform their civic duties by also ensuring that only citizens with proven integrity and character are voted to run the affairs of the next government. Voters must shun every form of intimidation by unscrupulous politicians, avoid them like plague and vote according to their conscience. *Nigeria will definitely become the great nation that we have always envisaged, united and strengthened by God to prove both local and international detractors wrong that it is only corruption that thrives amongst us! *Our nation shall be safe from divination, enchantment and any form of the occult and men shall marvel at what God has wrought for us! *Nigerians will rise up as a great lion, lifting himself up like a young lion and will not rest until all our detractors are destroyed in their wickedness!(Num. 23:24). *Nigeria will prosper abundantly when the right candidates are voted to run the affairs of government on February 14 and 28, 2015, and the nation will transform into the most fertile regions of the world, “flowing with milk and honey” and the life of POVERTY be completely erased from the land for ever and ever! “RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION, BUT SIN IS A REPROACH TO ANY PEOPLE”[Proverbs.14:34]. 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 or http://www.zfbbc1.blogspot.com, https://www.google.com/+zionfaithbiblebelievingchurch . I am, Yours sincerely,Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor.08130669886, 08098194390.g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com .]