ZION B-BC NEWSLETTER. [ A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. ] { VOL. 3. NO 96. 14-06-15.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You Free! (John.8:32).

NIGERIA’S GOLDEN ERA WILL BE TESTED BY STORM AND FIRE!

The smart move of electing a new Senate President by some ambitious and overzealous All Progressives Congress politicians at the National Assembly, Abuja, with the connivance and support votes of the major Opposition Party, and at the expense of the disenfranchisement of others, on Tuesday 9th June,2015, was nothing short of a PALACE COUP which shook the ruling party to its very foundation! *That small group which stormed the political landscape “struck gold” within 45minutes of deliberations and with such a deft military precision that kept pundits wondering whether or not the whole episode was a pre-packaged movie, acted with a written or documented script! We have it on good authority of Historians that it was a climatic storm that occasioned the discovery of the Gold Mines of the Republic of India, one of the finest and best democracies in the world! Gold, a mineral earth resource is a precious stone of immense economic value which must endure the fiduciary baptism of FIRE before it can produce the innate qualities that kept it at the top of the chart of quality gem stones! *Every nation needs some figurative storms and fires, even earthquakes, at some period of evolution, to kindle and reveal characters of endurance and perseverance in political leadership just like the Gold in order to produce shinning sterling qualities of righteousness and character perfection in governance. But, can this envisaged storm of attitudinal and character reformation permeate the Nigerian political space to produce an outcome of the relationship between GOLD and FIRE? *Were the dross and impurities on the raw gem stone still not stuck during the 9th June, 2015, inauguration ceremonies of both Chambers of the National Assembly (NASS)? *Though, those who are now in the saddle believe that their victory was the unfettered democratic CHANGE that the Electorate deserved whereas, Party supremacy and discipline mechanisms were sidelined, shunned, rebuffed and cast into the bin to covet the transient positions of principal offices of Senate President and House of Representatives Speaker and their deputies!

*In all of the positions that have been taken by political pundits and the All Progressives Congress (APC), management team, for and against the “coup-de-grace” backed by the opposition members on the day of NASS inauguration; on which platform could one premise a safe landing for the actors now on stage? *To the unseen eyes of the mundane and amateur, the pre-meditated plans of the professional chess players and king-makers at NASS began just few days after the Presidential and National Assembly Elections of 28th March, 2015, and the storm began to brew gradually because the “hairy hands of Esau and the smooth voice of Jacob” must both be employed to achieve a grand “coup” in which not one single shot would be fired to covet and collect the blessings!(Read Genesis.27:20-30, compare 31-41 and Chapters. 32:3-33:16). Nocturnal visits during which all forms of clandestine permutations were foisted took place between the very ambitious Abubakar Bukola Saraki and the opposition members who had 45 seats in the Senate and NASS record showed that only 57 members (not up to two thirds of 109), voted for him to become Senate President without a full House on such a crucial issue which threw him up as the only unopposed candidate for the coveted post! Please assess the following analysis and form your opinions: Episode One. *The All Progressives Congress Party was predicated on democratic principles that stresses on Party Supremacy and Discipline when it comes to collective decision-making. Dino Melaye, Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara jumped ship from Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) of their own volition to the APC, because they believed in the new manifesto of true and sincere Change from all corruptive tendencies that characterized PDP and took oath to abide by Party decisions in all constitutional matters! Episode Two: *When the positions of principal officers of NASS were to be filled, they had the freedom to nominate candidates of their choices, which they did with the knowledge that nominated candidates would still go through the internal democratic primary poll mechanism of the party which produced Ahmed Lawan, Bukola Saraki for the Senate presidency and ‘Femi Gbajabiamila and Yakubu Dogara for the Speaker’s seat in the House of Representatives, all candidates of the same party! Episode Three: *Naturally, party members queued behind their choice candidates but Saraki and Dogara who had a hidden agenda and premonition of defeat, boycotted the party primaries in spite of their oath of allegiance in respect of party supremacy and party discipline and as a result of their absence, Lawan and Gbajabiamila were elected by the Party to stand for nomination on the inaugural date of 9th June, 2015 at the NASS Chambers! Episode Four: *In view of the stalemate created by the absence of the duo, APC leadership had to involve Mr. President to intervene and counsel them to fall in line with the democratic decision of the party and a meeting was slated for 9am at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja, one hour before the inaugural ceremony at the NASS Complex at 10am on 9th June, 2015. They deliberately boycotted the meeting and went ahead to carry out the pre-meditated “coup” of swearing in Saraki as the new Senate President of the 8th NASS and also elected the opposition candidate, Ike Ekeremadu, as his deputy to show their actual identity as “wolves in sheep clothing” and it was a done deal as far as the conspirators were concerned! Episode Five: *The initial anger of the Party and those who were disenfranchised through the covetousness and inordinate ambition of Saraki and company, simmered down and after several high level Party hierarchy consultations, APC on Friday 12th June, 2015, through a statement by its Chairman, recognised the “elected” NASS principal officers in the spirit of unity and oneness. *It is however instructive to remind us that that PDP emphatically stated that it had no interest and would not participate in the quest for elective principal officers of NASS; but is it not ironic that Ike Ekeremadu is now the Deputy Senate President of the 8th Assembly - a position he held since 2007? Who is fooling who? Can two work together except they agree?

The Big Question And Divine Consolation For the APC!

*WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF GOD IN ALL OF THESE EXIBITION OF HUMAN FRAILTIES AND VANITIES?

*Thus saith the LORD: “When my friend Abraham connived with his wife Sarah to take a concubine against my commandment of ONE MAN ONE WIFE, I watched from Heaven but said nothing! The union with his MAID produced Ishmael contrary to my covenant and ISAAC was later born by Sarah as prophesied; but note that when I was to recall Abraham I put my Spirit into him and he gave gifts to Ishmael and the children of concubines and sent them away, but to Isaac, the covenant child, were all Abrahams riches and properties bequeathed!”(Genesis.16:1-6;25:5-6). “I perceived the greediness and vanity in the PRODIGAL SON when he virtually forced his father to bequeath his own portion of inheritance while the father was still alive! I did not dissuade him even when he lived riotously and squandered all that he illegally collected and although he later repented and returned home, all he got was a warm welcome; the entire riches, wealth and properties of the father were bequeathed to the ELDER SIBLING, who patiently stayed and served their father.”(Luke.15:11-32) “When my Spirit children assembled before me for a very important and crucial conference, imagine whom we discovered in their midst dressed in a different uniform; it was SATAN! I did not feel embarrassed but calmly gave him a testimony in respect of my adorable universal son JOB; a man of sterling qualities and high pedigree and warned Satan who was visibly angry that he MUST not touch one hair of Job’s head even if he tempted him to the limits! Job was victorious over Satan in that contest; though he lost all physical and ephemeral things of your world, and was even abandoned by loved ones, he kept faith alive and at the latter part of his life when it seemed that all was lost, I blessed him with double portion of all his losses and he ultimately remained the richest and wealthiest of his generation!” (Job.1:6-22; 42:12-17). “Did you remember that Judas Iscariot, a disciple of my one and only begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, betrayed his Master by collecting 30 pieces of silver for His crucifixion and I said nothing, but at the end of His trial, He won the battle for universal SALVATION on the Cross at Calvary while Judas committed suicide having been convicted of his sin against the SINNLESS SON OF GOD!” (Luke.22:1-5, 22, 47-48; Matthew.27:3-10). “When Joseph’s siblings conspired to abort his dream of becoming their BOSS in a near future by selling him into slavery in Egypt, little did they know that they had actually pushed him to accomplish those divinely favoured dreams and he became the Prime Minister of a foreign country where fate eventually took them to look for food during terrible times of famine and prostrated before the one they despised! (Genesis. 37:5-9, 18-28; 45:4-8; 50:18-21). “When some enemies paid nocturnal visit to my farm of Wheat and polluted it with Tares (Weeds), which they planted to destroy the wheat growth, I watched them with pity!My Angels wanted to root up the tares but I prevented them to avoid damages to the wheat! Let both plants grow together until harvest when separation would be easier at my judgement seat. The tares would be gathered in bundles and cast into the fire while I will gather the wheat into my Barn!” (Matthew. 13:24-30). “I am the Almighty GOD, the Omnipresence, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient! I am the One who was, who is and who is to come! I am the Alpha and the Omega” I know the end even from the beginning!” “Did you remember my revelations concerning Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections? I said, I would elect from among you, righteous men and women who would rule your nation according to my purposive will.

I have already done that with Muhammadu Buhari as the good vessel to achieve all that I have purposed to do in my Heart! Just watch out for the unfolding events because the Word which has gone out of my mouth would never return to me empty except that it had accomplished the purpose for which I have sent it!” *The bottom line to the entire episodes of trusts and betrayals is that the Supernatural One in whose Hands the entire affairs of Heaven and Earth squarely rests would judge all matters with righteousness and apportion justice as appropriate as at when due without any human contribution whatsoever! “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ; “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; “Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by FIRE; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” (1Corinthians.3:11-13). *God does not set His clock by ours; though time moves slowly in long-drawn-out tests and trials, blessed is that life that is rooted in God, which trusts that His tides move steadily to accomplish His glorious purposes! According to Bonar: “God may not give us an easy journey to the Promised Land, but He will give us a safe one.” *Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has preserved this nation, Nigeria, for His Holy Name and Has pledged to bequeath unto us and our generations yet unborn, an inheritance of an incorruptible and undefiled governance by men and women of impeccable character, integrity and dignity. 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.

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