26/05/2020
DAILY WORD
Pastor Yarima El-Samaila
Tuesday, 26th May 2020.
WHEN WILL THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC BE OVER? is one of the headlines of the online PULSE News of today.
No doubt that is the question on the minds of most people today.
The whole world is living in UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR,
whether it is of contracting the disease, or its the economic
impact.
In case you too have been wondering, I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU, THE ANSWER IS —VERY SOON !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REALLY? PASTOR, DID GOD TALK TO YOU RECENTLY, OR SOMETHING ? and the ANSWER IS —-YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT BEFORE YOU THROW YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR AND START CELEBRATING 🎉 🎈 🎊 🎈 LET ME LEAD YOU STEP BY STEP AS TO HOW I CAME TO THAT CONCLUSION, KNOW THE FACTS FIRST!
THIS MORNING I RECEIVED A WHATSAPP MESSAGE FROM A FRIEND INVITING ME TO JOIN A PRAYER PROGRAM ON ZOOM TO PRAY FOR AFRICA. AMONG THOSE LISTED TO SPEAK AND LEAD IN THE PRAYERS IS DADDY ADEBOYE. THAT SETTLED IT FOR ME, I WILL JOIN! I TRUST THIS MAN SO MUCH, I WILL FOLLOW HIM ANYWHERE, EVEN TO HELL, REJOICING ALL THE WAY! (OF COURSE, YOU KNOW HE WON'T LEAD ANYONE TO HELL BECAUSE HE’S CERTAINLY NOT GOING THERE!)
I LISTENED TO AND PRAYED ALONG AS DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN LEADERS WERE CALLED UPON TO TAKE THE PRAYERS. IT FINALLY CAME TO DADDY’S TURN, AND IT IS WHAT HE SAID, AND HOW HE DELIVERED IT THAT MADE ME CONCLUDE THAT THE DAYS OF CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS SHORT, INFACT VERY SHORT!
Before I go any further, please read and meditate on the following passage of scripture -
AND DAVID BUILT THERE AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD AND, BURNT OFFERINGS AND PEACE OFFERINGS. SO THE LORD HEEDED THE PRAYERS FOR THE LAND, AND THE PLAGUE WAS WITHDRAWN FROM ISRAEL.
(2Samuel, 24:25)NKJV
Now, look at the rendering of the “b” part of this passage in various translations—
THEN THE LORD WAS RECEPTIVE TO THE PRAYER FOR THE LAND, AND THE PLAGUE ON ISRAEL ENDED
(CSB)
THE LORD ANSWERED THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE, AND NO ONE ELSE DIED FROM THE TERRIBLE DISEASE
(CEV)
DADDY ADEBOYE ANCHORED HIS MESSAGE OR EXHORTATION ON 2 CHRONICLES 7:14 -
IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND HEAL THEIR LAND (KJV)
I DONT HAVE SPACE NOR THE TIME TO REPEAT VERBATIM EVERYTHING HE SAID, BUT HE POINTED OUT THAT THE REVIVAL AND EXCELLING OF AFRICA IN EVERY DIMENSION OF HUMAN ENDEAVOR, INCLUDING THE PRESENT CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC DEPENDS ONLY ON GOD’S CHILDREN (IF MY PEOPLE).
NEXT, HE SAID GOD’S CHILDREN MUST HUMBLE THEMSELVES ( REPENTANCE, GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE)
NEXT IS THAT CHILDREN OF GOD MUST PRAY, AND SEEK GOD’S FACE-(BECAUSE GOD DELIGHTS TO ANSWER THE PRAYERS OF HIS CHILDREN).
THEN GOD’S CHILDREN MUST TURN AWAY FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS(SIN)- HE MENTIONED GOD'S WORD THAT SAYS-
“BEHOLD THE LORD’S HAND IS NOT SHORTENED, THAT IT CAN NOT SAVE; NEITHER HIS EAR HEAVY, THAT IT CAN NOT HEAR, BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD, AND YOUR SINS HAVE HID HIS FACE FROM YOU, THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR “
(Isaiah 59:1-2)KJV
HE THEN LED US IN PRAYER, FIRST OF THANKSGIVING AND WORSHIP, AND WHAT HE SAID
CONFIRMED THE VIEWS THAT I HAVE MYSELF HELD AND PREACHED ABOUT, THAT GOD HAS BEEN SPECIALLY MERCIFUL TO AFRICA, KNOWING THAT OUR PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES, MEDICAL AND FINANCIAL, TO COMBAT THE CORONA VIRUS DISEASE LIKE EUROPE AND AMERICA SO YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT UP TO DATE, INFECTION RATE AND NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED BY COVID-19 IN AFRICA IS RELATIVELY LOW!
THAT MADE MY HEART JUMP, THAT EVEN BEFORE HIS PEOPLE REPENTED, HE HAS HAD MERCY AND SUPPRESSED THE PANDEMIC IN OUR CONTINENT.
NOW THE BIG ONE, DADDY ADABOYE WAS LEADING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THIS PRAYER OF REPENTANCE AND SUPPLICATION THROUGH ZOOM, BECAUSE I COULD SEE COUNTLESS RESPONSES ON MY DEVICE FROM PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, BOMBARDING HEAVEN AT THE SAME TIME, EVEN DADDY ADEBOYE QUOTED THE GOD’S PROMISE IN Matthew 18:20-
FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, THERE I AM IN THE MIDST OF THEM (to do for them what they have agreed together)
WE PRAYED AND AGREED THAT CORONA VIRUS DISEASE ENDS SOON!
I THANK GOD FOR THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF SOUTH AFRICA WHO HELP TO LAY THIS ALTAR FOR THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA TO HAVE THIS PLATFORM TO PRAY TOGETHER.
IF YOU HAVE MEDITATED ON THE SCRIPTURE AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS MESSAGE, THERE WAS A PLAGUE IN ISRAEL. DAVID RAISED AN ALTAR AND OFFERED SACRIFICES ON IT, AND THE PLAGUE WAS WITHDRAWN FROM ISRAEL!
IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE PLAGUE CALLED CORONA VIRUS DISEASE IS HEREBY WITHDRAWN FROM AFRICA!!!