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Faith & Spirituality
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Pastor’s Corner
The Power of Prayer
by Piety Kamauyu
The Bible says that, the reason why we do not have things is because we
do not ask (James 4:2b).
You see, prayer is part of a hidden lifestyle. The way to live this great mystery
requires us to ask God to provide for both our physical and spiritual needs.
God has everything that we need in this life already in store for us. Our God
is sovereign and all powerful, he can do anything for us and all he wants us
to do is ask. This indeed is a great privilege, and not a duty!
Some three months ago on the 3 rd of March to be precise, about twenty
of us came together for a kesha at St. Andrew’s Church on Mansfield Road,
Nottingham to cry to God on behalf of our beloved nation of Kenya.
It was just three days before our general elections, which indeed took place
that following week on the 4 th March 2013. It was a time that
Kenyans both at home and in the diaspora felt the dire need
to pray for our nation.
The single uniting desire was that, elected leaders of our
nation would be men and women who would walk and
serve our nation in reverence of the Almighty God, for truly it
is “in Him we live, move and have our being” (Acts17: 28).
Our overnight prayer was guided by the scriptures from 2 Chronicles
7:14; Nehemiah 9:1-12, & Daniel 4:17, which led us into confession and
repentance of our sins as individuals, and the sins of our nation. We
prayed according to the Word of God for the healing of our nation. We also
prayed that people may cast their votes in full awareness of the truth that,
“the Most High God is the ruler of the kingdoms of men, and gives it to
whomever he will”.
We left our overnight prayers the following morning in awesome peace
and blessed assurance. We believed that God had heard our cry and that
we were not only going to have perfect peace in our nation during and
after the elections, but also that God was going to give us his chosen one,
for a leader in our nation. We parted in the morning full of joy as some of us
went straight to work and the rest to their homes.
As we all know, the elections were very peaceful and orderly. That was the first answer to our
prayer, more was yet to come!
Then finally came the much waited day of inauguration, when the whole nation witnessed
the president, his deputy and their wives kneeling down in total humility and submissiveness
before God for prayers and blessing. A servant of God pronounced blessings upon them
and the nation even according to the Word of God! This was the confirmation that God had
answered the prayers of all those people all over the world, who stood by the night watching
and praying over our beloved nation.
We all know how faithful and true our God has been to our nation in that, He not only has
given us the kind of leaders we prayed for, but also leaders who have chosen to involve God
in the governance of our nation.
Listen to this: “First and foremost”, said the president, “we dedicate ourselves to God, and then
to all Kenyans; we shall serve all Kenyans equally”.
Is this not the result and the power of prayer? May God be given all the glory forever!
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Nottingham connected
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My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will
snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-28
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