Monday 19 November 2012

Ignorance & Poverty: The Great Destroyers of the African Race


Luke 4:16”Then Jesus went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went as usual to the synagogue. He stood up to read the scriptures and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it is written “The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people.” Genesis 1:4-“In the beginning when God created the universe the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the spirit of God was moving over the water. Then God commanded “Let there be light”, and light appeared. God was pleased with what he saw”
It may seem to be amazing and surprising that the moment God Almighty pitched camp upon the continent of Africa he immediately began to instruct by way of his holy spirit a young African academic population to quest for Truth, Knowledge and wisdom.
Just like he did in ancient Biblical days when he decreed “Let there be light and light appeared, so has the good Lord done it again but this time on the beautiful mighty continent of Africa.
Light according to the philosophy of the Greeks refers to wisdom, knowledge and Truth.
In Hebraic understanding light metaphorically denotes direction, guidance, and leadership. No wonder David says somewhere in the book of Psalms your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light in my pathway.
The quest for Truth, wisdom, and knowledge through the inspiration of the awesome wind is very pivotal for a continent which has always been beset by ignorance. Ignorance is more dangerous than the most deadly disease in the world; it has cut off many people in Africa from ever amounting to anything meaningful and worthwhile.
Ignorance killed, and destroyed the life of my mother even before her time. One of the most deadly things in the course of any given era, is a generation that decides to thrive on inspiration rather than information. In the gospel of St. Luke 4:18”Jesus boldly declares in a religious setting, “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor”.
Good news to the poor refers to relevant divine information that is equipped with the substance/ability to give a deprived people a set of opportunities which they can explore to better their standard of living. In other wards, Jesus earmarks that the first divine warranty of his anointing is to inform, educate, and empower the mindset of a group of people whose minds are more ignorant than knowledgeable.
 After pitching camp on the continent of Africa the spirit of God has began to rise-up a generation of young Africans who are whipping away ignorance from this mighty CONTINENT SO THAT IGNORANCE SHALL CEASE FROM BEING THE GREAT DESTROYER OF THE African race.
Furthermore, with immediate effect upon pitching camp and relocating himself on the great continent of Africa God has began to reveal and to help Africa to deal and to confront with the continent’s greatest 1 of 2 destroyers  entitled by the life and character of poverty.
 Like the famous saying goes, “many Africans do not die of untreatable diseases but rather treatable diseases because they are so poor to even afford medication. If poverty and ignorance can be got rid of in Africa then Africa shall be saved, then the decree in Luke4:19 (shall come to pass) ”and announce that the time has come when the Lord will save his people.”
 The time is now for Jesus to save the African race (his people).And to solidify this divine Truth God Almighty has in this period of dispensation raised upon a fearless prophetic voice to teach the African continent as to how to defeat poverty.
These prophetic voices have taught by scripture AND THEY HAVE SAID,’ In order to overcome poverty the continent of Africa should be radical about tithing, offering, and giving for the Bible declares in the book of Malachi 3:10-“Bring the full amount of your tithes to the temple so that there will be plenty of food there. Put me to the test, and you will see that I’ll open the windows of heaven and pour out on you in abundance all kinds of good things.
I will not let insects destroy your crops, and your grapevines will be loaded with grapes. Then the people of all nations will call you happy because your land will be a good place to live in.”
 The reason why Africa has not been a good place to live in to the extent that even its own sons and daughters are frequently caught up in long-queues at the British and American embassy to acquire visa entries to these two nations is because Africa has not been a tithe-giver. And a nation that offers its substance to the Lord. But this time there will be a difference because God Almighty is training Africa the power of tithe, giving, and to offer of its fruits unto God, So that our newly discovered wealth shall be a blessing unto us.



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