Quit Praying Nigeria and Start Acting!

Sometimes in July a good friend of mine, sent me an article with the caption “Quit Praying and Start Acting” written by Mark Batterson. The central aim of that article was to point to us readers that there are many things we pray about that God has given us the ability already. It is just mere blame syndrome that is troubling us. From the article here is an extract:

“How many of our prayer requests are within our own power to answer? Yet we ask God to do what we can do ourselves. And then we wonder why God doesn't respond. Maybe it’s because God won’t do for us what we can do for ourselves. God isn't honored by prayers that are within the realm of human possibility; God is honored when we ask Him to do what is humanly impossible. That way, God gets all the glory!

There are some things we don’t need to pray about:

We don't need to pray about loving our neighbors

We don’t need to pray about giving generously or serving sacrificially.

We don’t need to pray about blessing someone when it is in our power to do so.

We don’t have to pray about turning the other cheek or going the extra mile.

God has already spoken on those subjects.”

Now to our dear country Nigeria, I challenge you to quiet praying to fix our Nation, to live in peace and take your leadership position. We have prayed enough, it is time for action. How come every public holiday, we will ask for prayers, we will challenge ourselves to live in peace and unity. And the next 24 hours we are at it again, promoting injustice, exploiting the poor and weak within our ranks and providing poor quality leadership- with the only solution we bring to the table is “Let us pray for our leaders”. Excuse me, we have prayed enough, it is time to work.

Like Mark Batterson said in his article “Please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying. Pray about everything. Then pray some more. But at some point, we have to quit praying and start acting.”