As Nigeria clocks 65 years of independence, the call for responsible leadership, national renewal and active citizenship has dominated the discourse.
For Nobles Family International, a faith based body based in Abuja believe, It is a moment for intersession and reflection as they marked and celebrated the nation’s independence with prayer walk and rally to kick start her 2025 international believers summit (ibs) with the theme; POSSIBILITIES.
At the prayer walk for the nation in the federal capital territory Abuja, the nobles family international and stakeholders urge Nigerians not to only pray but to participate fully in shaping the future of the country as the nation of our dream is possible.
Speaking at the prayer walk and rally for the nation and international believers summit(IBS) with the theme: Possibilities, the senior pastor of nobles family international, Bishop Ebiye Tuaweri said, “we must understand what made this possible is God, so we are handing over this nation to God, while we would do our bit”. “The bit we are going to do is for everyone to go and register for it doesn’t matter what is happening, no body should be afraid to go and register, do his bit so we can do our vote and allow God to the best for us”.
Speaking further, Ebiye stated “As we celebrate 65, no matter what we are passing through, we should work hard, everybody should work hard in anything we are doing and be careful where you go to and make sure you fall into the hands of the people who are destructive to this nation like men of the underworld”. “We must do our best as a nation and see what God is going to do with us”.
Also speaking at the prayer work for the nation, the bishop elect of Nobles Family Rev. Prosper Isichei said “the church has the authority to bring the moral influence, to bring about the direction both transformational and eternal direction to the country and that strength of the church is what we are trying to unleash through this kind of prayers”.
“But also we think about the state of our country, Nigeria as a nation, we are at the lowest epp in our moral level, we have moral, spiritual bankruptcy today, leadership gaps, we have young and large population of people without direction and we know that the hearts of men are not controlled by rules, laws, but controlled by God”.
“Only God has access to heart and makes a true heart change and that is the reason why we are here, to call upon God to touch the hearts of the people, leaders and populace to bring a moral clarity to us, offcourse the church has always been praying and praying this much, imagine of we are not paying”.
“But we came here knowing that, we are joining the entire body of Christ praying for the redemption of our country and we believe, that God will do it, the first step to see physical transformation is to invest in spiritual transformation and thats what we are doing today”, Rev. Prosper stressed.
Other speakers also made the call for resilience and collective action stressing that faith must drive citizens into responsible engagement; On her part part Rev. Patricia Tuaweri said; “Frankly speaking, there are cars everywhere today, even the nation is not celebrating itself but the advice is, let’s not give up, let’s continue to do the best we can and, everybody in their little corners should keep doing what they’re suppose to be doing just like i kept saying must times, we are all lights”. “Little light here and there, we will lighten up Nigeria”.
“I believe strongly that, we can come back again to be the giant of Africa” Patricia emphasized.
Also speaking, Pastor Sydney Akpotive said; “if the head is correct, the body is definitely correct, but you know because we are in Nigeria, we have seen some correct heads in private organization so we know , it can work in our national as well, so we are saying to our leaders that, the Lord will give them wisdom to rise up and take up the responsibility of leading, so we know that, you make policies that are difficult for the people but, beyond those polices, put action, energy to words”.
As 65, the message from faith community is clear, while prayers remains essential, the Nigeria of our dream will only emerge through honest leadership, active citizenship and a share commitment to the nations future.
