… Ladi Thompson says the Nigerian Church lost the kingdom mandate in the generation of Herbert Macauley
… S. G. Elton said the Nigerian war should never have happened if the Church had stayed awake
… God will never demand a report on … Nigeria from the government, the police force or the political class… the southern Church must prepare to answer to God directly
Pastor Ladi Thompson, a Nigerian clergy and security consultant, has warned that as Nigeria stands on the threshold of a decision to look into the future, there is a voice of caution warning Nigerians that people who forget their past will settle for just any future, and it would be unbiblical to face the days ahead without a strategy.
Speaking with Dr. Bola Adewara, editor Elife, Ladi Thompson said the only witness he would bring from the past would be the “Independence Bible” launched on the 1st of October in 1960. Princess Alexandria was in attendance when this “ebenezer” was planted as a reminder to the believers in the future of Nigeria.
It was meant to be a permanent reminder of the great sacrifices made and the role of the Spirit of Christ in civilizing the land for the Nigerian accord to become a reality.
As a student of prophetic history, I can say with authority that the idea of a nation like Nigeria was birthed during an all-night prayer session in 1837, but the road to the actualization of that word was contested every inch of the way.
The Nigerian Church, unfortunately, lost the kingdom mandate in the generation of Herbert Macauley, and things have since deteriorated despite the many revivals that were stirred by the Holy Spirit to recover this mandate.
I remember distinctly that Pa S. G. Elton said the Nigerian war should never have happened if the Church had stayed awake.
The arm of the flesh will always fail, but righteousness exalts a nation. The root reason for the significant troubles we are facing today goes beyond our gullibility and shortcomings and is more connected to the satanic reaction to the prominent prophetic role that God has assigned to Nigeria in the end times.
The terror-hydra ravaging our nation is nothing less than the scarlet dragon and its destructive tail. Rather than succumb to fear, we should be warring with the prophecies spoken over our nation by divine inspiration.
If the Church responds with the word of testimony, the blood of Jesus and a total lack of fear (of death), a new dawn of righteousness will break for Nigeria. Instead of supporting a suspect political palliative that will eventually be suffocated by the greed and corruption that has invaded the nation and its church empires, there is a new government we need to introduce that Jesus Christ imported on his shoulders.
This is not a religious Christian, Muslim or animist proposal but a government of integrity, righteousness and value that will offer all Nigerians the liberty of choice in the same dimension that was available to mankind in the Garden of Eden.
God has spoken through the fearless stand of His handmaiden Leah Sharibu whose testimony speaks of religious freedom, the protection of feminine gender rights and the need for a nation to protect its children from paedophiles, rapists and religious extremists.
God has also spoken through George Ojih, the captive who looked Yusuf, the Boko Haram leader, in the face to offer him the opportunity to accept Christ, and when the command came for his execution, his last words were, tell them, I died well!.
If a Church empire that ignored the testimony of George Ojih and negotiated away the rights of Leah Sharibu thinks that salvation will come through the ballot box, it was better. They prepared for days ahead when their own sons and daughters would be sold into slavery.
From the foundation of the world, darkness has never been a problem. Rather, it’s the absence of light that gives room for corruption. Let us remember that God will never demand a report on the progress of Nigeria from the government, the police force or the political class. 
Having tuned its ears off the cries of desperation from the northern Church for decades, the southern Church must stop quaking with fear and prepare to answer to God directly.
Anyone encouraging believers to demand punishment for corruption when our obedience is not complete is simply buying space to print many obituaries.
The road to recovery will start when we stop expecting political magic and stand to present the spirit of Christ and his model of governance to this generation.
The kingdom model of government that Jesus Christ imported is so profitable that no Muslim, Christian or animist would be able to refuse it if only the Church would reconnect itself to the kingdom agenda and offer this option to the nation in clear terms.
If all creation took God only six days, we don’t need more than a few hours for the prophetic redemption of Nigeria. There is a redemptive word hanging in the air, and it shall surely come on time.
