As a result of our leaders dwell by bread alone — Opinion — The Guardian Nigeria Information – Nigeria and World Information

As a minister of the phrase, I want to preach right now some phrases of life to our folks, particularly our responsibility bearers, our leaders that God has given onerous obligations to run Nigeria to the glory of His title. It has turn into clearer to the folks of this nation now that almost all of our sellers, sorry leaders in any respect ranges have derailed and are available wanting the glory of God. However I consider the revelation and engrafted phrase of that very same nice God who opens a door that no man can shut that His mercy by no means involves an finish and His steadfast love for us by no means ceases: they’re new each morning, nice is His faithfulness. I imply right here that I’ve little doubt that our father in heaven has a function for Nigeria He created to fulfil future because the world’s most populous black nation. And because the earth stays, seedtime and harvest time shall not stop for Nigeria. And no unusual political assembly even within the coronary heart of London can have an effect on the aim of God for a rustic that the entire of black race has been ready for. Whether or not the enemies of Nigeria prefer it or not, the wickedness of the depraved regarding Nigeria shall come to an finish earlier than later. How do I do know that? It’s also written that it’ll come to go that when God is thru with the purge of Nigeria, we’ll even search diligently for the place of the depraved and we won’t discover it. That isn’t my phrase. It’s the promise of the God of all creation who has been referred to as upon to direct our noble trigger. And so, let the depraved in Nigeria get this loud and clear once more: when that very same God shuts a door on the depraved, no man can open it. It isn’t my phrase. It’s one among His guarantees for us. And no man is highly effective sufficient to alter that. So, I want to preach to our leaders in any respect ranges that they need to embrace two constructs within the historical phrases which might be ever so true as Michael W. Smith testifies: that they need to ask God to ‘train them to quantity their days, that they might apply their hearts to knowledge’. Extra necessary on this homily right now is the proverb of the Nice Grasp that, ‘Man Shall Not Stay By Bread Alone…’ That is the phrase of life, historical phrase I would really like us to be taught from right now. Sure historical phrase that may save our nation from struggling and disgrace already staring and kicking us within the face. Keep in mind the facility of the traditional phrase as enunciated in a music by the long-lasting Michael W. Smith:

Holy phrases lengthy preserved for our stroll on this world; They resound with God’s personal coronary heart; Oh, let the Historic phrases impart. Phrases of Life, phrases of Hope Give us energy, assist us cope; On this world, the place e’er we roam; Historic phrases will information us Residence; Historic phrases ever true; Altering me, and altering you; We now have include open hearts; Oh let the traditional phrases impart; Holy phrases of our Religion; Handed all the way down to this age; Got here to us by means of sacrifice; Oh heed the devoted phrases of Christ.

Holy phrases lengthy preserved; For our stroll on this world; They resound with God’s personal coronary heart; Oh let the traditional phrases impart….’

Brother Smith has thus assisted in telling us that solely the ever-true historical phrases which were preserved for our walks on this great world can change you and me. He says they’re holy phrases of hope that can provide us energy to manage on this world and the phrases are highly effective sufficient to information us dwelling. Motive: the phrases that I wish to depend on today resound with God’s personal coronary heart. And so let all our leaders permit the traditional phrases to impart this morning in order that we are able to have peaceable, free and truthful elections that may improve coherence for peaceable co-existence after the elections which might be already threatening to additional divide us. I wish to preach subsequently to our leaders to repent and desist from residing by bread alone as the traditional phrases from the throne of grace have enjoined us. Sure, the Grasp was tempted by the satanic forces to bow to physicality and lose his mission and his religious essence.

The proverb ‘man shall not dwell by bread alone’ signifies that human beings want greater than the easy requirements to maintain them biologically alive. They want issues that feed them mentally, spiritually, aesthetically, they usually want issues that give their lives that means. Sadly, that’s what our leaders can’t perceive. They purchase solely the meals they don’t want they usually maintain for under their nice grand youngsters. They don’t even keep in mind psychological, religious and different wants for posterity. Our leaders have their bellies as their god. They’re residing by bread alone. They don’t keep in mind weightier issues of the regulation, order and governance. They don’t serve humanity. They outline democracy as authorities for the stomach, for the their welfare and safety however towards the folks they’re elected and appointed to serve and supply safety and welfare for. Right here is the natural story of ‘Man Shall Not Stay By Bread Alone…’

Within the E book of Matthew, Jesus, whereas being tempted by the satan, rebukes him by saying, “‘Man shall not dwell by bread alone, however on each phrase that comes from the mouth of God.” Why did Jesus reply with this? He’s truly quoting Deuteronomy 8:3, reminding the satan that we’re to obey God, stroll humbly earlier than Him, and depend on Him and fight the necessity to fulfill the flesh. That’s the solely factor bread does – fulfill the flesh.
However is that the place it ends? In no way! This story goes deeper than that.

When Jesus was tempted by the satan to show stones into bread, Jesus responded “Man can not dwell by bread alone.” However he was not talking so merely. He’s a deep calling to the deep! It’s well-known that bread is essentially the most extensively consumed meals on this planet. It’s an necessary supply of important carbohydrates for day by day power. But when it’s so necessary, why would Jesus say man can not dwell on it alone? The Grasp is talking past the wants of the human physique. He’s referring to the wants of a human being as an entire, which consists of a physique, soul, and spirit.

“It’s the Spirit who offers life; the flesh isn’t any assist in any respect. The phrases that I’ve spoken to you’re spirit and life”(John 6:63). What we must always perceive is that the satan needed Jesus to fulfill his flesh. If the satan may strengthen the flesh, he is aware of it’s going to weaken the spirit.

Jesus understood that the flesh doesn’t revenue. His response reveals us that it’s the spirit that issues. His phrases are spirit and life. As we dwell by bodily meals to maintain our our bodies, we’re referred to as to additionally maintain our spirits with the phrase of God. Our leaders have to replicate on this message right now: that they don’t want all the cash they’re storing for the necessity of their physicality. That angle nurtured by their greed is the difficulty with Nigeria. It isn’t about faith. It isn’t about Christian-Christian or Muslim-Muslim ticket we’re quarrelling about. Jesus I simply talked about didn’t come to impose faith. He got here as a servant chief to avoid wasting mankind by means of sacrifice and humility in fulfilling his mission on earth. He was highly effective however humble to the purpose of demise on the cross. He was poor that we is perhaps wealthy. He as soon as stated, ‘birds have nests, foxes have holes however the son of man had nowhere to put his head’. He had no home. But he went about doing good. He recruited a passionate terrorist Saul, modified his title to Paul who finally wrote two-thirds of the New Testomony of the Bible. He (Jesus) modified Paul for God’s sake, used a cupboard of 12 abnormal males to disrupt the world system until the current. He didn’t impose faith. What have our leaders on this a part of the world finished with their cupboards since 1999?

Let’s see one other instance of a person God additionally used to construct the place our leaders all the time hibernate today, United Arabs Emirate (UAE). The person wasn’t a spiritual bigot. The person merely used his integrity to construct the inspiration of UAE. The nice servant chief, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was an Emirati politician, statesman, and philanthropist who served as the primary president of the United Arab Emirates from 1971 till his demise in 2004. He’s credited because the founding father and the principal driving pressure behind the formation of the UAE, uniting seven emirates. Understanding the UAE is inconceivable with out finding out the lifetime of Sheikh Zayed and his deep religion, his imaginative and prescient, his dedication and laborious work, his generosity at dwelling and overseas and the way in which he devoted his life to the service of his folks and the creation of a greater world. He didn’t dwell by bread alone. His God wasn’t his stomach. In keeping with Mohammed Al-Fahim, writer of ‘FROM RAGS TO RICHES: A STORY OF ABU DHABI:

In 1952, simply when he wanted each rupee he may lay his arms on to feed and dress his family, the Saudis supplied him forty two million {dollars} to surrender his combat towards them and their declare on Buraimi.  It was an astounding amount of cash – overwhelming to Sheikh Zayed who scarcely had 100 rupees in his pocket on the time and fewer than per week’s provide of meals in his palace. However as a result of he believed in what he was doing and since he’s a selfless man, he turned the bribe down proudly.  He advised the Saudis he didn’t need their cash: he was solely within the welfare of his folks and his homeland. No amount of cash may purchase his loyalty or change his dedication to attain a peaceable settlement giving the folks of Abu Dhabi what was rightfully theirs.  The bribe was so unbelievable that it was registered within the ‘Guinness E book of World Information’ as the very best ever supplied to anybody on this planet.  Sheikh Zayed refused to promote out.  He caught to his weapons, and to his rules, sustaining that Al Ain and its environs had been a part of Abu Dhabi.  No amount of cash may persuade him to promote out.  His loyalty by no means was, by no means is, and by no means will probably be on the market.  He’s a person of honour who stands proudly for what he believes in. Sheikh Zayed believed strongly that the revenues that had been being generated because of the oil royalties needs to be used to develop Abu Dhabi. Why do Nigerian leaders like to fly to UAE for pleasure, enterprise and youngsters’s training with out finding out the biographies of nice males who constructed the Emirate? Why do our leaders dwell by bread alone?

I consider we must always proceed subsequent week with this contextual reporting of the biographies of nice males who didn’t dwell by bread alone!