Bishop Oyedepo urges Nigerians to pray and fast for 7 days

This is will be done ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Bishop David Oyedepo wants Nigerians to pray and fast for seven days.

Punch reports that the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel, made the appeal in a memo read during the service at Faith Tabernacle, Ota, on Sunday, October 21, 2018.

According to the popular preacher, members of his congregation and every Christian must fast and pray in order to prevent the impending calamity that could come with the 2019 general elections.

Why the Living Faith founder wants Nigerians to pray and fast for seven days

Bishop Oyedepo further explained: "Recent elections that held in some states and some quarters across Nigeria are pointers to the need for divine intervention for the rescue of our nation to avert the breakdown of law and order in the forthcoming general elections in this coming year."

 

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"Political thuggery has assumed a new dimension in Nigeria, where many voters were not able to access the polling booths because they did not belong to the group that must win. Some even resisted access even to the point of killing the opposition.

"If anyone is not sure of returning home from going to cast his vote and would not want to risk his life for that, how then do we determine the winner? This is how much the soul of Nigeria is in distress and would require divine intervention for rescue.

"There is nothing wrong with a 'must win' determination, that is what the spirit of sportsmanship is all about, but this must be channeled through legitimate means only and not by killing the people one claims he wants to serve.

"Today, we cannot tell how much arms some individuals or group may have piled up to accomplish their political ambitions, by being determined to kill innocent Nigerians that may stand in their way. We have no choice but to pray for God to heal our land and deliver us from all forms of election crises."

The prayer and fast starts today, October 22 and end on Sunday, October 28, 2018.