Pastor Adeboye holds nationwide prayer against killer herdsmen

The Redeemed Christian Church of God, will on Tuesday, February 13, hold a nationwide prayer against the security challenges facing the country.
The General Overseer of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who fixed the date at a recent programme of the church, said Christians believed in the efficacy of prayers.
He said the church, which is currently observing a 50-day prayer and fasting session, had commenced series of prayers against the sponsors of the killer Fulani herdsmen in the country, praying God to unmask and disgrace them.
The general overseer said he had refrained from speaking on the herdsmen problem because both the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria had, in their submissions, aggregated the views of Nigerian Christians on the matter.
Adeboye said he got flurries of telephone calls from those who would want him to react to the Benue killings but that as a man under authority, he aligned his views with those of the umbrella groups for Christians in general and Pentecostals in particular, as represented by CAN and PFN.
Both the CAN and the PFN had tasked President Muhammadu Buhari to act quickly and stop further killings of innocent citizens by the herdsmen, and to also fish out the perpetrators of the act and bring them to book.
In his view, however, Pastor Adeboye, speaking during the church’s monthly Holy Ghost Congress recently, said, “The problem of the herdsmen is not just about the gun-toting perpetrators of the heinous crimes but their sponsors, who acquire the guns, which have been deployed in perpetrating mayhem across the country.”
Adeboye thus urged the faithful to channel the February 13 prayers to asking God to expose the sponsors of the violent herders and deal with them.
The cleric observed that “the enemies of God and the children of God themselves have tended to neglect the power of prayers,” noting that prayers still “work in wondrous ways.”
Adeboye reminded the congregation that the Bible states, “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds and casting down imaginations….”
He, as a result, charged Christians to pray fervently for an end to the crisis, stressing that God was bound to perform wonders through the February 13 nationwide prayers.
Meanwhile, another cleric, Prophet Emmanuel Bamiduro, has tasked the Federal Government to be forthcoming in hunting down those responsible for the recent Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba killings, to convince all that it is not giving tacit support to the murderers.
Bamiduro, who is the General Overseer of Thy Word is Light Ministry, a church in Lagos, condemned what he described as “the loud silence of government on the matter.”
“Once we voted in Buhari as our President, he is under obligation to cater for our welfare; we cannot afford to look on while some shadowy characters called herdsmen will just invade a community and start killing, with nobody to repel them. For God’s sake, government must rise up to the occasion,” Bamiduro demanded.