Christians Are Expected To Be Patriotic
Daniel make research record to avert di tribulation weh don befall hin kountry. From research, the Man of God realized past prophecy weh explained future deliverance of Israel. Israelites weh dem hold fo captive in Babylon go be released after period of 70 years. Israelites go return to rebuild dea homeland, and dem go live fo peace again. Having uncovered di fact about destiny of hin people, Daniel start to dey pray and to dey fast to remind God hin promise. Di bible report am,
“Fo di first year of hin reigns me Daniel, understand by di books di number of di years dem specify by di word weh di Lord talk through Jeremiah di prophet, weh go accomplish seventy years in di desolation of Jerusalem. Den i kon set my face toward di Lord God to make request with prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I pray to di Lord my God, and i konfes, and i say, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keep Hin covenant and mercy with those weh love Am, and with those weh keep Hin kommandment, we don sin and kommit iniquity, we don do wicked and rebel, even by sey we depart from Your precepts and Your judgments (Daniel 9:2-5)
...O my God, agree Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation, and di city weh we dey call by Your name; fo sey we no present our supplication before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. O Oga Lord, hear! O Oga Lord, forgive! O Oga Lord, listen and act! Make you no delay fo your own sake, my God, because of your city and your pipu weh dem dey call by your name” (18-19).
LESSON:
God pikin dey expected to dey patriotic to dea respective kountry. Indeed heaven be our homeland, but we still dey live fo this world; we must do our best to support di interest of our home weh dey fo dis earth. We must dey pray fo di peace of our kountry weh bi sey we hold right of citizenship. We must dey kontribute our quota of efforts weh go aid our society to dey peaceful and habitable. Kristians must to dey make efforts to promote unity and integrity fo dea society! Since, we be God pikin, we must dey influence pipu around us to dey responsible and kreate positive impact. Di same God weh don utilize di efforts of Hin pikin as time dey go to positively transform people destiny fit still do di same thing again. God go honor di efforts of Hin pikin again, and He go visit our lands!
PRAYER:
Dear God, i beg help me to dey patriotic to my homeland. Give me grace to make every necessary kontribution within my pawa to help make my kountry strong and dey successful. I beg, enable my fellow kristians to dey make positive kontributions to dea society, so that your name go dey glorify among di people. I beg remember our political leaders to dey govern us properly. Weed kommot selfishness and korruption from our government; make morality reign, so that di citizens of our land fit enjoy dea right benefits and live peacefully. I beg do this and many more! Fo in Oga Jesus Krist name I make my requests. Amen.
