Nigerians Adumbrate 2024 With Prayers Towards Starvation, Hardship
Nigerians on Monday joined their counterparts internationally to herald 2024, made supplication to halt starvation within the land, and made resolutions….CONTINUE READING
The individuals, who thronged worship centres in Lagos for the Passover evening service, spared no time in thanking God for seeing one other yr.
They rendered fervent prayer for God to finish the challenges that had subjected many to a state of lack within the nation within the outgone yr.
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) stories that in Lagos, avenue carnivals have been among the festivities in some locations, whereas in some areas it was banned for safety causes.
On the SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church Tedi, Ojo, Lagos, trustworthy took turns to intercede for an finish to hardship and starvation within the nation.
Equally, on the Spoken Phrase Ministry, Ojo Barracks, written prayer petitions tendered by trustworthy, sighted by NAN centered on finish to starvation within the land and particular person progress.
In his sermon in the course of the crossover Mass, on the church, a visiting Priest, Rev. Fr. Jude Opara, stated that it was time to take inventory of how 2023 was lived and make projections for yr 2024.
Opara, charged individuals to at all times pray for the peace and improvement of the nation, urged leaders to empathise with the individuals by implementing people-oriented tasks and programmes.
In accordance with him, the church is doing its half within the society to foster cohesion among the many individuals.
“However with the financial crunch within the land as skilled within the outgone yr, persons are not comfortable and could also be vulnerable to vices to vent their despair thereby making nonsense of the teachings of the church,” he stated.
On the Spoken Phrase Ministry, the cleric in cost, Pastor Chris Nmezi, stated that, supplication for a greater Nigerian society and particular person development have been higher solution to start the yr.
Nmezi, tasked trustworthy to drop each unwholesome perspective that alienated them from God with the outgone yr to allow them obtain blessings from God.
He stated that resolutions made by individuals for a greater life-style, wanted God’s grace to be sustained.
The pastor requested the worshippers to submit their written resolutions, prayed, and burnt the resolutions for the requests to ascend to heaven.
Mrs Mercy Amosu, a churchwarden, stated that her 2024 decision was to cease doing issues that may provoke her husband, which had been the reason for their frequent quarrels.
NAN stories that, at 12a.m. joyful shouts of Completely satisfied New Yr and fireworks went up the air in celebration of the brand new yr…..CONTINUE READING
