These are truly
difficult times brethren; these are times that people tend to be confused,
tired and perhaps hopeless. But I
bring you good tidings, our God NEVER changes; He is still the same: faithful
and true to His Word.. The Bible has made it clear that in times of trouble,
all we have to do is to look up to God. That means keeping Faith with him. I
admonish you please do not faint in these troublous times. A lot of confusing
doctrines will be bandied about, but the Lord says “wait on the Lord, I say
wait”. The promises of God remain the same: “That we shall live and not die”;
this is the time to deploy His weapon against our enemies, particularly the
current one ravaging the world-the corona virus- and pray violently against it.
We have been attacked and so we must launch a counter attack. Our most potent
weapon at this stage is fasting; In Isaiah 58 verse 6, the Lord made it clear
“Is this not a fast I have chosen to loosen the bands of wickedness? To undo burdens?
To let the oppressed go free? And to break every yoke? Emphasis on the word
“yoke”. The corona virus, upon all the learned men, scientists, Nobel laureates
have said remains a yoke; it is self-inflicted, a devils weapon and so it shall
be defeated. How can a virus consume so many lives in a time of peace and not
war? No wonder the powerful American President referred to the pandemic as
“war”! But brethren, need I remind you that God’s ways are not our ways just as
His thoughts are not the same with ours. He told us what to do: Fast and Pray. Remember Jesus said “This kind does not go
away just like that unless by fasting and prayers”? We need to wage war against
this virus; we need to go down on our knees and repent; the world was too full
of violence before the outbreak: United States versus Iran; Iran versus Israel;
Yemen striking at Saudi Arabia, Syria versus Turkey, Russia killing opposition
candidates; no tolerance, just hatred everywhere. Human beings turned God’s
laws upside down, they began to marry each other; men versus men; women versus
women; they even legalised abortion and dared God by opening a church described
as “church of Satan”! This is sheer wickedness; under the so called pseudo name
of banditry, kidnapping, fellow human beings openly beheaded men of God. This
is sacrilege; even those who hold the reins of power began to rule with such
brazen impunity holding a whole nation ransom! They became demi-gods, idols
worshipped as deities; they were no longer human, their word was law; It is shameful for the world to waste so many
souls, practiced witchcraft; we became deceitful even in worshipping God. How can
we not provoke God? Now with only common “virus”, the world has suddenly gone
silent. The fear of the grave is real, and death is imminent. But the good news
is that God is Merciful; brethren let’s turn to God in fasting and prayers;
lets humble ourselves before Him; From 2nd
Chronicles 16 v 9, we know that “ the
eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the
earth to show himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is
perfect”. The problem now is this:
is our heart perfect? We have done “foolishly” hence the corona wars.
Therefore, lets depart from guile, deceit and turn to God; let’s fast and pray
and the Lord will turn again the hands of this corona virus and we shall live
again. Let us not return to our old ways and resume oppression of the poor;
lets us live peacefully. Praise the Lord.
Appointed since 1 st April, 2015 till date, Prof. Adepoju Adeshola Olatunde, Director-General of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has left no room to chance. The Ph.D holder in Agricultural and Environmental Economics (2002) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State has taken extra-ordinary steps to see the Forestry Institute to the next level of existence. One of such steps is the repositioning of FRIN outstation for better research focus. Others include renovation of dilapidated structures, repositioning of staff members for optimum performance, reclaiming/security all encroached land and resources of the Institute, successfully enacting on Act to Establish Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria for Forestry Research; Education and Training; establishing Six strategic Rural Resource Centers for communities engagement, capacity building and extension services. Prof. Adepoju who also holds B.Agric (Agricultural Economics), 1995 ...
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