*LAMENTATION FOR THE NIGERIAN CHURCH*

Lamentations 1:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary

In November 2011, God began to give me series of revelation, about the Nigerian Church.

In one specific vision, I saw an edifice that had been poorly built and yet uncompleted ... It was like a four storey mansion, gigantic structure but the unsafest building to step into... : there was no finishing.... Dangerous objects were scattered everywhere, and materials like nails, iron rods etc... are seen protruding out of the building.

It was as though the materials for the building had been embezzled... One would wonder why build such an edifice if there wasn't enough resources...

But on the other hand it was clear that the builders had mismanaged the funds.

The most scary thing about the building was the foundation.... just from looking at it, anyone could tell it was soon going to come crashing down.

It was obvious the builders did not believe anyone was going to be living there... In this revelation the said building was completely dilapidated and abandoned. A place for rodents, and grasses were already growing out of the cracks developed.

GOD TOLD ME, "LOOK AT THE NIGERIAN CHURCH, I AM GOING TO PULL IT DOWN"

Highlighting some of the things I got from the revelation :

1. The Nigerian Church, though big was/is hardly usable.

2. That we are more individual as the body of Christ, than collective in Nigeria.

3. That the Nigerian Christian hardly cares for the church body, but for their personal/private needs.

4. Most Christians in Nigeria use God's gift to enrich themselves at the detriment of the work of God.

5. That in the site of God, there might be churches, but no thing like the Nigerian Body of Christ.

Etc... You also can infere from the the revelation above and add yours...

*Going a step further to understing the implications of this lapse in the non-existing Nigerian Church:*

1. No prayer about Nigeria is taken seriously in Heaven

2. People hardly pray for Nigeria (they are actually praying for their bellies as it is affected by the Nigerian state).

GOD ONCE TOLD ME CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA NEVER PRAY FOR NIGERIA

3. There is hardly spiritual covering for the nation Nigeria

4. The Nigerian Church is only on paper spiritually...structure is almost non existent etc...

You can add yours...

*Furthermore, let me post some of the scriptures God impressed in my spirit about this issue:*

1.
Job 22:9-11 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

2.
Isaiah 5:8-10 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

3. Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

4. Jeremiah 8:19-22 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Just to mention a few.

*I told some people about this then, even ministers of God, but they didn't take it seriously.*

Then in 2016, I had another revelation.

First I saw a dark dragon like a shadow overtaking the whole of the sky, like a thick gloomy blanket had covered all the Heavens of Nigeria.

Then in a follow up revelation I saw endless fields of fresh graves...

*we practically prayed at every opportunity against death this same year...*

But we all know what is happening today in Nigeria.

*I can continue my lamentation with visions and revelations, but bringing my point home. The issue is the Nigerian Church, what kind of house have you built?*

2 Timothy 2:20
But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

1 Peter 2:5
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Nigeria today, can be likened to Sodom and Gomorrah... I mean the Church.

Romans 9:29
And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

THIS IS NOT A MESSAGE TO OUR CHURCH LEADERS OR MINISTERS, BUT TO YOU THE NIGERIAN CHRISTIAN, AND BY THIS IMPLICATION EVERYONE IN NIGERIA THAT CALL HIMSELF /HERSELF A CHRISTIAN.

2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

#Lamentation

God bless and Godspeed.

Sade Iyare ©