The German invasion of Poland that led to the Second World War happened in the season of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 occured within the 32nd seven years of the United States when Bill Clinton was President. In the 32nd year of Nigeria (26 September 1992) a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules (Serial Number 911) crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, because of multiple engine failure. Over 160 military officers perished in that crash, including 8 foreign nationals. The rise of banditry in Nigeria is happening in the 32nd seven years of the Sokoto Caliphate (from February 4, 1804). Not a new thing. Sennacherib threatened to invade Judah in the 32nd chapter of Second Chronicles. This 32nd week of the year, darkness and death will not invade your family and territory. Gate-keepers arise! Learn other ways to pray into the 32nd week of the year.
B. BIBLICAL PATTERNS FOR THE 32ND WEEK
The Bible reveals four things about the 32nd season that watchmen and gatekeepers must take to heart.
1. The 32nd season is a season to watch against deceiving pressures and pleasures. People are prone to mistakes and errors in this season. The wise may do foolish things in this season. Aaron made the golden calf in Exodus 32. Moses was overcome by his emotions for what Aaron did and broke the two tablets of the Law he received on the mountain. Two and half tribes of Israel wanted to settle before the Jordan in Numbers 32. Jonah ran from God in the 32nd book of the Bible. The strong may be deceived by their strength in the 32nd season. Sennacherib the king of Assyria made a futile effort to invade Judah in Second Chronicles 32. His army suffered a huge loss of troops and his life ended in the middle of the siege. This is a week to bind spirits of deception and being overtaken by mental darkness. Pray against making wrong decisions in this 32nd week. Pray for wisdom and sensitivity of heart.
2. The 32nd season is a season of desperate cry to God for intervention and change. Jacob prayed for change in Genesis 32. He told the Angel of God that wrestled with him, “I will never leave you unless you bless me”. God changed his name from Jacob to Israel. Moses interceded before to forgive Israel in Exodus 32. Hezekiah prayed to God for intervention against the Assyrian siege in Second Chronicles 32. Jonah prayed from the belly of a fish in the 32nd book of the Bible. The people of Nineveh prayed and fasted before God against unending judgment in the 32nd book of the Bible. God heard them all. This is a week of stretched-out prayers before God. The Second World War broke out in the season of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 happened within the 32nd seven years of the United States – when Bill Clinton was President. This is a week to pray against the operations of the spirit of death in the nations. This is a week to pray against unjust invasion of families, communities, cities, and nations.
3. The 32nd season is a time of special guidance from God in which we must follow by faith. Psalm 32:8-9 is an assurance of guidance from God: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. [9] Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you”. In Jeremiah 32, God guided Jeremiah to buy his uncle’s land by faith. Jeremiah obeyed. God guided Jonah to go to Nineveh in the 32nd book of the Bible but Jonah took another path in disobedience. This is a week to believe God concerning seeming impossible situations. In Jeremiah 32:27, God says, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” In verses 42-44, God also said, “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. [43] And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.” [44] Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,’ says the LORD.”
4. The 32nd season is a time of judgment. That is the reason Psalm 32 opens with “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. [2] Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit” (Psalm 32:1-2). Heaven was ready to pour out judgment on Nineveh in the 32nd book of the Bible but God stayed the hand of judgment when the people repented and fasted before Him. When sin is forgiven, judgment passes over. This is a week to pray that God’s warning will be released and heeded wherever it is needed this week – to stay the hand of judgment. We should pray that those who ought to speak out will not be silent this week and that those who ought to hear will hear.
THE 45TH WEEK OF NIGERIA’S YEAR
The Bible reveals three things about the 45th season that are applicable to the 45th week of Nigeria’s year:
1. It is a season of the revelation of truth. In Genesis 45, Joseph revealed the truth his brothers had covered up and exposed their lies. The 45th book of the Bible (Romans) is the beginning of Pauline revelations in the New Testament. This is a week to pray that liars and deceivers are exposed in Nigeria.
2. The 45th season is a season of the revelation of righteousness against sin and wickedness. The 45th book of the Bible says the righteousness and wrath of God is revealed against all ungodliness of man. Psalm 45:7 says “You love righteousness and hate wickedness”. This is a week to pray that the Righteous God will react against wickedness in Nigeria.
3. The 45th season is a season of rebuilding. In Isaiah 45, God appointed Cyrus to rebuild Jerusalem. This is a week to prayer that God will raise leaders with Cyrus’s type of mandate and anointing to rebuild Nigeria.
C. PRAYER POINTS FOR THE WEEK
1. In the 32nd chapter of Exodus, Aaron was deceived to make a Golden Calf to replace the God of Israel. Israel was plagued for that. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Jonah ran from God’s call and ran into trouble. Pray against against rebellion and wrong decisions that could throw you, your family, ministry, church, business, organization, or nation, into trouble this week. Bind the spirits of error setting traps in different places for God’s people this week.
2. In the 32nd book of the Bible, God commanded the fish to vomit Jonah after he had repented and prayed. Pray this week that the fish that has swallowed some rebellious messengers of God and nations will vomit them. Pray for freedom from abductors and hijackers of the destinies of nations.
3. In Genesis 32, Jacob encountered God and was changed before meeting his brother Esau. He prayed for a change of story. God answered him. God also answered Hezekiah in Second Chronicles 32. In the same spirit of Genesis 32 and Second Chronicles 32, let us cry earnestly to God for a change of story in the nations. Pray that God will deliver nations from strong adversaries and forces as He delivered Hezekiah from Sennacherib and disease.
4. Pray that darkness and death will not invade or overtake families, communities, cities and nations this week.
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5. This 45th week is a week of revelations. As in Genesis 45, where Joseph Joseph introduced himself to his brothers and revealed the uncomfortable truth, let us stand at this gate of time and pray that lies be exposed and hidden truth be revealed in this country. Let hypocrites who are making us cry in Nigeria be exposed.
6. This 45th week is a time to exalt righteousness and overthrow wickedness in Nigeria’s current year. Pray this week that the righteousness of God will rise against wickedness and the wicked in Nigeria.
7. The 45th book of the Bible says all have sinned and there is none righteous (Romans 3:10-23). Pray this week that the righteousness which comes through faith will speak for us in Nigeria.
8. In Isaiah 45, God spoke about raising Cyrus to rebuild Jerusalem. Nigeria needs rebuilding. Let’s ask the Lord to raise in Nigeria a company with the anointing of Cyrus for the work of rebuilding Nigeria.
D. SCRIPTURES FOR THE WERK
Psalm 32:7-8: You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah [8] I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
Jeremiah 32:27: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
Isaiah 45:22-23
“Look to Me, and be saved, All you ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. [23] I have sworn by Myself; The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, And shall not return, That to Me every knee shall bow, Every tongue shall take an oath.
Have a happy 32nd week of the year.and a greatly blessed 45th week of Nigeria’s year.
