Chidi Anthony, pastor of Kings In Christ Power Ministry, speaks on the state of the nation and why Nigerians should run to God.
He also discloses plans by the church for an academy to help the poor.
Pulling through the national economic crunch
I have said it times without number that we need God’s intervention.
God says in the Bible, in 2 Chronicles 7:14, that ‘if My people who are called by My name shall humble themselves, pray and ask for forgiveness of sins, I will heal the land.’
Nigeria needs God’s intervention because the economy is going down steadily; the poor are getting poorer and people cannot feed themselves. The worst hit is our unsecure environment.
The Fulani herdsmen attacks have not been like this before, which is why I say we need God’s intervention. If we do not seek the face of God, things will not get better in this country. And if God does not come to our aid early, things will get worse.
Nigeria’s future in this administration
Seeing the future is when you involve God. A vision without God cannot work, no matter how intelligent you might be, no matter how wise you may claim to be.
If God is not in any vision it will be visionless, it cannot work out. If God does not intervene, I do not see any future in this nation.
Counsel for Buhari
My counsel to President Muhammadu Buhari is that he should seek the face of God.
No man assumes a seat without God’s knowledge.
Some of my friends say that Buhari is not supposed to be on that seat, that he rigged himself there.
Whether he rigged himself in or not, God is aware of it. If God does not want him, God wouldn’t have allowed him there.
That means that what he needs to do is pray to God to give him wisdom on what to do, otherwise the way we are seeing things, Nigeria is not getting better and we cannot hide it. It’s high time we told ourselves the truth
This year’s ‘Pool of Bethsaida’ programme
This year’s edition, which is the fifth, was powerful and far more successful compared with previous ones. The church was filled to the outside and over 4,000 participants were recorded every day.
It was really a huge success, unlike last year when attendance was not encouraging because the programme clashed with the election. A lot of Nigerians were scared of the outcome of the election and did not leave their homes.
But the first, second, and third editions held on Ajao Estate, at the National Stadium, Surulere, and Oshodi Mini Stadium respectively were wonderful.
Expectations for next year’s edition
Next year we are heading to Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos because the space in the church will not contain us.
Vision grows. I mean true vision, if the vision is of God, grows. From the middle of this year we will start working on the date and on fixing the venue for next year’s ‘Pool of Bethsaida’.
Whatever God is blessing me with am putting it into the Gospel. My TV station is coming back soon. My friend, Idahosa, would say “Every day is a Plus.”
Born Great Academy
Born Great Academy is a school established to help parents who cannot afford to train their children in expensive schools.
There are people in the world and in the church who are intelligent; we don’t want their destiny to be wasted.
That is why we decided to introduce Born Great Nursery, Primary and Secondary Schools, to help the less privileged obtain quality education.
This is not a totally new concept. Many motherless babies’ homes we see today were built by Catholic and Anglican Churches to help the less privileged ones and orphans.
However, schools built by most Pentecostal churches, even the pastors in those churches cannot afford to train their children in them.
Inspiration for the academy
My vision is to help people who cannot afford quality education to have access to it, whether you have money or not.
The vision has always been there. There are a lot of people living with me in my house; at times people think they are my relatives. I don’t even know where most of them come from.
I have an orphan who is in university, there are some whom I adopted and trained. I have also given a lot of people scholarship; though I don’t have money, I strive to do that.
We have this mentality in this country that if you have a housemaid, the greatest thing you can do for her is make her learn trading, hair dressing, tailoring, et cetera – that housemaids are of low class and are not qualified to have education.
When you go to the homes of most Christians you don’t need to be told who their biological children are, you will know by their dressing.
You will also see some families having their children in the best private schools while their housemaids struggle in public schools.
My vision is to change this kind of discriminatory mentality, affect lives positively, and give lives a meaning; which is why I came up with the academy.
Funding the academy
I have never been a failure, and anything I start I see the hand of God in it.
He who has given me the vision will make a provision, because where there is a vision there is always a provision; and where there is a mission there is always a vision to accomplish the mission.
So, since it is God’s will it is God’s bill. God will fund it.
After all, God is the Father of the orphans who are there. If He refuses to sponsor His own children, then I withdraw. But I know the hand of God is on me and God can never stop half way.
Location, commencement of the academy
Born Great Academy School is located at Kings In Christ Power Ministry at Jubilee Close, Ago Palace Way, Lagos.
It will open next term, September 2016 to be precise.