{"id":7885,"date":"2013-08-07T05:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/plight-of-christians-in-the-north-worrisome-oritsejafor\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T05:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:39:45","slug":"plight-of-christians-in-the-north-worrisome-oritsejafor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/plight-of-christians-in-the-north-worrisome-oritsejafor\/","title":{"rendered":"Plight of Christians in the North worrisome \u2013Oritsejafor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday expressed concern over the plight of Christians living in the northern part of the country.<\/p>\n

Speaking yesterday in Jos during a \u201cMoment of Encounter,\u201d a monthly programme of the Assemblies of God Church with the theme; \u201cMen Ought Always To Pray,\u201d the CAN President said: \u201cI did not seek to be president. TECKAN came to me to request me to be president, that they specifically knew that I should be the one to be CAN president.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe position I occupy, I occupy for you. The day you say you don\u2019t want me, I go. When I see what happens to the church, especially in the north, I\u2019m troubled.<\/p>\n

\u201cNigeria shall remain one. I urge the church to pray for Nigeria. Let\u2019s raise the standard for this country. The church needs to remain one so that its prayer can be effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quoting from the Book of Judges 16:28, the CAN President said Nigeria was passing through a season of wilderness, but expressed hope that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cSamson cried onto God to remember him. It represents the traumatised people of Jos, of northern Nigeria, possibly of Nigeria. I could call this a season of wilderness when anything could go wrong, has gone wrong. Jos was a place for vacation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you wanted vacation, you came here. What happened to Jos? What has happened to Nigeria?\u201d Also reading from the Books of Songs of Solomon 8.5; Jeremiah 1:2; Act 10:2-4; Gen 39.9; Acts 8:20; Luke 18:1, the CAN President added: \u201cWho is this that has come out of the wilderness.<\/p>\n

He stands for the church, you and I. \u201cThis Jesus has remembered you. They found grace in the wilderness. Grace is divine help in a helpless situation. He will bring you out of the wilderness.<\/p>\n

The angels say your prayer has reached God, God has remembered Cornelius. The problem with Nigeria is we don\u2019t fear God. We sit at a roundtable and discuss something, but do something else when we come out. \u201cYou can\u2019t take another man\u2019s life if you fear God. There is money you mustn\u2019t touch. How do you seize a pensioner\u2019s money and be able to go home and sleep. Some people are dying of malaria, in childbirth and people are jetting abroad to check for headache.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod remembered Cornelius because he feared God. Take your Christianity to office, to the market, because God is everywhere. Don\u2019t go to church on Sunday and leave, saying; \u201cGod, goodbye, till next Sunday.\u201d Go everywhere with the consciousness of God, he said.<\/p>\n

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