The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, has called on Nigerians to engage in prayer for the country. Adeboye emphasized that genuine freedom requires ongoing prayer because decolonization alone does not ensure liberation from poverty, terror, or illness.
During the church’s monthly thanksgiving service on Sunday, in a sermon titled “Free Indeed,” Adeboye highlighted that breaking free from colonial rule did not automatically guarantee freedom from poverty, terror, or the forces of darkness.
He encouraged Nigerians to unite for the nation’s salvation, emphasizing that true freedom encompasses physical, material, and spiritual liberation.
“You cannot claim that you are free indeed if you have physical problems and you are bound by physical or spiritual darkness.. To be free indeed, you must not be in bondage physical, material and spiritual.
“You cannot say you are free if you are poor and still afraid of something. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is seated far above municipalities and power and God has put everything under his feat.
“All these evil forces are under your feet if you are a child of God because the feet are the lowest part of the body. So, even if you are the lowest part of the body of Christ, all these evil forces are still under you. When you are in Christ, then you know the meaning of true freedom, free indeed.
“What is applicable to the individual can become applicable to a nation because a nation is made of individuals. And that is why you must join forces together as much as possible to bring salvation to our nation by bringing as many souls to Christ because whomever the Christ shall set free, shall be free indeed.
“That is why you have a responsibility to keep praying for your nation, for individuals that are yet to be safe that God will save their souls, and the more of us that are saved, the easier it will be for every one of us to say we are now free indeed.
“You can be enjoying independence from the colonial masters and still be in slavery to sickness, poverty, terror, forced of darkness but if you come to the Son, he will set you free.
“I am wishing you a very good celebration but more than anything else I wish all of you who are already in Christ freedom and freedom indeed,” he said.
