DON’T INSULT MR. PRESIDENT!

Friends, the new or so called social media has made publishing a piece of cake.
Along my checkered career, I had worked as a reporter at The Guardian newspapers, Lagos. And I remember the excitement of going out to cover an event, and coming back to craft a story; only to have it dumped for lack of space. Certainly, not that it was not good, but due to a lot of competing interests, including the almighty adverts (that pay the bills).
But in the new media, anyone with a facebook (and other such platforms) address, can log on and publish any opinion or whatever catches their fancy. Another fact is that the audience is global –wherever you have “friends”, or anywhere they google a subject. And so that has given us a license, so wantonly abused by some. Some have wished in such media that they were Americans, and that President Obama was their President. Perish the thought! He is the President of America and Americans. And the Americans would not wish your country and President were theirs.
Let us take a positive action - anytime you want to insult the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, yes that is who he is, and run down Nigeria as a nation, stop and say a prayer instead (1Timothy 2:1-2). I am certain a lot of people kept a virgil watching the first round of election debates between President Obama and the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney. How I wish we spent that virgil interceding for Nigeria! In addition to prayer, let us go further and take a confirming action. As a matter of course, impact positively, your own piece of the universe, your immediate sphere of influence. And together, we will get the leaders, and the nation we so earnestly deserve; and we will all be the better for it.
Getting the leaders we want is only possible if have a relationship with the God who has the heart of kings and queens in His hands (Proverbs 21:1) and can turn it to our favour. If you will like to find out more about God and how you can have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, visit any bible believing church near you, or: CHAPEL OF DESTINY RESTORATION CHURCH, 2 Akinlabi Lane, off Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, by Round About Bus Stop, Ikeja. Lagos. We will be glad to have you join us this Sunday, October 7, at 9 am. I will be preaching a message, titled: “Hannah 101: Lessons in Hope & Expectation”