 Ladies and gentlemen, I bless the name of the Lord for this prayer breakfast, this meeting that is dedicated to the prophetic birthing of a new nation and I must thank the organizers of the coalition, the organizers of the coalition of intercessors and the Christian Association of Nigeria and in particular our leader and father of the Nigeria Praise Movement, General Yaku Pugogawa for the kind invitation and for his continuing commitment and dedication to this nation from his youth when he was head of state, when he led the fight to keep Nigeria warm to his later years as an elder statesman where his well-seasoned words uttered in God who was done have cancelled our nation's leaders for decades. The theme of this prayer breakfast is the birth of a new nation and it's unimportant because as we all know it comes at a time of great travail and tribulation for the nation. The nation in the throes of a pandemic for well over a year leading to a severe economic downturn, loss of jobs, and livelihoods and as we climbed out of the recession we have been faced with an unprecedented scale of insecurity in different zones of the nation. But for us who are gathered here today, children of God, we see the invisible. We know that every time that the nation where the children of God live is challenged it is God's call to his people to take action. It's an opportunity for God to demonstrate that he is God of other nations, that he is indeed the creator of the heavens and the earth and that he knows the beginning from the end. But God also as we know wants us to know that he has ordained us to speak concerning the things that we want to see. And the Lord said to me, behold I have put my words in your mouth, see I have this day set you over the nations and the work between them, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant, everywhere you look in scripture the destiny of nations is in the hands of his children. From Zerubah Belt and Nehemiah we see ordinary men and women building nations at the direction of God and by prophetic action. Let me make you ground my remarks this morning in a particular story in the scriptures and we'll find it in 2 Kings chapter 2 verse 19 all the way to 22, I'll just read 2 Kings 19 in 2 Kings chapter 2 verse 19 to 22, then the men of the city said to Elisha, please notice the situation of the city is unpleasant. Because my Lord sees that the water is bad and the ground barren and in 20 he says, and he said, bring me the new bowl and put salt in it. So they brought it to him and he went out to the source of the water and cast in the salt there and said, thus says the Lord, I've healed this water for me there shall be no more death or barrenness and in verse 22, so the water remains healed to this day according to the word of Elisha which he spoke. So scripture has consistently shown us that the children of God are central to the birth of a new nation, the rebirth of a nation. Almost everywhere you look in scripture we find this repeater and in this story it is so. The children of God was designed change, they must cry to God and be ready to make the sacrifice of repentance. In this story the men of the city told the prophet of God, Elisha, see this city is a nice, unpleasant and prosperous place but we cannot enjoy this community. We cannot enjoy this nation because the water is bad, because life is unsafe and the ground is barren. It is a serious economic problem. They did not go to an expert on environmental disasters, yet they go to a politician, the one to God and God directed his prophet who asked for a fresh new bowl, put salt in it and went to the source of the water, the root of the problem and poured in the salt and God spoke. I have healed this water, from it there shall be no more death or barrenness and so it shall be for our nation in Jesus' mighty name. But let us just unpack some aspects of this story. Salt is crucial to the birth of a new nation. Matthew 5 verse 13 says that you and I are the salt of the earth. So the salt is actually the children of God. As God is concerned, the responsibility for birthing the nation belongs to those who are called by his name. Which is why he said and this I will repeat almost today, but I practically have a speaker. Second Chronicles 7 verse 14, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then I will hear from heaven and heal their land. The word of God does not agree with logic or with our thinking. God is saying here that it is not the nation that repents. It is his own people who are called upon to repent and turn from their evil ways. It is not the nation that is called upon to turn from his evil ways. That is not the logic of God. The logic is that his own people must turn from their evil ways. As we are the salt, so are we the light. And the light ends the darkness. It marks the end of the night of weeping and marks the glorious sunlight of the morning of joy. So the pouring of salt into the source of the water, the source of the crop, is the prophetic act that we perform today. We the salt are also poured today by prayer and prophecy into the source of our nation's prophets. And as we pray and prophesy, a new nation will be birthed. One where, like the city to which Elijah went, the land was healed. The people prosper and peace and joy prevail. So I speak these words also to our nation. God says to the Lord, I have healed this water. From it there shall be no more death or violence. And after the healing of the land, we are told, in verse 22, we are told that the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elijah, which is spoken. And we say the same words for our nation as well. That this nation is the birth of a new nation. But the nation has already been birthed. There is no question about that. The way that God reveals things is always, depending on who it is, in pictures, in forms and for some visions. From where it's from my bedroom, I can see the rock, as well as the huge rock. I can see it very clearly, just lying down like that, I can see it. Once I open the window, I can see it just right, far away or right in front of me, I can see it. But there are times when it is completely covered by clouds, completely, such that if I open my window, I cannot see it at all. I cannot see it at all. As a matter of fact, if I had come into that room on the day when I didn't know that the rock was there, I would have assumed that there was no rock there, because the rock is. That metaphor is the same for our nation. The nation, the new nation is birthed already. It is covered by a child, by the cloud road there. And God Almighty will be, will take all of the glory for the birthing of this nation. Thank you very much. God bless you.