Save Our Generation! The Gethsemane Hour Of A Nation.
Save Our Generation!
The Gethsemane Hour Of A Nation.
The noise and emptiness, of what is being churned out as music, from the Nigerian Music Industry today, is so appalling; yet amazingly appreciated by the young generation.
It's sadly a reflection of the low level of thinking of many of the youths.
The music in every generation is a reflection of the state of that generation; thus when the music is all about sound, beats and meaningless rhymes with little or no message in it, it shows that the generation is a noisy/boisterous generation that has no message.
It is sadly a generation with all the instituitions, equipments and technologies for productive education, and relevant information, potent enough to birth national transformation; yet a clueless generation bereft of sound education and knowledge. It's not a surprise to see Nigeria in the doldrums and cesspit of corruption and ineptitude of leadership, with the younger generation failing to arise and save the day.
A few years ago, I visited a certain higher institution in the country to address a group of students there. While talking to them about the politics of the nation, I mentioned David Mark, who was at the time, the senate president; to my greatest shock and surprise, some of them threw a question at me, asking: "Who is David Mark? "
At that point I started wondering if I was actually in a higher institution or a nursery school. They knew Davido but didn't know David Mark. They know all the celebrities of the entertainment industry but know little or nothing about the political history of our nation. How then can they arise to become the leaders of tomorrow?
They will keep being entertained with emptiness, noise and beats; with vanity, inanity, nudity and insanity in the name of celebrity. Sadly, it's my generation, so my heart bleeds.
If Nigeria must rise from the ashes of the past, this very generation must awake from this long slumber and indifference.
It's time to Arise O my generation, Nigeria's cry to heed, and act responsibly like her future rests in our hands and lies on our shoulders.
The government should be on the shoulder of the child, the youth and not the aged and dying.
*Let the watchers and intercessors in the land, focus on the youths of this nation and cry out to the Lord for an unprecedented revival amongst the youths who are gradually being swept away by the wave of empty entertainment.
*Judge the spirit of empty and useless entertainment, and release it's captives; release our youths from it's hold/captivity, of which the physical abduction of young students in our nation in recent times, is only but a sign. Even the most recent case of abduction in the nation is like a drama/movie, an entertainment of sorts. The spirit of entertainment has so taken over the soul of our nation, such that even the much touted fight against corruption in this administration, has become nothing but mere entertainment.
Nigeria cannot be saved from her captivity and captors, until this generation is saved from this captivity.
Where are the praying mothers who bore most of these youths in their wombs for nine months or more?
Where are the interceeding women groups?
Where are the wailing women, who will stand by the broken walls of our nation and this perverse generation, to wail in birthpangs of intercession and birth a new Nigeria?
Where are the men, the elders and watchers, who will stand by the gates to watch and intercede, that the land be spared from utter ruin?
This is the Gethsemane hour for Nigeria, an hour of emergency in the labour room of intercession.
The Gethsemane Hour Of A Nation.
The noise and emptiness, of what is being churned out as music, from the Nigerian Music Industry today, is so appalling; yet amazingly appreciated by the young generation.
It's sadly a reflection of the low level of thinking of many of the youths.
The music in every generation is a reflection of the state of that generation; thus when the music is all about sound, beats and meaningless rhymes with little or no message in it, it shows that the generation is a noisy/boisterous generation that has no message.
It is sadly a generation with all the instituitions, equipments and technologies for productive education, and relevant information, potent enough to birth national transformation; yet a clueless generation bereft of sound education and knowledge. It's not a surprise to see Nigeria in the doldrums and cesspit of corruption and ineptitude of leadership, with the younger generation failing to arise and save the day.
A few years ago, I visited a certain higher institution in the country to address a group of students there. While talking to them about the politics of the nation, I mentioned David Mark, who was at the time, the senate president; to my greatest shock and surprise, some of them threw a question at me, asking: "Who is David Mark? "
At that point I started wondering if I was actually in a higher institution or a nursery school. They knew Davido but didn't know David Mark. They know all the celebrities of the entertainment industry but know little or nothing about the political history of our nation. How then can they arise to become the leaders of tomorrow?
They will keep being entertained with emptiness, noise and beats; with vanity, inanity, nudity and insanity in the name of celebrity. Sadly, it's my generation, so my heart bleeds.
If Nigeria must rise from the ashes of the past, this very generation must awake from this long slumber and indifference.
It's time to Arise O my generation, Nigeria's cry to heed, and act responsibly like her future rests in our hands and lies on our shoulders.
The government should be on the shoulder of the child, the youth and not the aged and dying.
*Let the watchers and intercessors in the land, focus on the youths of this nation and cry out to the Lord for an unprecedented revival amongst the youths who are gradually being swept away by the wave of empty entertainment.
*Judge the spirit of empty and useless entertainment, and release it's captives; release our youths from it's hold/captivity, of which the physical abduction of young students in our nation in recent times, is only but a sign. Even the most recent case of abduction in the nation is like a drama/movie, an entertainment of sorts. The spirit of entertainment has so taken over the soul of our nation, such that even the much touted fight against corruption in this administration, has become nothing but mere entertainment.
Nigeria cannot be saved from her captivity and captors, until this generation is saved from this captivity.
Where are the praying mothers who bore most of these youths in their wombs for nine months or more?
Where are the interceeding women groups?
Where are the wailing women, who will stand by the broken walls of our nation and this perverse generation, to wail in birthpangs of intercession and birth a new Nigeria?
Where are the men, the elders and watchers, who will stand by the gates to watch and intercede, that the land be spared from utter ruin?
This is the Gethsemane hour for Nigeria, an hour of emergency in the labour room of intercession.
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