The Kasoa Area Head of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Ekow Badu Wood, has encouraged Christians to continue to seek the face of God in the wake of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, because God has the power to drive it away from the face of the earth.
In a televised sermon on Friday, April 24, 2020 as part of the 3-day All Christians Prayer and Fasting, the former General Secretary of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), said that there is power in prayer and that whenever believers resort to it the seemingly impossible things become possible.
Reading from 2 Chronicles 7:13-15, Apostle Wood noted that fasting is one way of submitting to the divine authority of God. He called on all Christians to humble themselves through prayer and fasting for God to forgive the sins of the land and heal it from any pestilence.
He however said that fasting without prayer is like embarking on a hunger strike which is without any positive effect.
He added that as Christians humble themselves, repent of their sins pray and seek the face of God, God will answer them and heal the land of any plague.
Advising the people of the world to turn from their wicked ways, Apostle Wood charged Ghanaians to be compassionate towards the poor, aged, weak and the vulnerable so that God will have mercy on the nation and restore the land.
Also reading from 1 John 5:14-15, he stressed the potency of prayer offered by the people called by the name of the Lord. “It is therefore important that those of us who have been called by His name should come together and call upon Him because He is willing and able to do it for us,” he said, adding, “Our God is willing and able to drive away the pandemic. All we have to do is to ask, and surely the answer will come.”
Further quoting from Song of Songs 2:15, Apostle Wood advised Christians to watch and pray by adhering to the measures aimed at curtailing the spread of the viral disease, saying, “Prayer goes with watching. Though we are praying, we must observe all the social distancing protocols. Prayer doesn’t mean that we should be careless.
“COVID-19 is real and we must therefore protect ourselves. We must stay at home as much as possible because we are not in normal times, wash our hands with soap under running water, and wear face masks when going out,” he said.
Apostle Ekow Badu Wood was hopeful that with prayer and by exercising personal cautionary measures, COVID-19, which he likened to the little foxes in the Book of Song of Songs 2:15, will be caught and wiped out from the face of the earth.
The Christian community in Ghana is observing a 3-day national fasting and prayer exercise from Friday, April 24, to Sunday, April 26, 2020, to intercede for the nations of the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic using Ghana as a point of contact.
The exercise is under the theme, “O God, Heal Our Land” – 2 Chronicles 7:13-14.
Source: Pentecost News
