Christians have been charged to always pray especially now that the international community is bedevilled with evil.

 

Speaking during the mid-year combined service of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Headquarters Awka, the Anambra State two overseers, Pastor Jude Chukwuocha stressed the need for Christians to understand the secret of praying effectively.

Emmanuel Chigbata was there and reports that Pastor Chukwuocha maintained that the state of the nation occasioned by bad leadership seriously calls for prayer, for God’s intervention.

 

Dwelling on the theme ‘ Praying Prevailing Prayers’ Pastor Chukwuocha urged the church to rise to the responsibility and use prayer as a very strong weapon to destroy the powers of wicked in the society.

While stressing that many pray in weakness and unseriousness, Pastor Chukwuocha called on the people to emulate the prayer pattern of the biblical Daniel and Jacob, pointing out that the most effective ways to pray are to pull away from distractions and put into prayer appropriate determination.

 

Also, the Pastor in-charge of Ifite District Awka, of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Professor Thaddeus Eze, emphasized that one needs to have a right standing with God in order to have effective answers to his prayer.

 

He called on the church to keep praying for those in authority so that God will give them the right direction on how to fix the problem in the country.

For the Pastor in-charge of Amikwo group of District, Awka, Pastor Donatus Ndum, the only solution to the prevailing problem bedevilling this modern-day society is to earnestly pray for God to intervene.

 

Prayers, testimonies and choir rendition climaxed the service.