Nigeria will eventually find favour with the spirit of peace and all men will be at peace with one another when the war will come to an end after a cease-fire in all the heated battlefields.
The battle is that Nigeria has very serious and confusing mixtures of criminal tendencies in all fabrics of society.
Carnal eyes can't discern and detect the ill wind flow direction from any angle.
The spirit of peace is telling me that something was behind the Crisis, with the sudden sick financial state of the quagmire in Nigeria at this particular time.
It was made to run the wrong risk of the smartest employ of pretence as if it is for the good of the public but highly political in design, and very provocative to divert attention.
The hind cause of the crisis is an insistence to continue being in political control all the time.
The final answer to the exact question of politics in Nigeria is that the issue of the Southern Presidency attempts, at the national topmost table is put at a big risk. The fake suspicion of vote buying as an excuse is just a scam. Note it down your skull and let me continue my story.
The whole intellectual riches and money idolatry, industry, productivity and the rights of the old and modern politics of the South elites, with their pride, power, strength, bureaucracy, technocracy and wisdom are drawn together into the clever space of the large Northern leadership network circle of authority. No escape routes.
It is a slow and steady gut in the political methods of the chore Northern oligarchy, which has been the usual tactic to down tool the success of one part of Nigeria into total power failure at last. Patience must be exercised. The Spirit of peace must be adopted. Saboteurs are the victims within the South and not the North without the gate.
The South of Nigeria is the most neutral group in the nation's polity. They are so easy to neutralize with the romance of politics in marital monetary comfort. Their losses mean nothing to the ever-ready context of the North but still serve as added gains to the North in the politics of the nation. The losses of the South are based on their habitual way of disunity and disagreement with one another. Togetherness in the South of Nigeria is ruled out completely. It's a problem, but I praise God that the South always maintained the spirit of good flexibility with maximum peace.
In any case, their predicament could be defeated with mass patience and tolerance, by the spirit of peace in control of the matter in the immediate crisis. God is there this time around and the war will be over by His grace.
The North is strong and never relenting to conquer and be at a greater advantage over power and policymaking, to be in charge of the government.
There is a fierce war between clumsy government policies in Nigeria and those who do not have the spirit of peace in the system, but they are relevant.
We must remark it as everyday happenings, from the different backgrounds of all the crises in the world. The innocent ones are badly affected by the war.
Innocent people are not fighting anybody. They are not fighting the nation. They aren't fighting the government, but there must always be wars that affect them to the bone marrow of living.
The criminals are at war with the public, such as the bandits are at war, terrorists are at war, kidnappers are at war, robbers are at war, ritualists are at war, fraternities are at war, and the corrupt elements in society are at war, politicians are at war, non-politicians are at war, individuals are at war and families are at war, People are at war with businesses of life, governments are at war, laws are at war, animals are at war, birds are similarly at war, some natures are at war as well, even the spirits are at war, Kingdoms are at war with each other, but only little children don't know war and can only harmlessly protest for want of certain immediate attention and obligations or assistance.
If anybody still believes that Nigeria is not into the plague of a slow, fast and steady killer war, then he or she has no serious knowledge of where exactly we are today. But if we have the spirit of peace, the favour will come from God and save us cleanly.
Whenever money circulation is withheld from the easy reach of the public and if the government is tricky and helpless about it, then that's the annihilation point of a killer war projected against the innocent society.
In the present case of Nigeria over the scarcity of money in circulation, the aim of trying to capitalize on the redesigning of some Naira denominations and vote to buy insinuations, as to be excused has been met with disappointment to the public.
Good strategists don't join a hidden agenda to the error of taking the public by surprise.
A good method isn't to take the public for a ride on emergency financial bankruptcy, by shaking people who are not prepared for any sudden embarrassment with insoluble official excuses.
The only good-looking aspect of the exercise is that at a time prices of goods dropped a little bit. This is because of the lack of liquid cash with the public.
Financial flow has been too slow. Marketplaces couldn't transact businesses smoothly.
It may not be the fault of the government but could be the fault of a group of people who do have not the spirit of peace.
But if the government is weak to act quickly and positively she is also at fault, which is almost the same thing as those who are faulty, because there is an adage which says to us that "Two wrongs can never make a Right."
When a whole nation is thrown into a state of starvation by a few persons that are enjoying the predicament of a majority of the populace, then it is no longer funny about what is going on against God's Will.
People are enjoying any crisis that affects the innocent public and are not bothered about it, so long as the Banks are at work in conspiracy with them.
What has a beginning must have an end. It will be a story one day, but let's be reminded that if there's the spirit of peace in us, any war can be stopped.
And in all said and done God is being pushed to the walls to fight the war against the odds.
The human race is targeted to experience the wars more, so that we learn and perhaps start to develop the spirit of peace like little children do without malice, and with much ease of the mind.
The biblical book of the 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verse 20 said, "Brethren, be not children in understanding; howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be ye, men."
This passage of the bible is talking about not being childish in understanding, but that even when we are offended we must be wise and mature with much restraint like men, instead of keeping malice. We should behave as if we are mere little children having the spirit of peace.
There is a thing that the majority of people never came across in their hearts. I want them to know it now without any iota of doubt. It's not a matter of mere jokes. It is a very serious spiritual issue.
If you believe that the whole world is always full of battles, or filled up with wars so to say, then you have done well but we still have a lot to learn from the various individual experiences.
Similarities are now there with Nigeria in different ways of the wars. The experiences gathered so far can serve as the correct evidence, and also as perfect examples of the happenings.
But upon all the happenings there's only one thing we need to do like little children. It is simply to possess the spirit of peace with everybody around us. Then God will take charge.
Once we are individually at peace with everyone, everything will be at peace with us and we will be at peace with each other everywhere and every time.
Having the spirit of peace can be threatened, yet can stop any war and the enemies who are at war with one another will be at ease, and can easily come alive together in peace surprisingly.
I have personally experienced that the spirit of peace can do a dual purpose work for people.
I mean that peace and favour will reign in the lives of those upon whom the power of the spirit of peace is bestowed. They can also find favour with people who are equally inspired to take care of others, even in the face of an ongoing war.
I am encouraging the majority of those that have been thrown into the awful financial eclipse of the nation, to exercise a little more patience, develop the spirit of peace and see the outcome of the whole matter with God.
Let us be like innocent little children even though we are adults, we shall see the end of the problem very soon. God is watching and, it is left for us to understand the situation like mature people forced into the conflict as innocent children.
Let us develop the spirit of peace of God within us, and it will surprise us how God works to stop any war that is aimed to achieve massive annihilation or achieve a religious or sectional political goal against the Will of God.
Let us not mind those few persons who have not had the spirit of peace, but want everything for themselves without remorse.
This is not a funny matter and not an issue of age, but a good case about realities on why all of us, old and young, strong or weak in faith, who are still alive should know that the spirit of peace is capable of stopping any raging war immediately at a glance. No power can control God. No power can defeat God in any battle. No power is above God. No power can mock God. The spirit of peace is of God.
I have a story to tell about the previous civil war in Nigeria which began from April 1967 to January 1970.
Thank God some of us came out of the war unhurt, upon all the near annihilation danger we faced. We survived the war only by the sheer grace of God who shielded us well from the fire of missiles. It was a big miracle.
I will be brief because there is a point I want to make clear to people here, and it is based on the above caption about having the spirit of peace.
As a young boy who passed his elementary six exams in 1966, I was in the position to tell the story of the experiences we gathered during the civil war in Nigeria.
But as I said, there is just one point about having the spirit of peace that can captivate people to cease fire on the battlefield.
I won't forget one fateful night early in January 1970, we were woken up by the Biafran army boys. They were conscripting grown-up men into the force.
I was living with one man who ran away from them and I was taken in his stead. I had shorts on me which I always washed and wore regularly and daily.
I had no shirt on me that night and was not allowed space to wear the only long-sleeved one, which my mother made for me earlier before the war started.
I have whisked away first to the army camp near the war front and eventually to the battlefield, where the Nigerian and the Biafran forces were fighting face-to-face from their trenches respectively. Bullets were flying everywhere but non hit me.
Upon that, I could feel nothing but was filled with the spirit of peace and suddenly the firing ceased immediately. It was a very sharp wonderful result.
I think God intervened to save my life because something still happened when there was calm on both sides. They got up from their trenches, hung their arms, came and embraced each other and sat down, shared sticks of cigarettes and even ate bread together. It was unbelievable.
I was watching them as if in a dream. They discussed the war very friendly, exchanged names and by the evening time, there was no more fighting. Lastly, they parted ways. Then the Biafran soldiers took me along a bush part, to avoid stepping on the cabled danger lines laid with highly explosive mines.
When a selected few of them got back with me to their first camp, something happened all over again. Their Commander in charge of the camp saw me and yelled and queried "Who brought this young boy here."
The Captain owned it up as the one responsible, then the next thing that the Chief Commander went straight and slapped him. He ordered that another group of soldiers should take me back in a standby Land Rover vehicle, to the exact house from where I have whisked away. They first gave me food to eat and took me home at around midnight.
In all these, I never felt danger but was filled with the spirit of peace. Something happened at a short interval that at the end of the same January 1970, the civil war stopped immediately.
Another thing still happened at the end of the war. We trekked for four days and four nights to get back to our places of origin and lastly lodged at Abomega, where the Nigerian Army had a camp.
In the evening of that day, the Lt. Colonel in charge of the camp spotted me. He called me and told his wife to take care of me. The wife took me and bathed me with warm water. She towelled me dry and applied Vaseline on me. She gave me a good meal and prepared me a place to rest and sleep. It was wonderful.
The following day something also happened. The Lt. Colonel ordered his men to halt any Army truck. He instructed them to tell whoever is the driver to take everybody to their preferred nearest place of discharge. He also came when they stopped an Army trailer, and created a space for me in the front cabin of the Trailer.
He also ordered the driver to make sure I got home safely and to give him a report back later.
Let me stop the story here and avoid connecting similar favours that God gave me through His Spirit of peace, which is still in me today. The Spirit doesn't allow me to enjoy any injected suffering on innocent people.
God can give the spirit of peace to you also if you ask for it and you will know what I am saying here.
What you can see from here is that the spirit of peace can stop any war. I mean that the spirit of peace is the spirit of God.
What I am trying to say here is that at this hectic period of the Nigerian predicament, with the war of scarcity of everything good for the masses, some persons are enjoying it but God isn't happy to watch others who are affected suffer any longer.
He is coming with very great miracles to stop the raging war against those having the spirit of peace. None of them will be hurt. Innocent Nigerians will be saved from the flying bullets.
Let us just develop the spirit of peace like little children. Let us also understand like Adults that God is not weak to act if the government has no immediate solution that can stop the war.
To God is the glory forever.
Written by Egede Lawrence.
Media Advocacy For Having The Spirit Of Peace In Times Of War.
