Upcoming Voting in Nigeria
March, 28 2007
Blessings everyone,
This is just a quick e-mail to ask you to say this prayer (possibly you could ask your places of worship to have the community pray it) This prayer is said at everyday in church. I thought I would share it with all of you and give you a feeling of what happens during elections here.
PRAYER FOR UPRIGHT VOTING ACCURATE COUNTING AND IMPARTIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ELECTION RESULTS IN NIGERIA
God our Father
All ruling powers lie within your hands
To you belong just judgemnts
Marcy and peace
But to us and the rulers of our land
Belong defilement and disgrace,
When you freed us from
Military rule
Our hearts were so full of joy
But alas, fighting with guns for rulership
And stealing votes with violence
Continue to plague us
Causing bloodshed and confusion in our land
Feeding the poor with misery and sadness.
Gracious Father
Forgive us, cleanse and cleanse us
Tryuely without you and left to ourselves
We are just helpless
We therefore fall on our knees seeking thy help
Mericiful Father
As we begin another round of voting
Remove from us the greed and terrorism
Which destroy upright guidelines
and laws that ought to regulate elections
Keep also far from us
The deadly robbery
That has been the bane of voting in Nigeria.
Put your own spirit,
The Spirit of truth and peace within us all-
The INEC organizers of the elections, the candidates
seeking for votes, the voters themselves, Those
who count and record the votes,
And the announcement of Election results.
Dear Father
Help us to see a new dawn in our land Negeria,
namely; upright vcoting, accurate counting,
Imparial and just announcement of Election results
Without any problems and without any confusion.
All this we ask through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen
All my love-which is a portion of God's love,
Ozioma of Igboland