The founder and General Superintendent (GS) of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry Worldwide, Pastor William Kumuyi, has admonished Nigerians to love one another for their prayers to work optimally.

The cleric said this while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja after a special Sunday worship service as part of the ongoing 6-day ‘Soaring Above’ crusade in Abuja and for the 19 northern States via zoom and other social media platforms.

Kumuyi, who described Nigeria as a praying nation, said prayers can only be answered by God when there is positive talks and actions towards each other as citizens.

He said: “We are praying. And if we are praying and criticising; we have hatred for one another, in that environment prayer cannot work in an optimal and maximal way. But if we understand and stop identifying this person as my enemy and problem; that tribe is the problem; and if we stop all that and just look up to God and love one another. And understand we came to this by some steps we are taking as individuals and leaders, we retrace our steps and we wish for the best so that we desire the fulfilment of the prayer we are praying.

“If I pray that God should give us peace and I come out and fighting against you and him, I contradict my prayer. So being a praying nation is good. We should also be practical, positive, loving nation; we know that it becomes compact with the prayer we are praying and God will do it.” Kumuyi

The cleric noted that God is interested in Nigeria. He urged Nigerians to stop hating and killing one another; stop using divisive utterances that could dampen the expected change but, rather, believe the situation will improve when they focus on God and make judicious use of the resources God has blessed the nation with.

“We thank the Lord for what the Lord has done, and doing this we are doing together, seeing the Lord rolling away problems that people did not think will easily be rolled away like that,” he said.

“What God does for an individual He does it for the family, and what He does for the community, and what he does for the community, He can do for the country.

“The point is these people that received this divine touch they did not give up, did not think is all over, they knew that God can still do something, the country would have to adopt that same mindset, and know that whatever we are going through, stop accusing this and accusing that while we are pointing accusing fingers, we are trying to say ‘let you be on you own and let me be on my own’. Let the East go and let the West go, and this one go.

“If we are thinking like that we will not expect the solution God wants to give us but when we have hope and we know yet we have gone through some deep waters, things are going to change, our God has the possibility to make things change. I believe that we will fly again.”