The Gathering Cloud and a Thirty-Day Project

On my way home yesterday, a burden came upon me.  As it often happens at such moments, my pleasure was gone from me.  I continued home slowly, in no mood for words with anyone for what I sensed in my soul.  I heard no voice this time in my ears nor saw a vision.  I can only say, like Paul, “I perceive … hurt and much damage,” and it was so (Acts 27:10).  Prophet Ezekiel reports, “I was among the captives by the river of Chebar … and I saw visions of God” (Ezekiel 1:1).  Sometimes He comes upon you in a public place; sometimes in the sanctuary.  After all, “The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof” (Psalm 24:1).

A cloud is thickening over the land, soon to burst in more bloody rains.   As Peter went to pray while awaiting his lunch, he had a trance of food from heaven (Acts 10:10-13).  God was speaking to a hungry man in the language of food.  The feelings of hunger in the flesh were merely the earthly sensations of the heavenly signals; it was earth picking up the urgency from the realms of the spirit; it was the body of the righteous man trying to interpret a message from the spirit realm. That is happening now in the land.  The medias are awash with threats of invasions the arrowhead of which are the jihadist Fulanis from across the desert in collusion with their agents in government and all strata of the society.  The fear is palpable.  Earth is picking up signals from the realms of the spirit.  As it was, about a decade ago and more, dreams and visions of trouble have again begun to be recurrent.  But it is no time to fear.

A few days ago, I got a long call from a foreign prophetic intercessor who wished to remain discreet, who shared revelations of a coming judgment from God upon the Church in Nigeria: judgment upon corrupt Christian leaders, judgment upon corrupt Christian entrepreneurs: deaths and floods and more.  It seemed imminent, although the time could not be ascertained.  When God begins to judge His Church, He seeks the license to proceed to judge the land (1 Peter 4:17).

Another intercessory leader sent an urgent message: there is fire on the mountain; we need to sound the trumpet. Everyone is sensing something about to burst, although the details are yet uncertain.  I am not sure if the coming cloud is supposed to be the start of the declared judgment, which would merely be another phase of the judgments, for we have been long under phases of it.

At our national prayers yesterday, still under the weight of the burden that had come upon me during the day, I made a call, which I shall repeat here.  We should watch May 29 this year.  The enemy intends colossal sporadic embarrassments on strategic government infrastructure across the land, which they intend to escalate to worse levels.  Their armies are embedded across the land.  I call upon our partners across the globe, and all who can, to fast and pray.  May judgment wash Nigeria, but may the purpose of the enemy not prevail over the mandate of Jehovah because of the carelessness of the people of the Lord.  Amen.

We shall fast and pray for five days ending on that date.  That is, from Sunday 25th to Thursday 29th.  The second half of this year carries the sound of a harvest; not of bread and wine, but of judgments.  “O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years … in wrath remember mercy” (Habakkuk 3:2).  Amen.

Last year, at our prayers, a prophet shared what God had showed him, that the covenants of sorcery that uphold the present abominations of a government in Nigeria would expire in the third year.  That third year is here.  The enemy also probably realises this and intends to steal the harvest for which the time is due.  We cannot trust the infiltrated security infrastructure.  Our help shall come from the Lord who made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:1-2).

This is the call I made yesterday to Christian leaders praying for the nation, which I bring to all our partners across the world, and especially to pastors in Nigeria.  Let us raise a cloud of incense of prayers for the next thirty days.  It will mitigate many things.  Call your congregation, each one to take one day in the month, from as soon as possible, for the next thirty days, to fast and pray for themselves, for the local church, for you their leader, for the Church in Nigeria, and especially for the entire country.  Let every day be covered.  Other nationals may use the days to pray also for their own lands.

If a hundred churches in the north, a hundred churches in the east, a hundred churches in the south, and a hundred churches in the west, would each have about five persons standing in the gap for each of those thirty days, it will be a reasonable altar of repentance and prayers rising to God.  This season needs it.  Not only in your church, encourage other pastors and Christian leaders to join the Thirty Days Project of prayer and fasting by raising that altar also in their own congregations: schools and campus fellowships, offices, lay people’s fellowships, children and adults, etc.

If you commit to this call, for yourself or your congregation, kindly send a notice to the contacts indicated at the end of this call; let us be assured that there is reasonable response in the land. Tell us that your church or fellowship is taking up the project, or tell us the date that you have chosen to stand watch. These individual fasts for thirty days (whenever you start, soon) will be in addition to the five-day call leading up to May 29th.

More than thirty-five years ago, when we began to raise these alarms, The Preacher was called a “preacher of doom” for what he saw and cried about.  Check those early pages.  Now, “the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out” (Jeremiah 6:4).

Of Jerusalem, Jesus cried, “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes” (Luke 19:42).  May “this day” not be unto us according to the lamentations of King Hezehiah: “a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth” (Isaiah 37:3).  May there be strength to bring forth.  Amen.

From The Preacher’s diary,

May 18, 2025.