NIGERIA'S WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION: GOD'S INTERVENTION

I will like to first all congratulate every football loving Nigerian on the this planet, as our qualification for the 2010 world cup in south Africa will be remembered for years to come not only by Nigerians but by non- Nigerians as well. Every Nigerian in the UK are still talking about our qualification, while the wise ones among them recognise that it was the work of GOD, the unwise ones were claiming juju was used. I am one of those who recognised the work of God on that day. Infact as I was watching the match against Kenya , I have never felt the kind of calmness that I felt during that match in any Nigerian match that I have watched, and this was even before we equalised after going a goal down. During the match I was receiving assurance that once Obafemi Martins comes on goals will start coming, and that’s exactly what happened. This assurance I received, I later realised from the Holy Spirit. Being a born again Christian and blessed with the holy spirit, I was so consume by the game to realise who was assuring me everything was going to be ok. It was after the game was almost over that I realised that it was GOD communicating with me.

Casting our mind back to the game in Kenya, our darling team the Super Eagles did not put in a good display, it was only the goals that came from individual brilliance given by GOD to our players that got us through. The hero of the match turned out to be Obafemi Martins, the same player who threw away two golden chances that could have won the game in Maputo.

I will like to bring it to every Nigerian’s attention that GOD who qualified the country for the 2010 world cup is not finished with us, he is the same one that will lead us to win it. But it is very important that we help ourselves first, through good preparation and commitment, this applies to both the players and the NFF. I will recommend that PTF should now have a change of duty, which should be from qualifying for the world cup to winning it. This is not a dream that is too big, for the bible says in Philippians 4:13 ‘ I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGHTENS ME’. There is a reason why GOD helped Nigeria to qualify and that reason is to win it. The world has already seen a taste of what the Super Eagles can do when we beat France in a friendly match. This is God’s own team, and the reason for this is because the players plus the whole country always seek HIS favour before we start any match. For the bible says in 2 chronicles 7:14 "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land". The bible also says in Deuteronomy 28:13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.