PRETORIA-(MaraviPost)-The South Africa-Malawian based Prophet Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG), used his Easter sermon on Sunday in Pretoria, South Africa, to pray for African heads of states and government, asking God to give them strength, ability, and skills in serving well their citizens.
The Maravi Post is reliably informed that during the emotional one and half session, Prophet Bushiri invited flag-waving nationalities of a particular nation to join him on the pulpit for a joint prayer asking God to deliver their leaders and nation.
The African countries on the sermon list included South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria, Botswana, Tanzania, South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Eritrea, Egypt, Uganda, Swaziland, Kenya, Lesotho and Gambia.
Then Prophet also added leaders of the nations that have African people present in them, such as India, Europe, Australia and the US.
Carrying his national flag of Malawi, Prophet Bushiri took considerable time to pray for Malawi’s Head of State, whom he addressed as our beloved leader, President Peter Mutharika.
Prophet Bushiri, who leads the ECG church, which hit over 300,000 million registered members in two years, asked God to continue guiding President Mutharika in the noble leadership duty of lifting Malawians from poverty.
Prophet Bushiri’a prayer comes barely two days after President Mutharika called upon Malawians to use the Easter period as time for reflection on the sacrifices individuals in our families, communities, and the nation, selflessly make for our own good the way our Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated during this period in his life time.
Popularly known as Major One, and constantly waving the Malawi flag, flanked by hundreds of other flag-waving Malawians on the pulpit, Prophet Bushiri stressed that Malawi is a great country, blessed with natural resources which need to be harnessed.
The Prophet also prayed for men and women of God in Malawi to be unwavering in praying for the nation. He said Malawi’s history is rife with men and women of God delivering the nation from challenges. He singled out Reverend John Chilembwe and David Livingstone.
“We pray for our beloved President Mutharika today, so that God may exalt him and give him good health. We pray that he can deliver our land and people from pain and poverty.
“As we hold these flags, we pray for our country Malawi. It is a nation facing a lot of problems, but I believe that God can save our nation. Our hopes and faith is in the fact that God can save our nation, the Prophet prayed.
Prophet Bushiri also prayed for countries that love Malawi, for instance South Africa and Botswanato received blessing from God for the sake of their love for Malawi.
For the rainbow nation, South Africa, that is currently rocked in a series of political challenges, the Prophet said the month of August will see escalation of economic pain.
Bushiri therefore, underlined that the pain will be temporary and, hence, called on the church to be unwavering in prayer.