We give God all the glory for his faithful mercy that enables us celebrate our end of year praise as we prepare for the 5th of its kind. It is a yearly program celebrated in Aiyetoro, and God himself commanded it.
Aiyetoro is now a town, and by the grace of God, before I came on board there was nothing like festival because Christianity had taken over so many things here.
When I ascended the throne, the Holy Spirit told me to start organising this program. I was asking myself, how do I start, what will people say, how will they take it, will they accept me? But previously, before I accepted to become the baale, my people and I agreed that they will only do what I wanted. Therefore, it made it so easy for me to the glory of God.
After hearing God’s command, I consulted spiritual fathers, especially my own spiritual father, they all advised me to obey the will of God, and we started five years ago, exactly 2015. It has been from glory to glory since then, each year has been better, it continues to get better.
We started this program with the name ‘’Akbar,’’ like a carol. That was the name I and my team put Together. As time went by, I ernestly sought the face of God, and asked if this was what he really wanted, and the Holy Spirit spoke to me; ‘it is beyond that. I did not give you the Egungun, Oro or any other festival in the Yoruba system, this is the festival I gave you. Just gather people in your community once in a year and give me praise, and I will continue being your God,’ and he has been faithful to his words.
God gave me this theme when I was praying concerning new name for this program. He said it is ‘’Annual Festival of Praise,’’ last year was ‘’Emmanuel’’. I don’t just come out and give name, it is divine, so I give God the glory.
Our challenges last year were numerous. we had electricity challenge, it was heartbreaking, the program was supposed to start 10pm but we started past 12am, because we had issues with electricity, including the generator we brought, but God proved himself.
This year, we were thinking it was not going to hold because of covid-19, coming out of the pandemic, we found ourselves in Endsars. It was so devastating that we were asking God how we would go about it? It is for this reasons we had a late preparation; we started all these two weeks ago; it was not the usual preparation that we start in two months – latest September ending, but God has been so wonderful.
This program has no sponsor, nobody is giving me any kobo, and no one is assisting this program, and I don’t collect offering from anybody like the norms, yet God continues to sustain it. The way he does it is beyond my thinking and imagination, thus, I believe next year is going to be better.
When we were gradually going out of covid-19, in my invites to people, I made it strictly clear that people should be prepared to adhere strictly to government guidelines and regulations. We have made provision for hand sanitisers, clinical nose covers etc, that we are going to be giving out to the people. Covid19 is real, we have seen it, and it is real. We need to protect ourselves despite the fact that the government has released us to go back to normal services. We should know that Nigeria cannot withstand another lockdown, without another lockdown look at what is happening now, we are in recession already. But God has promised Nigeria is coming out of recession very soon.
This year’s program is going to be wonderful, expect the raw manifestation of the Holy Spirit. The difference from last year’s is that we had this program in an all-night, but this year is going to be an evening program. We are starting around 4pm -10pm, so that we will be able to control the crowd. If we have an all-night program. We are expecting a lots of heavenly thing; obas, men of God, gospel artist and my community mass choir will attending, they are all wonderful sets of people.
All I just want to tell Nigerians is that we should be calm, let us continue praying for Nigeria, next year might be tough, but God loves this country. When I was praying concerning this program, the Holy Spirit gave me lots of revelation concerning what is going to happen next year, so we need prayers. I know God is going to attack whatever negativity that the devil might have planned. We need to continue praying especially for our leaders, they have made a lot of spiritual errors. Look at the Naira, I think it’s about five hundred naira to a Dollar, this was not the promise we had five years ago, but we can do nothing other than to continue praying for them. Even the bible mandated us to pray for our leaders, we just have to rethink and redirect from the norms.
Things are worst, people are suffering, and the country is sitting on the keg of gun powder, the youths are hungry, and when the youths are angry, the country is on fire. Things are not moving fine, a lot of graduate every year, there is no work. We believe it should be better than this. Nigeria can be better than this, we have all it takes. This is not where we are supposed to be, I can say it anywhere.
Nigeria is a blessed country, with a lot of beautiful resources. We have everything here, good land, oil, plants etc. God favoured this country, but we need to pray for good leadership. We must pray for Nigeria, so that there won’t be a negative intervention in government. He who has ears, let him hear, there is revolution at the back door of this country, we must pray for Nigeria and Nigerians. It must not happen! I saw bloody revolution, and government must take proactive measures to protect lives. This is not gimmicks, I am telling you what I saw spiritually, I am the father for faith. If they can read this and hear me, they will testify to it. I saw revolution, and I saw something in government, they are setting themselves, I pray it will not happen, so that government will not rise against itself. 2021, it a very serious year, we have to pray. If we are able to stand as one Nigeria 2021 till June 2022, we will have Nigeria for the rest of our lives. I don’t pray we go back to where we have left a very long time ago. He who has ears let him hear. We are enjoying this democracy, no matter how good a military government can be, you cannot compare it with democracy, so let us pray for Nigeria so that we won’t go back to where we have left a very long time. I will not say more than that for now.
I am wishing everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new in advance , may the lord help us and keep Lagos, Ogun state and Nigeria at large safe.
God bless Aiyetoro, God bless Ogun state and God bless Nigeria.