Founder and General Overseer of the God’s Anointed and Blessed Church International, Akure, Pastor Toye Ebijomore, in this interview with GABCI media, speaks on how God led him into 120 days vigil for Nigeria’s healing. He unveiled Nigeria’s spiritual state of affairs, assuring Nigerians of a healed and better Nigeria henceforth.
We are glad to meet with you and will like to hear you again on the spiritual state of our nation, Nigeria.
I am equally glad of your meeting with me at this crucial time that I have just ended the one hundred and twenty days intercessory vigil for God to heal Nigeria and prosper you and I. My name still remains Pastor Toye Ebijomore, the founder and General Overseer of God’s Anointed and Blessed Church International. The spiritual state of everyone and our nation, Nigeria, is among the secrets things of the Lord our God: but those which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of his law.
Sir, why are you so much committed to praying for Nigeria, and not limit your prayers to the church in your care and your loved ones only?
We are enjoined by the Holy Bible to pray for our nation’s peace, leaders, and well-being of everyone in accordance to 1 Timothy 2:1-2, saying, ‘I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; ‘For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.’ This is a general exhortation to every Christian, and the Psalmist also unveils to us that praying for the peace of our Jerusalem will make those who love doing so to prosper.
Moreso, God wants his servants to do this thoroughly and be more committed than everyone else. While I am strongly committed to the full works of the Spirit for the church of God in my care and my loved ones in all places, God ordained me as His prophet unto nations: to save my country and souls worldwide. Hence, I will not stop praying for my country, Nigeria until all nations see her righteousness and world leaders be blinded by her glory.
You just observed one hundred and twenty days vigil for God to heal Nigeria and prosper Nigerians. Is there any spiritual significance of the number that formed your decision to observe it, or why did you decide to subject yourself to such number of vigil? By the way, is Nigeria sick and are Nigerians poor?
Sincerely, Nigeria is a blessed nation but her land is defiled by the engagements of people in immorality, idolatry, bloodshed of the innocent people, and evil covenants. The Lord declares in his word, saying, ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it’ (Num. 35:33). In another passage also, He declares “woe to whosoever that built a town with blood, and established a city by iniquity”. These should prick our hearts and open our understanding to why God wants to heal Nigeria and prosper us.
As to whether Nigerians are poor or not, prosperity is not an accumulation of wealth as some people always think, but it is to be in good health and living well. If the ground is cursed for the sake of anyone as God did to Adam, the consequences for such person is to be eating in sorrow and suffering for the rest of his life and not be in good health, unless the curse is removed. There is always a cause for a curse to come forth and a cause for a blessing to come forth, but the same clause that leads to the pronouncement of either a curse or a blessing is ‘because you have done this.’ Now that God is set to heal Nigeria and prosper us, He want us to humbly seek Him and turn to Him from our wicked ways.
As it is written that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, let me clearly state that it was not my decision to observe the one hundred and twenty days vigil and neither have I ever intended towards it in the past, nor do I ever know that it will count to such a number when I started it. If it was my decision to observe a four month-long vigil, flesh and blood will have stopped me from accomplishing it, but the Lord commanded me to do it and this was how He led me through it.
On the night of the last weekend of the month of May while I was praying in preparation for the Sunday service, the Lord took me in a vision of the night to stand upon the balcony of my house. In the vision, I saw beautiful houses in the array of a modern estate with good lighting everywhere, but a black and big serpent of about two meters long or somehow was going round in the night from the front of one house to the other and laying eggs thereon at the houses of people.
The Lord told me to rise up quickly and begin crushing the eggs because if they are hatched, there will be great confusion and troubles for everyone. So, I began crushing the eggs from house to house and when the serpent saw me approaching, it moved speedily away in a flying manner and disappeared into a thick bush. Then, the Lord told me to call the church together for three days special prayer vigil to destroy the plans of the devil against us and our loved ones. We held the vigil from the twenty-ninth day of May till the dawn of the first day of June. All the glory to God that He magnified His word, manifested His power and made the participants have great testimonies.
Then, again towards the midnight of the second day of June, the Lord told me to wake up now and call my wife to start a special intercessory vigil with me right-away for healing of Nigeria and prosperity of the people. I woke her up to hear the instruction and she asked for the number of days it would be, but I told her that the Lord didn’t mention it to me. So, we began the vigil immediately, thinking that we will be relieved by the Spirit in three, or seven, or twenty-one days time, but we gradually and smoothly got to the thirtieth night. As I was leading thanksgiving prayer to put a stop to the vigil, the Lord said, He has not told me to stop and we should continue.
So, we continued to the end of July and the month of August also passed by until the third day of September when Lord said I should end the vigil on the thirtieth of it and call the public to join on the last six days. When I counted the whole days of the vigil, I found it to be one hundred and twenty days. The vigil was themed as ‘Let God Heal Nigeria and Prosper Me’, with wide publicity and God brought the participants. Then, the theme was hatch-tagged and posted on social media platforms from the first day of October to the seventh day for Nigerians to confess as a prayer and say Amen to it also.
Meanwhile, immediately the Lord announced when I should end the vigil and I counted it to be one hundred and twenty days, I understood that the Lord was communicating a special message to me through the number and I thereby began scriptural search to investigate the significance of number one hundred and twenty in the mystery of God’s kingdom.I found that it was a period of divine probation, mercy and grace. The people of the first world engaged in terrible immorality, broke God’s covenant, did great violence, and multiplied wickedness. God was wrath with them but He gave them one hundred and twenty years of probation as an act of immense mercy to allow time for repentance and salvation from destruction. Upon their failure to repent, He pronounced one hundred and twenty years as the maximum number of days for humans on the earth and wiped away the first world with the great flood. But Noah found grace in the his sight and was saved with his entire household.
The spiritual implications of number one hundred and twenty also signifies a period for great change by a great judgment or the end of an era. God said the days of man shall be an hundred and twenty years (Genesis 6:3). “Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated” (Deut 34:7). The one hundred and twenty years of his life were in three stages: forty years in Pharaoh’s palace, forty years in Jethro’s house, and forty years of leading the people of God. His experience on mount Sinai was for a total period of one hundred and twenty days in three sets of forty days. It then suffices to add that a period of one hundred and twenty likewise represents a period of testing, cleansing, creation of covenant between God and man, completion, number of divine purpose, and number for divinely appointed time and fulfilment. In these connections, we should all be very hopeful that God has begun to heal Nigeria and to prosper us.
You sometimes said that the Lord sent you to tell President Bola Tinubu to convoke a national prayer for Nigeria. Has he done it, or was that why God sent you to observe the one hundred and twenty days vigil as a substitute?
God publicly proclaims bold promises and doesn’t whisper obscurities in some dark corner. So, He speaks only what is true and declares only what is right. The Lord specifically demanded that President Bola Tinubu should convoke a national prayer of redemption of Nigeria’s glory and He gave the instructions on how it be done. As for whether the President has honoured the message or not, God knew the end of it all ever before He sent me. I am not unaware of many factors around the kings. The laws of Medes and Persia can prevent a king from doing certain thing, but God reverses the irreversible. The astrologers and magicians do manipulates kings not to believe in any interpreter of dream elsewhere, but we are aware how God brought true interpreters of the kings’ dreams to them. If not for a godly king, prophet Micaiah would have not been permitted to tell King Ahab the true vision of the Lord. Even at that, the prophets around the king got angry and one of them ‘smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto you?’ (1King 22:24).
Whenever the people of a nation annoy God by their doing and God wants to save them from the consequence destruction, He will send message to them and bear long for them to return to Him. “He will seek for a man among His people who will make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Him for the land, that He should not destroy it: but until if He found none, will He then declare destruction upon such a nation”. The Lord’s demands from President Bola Tinubu is for him to convoke a national prayer of redemption of Nigeria’s glory. Whereas, the Lord led me through the one hundred and twenty days vigil for a persistent intercessory to let him (God) heal Nigeria and prosper us. There is clarity in the two directives. God will never send his prophet to blow a trumpet with an uncertain sound to His soldiers that must go to the battle. Therefore, the four-months long vigil by me was not a substitute to the God’s demands from President Bola Tinubu to convene a national prayer for redemption of Nigeria’s glory. However, it may be among God’s plan towards the national prayer.
What’s your advice to government and Nigerians?
I will advise the people in authority to have the fear of God and uphold righteousness in their various positions. They should show their love to Nigeria by replicating the developments in the developed countries here on our land and make good policies for the prosperity of the people. Nigerian government should be sincere with the glaring fact that the incomes of common Nigerians are not enough for their well-being and the need to subsidize food, health and education for their prosperity is urgently very crucial.
If the Federal Government embraces the policy to subsidize food, health and education for the prosperity of the people, it will gladden the heart of Nigerians to be pronouncing daily blessing on Nigeria and stop them from cursing her or speaking negatively about her. The scripture unarguably says, “when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bears rule, the people mourn” (Proverbs 29:2). Therefore, the people in authority should let the masses rejoice and we should all let God heal Nigeria and prosper us. I see a healed and better Nigeria henceforth!
