In 2023, as Nigeria prepared to elect a new president, a lot of individuals came forward with prophesies and predictions that were bold in words and drama but not from the Lord by any means.

Any word from God concerning a nation is never spoken a day or a month before the event. A nation is like a train; its effectiveness depends heavily on the track you have laid before it departs its location.

It cannot improvise in case of a flood or in case anything happens to its tracks. It has been set on a course it must follow.

Therefore, the course a nation would follow is always set many months in advance of its journey.

For the USA, the prophecy that announced that Donald Trump would reign for two times with a gap of four years between was given by Prophet Kim Clement in 2007, ten years before he became the president of the United States for the first time.

Prophecies according to permutations and pulse reading are nothing but guesswork.

Everybody started shouting a particular name overnight, like COVID, and prophets started shivering and convulsing, so that the voice of those people must be the voice of God.

Some said, “If the election were free and fair,” their candidate would win the election.

Imagine that!

Imagine a prophecy so powerless that it has to depend on people voting a certain way for the Word of God to come to pass…

When God speaks concerning a nation, he does not take into consideration the participatory ability or reasoning power of the people.

God does not go to people in a dream or vision to campaign or convince them that they must vote for a certain person.

God decides, and people just end up playing their pre-allotted roles that will lead to the fulfilment of the word of God.

Students of prophecy should note this: the sight has shifted to the person who will lead Nigeria after 2031.

If you hear anybody prophesying or beating the drums of attention regarding the current season we are in, let the person know that, just as good movies are shot years before people gather in cinemas to watch them, so is the destiny of nations predetermined in the place of prophecy long before the campaigns and electioneering season opens.

King Saul was anointed in Zuph, far away from his family members, the crowd, and his servants.

King David was anointed in Judah, in his father’s house, thirteen years before he ascended the throne.

The destiny of nations is prewritten, and the leaders who are chosen to lead nations are pre-chosen and trained for this purpose deliberately.

Seers and prophets must stand at their watch and see as God sees at this time, or they should stop parading themselves as mouthpieces of divinity.

I remember one man who was so bold as to declare the current president of Nigeria would “die” before he gets sworn in, if he should be elected to lead the nation.

The same man later hid behind, we prayed for “mercy” for him, and God heard us.

Such prophecies will soon start flying all over the place from many who claim to speak for God but only seek momentary attention and relevance.

Of course, they will get it from those who desire whatever such a prophet is selling as the truth and those who wouldn’t dare speak for themselves but believe that amplifying the voice of the prophet is as good as amplifying their own desires.

Believers who are well-schooled in the chronemics and proxemics of prophecy will recall that the birth of Jesus was foretold and was the birth of John the Baptist several years before the events came to pass.

It is not every individual’s birth that was foretold that way

If a man or woman were to have any significant role to play according to the plan of God, he or she might find himself or herself in the book of “what would come” long before he or she was born.

Another person, like David, could just be chosen by God as someone who fitted into God’s plan in the right season, and even then, it is not immediate.

Awareness always comes before preparation, and preparation comes before fulfilment.

Watchers should look to the East.

Set your watch on the shoulders of administration and effectiveness. Outsiders will not find themselves in any form of contention outside of noise.

Set your sights within.

See from the inside

Ignore the noise from the outside

You are looking for a student of governance who is governing. He or she is skilled in consolidation, adaptation and commitment to improvement on set goals.

Set your sights in the right direction, and you will see.

PS: I write as a teacher.

I aim to help those who desire to see so that they can become effective in the place of prophecy, especially prophets to the nations.

Many are full of the Holy Spirit, and they desire to prophesy accurately, but they always aim the scope of their lenses at the wrong time while seeking the right prophecy

Timing (chronemics) is key in understanding and unravelling the prophetic

Distance (proxemics) is also important.

If you want to see as a prophet, you must set your sight with the two in mind and not be moved by the immediate.

Thank you

-GSW-