THEME: THE DIVINE VISITATION: RESTORING GHANA’S SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL WALLS 

Praise ye the Lord, O people of Ghana! 

The visitation of the Lord is at hand, says the Lord; “I shall pass through the land, and all shall indeed acknowledge Me as The Triune God.” We write this open letter to inform the Church, the Government, and the people of Ghana that Jehovah, the Lord God of Hosts, is rising with His mighty power to deliver and establish His firm authority, power, and control over Ghana—His beloved chosen country which He has redeemed and named Beulah, The New Jerusalem for His praise and glory on earth. As we have declared already, Jehovah is the God, King, Father, Redeemer, and Builder of beautiful Ghana. He also is the Keeper of the nation. 

The nation is now confronted with cracks at the spiritual, political, social, cultural gates, and walls of the country. At the spiritual front, there are attempts to invoke the power of Satan and the spirits of the dead for the control of the affairs of the land. At the religious front therefore, confusion is setting in as to the True God and ruling Spirit in the nation. At the cultural gate, chieftaincy is in a melting pot. 

Meanwhile, there have been growing misunderstandings and mutual disrespect between the government and chiefs. This does not augur well for the peace and stability of the nation. The people in authority are seeking help from Satan and are trying as it were to dislodge the Hand of the Most High God upon the country. Hence, there is confusion at the political gate. The political parties in the country seem to be confused and divided as to who is the God of Ghana, and therefore, by what spirit, wisdom, law, and power to order and manage the affairs of political parties on one part and the nation on the other.   

Fetishism, divination, “sakawa” and other dark alleys are coming openly into vogue. This is obviously due to both the harsh economic conditions and also bad practices in high circles. While individuals are seeking satanic powers and traditional religio-cultural means to gain position and power, there are groups also trying to mix religion, philosophies, and ideologies of diverse persuasions and spiritual background for the ordering, engineering, and management of the political processes and national affairs.  For example, there are professing Christians who seem to have no problem with the mix of Christianity, Nkrumahism, Socialism, and Traditionalism in national processes, as if light and darkness, God and Satan, can co-exist in peace for the ordering, building, and management of Ghana. 

Again, on the political front, there is now open confusion, open confrontations, and wide cracks in political parties as well as with the Arms of Government, namely, the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary. As would be expected, the Media, the Fourth Republic, is also quite divided. Truth, righteousness, and honesty have no place and honor in the midst of all this. 

But most unfortunate of all, the government of the day does not seem to have a clue—or at least is finding it difficult—in working out government order, meaningful and acceptable path, policy directives and operations in national affairs. There are express concerns in many places. 

This seems to have been compounded by a manifesto that has perhaps not been well-conceived, and in any case could not foresee the division of the nation into two equal halves. The NDC manifesto in that context is lacking spirit. Majority in Parliament alone cannot guarantee public acceptance and success of policies and measures. Lean majority is not a story to tell in major national issues. While bipartisan arrangements can go far, yet not all the way. Public trust is the key. Government policies have had to be formulated and executed in a completely different spiritual, political, cultural, and practical environment. Thus, it does seem that the government’s problems are deeper than the issues of political legitimacy and relevance. The situation calls for humility, deep deliberation, insightful assessment, and more than ordinary competence in management. 

Meanwhile, the government is confronted with lack of cohesion between political party vision and government vision, particularly in the face of the need to build a peaceful, stable, and secure nation. Ghana has emerged as the flagship of good governance, à la the Peer Review Group Mechanism in Africa on one hand, and global assessment and classification on the other. This is a reality that both the government and people of Ghana must bear in mind. 

The NDC political party machine does not seem to understand the realities of governance, and national government at that, particularly as regards the rebuilding and strengthening of broken and weak institutions—compounded by corruption and challenges of effective delivery. On the other hand, government appointees do seem to think and believe that they have all they survey. 

Today, President Atta-Mills is unable to build, unite, and run with the NDC, his own political party. We are not sure that the Vice-President has gone far enough in stature and charisma to stand in his place. One does not want to talk in this connection about the need for building a united, peaceful, righteous, just viable, and secure nation. Progress and prosperity can come only with this.  

Unfortunately, the politics of arrogance, insults, lies, deceit, and falsehood have reached unprecedented heights. All these depict a spirit of dearth in substance, maturity, and competence needed in government for building a viable, just, and progressive nation state. Above all, it depicts a lack of the knowledge of God and the absence of divine spirit, light, and guiding hand in the politics and governance of the country. Yet Ghana remains a nation chosen and beloved of God. The contradictions are clear and patent: except the Lord intervenes; we cannot go far. But there is hope!  

What we know is that God will not abandon nor hand over Ghana to any spirit or power. Ghana cannot and will not prosper under foul spirits, wicked machinations, evil, and wickedness in general. 

We can conclude that the legitimacy and standing of the government are at stake. The nation’s progress hangs in the balance. Considering the confusion, inconsistencies, greed, and hasty rush for position and power, to amass wealth and gain control of the economy by people professing to be Christians, socialists, religious, and legal citizens—only God can save the country from the wicked, foreign interests interference of political processes. Indeed, except the Lord had been with Ghana, we would have already witnessed a wave of coup attempts and the total destabilization in national affairs. We are persuaded that it is this development that has provoked and prompted the COMING DIVINE VISITATION.  

Ghana’s hope is in God not man. It will remain so forever. Amen and Amen!! 

August 23, 2010