THEME: THE COVENANT OF THE HOLY HILL: FRUITS OF REPENTANCE AND THE REJECTION OF EGYPT 

It is here that we want to climb the Holy Hill of God where the Will and Law of God, His Peace, Righteousness, Judgement and Justice, Freedom, Liberty and Joy reign. It is gratifying therefore that President Atta Mills’ call for peace and reconciliation was made on no less a platform as the church—ostensibly in the presence of God, the True, Holy and Righteous One, before whom there is no darkness, nor shadow nor hiding. 

We want to rest in the belief that the Church has sought for and gotten President Mills and his government’s true, meaningful, and effective participation in the confession of sins, repentance, and recourse to peace with God, peace with neighbors, and peace, righteousness, justice, and equity in governance and in the land as a whole.  If that has been done, repentance will yield its fruit: the turning to and exaltation of Peace and Reconciliation, Righteousness, and Justice in acts of government by the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary, and the public services—including the military, the police, and security agencies. This must extend to the MCE’s, DCE’s and the NDC political party machinery behind Prof. Atta Mills government. 

Similarly, we trust that the church authorities succeeded in engaging the political parties in the national prayer and fast, so they too will repent and abandon the standing political rivalry, strife, untoward, and the violent pursuit of political power. Furthermore, Ghana must avoid the secret blood sacrifices for power, position, and wealth. 

TRUE AND LASTING PEACE BEGIN WITH GOD 

The most important and cardinal issue in the pursuit and establishment of peace, righteousness, and justice in the land is in reconciliation with God and the true worship of Him the Creator in spirit and truth through  Jesus Christ—the Spirit of Truth, the Life and the Way of God, Love, Life, Light and Liberty, the Righteousness of God and Prince of Peace on one part and obedience and observance of the will and word of God on another. Christ Jesus is the Lord (of) our Righteousness. It is for peace on earth and goodwill towards men that Jesus Christ offered His blood and life on the Cross. He called for the remission of sins before commissioning the Church with the Word and Ministry of Reconciliation for peace and goodwill, righteousness, justice, liberty, and joy to rein and flourish in the affairs of men and nations. The Great Commission, therefore, embraces Church Building, Kingdom Building, and Nation Building. 

We trust, therefore, that the church elders will seek to liaise with and assist President Mills and his government with the heavenly cause of Peace, Righteousness, and Goodwill in the affairs of the nation and in Ghana’s relationship with other nations. 

Second, we seize this opportunity to humbly offer counsel to the President that any secret worship of gods—whether fallen angels, demons, or elemental spirits of the sea, land, air; any heavenlies, and blood sacrifices or the return to the spirits of the dead and powers of darkness for power for governance such as with the dragon of the sea,  the leviathan, and dwarfs of the land, the ghosts of the dead including Kwame Nkrumah or the attempt to return the country to the Kwame Nkrumah spirit-power of old, his atheistic and humanistic philosophies, ideology, and social engineering or any human ideology for that matter will not only imply the return, restoration, and re-imposition of the systems already rejected by God, the nation and people of Ghana. It will simply not augur well for the country. The days of Satan, idolatry, the gods, and ancestral spirits are over. 

President Atta Mills government’s responsibility for the peace and righteousness, stability, security, progress, and prosperity of the nation is non-equivocal. He has an answer to give to God, the nation, and people, present and future generations to come. Finally, the Lord would have us tell the church, government, nation, and people of Ghana that chosen and redeemed Ghana cannot return to Egypt. The days of Satan, powers, and wicked man, and idol worship are over. 

We trust, in this direction, that the Church has been true and faithful to God and Christ, as peacemakers,  the people and servants of the Most High God, and ministers of reconciliation after the Spirit and Heart, Word, Will and Works of Jesus Christ—the Prince of Peace, and the Lord our Righteousness, King of kings, and Lord of lords. 

Let us encourage people, churches, and government for peace, progress, and joy in the land. Let us not assist President Mills to rob, frustrate, and destroy the peace, righteousness, liberty, freedom, and justice now arising and flourishing in the nation. 

O people of Ghana, the Lord our God is ONE GOD.  We must Not Go Back to the gods of old.  

Let there be peace in the land. We must seek and establish the heavenly peace in the knowledge and fear and in the truth and hand of God. 

Peace be unto all. Amen and Amen! 

March 24, 2010