THEME: THE RESTORATION OF HOPE AND THE END OF ACRIMONY 

Peace be unto the Church, the Government, the Chiefs, the Elders, the Political Parties, and the People of Ghana. 

The Spirit of God is upon us to shout, ‘PRAISE THE LORD, HALLELUJAH,’ to the Most High God, who has become the Salvation, Redemption, and Hope of Glory for Ghana. The Spirit of God would want us to refer to Isaiah chapter Twelve to describe the state and song of Ghana: 

“And in that day, thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; He also is become my salvation. Therefore, with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.” (Isaiah 12:1-3) 

It is gratifying to note that the passing away of President John Evans Atta-Mills has turned the nation back to God, to peace, and to hope in the reconciliation, deliverance, redemption, and restoration of glory to Ghana as a Chosen Nation and Star of Africa. 

The government and political parties are now joining the Church in celebrating the Peace of God, that has distinguished Ghana as a nation and people of peace, trust, and hope in God.  In this regard, there is no gainsaying that the Prof. Atta Mills regime, while in office, elevated violence and civil strife—along with the politics of lies, flattery, insults, and acrimony—to unprecedented heights. 

The former military regimes used the gun, along with military and police brutality to coerce citizens into fear, submission, silence, and gingerly conduct. That was regimented militarized bayonet governance. For example, the militarized PNDC government was more ferocious and terrorist-oriented than the Nkrumah-CPP dictatorial, atheistic-socialist politics and oppression.  God had gone out not only to deliver the country from satanic oppression—the reign of blood, witchcraft, and sorcery—but also from the politics, governance, and reign of governmental terrorism.  Freedom, liberty, justice, law, and order have been elevated, raising the democratic credentials of the country. Peace, Freedom, Liberty, and public discourse and people’s participation in governance gained heights making the peace established by God a gradual social reality.   

But for chieftaincy disputes and occasional ethnic brush of sabers, Ghana had enjoyed peace, tranquility, stability, hope, progress, and prosperity as government, business, private enterprise, and entrepreneurships boosted with SMEs in the midst of foreign exchange stability, growing and expanding agriculture, banking overtures, and booming confidence in the economy. The oil find sealed this hope for Ghana. 

The peaceful era of freedom and liberty, open discourse, and people’s participation in governance—along with the booming business confidence growth in the economy—suffered a blow at the hands of the national security apparatus and stampedes by the celebrated ‘NDC foot soldiers’ against public services and public order soon after the assumption of office of the Mills’ administration. 

Meanwhile, ongoing public projects were halted and public expenditure was cut, under the claim of ‘shoring up’ national debt and bring ‘sanity’ into the public sector and the economy as a whole.  

The resultant falling and failing incomes caused a flurry of wage agitation and strife. The truth here is that the nation was being led back into a spirit of ‘Lack and Limitation,’ effectively stifling the Divine prosperity that had been released during the years of restoration. This economic contraction was not a fiscal necessity, but a spiritual consequence of a regime that prioritized political control and acrimony over the God-given growth of the people.