Thursday, 20th October, 2022
Bible Reading: Psalm 1: 1-6
Memory Verse: Don’t fool yourselves. Bad friends will destroy you. 1 Corinthians 15:33 (CEV)
Maazi Ogbonnaya Okoro once wrote: Our boys whom we sent to the Universities to study are now living in hotels doing Yahoo, defrauding people. They are not studying. They are sorting. Bribing lecturers for pass. They only come into the campus with convoy once in a while to show off. Guess what? Some lecturers are even worshipping them. Our teenage sons are now driving Benz in the university.
They are now the latest boys in campus. The houses our sons are living in the university are now flats and duplexes as against the self-contained rooms we used to know. Well furnished and more beautiful compared to room of some state governors. Our sons are all married in the university but single at home. Girls crawl around them, living with them, cooking for them, doing all sort of things with them. These girls are our daughters whom we sent to the university to study. They are in every club and hotels, they are in every front cars, fastening seatbelt, snapping and moving their lips.
A recent research in Nigerian universities opened my eyes to the recent ugly reality. I wept for the future. These are teenagers not even adults. Guess what? We still see them as children who know nothing. I don’t want to mention names of hotels in Ikoyi, Ikeja, Victoria Island, Surulere, etc, you will see your sons and daughters. They have been living there for months. Nobody is going to school. “Who does school help?”, they say. Don’t you get it? Those teenagers— boys and girls are abusing drugs. Not just marijuana but cocaine and tramadols.
I have boarded a vehicle with a young girl in a certain University who had some crack (cocaine) in her purse. Because she was so beautiful, the police that stopped to search didn’t search her, but searched us all. On the way, she brought it out, gently sniffed some into her nose and threw the little remaining substance through the window. I remained deaf and dumb until I got to my destination and paused, she paused; both of us paused. Who will save this generation who painfully are our tomorrow?
Caution: No matter how pious or sanctimonious your children may portray themselves, please do your underground check. There are children of priests who were found to be capons (leaders) of two rival cult groups in the same campus.
Quote: Tertiary institution is what you make out of it. Good or bad – it is all about you.
Prophetic Decree: The preying eyes of the wicked shall not see your children, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Every investment of hell in the lives of my children, catch fire, in Jesus name.
2. My children (mention their names one after another), you shall be mighty weapons in the hands of the Lord, in Jesus name.
3. O Lord my Father, deliver my children from strange friends and evil company, in Jesus name.
4. Let the power of focus fall upon my children, in Jesus name.
5. Devourers shall not take my children as meat, in Jesus name.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Matthew 16; Mark 8; Luke 9:18-27