First of all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men. For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way. For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Saviour (1 Timothy 2:1-4).
The scripture above simply counsels us to pray for Godly leaders to continue to lead in the reverential fear of the Lord. Godly leaders are the leadership ordained and accepted by God, for such it is good and right to pray for. Intercession and prayers, however, can be offered to God to destroy every power or leadership, whether spiritual or physical, which is disturbing your right to life and worship of the Lord peacefully.
Some religions believe that God ordains every leader no matter the process through which such a leader emerges. This is the belief upon which leaders who even emerge through the barrel of gun or who hold on to power through shedding of blood are given tacit approval. The point is, not EVERY leader is ordained and accepted by God. Sovereign Lord can even ordain a leader today and reject him/her tomorrow.
Saul, the first king of Israel, was an example of a king ordained by God and later rejected by God. For every God ordained leader to continue to receive the approval of God, s/he must fear God and accord respect to life and the right to live to every human being. When a leader resorts to killing, eliminating or silencing opponents you do not need a prophet to tell you that s/he is not ordained by God or that s/he has lost God’s approval rating.
In a secular world some words used to describe such leaders are dictator, autocrat, despot, tyrant, etc. Some come to power through populism and sloganeering. Through electioneering they claim they will stamp out all manner of evil from their society. How do leaders like Hitler rise to power? It is because Godly people keep quiet when they spew their murderous plans because they believe speaking up is unchristian or they do not take them seriously. As they keep quiet their rhetoric become acceptable and eventually they are given a licence by the silence from Christians to act on it –without opposition. When it is clear that such talk is violating the principles of God, why do you keep quiet, child of GOD?
Are you a pastor, an elder, church leader or a prayer warrior, a follower of Christ? Hear this, you will be among those who will be held responsible by God for every bloodshed in your nation or domain. The blood of every soul can speak and give account to what happened to it. Are you keeping quiet when the blood of the innocents is being spilled by the so called leaders? Are you keeping quiet because your group, race, tribe or household is not affected?
Moses was a man of God like you. However one of the things that made Moses famous and great was when he confronted a wicked and evil leader, pharaoh king of Egypt. It was not money or wealth. He received his instructions from God and followed them to the end. God instructed him to tell pharaoh to let His people go or face the consequences. There are consequences to every action.
As daunting as the task was, he obeyed. He went straight to pharaoh and told him to let the chosen people of God go. He did not pray for pharaoh to repent and change his heart of evil and wickedness because he understood that deliverance is not the same as a change of heart. Even during this process pharaoh had often changed his heart several times renegading on his own vows. Showing that negotiation with evil rulers does not change their hearts but strengthens their hands. Negotiation with an evil ruler becomes a time for him/her to get a reprieve and plot for more evil. It is only when you pronounce God’s verdicts that they succumb just like Moses brought judgment upon pharaoh and his subjects, the Egyptians, who never spoke out against his evils but instead benefitted from it.
What was pharaoh’s sin? Pharaoh was using the blood of the Children of Israel to make sacrifices to the gods and goddesses of Egypt. There were principal demons attached to the gods and goddesses of Egypt. They needed their blood for their libations and rituals to be accepted. Satan was using him to collect blood. Satan demanded the blood for pharaoh to continue to be his personification and incarnate on Earth. Pharaoh had to kill and maim precious destinies to consolidate his powers and authority as the sole superpower on Earth. This blood shedding, spilling and sacrifices to satan was what brought judgment and the anger of God upon pharaoh and Egypt.
Be a watchman over your nation like Moses. He came and demanded that pharaoh release his people from bondage (demanded independence, freedom, liberty, autonomy) and when pharaoh refused he brought the verdict and plagues upon Egypt. (How I wish pastors and men/women of God would understand and learn from this and stop fraternising with evil authority and powers-that-be). If you cannot confront pharaoh of your nation to let your people go, command him to vacate his office by fire by force.
If you cannot summon courage like Moses and go to the palace of your pharaoh to ask him to release you and your people, stay in your closet or in the open field and ask God to kick him out of office. Prayers know no boundary. It is the weapon of your warfare which is mighty through God to pull down all satanic strongholds. The power to bring down satan and his agents to their knees through Almighty God is vested in you. You can shake your country and bring the will of God to come to pass. You can invariably shake the kingdom of darkness by your prayers. God can use you to depopulate hell. God has thrown down the gauntlet, and as well as His mantle to you!
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