COVID-19 and the Spiritual Ignorance of Many Orthodox and Pentecostal Churches

 

Majority of the orthodox and Pentecostal churches have failed to learn the lessons of Almighty God from the #COVID19 pandemic, because of their spiritual ignorance. To them is back to business as usual.

As my beloved mother, Mrs. Gladys Unuamaighiuwa Eke of blessed memory said:
"The Holy Spirit of God does not live in the house built with hands and bricks, but in the hearts of true believers. "

Many churches disobeying and ignoring the precautions for the control and prevention of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are not closer to Almighty God or holier than the churches with strict orders to prevent mass gatherings and barring anyone who is not wearing a facemask during and after the periods of the lockdown.

The body of Christ can gather in one accord from their different homes wherever they are in the world. All the mass gatherings of congregants for church programmes have not made churchgoers better Christians . 

The awesome body of Christ is higher and larger than any church auditorium or building in the world.
We must stop all the eye service and lip service to Almighty God, for we are only fooling ourselves in conceit and deceit, because we cannot fool HIM.

"God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
- John 4:24, Holy Bible.

When the Minaret Became Silent

When the Minaret Became Silent

I have not heard the adhan  أَذَان‎ call to prayer by the muezzin from the minaret at the mosque on my street since the #lockdown was declared by the federal government for the control and prevention of further spread of the #Coronavirus in Nigeria. Religious congregations have been banned and all gatherings of people in crowds must not be more than twenty and they must put on facemasks.
How can someone shout "HALLELUJAH" or "Allāhu akbar" when wearing a facemask?
Will Almighty God accept muzzled praises of "HALLELUJAH!", "Al-Ḥamdu lillāh!" or "Allāhu ʾakbar!"?

The voices of the muezzin and I were the first voices neighbours heard at dawn around 5.30am.
The sound of my "HALLELUJAH!" in my bedroom to begin my early morning prayers, praises and worship of our Almighty God JEHOVAH sometimes came first before the sound of the muezzin's Takbir, ʾAllāhu ʾakbar!
Many times, my closest neighbours complained about the loud sound of my baritone voice in praising Almighty God. But I always chose to make a joyful noise unto the Lord, because it a written
command to us to make a joyful noise unto the Lord (Psalm 66:1; 95:1–2; 100:1; 1 Chronicles 15:16) and in Psalm 149:5 -6:
"5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;" There is power in prayer.
Every faithful believer has that power written in Psalm 149:7-9.

HALLELUJAH!

I have always lived with mosques on my street since childhood; from Obalende on the Lagos Island to Shomolu, Mushin, Gbagada, Ikotun Egbe and Jibowu on the Lagos mainland. The voice of the muezzin from the minaret of the mosque in Jibowu was the loudest ever and he often woke up the entire neighbourhood from Lawani Street to Tani Olodo Street leading to the popular Jibowu Bus Stop, the motor park of several transport vehicles for interstate travels.
This is from my notes two weeks ago.

I am now missing the voice of the muezzin since I relocated from Jibowu to a nearby middle class neighbourhood in Yaba, where there is the St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church and without any mosque nearby.

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