By Bishop Dave Chikosi
Lord we pray that justice catches up real quickly with political leaders who continue to orchestrate and oversee the physical abuse of ordinary citizens who are going about the business of exercising their Constitutional right to protest against government corruption & mismanagement of our national economy.
We cast the corporate demon of violence out of members of the ZRP. May every policeman with baton stick lifted high against defenseless citizens receive divine retributive justice and may they have a Damascus moment even as they brutalise our old and infirm mothers and fathers for daring to ask what happened to the 2.2 million jobs in a land where government ministers build 50 bedroom mansions. God help us!
Let freedom rain and reign in this potential breadbasket of the continent, which has now been reduced to a basket case, even though we are a country endowed with extensive and rich mineral deposits, which deposits seem to have benefitted no-one except the ruling elites.
We pray that come election time in 2018 no rigging plan or Nikuv cheating device formed against the people will prosper or prevail and that the will of the people be respected by both winners and losers in a free and fair plebiscite.
We are praying that the cheapening & coarsening of political discourse that we have seen over the last several months stop forthwith, in favor of civilized discussion and debate, a devoid of profanity & lewdness. May the tongues of those in high political places who defile our public spaces with filthy invectives cleave to the roof of their mouth. Selah.
We pray for the spirit of Zacchaeus to come upon those thieves in high places who have stolen from the coffers of the State. May those who embezzled the people’s $15b be found out and punished according to the Biblical principle that says, “thieves who get caught must pay back seven times what was stolen and lose everything” (Proverbs 6:31).
We pray that our politicians heed this admonition from the Word of the Lord:
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers (and teachers etc) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you (James 5:4-6).
And lastly we pray that those who are too old, frail and tired to rule and manage affairs of the state be allowed to retire gracefully to their farms to play with their grandchildren, even as the nation allows fresh minds and hearts to steer the ship of the state.
And in tandem with that we pray that every entrepreneur, expert, mover & shaker, pathfinder, trailblazer, income generator, job creator, financial guru & every visionary currently domiciled in the diaspora for political reasons return, if that’s what they so wish, and help make Zimbabwe great again!
In the name of our Lord and Savior we pray. Amen.
