Nigeria’ll surmount challenges –Jonathan

President Good­luck Jonathan has said bumps and obstacles on Nige­ria’s road to her promise land is not meant to defeat her but to prepare her for the promise land.

He said this when he led his family members to a thanks­giving service at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Gwarinpa on the suc­cessful wedding ceremony of his foster daughter, Ine.
Jonathan, who said they came to thank God for the suc­cess of the wedding and pray for safe trip of their numerous guests who honoured them with their presence, said just like the Israelites made it to the promise land from Egypt de­spite challenges, Nigeria’s own won’t be different.
He said: “I am not here to make a political statement but only to thank you my brothers and sisters and to continue to pray for our great country.
“This is a period in which the whole world is being chal­lenged, just like some of the passages we read. Whenever I think about all these happen­ings in Nigeria, I remember the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land. When God promised they were going to be given a land full of milk and honey, ordinarily one would have ex­pected them to walk in and get the milk and honey. But they had to cross the Red Sea; that was a challenge. They had to meet people like Annas and others; that was a big challenge but because God wanted them to be there, they were able to get there. Surely, we will get to where we want to go as a nation. We may have the road bumps, we may have the ob­stacles, but we will crush them and pass them. All what we request is your continued sup­port and your prayers, and we promise we will continue to do our best.”
The church’s Sub Dean, Ven. Emmanuel Adekola, in his sermon entitled: “Times of stress and the second com­ing of Christ,” taken from II Timothy 3:1-5, said at this time when men had turned away from that which was good, the word of God remained the standard for the judgment of all standards. He recalled that de­viation from the scriptures and corruption of the word of God as currently being witnessed had been in existence before now.