There comes a time in the life of a man when he
must be a man and stand up and speak the
truth, even when others are too timid and
intimidated to do so.
By the grace of God I have today reached that
point and I will bare my mind to the sickly tyrant.
And after I have had my say I shall gallantly take
my stand and with faith proclaim: let the demons
of hell be invoked and conjured up and let them
come forth and do their very worse, for they shall
not pass and neither shall they prevail.
And so it shall be as I stand on these holy words
and boldly proclaim, o wicked tyrant, I stand and
I fight against you. I stand and I fight in the
name of the Living God. I stand and I fight in the
name of Harrow and Cambridge. I stand and I
fight in the name of Kelly and London. I stand
and I fight as the son of my father. I stand and I
fight as a proud and strong African. I stand and I
fight as a resilient and irresistible Nigerian. I
stand and I fight as a man of courage. I stand
and I fight as a beautiful and irrepressible black
man.
I stand and I fight as a man of faith, a Christian
who knows that his God is mighty and can never
be defeated. We are what we believe ourselves
to be. I am unbeatable, irrepressible and
indestructible. I am a covenant child of the
Living God, a prince of the Faith and a son of the
Kingdom. My head may be bloodied but it is not
bowed. I do not know the meaning of fear and I
have learnt to master the affliction of pain. I do
not flinch.
I stand and I fight with my whole being: with my
body, with my spirit and with my soul. I stand
and I fight to win and not to lose. I stand and I
fight, tall and proud and by the power of the God
that I serve, I shall always prevail. I stand and I
fight because children of Israel are never alone. I
stand and I fight because all tyrants must be
resisted. I stand and I fight because God’s word
says “He shall cut off the spirit of princes” and
“He is terrible to the kings of the earth”.
And so to the tyrant, I have just this to say: you
can detain me, you can malign me, you can
arrest me and you can misrepresent me. You can
persecute me, you can subjugate me, you can lie
about me and you can scatter my household and
my loved ones. You can vilify me, you can
torment me, you can jeer at me and you can
mock me. You can sack my associates, you can
query my loyalists and you can cause my friends
to flee the land.
You can humiliate those who stand for me, you
can pour scorn on those who love me, you can
threaten those who speak for me and you can
bribe those who work for me. You can plan, you
can scheme, you can assign and you can direct
and delegate destruction at my doorsteps and at
my gates. You can intimidate and torment and
you can use your kingly power to abuse and to
destroy. You can do all these things yet
ultimately you will fail because, like all beastly
tyrants, you have forgotten the power of God in
all your subterranean wickedness and in all your
sinister schemes.
Let him plot and plan both night and day. Let
him invoke strange spirits, consult the stars,
torture, detain, defame, destroy, charge, frame,
kill and maim. Let him “cry havoc” and let slip
the horrific dogs of war. Let him break and let
him crush the very spirit of the people. Let him
enslave the whole of our nation and cower us all
into silence and submission. Let him unleash his
kinsmen and cattle-rearers on the southern part
of our country. Let him engender the philosophy
of Boko Haram. Let him turn us into cowards
and quislings, let him plunge us into darkness
and let him bewitch our feeble souls.
Holding on to power at all costs? That is nothing
new, Saul tried it and failed. Agag tried it and
failed. Herod tried it and failed. Pharaoh tried it
and failed and so did Nero and Caligula and
Jezebel and countless others.
For the God that stopped them is still alive and
continues to rule in the affairs of men and He
alone forges the destiny of nations. And in all
this know one thing: that you cannot break me,
you cannot kill me, you cannot defeat me and
you cannot destroy me. This is because I am
anointed for greatness and I am truly blessed by
He who sits above the circles of the earth and
by He who created all that is. The lines have
fallen for me in pleasant places and yea I have a
goodly heritage. My future has been established
and decreed by the oracles of God. It has been
inscribed in the stars and it has been written in
the books of heaven. It cannot be altered or
aborted by you or your invocations and spells
and your wicked ways.
And yet perhaps you should know another: that
your end has already been decreed by the God
of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob and it is only a matter of time before it
suddenly comes. For my soul stands defiant
against you. I defy you with all my being. My
contempt for you is resounding, for you are
nothing but sickness and weakness and failure
and deceit and emptiness. You are nothing but
the darkness that seeks the darkness, both you
and the Amalekite foundation from which you
come.
My God has spoken and on His word I stand. My
spirit is lifted and it is filled with joy and
strength. I stand and I fight because my victory
is assured. I stand and I fight because I despise
the shame. I stand and I fight because there is a
greater tomorrow. I stand and I fight because I
will never bow before this beastly and deceitful
tyrant. I stand and I fight because I am who I
am. I stand and I fight because my God is “a
man of war”.
I stand and I fight because the Lord has steeled
my body, my spirit and my soul. I stand and I
fight because the fewer the number, the greater
the share of honour. I stand and I fight because
King David stood and fought, and Gideon and
Joshua and Jehu that went before him. So let
the sickly tyrant rant and rave. Let him do his
very worse. Let him, like Nero, play his fiddle
whilst Rome burns and let him make merry in his
wickedness and inglorious ways.
Let him plot and plan both night and day. Let
him invoke strange spirits, consult the stars,
torture, detain, defame, destroy, charge, frame,
kill and maim. Let him “cry havoc” and let slip
the horrific dogs of war. Let him break and let
him crush the very spirit of the people. Let him
enslave the whole of our nation and cower us all
into silence and submission. Let him unleash his
kinsmen and cattle-rearers on the southern part
of our country. Let him engender the philosophy
of Boko Haram. Let him turn us into cowards
and quislings, let him plunge us into darkness
and let him bewitch our feeble souls.
Yet in all his treacheries and schemings let him
know one thing, that we are not shaken and
neither are we moved. For even if he were to
carve up our flesh and send our dismembered
limbs to the four corners of the kingdom, our
God is able to put us back together again and
give us life, even more abundant. And even if he
can kill our weak and worldly bodies, he cannot
break our spirits and neither can he take our
souls. For if our God can move mountains who
and what is he?
We stand and we fight because the Lord is our
defence and the Holy One of Israel is our king
and our God. We stand and we fight because His
word boldly asks, “who is this uncircumcised
Philistine that has chosen to defy the armies of
the Living God?” We stand and we fight because
He goes on to affirm that “I have found David my
servant and with my holy oil have I anointed
him”. We stand and we fight because His holy
word proclaims “who art thou o mountain before
Zerrubabel? Thou shalt be made a plain”.
If our God be for us, what can he possibly do?
Our God’s word says “who is he that sayest a
thing and it cometh to pass when the Lord God
of Hosts has commanded it not?” It says “who is
he that lays a charge before God’s elect, is it not
Christ that justifies?” It says “whose report will
you believe and to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?” It says “who can separate us
from the love of the Lord?” and that “nay, in all
these things we are more than conquerors
through Him that loved us”.
We stand and we fight because we are indeed
“more than conquerors”. We stand and we fight
because tin pot tyrants come and go: they are a
dime a dozen, soon to be forgotten. We stand
and we fight because heroes and martyrs, even
if they fall in their course, will always live
forever. We stand and we fight because we
serve a mighty God who never fails and who will
never leave us or forsake us. We stand and we
fight knowing that the victory is ours. We stand
and we fight for our honour, for our nation, for
our women and for our children. We stand and
we fight with courage, strength, defiance and joy
knowing that though weeping may tarry in the
night, “joy comes in the morning”.
We stand and we fight because His word says
“once has it been spoken and twice have we
heard that all power belongs to God and the
heavens do rule in the affairs of men”. We stand
and we fight because we have no other choice,
for good will always triumph over evil and light
will always overcome the darkness in the end.
We stand and we fight because we fear not
death, we fear not the tyrant and we fear not his
gods and idols. We stand and we fight because
our God will always love us and through Him and
by Him our salvation is secure. We stand and we
fight because we have been prepared for war.
We stand and we fight because the Lord is our
defence and the Holy One of Israel is our king
and our God. We stand and we fight because His
word boldly asks, “who is this uncircumcised
Philistine that has chosen to defy the armies of
the Living God?” We stand and we fight because
He goes on to affirm that “I have found David my
servant and with my holy oil have I anointed
him”. We stand and we fight because His holy
word proclaims “who art thou o mountain before
Zerrubabel? Thou shalt be made a plain”.
We stand and we fight because we wax strong in
battle. We stand and we fight because we
cannot be defeated. We stand and we fight
because we are not in the hands of men but
rather we are under the power of God. We stand
and we fight because He is our shield, He is our
glory and the lifter of our heads. We stand and
we fight because He will “pour out His wrath
upon the heathen that have not known Him and
upon the kingdoms that have not called upon His
name.”
So let it be and so it is and yet until then, we
stand and we fight, we stand and we fight, we
stand and we fight.
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