The deputy Greater Accra Youth Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Amos Blessing Amorse says all the prayers being said in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic will come to naught if President Akufo Addo fails to do the needful.
According to the leader of the Youth Wing of the biggest opposition party in the capital region, God only answers prayers of people with a clean heart and not those who have hidden agenda and pretend to rely on him.
Quoting the well known Biblical teachings that heaven help those who help themselves, Mr Amorse intimated that the President knows what to do to stop the spread of the virus but because of political expediency he is quiet thinking by gathering men of the gospel to pray, “everything will be ok”.
“It does not work like that…if common sense tells you that continuous registration by NIA and EC in the wake of the spread of the virus will worsen the situation but you fail to stop the registration, do you expect God to listen to your prayers to banish the virus from your land,?” he questioned rhetorically.
He added that “God is not what Akufo Addo thinks he is. He rules in the affairs of men so he knows every genuine heart…but Akufo Addo does not have a genuine heart so God will not answer his prayers. I don’t have the power to hold brief for God but the Holy Bible tells us that God will only intervene in times of difficulty when we genuinely believe in him”
In the wake of the spread of the virus, President Akufo-Addo has admonished Ghanaians to seek the face of God whilst observing, at the same time, the enhanced measures announced by the government in dealing with the menace.
At a prayer breakfast meeting held at Jubilee House, the seat of the nation’s presidency, on Thursday, 19th March, 2020, President Akufo-Addo expressed his belief that Ghanaians, with their abiding faith in God, will overcome the Coronavirus pandemic, adding that “this, too, will pass”.
But, while Mr Amorse believes God has the power to heal the land, he insisted that the President cannot be doing things that will lead to the spread of the virus and at the same time be calling for God’s intervention.
He added “if God will listen to anybody’s prayer at all, certainly it will not be the ones being said by Akufo Addo.”
