Why some New Year prophecies fail – Anglican Bishop, Asaju

A Professor of Theology at the Lagos State University, Dapo Asaju, says some undesirable predictions seem to fizzle since they have been "supplicated out" and in this way turned away.

Asaju, a previous Vice-Chancellor of Ajayi Crowther University Oyo and Bishop Theologian of Anglican Church of Nigeria, in this way said that no prophet ought to be maligned on the grounds that their predictions didn't happen when those negative predictions have been forestalled through supplications.

The priest, who talked in a meeting with The PUNCH, likewise cautioned strict pioneers to avoid ordinary matters like anticipating champs of football matches and victors of races.

For certain years now, the arrival of predictions by righteous men in Nigeria and some clearly strict nations has become one of the customs of the Christmas and New Year festivities. As of now, various ministers have begun delivering their New Year predictions for Nigeria in 2022.

However, Asaju cautioned ministers not to wade into controversy in the congregation. As per him, legislators who race to certain righteous men to appeal to God for them are burning through their time, adding that God would not be moved by any godly man's petition or prediction however would permit the electorate to conclude their selection of pioneers in government through the polling stations.

Asaju said however bogus prophets presently project their "minds and changes" as New Year predictions", authentic predictions actually exist and they are indispensable as "manual for the future and to know the brain of God concerning what's to come" to turn away fiascos.
Advantages of predictions

As per the researcher, "Predictions are God's own direction of his kin and for that individuals to atone and be careful with what is to come. Predictions are essential for Christianity. The happening to the Lord Jesus Christ whose birth we celebrate through Christmas this season was forecasted millennia prior. We as a whole dream. The book of Joel section 2 says in the last days (which we are all in now) God will pour his soul upon all tissue, old ones will dream dreams and youthful ones will forecast.