To win the battle of poor governance and corruption Zimbabwe needs prayers

It is heart rendering to see a people following God's instructions and coming together for purposes of thanking him and pleading a case against oppression by a regime at loss of direction. Scriptures are  clear in the Book of 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 and again verse 14 through16. When faced with a situation where children are being sacrificed for the survival of the greedy and merciless, a nation needs to turn to the Lord and speak strong language of confession pointing sin straight in the face.

Amazingly it always takes painfully long time for suffering people to learn to work together or perish and cause many more to perish. The good book confirms that we have eyes but do not see and ears but cannot hear. No wonder some would like to marvel at unlikely persons having shared the platform on the call for restorative justice on Itai Dzamara prayer day. It has been suggested elsewhere, and rightly so, that prayers should embrace all sons and daughters the Zanu regime is responsible for brutally torturing, abducting and killing or even sending into exile. While the prayer of the 11 July 2015 was called by the Dzamara family, the churches in Zimbabwe need to realize that there are times when justice is sought through the thrown of grace by a clergy than leaving it to word wasting politicians.

Prayers of restitution are not about individuals, but about the state of a nation. It is in the context of a people calling on their God together asking for mercy and change of mind and leadership. At such times there is no opposition in opposition, but coherence to have the prayers heard above. When approaching the thrown of grace we need forget our agendas that are filth and full of selfishness and be concerned with the plight of those either gone or imprisoned by an evil system. Truth be told many of us are imprisoned by and are in prison from the Zanu exploitative, uncaring and oppressive system The spirituality of prayer is that we are calling on one who knows who we are and therefore should not come with a high and mighty attitude, but sober; confessing our short comings. We can be good at accusations and labelling each other but when we approach the thrown of grace let's remember to always confess our shortcomings. Kings of years ago in biblical times confessed their personal sins and those of nations God gave them authority over. It is a language absent from much spiritual as well as political leadership today. We, instead, sing and praise fame, money and power at the peril of giving descent life to innocent common people in Zimbabwe today. It is displeasing somewhat that our nation lacks sober conscience when approaching the thrown of grace to present cries of God's children. Many at the Itai Dzamara prayer meeting would not even mention the name of God or have the decency of confessing their own shortcomings in the past. In the midst of such arrogant presentations, I was touched though by the picture of Itai's wife and son crying. Fellow Zimbabweans we need look at facts in the face and ask for how long we can be spectators while our children are being sacrificed for the enjoyment of the careless, heartless and corrupt individuals? In fact the question is why the struggle was fought at all if Mugabe and cohorts justify mysterious disappearances of citizens for simply voicing an opinion without arms or making violence as justification for having fought the struggle. A sense of direction somehow is lost here to which as Zimbabweans we are accountable for not persistently invoking spiritually and politically.  It makes anyone wonder if as a people we have a sense of nationality and belonging when a young man is pushed into hands of mysterious abductors by the silent act of a government that neither cares nor shows concern over human life. The deliberate ignorance of Zanu and wanton disregard on her responsibility as a government makes a strong argument why we should campaign strongly for the removal of such senselessness now: Not by mighty, or power of the gun; but by power of grace and numbers of people's collaboration and cooperation before God. Itai was just a young Zimbabwean exercising his constitutional right, either to be ignored or taken to a court of law if he had infringed upon any laws of the land. He had no arms nor was he causing any violence on anyone. It puzzles if it is only protection of power sought by Zanu as she victimizes individuals or it is the diabolical nature existing in Zanu.  A government that employs officials who specialize in terrorizing citizens covertly and openly then plays the game that they do not know who did it is a subject of great concern. Much more disturbing is the insistence of Zanu intransigence in keeping quiet and ignoring even the call by international communities. The right to protect citizens by the government of Zanu has been annihilated and yet they want to remain in power. Something is not right about the way power is being nakedly abused and how corruption is blinding many willingly who are benefiting from this malicious system. A citizen is abducted during day light and the nation remains at easy and peaceful.  Why really should this pass our ears and not cause disturbances and tremors? While no political organization found it meriting calling for demonstration it is however pleasing they, with speed, wanted to come to speak and talk at such occasions.  Caution though need be raised with any meriting opposition that it is a political duty for politics as much as it is a spiritual duty for the clergy to ask for and seek justice as well as call for justice. Again it needs emphasise: If for those who cannot think without names, to note that the case at hand is not about Itai Dzamara but far and beyond. It is about the miscarriage of justice and the call by the nation for immediate rectification that normalizes the situation. It is common knowledge that thirty six years have gone by for Mugabe to get us where we are. But let us consider the history in perspective. We hero worshipped the war of liberation than the system we ought to employ every moment injustice inserts her ugly hand in society. We are victims to an animal we saw rare its ugly head and grow-called corruption. We watched politicians being muzzled by Zanu from Ndabaningi Sithole, Joshua Nkomo, Abel Muzorewa, Enock Dumbutshena and the list is ad infinitum and young business people treated like dirty in the case of Strive Masiyiwa etc, and now many Itais are at stake and will disappear more and more. We remember with pain that it was the likes of Joyce Mujuru who laughed at Joshua Nkomo as insane then as he fought for economic freedom of the young-to be specific Strive Masiyiwa cellphone business-when the going was sweet for her. Is it any wonder now she and her cohorts find the insanity of Robert Mugabe more than of the late Joshua Nkomo? Let us study history in sequence and stop being emotional to realize that in life what goes around comes around. Children cannot continue to be muzzled against speaking their minds when Zanu ironically spends millions on so-called free education but only to turn around and cover those millions with shovels of gravel- a very poor decision from the outset. Unless we make decisions for political expedience, which is more likely than not, there is no reason why Zimbabweans cannot turn in millions to pray for God to intervene in their plight. It is a case of a missed opportunity really and some degree of selfishness exhibited by resistance to prayers for emancipation by ordinary people suffering that incurs us more suffering, in my opinion. The arrogance of Zanu needs direct intervention of God. People concern need to be unanimous with common approach arising from suffering under Zanu iron feasted rule based on social injustice. It's no exaggeration that at least a million Zimbabweans could have easily poured into a prayer hall together with their children to plead with a God we confess we know. Here is the marked difference between crying to Mugabe in order that he is lenient with the masses and an honesty pleading with God to rescue us from perishing under Mugabe siege. Zimbabwe is a Christian country and yet we are not united in calling at God, confessing our shortcomings so the future of the children will be much better than is now. Our land needs healing. Our children need redemptive prayer. Too many Zanu leaking spiritual leadership who unlike the biblical Hosea can speak a strong voice against social injustice, not against Zanu, but just on injustice in the country. God continues to plead that, if his people called by his name humble themselves and confess their shortcomings and approach him, he is faithful and just to forgive and restore the land.
No doubt the battle against selfishness as badly exhibiting in Zimbabwe so far, is God's battle against powers of darkness and will be finished by Him; but only as WE THE PEOPLE give Him His due. Again Zimbabweans turn to 2 Chrinicles7:14. We need as a people to seek God insight through prayers to morally defend what is right and ours. God bless Zimbabwe.