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The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Bible Ministry, Dr William Kumuyi, has urged Nigerians on the need for attitudinal change in order to move the country forward.
He stated that Nigeria cannot make any visible progress except the people reflect on themselves and make changes that impact society.
Kumuyi spoke at the Men’s session of the ongoing Global Change Conference organised by the Change Makers International (CMI), held in Port Harcourt, Rivers State at the weekend.
The man of God, while quoting from the books of Proverbs 4 verse 23 and Malachi 3:3, stated that for the country to change for the better, change makers need to recover the heart of their inner ward.
He said: “There has been times when the people thought that the world is flat but the world is round, there have been a time when men don’t know how the brain function, but now people know and the changes are making a difference.
“If there is no time of reflecting or refreshing, there will be no change, If we continue the same way since the civil war to democratic laws and nobody reflects on change where are we going to be as a country by 2030.
“We need a rethinking and refreshing to have rest, peace and unity in our families and country, we will come up with solutions that will refine and change our country for good.”
He stated that God creates in man a new heart if he repent of his negative actions. Kumuyi explained that having a heart of flesh is not a theoretical thing but a practical life.
“Everyone had to give an account of how he lived his life on earth.When the heart is stoney, when a heart is not of God, when a heart is negative,
“When a heart does not have sympathy, and compassion, not doing good things, when the heart is selfish, then that heart is gone.
“The person has no heart because he had lost the good heart created by God. When we don’t care about the feelings of our people, we don’t feel their hurt or burden, then we need a change of heart.
“We should have a heart to help others, build hospitals to save lives, help train less privileged children in schools or skills and not to have a stoney heart that don’t feel and help our neighbours,” he stated.
