The General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, Dr Daniel Olukoya, has said the New Year 2024 will be troublesome, saying, however, that the year will not be as bad as 2023.
Olukoya described the new year as a hydra-headed year, with plenty of things to rejoice about and plenty to worry about.
In his New Year message during the Crossover Service into the New Year, Olukoya noted that 2023 was running a race and it handed over the baton to 2024.
“All the events of 2023 will dovetail into 2024 and if you could survive 2023, you will survive 2024,” he assured.
The cleric declared that: “2024 is a troublesome year, but not as bad as 2023,” telling Christians to increase their prayers in the New Year.
“If you reduce the temperature of your prayer fire, you lose it. You should get your spiritual life on serious fire. Do an overkill with your prayers,” he advised.
Olukoya warned Nigerians not to do trial and error in their activities, but rather to ask God for directions in 2024.
He stressed that “high-level tension will increase mental troubles,” warning that lukewarm Christianity was dangerous.
He added that “many ungodly kings shall receive slaps from angels.”
The cleric gave what he called a 21-point fortification key to the worshippers, including that they should never speak or think negatively about themselves.
He urged them to be “a God-pleaser and not a people-pleaser,” adding that they should not compare themselves with others.
Charging them to develop and covet spiritual gifts by praying to see visions, the general overseer urged the worshipers to serve God with all their might, strive for excellence, be heavenly-conscious, reject discouragement and be spiritually watchful.
“We must increase our prayer and fasting temperature; live a life of uncompromising holiness; possess the spirit of the fighter and we must be addicted to the word of God, make a decision to speak the truth always,” he said.
Olukoya advised the congregation to develop a healthy and spiritual family life without returning to the things they left behind.
He gave the watchword for MFM as “Year of Open Doors and Divine Speed,” which he picked from Revelations 3:7–8 and Genesis 24:12.