Article September 16, 2013 ISSUE

Prayer's impact in Kenya

Peter Tsiganyo Mudida

I live in Kenya. Our 2007 election was characterized by violent crime, threats of attack, protests, displacement, etc. A lot of this was because of ethnic conflict. It is ignorant to turn against your neighbor and harm him or her, or destroy his or her house. 

In Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the term devil is defined as, “Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: ‘I am life and intelligence in matter. There is more than one mind, for I am mind,—a wicked mind, self-made or created by a tribal god …’ ” (p. 584 ). I saw that Kenyans were caught up in the trap of the devil and found themselves doing negative things to their neighbors.

I prayed for the people of our nation, to know the real love of God, divine Mind.

I saw many victims of violence in Migori and in Kenya as a whole. As I prayed in that horrible situation, Mark 10:27 was helpful to me. Jesus said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.” I got additional helpful, spiritual guidance from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. On page 571 , it says: “At all times and under all circumstances, overcome evil with good. Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil.” I realized that God, divine Mind, was, and still is, the only solution to our problems.

In the years following, I prayed for the people of our nation, to know the real love of God, divine Mind, affirming that we can live in harmony with each other, and that we don’t have to repeat what happened after the election of 2007. 

Before the general election this March, Kenyans were alert. They did not give the devil a chance to mislead them. They were imparting the message of peace nationally. Christians prayed, in small and big groups, and showed that we can work together to ensure that everything goes well. I believe it is prayer that made the nation of Kenya have a successful election. As St. Paul says, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31 ).

About the author

Peter Tsiganyo Mudida is a Christian Science practitioner in Suna-Migori, Kenya.

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