We need to pray against our leaders’ bad deeds for God to bless Kenya

We cannot stop you from praying if that, indeed, is what you genuinely purpose to do. Prayer is everyone’s right. In fact we can only encourage everyone to pray, and especially the villainous. Praying is indeed the right thing for everybody to do, always. Yet do we also have the duty to admonish each other that prayer is not levity? Do we need to remind ourselves that it is futile to mount a huge and decorous show of piety once every 365 days and spend the next 364 days acting against what we prayed for?

Do we need to address the futility of Sunday appearances in houses of prayer without contrite souls within? Perhaps we need to caution, as we have often done, on the futility of some prayers? That some prayers only rankle God and he who says them could pay heavily for saying them? I have read where Moses was told to tell the Children of Israel, “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name (Exodus 20: 7)”.