BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 15, 2017 (PLP PR Media Inc.) -- As part of his ecclesiastical duties, Superintendent of the Moravian Church St. Kitts Conference the Reverend Hilton J. Joseph anointed the Federation’s Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris on Sunday August 13.
As the Pastor of the Zion Moravian Church in Basseterre, Rev Joseph was conducting a solemn worship service held at the church, where members of the Regular Unit of the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force were worshiping in celebration of the unit’s 20th anniversary.
Prime Minister Harris, who is also the Minister of National Security, had attended the worship service as the Minister with responsibility for the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Forces. Leading the men and women in uniform was Lt Col Patrick Wallace, Commander of the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force.
At the end of the regular sermon, Rev Joseph announced to the congregation that he was next going to lay hands and anoint Prime Minister Dr the Hon Timothy Harris, whom he called to the front.
“The word of the Lord says that we should lay hands upon individuals and pray,” noted Rev Joseph. “The best we believe in laying on of hands is that there is the transfer of not only the Holy Spirit but the blessings of the Almighty God.”
Rev Joseph noted later: “As I prayed for the Prime Minister I declared that God will give him wisdom and the knowledge to lead. As he leads, I know that there are different individuals who speak to him on a daily basis.”
According to Rev Joseph, his prayer was that God would give Prime Minister Harris the power to discern the right voice, the right individual, and the right words coming from those individuals who speak to him so that through them he can be obedient to God as it was in the days of the Old Testament.
“The Prophets were a part of ‘the cabinet’ and they were the ones that spoke into the ears of the king as to what God is saying. And so I have been praying that God will put the right people around Dr Harris as the Prime Minister so that he will be able to say ‘thus said the Lord’,” observed Rev Joseph.
“All that they do as they govern the nation is that it will be governed according to the Word of God, and the Principles of the Almighty God, because we still declare that blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. We declare that Jehovah God is the God of this nation, and so I spoke to him and he would allow God to act through him as Prime Minister.”
Prime Minister Harris is a God-fearing leader who leads by example. Apart from attending worship services at the various churches in the country, his Team Unity Administration recognised the importance of God in people’s lives by creating a Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, which is headed by Senior Minister and Premier of Nevis the Hon Vance Amory.
Following the anointing of the Prime Minister, Rev Joseph called upon all the members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force who were in church to also come forward for the anointing. With Lt Col Patrick Wallace were Captain Kayode Sutton who is the Officer Commanding Alpha Company of the St. Kitts Nevis Regiment, Major Anthony Comrie who is the Officer Commanding the St. Kitts Nevis Coast Guard, along with other senior officers.
Later after the worship service, Rev Hilton J. Joseph told this media that the laying of hands was scriptural, as in the early church the apostles laid hands for the transfer of the spirit, and the transfer of the blessings.
“In me as Pastor and one who continues to pray, it is an act of transferring; it is a connection,” said Rev Joseph. “We have been praying for them all the time, it is now for me to connect, lay hands touch and agree in the name of Jesus, because the Word of God says if any two shall agree in Jesus name, it shall be done.”
Concluded Rev Joseph: “So that was me anointing them asking for God’s covering, asking for His protective arm and the blood and the anointing because the anointing is what breaks the yoke. The anointing of God is what gives us the power; the anointing is the spirit of God which gives us the power to carry out our duties as human beings. In our own humanness we are nothing, but with the spirit of God in filling us, we can do all things through Christ.”
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