{"id":273278,"date":"2024-12-31T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/31\/economic-hardship-you-need-to-pray-more-now\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:18:57","slug":"economic-hardship-you-need-to-pray-more-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/31\/economic-hardship-you-need-to-pray-more-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Hardship: You need to pray more now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/750\/75082657.295.jpg\" alt=\"President-elect John Dramani Mahama\" title=\"President-elect John Dramani Mahama\" width=\"295\" height=\"202\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President-elect John Dramani Mahama<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">President-elect John Dramani Mahama has urged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pray more than they did during the 2024 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, given the challenges the country is facing, he and his appointees will need wisdom and strength from God to address these issues.<\/p>\n<p>John Mahama made this plea while addressing party faithful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the time we need to pray harder than we did during the campaign for God to grant us the strength and wisdom to implement measures that will make Ghana a better place to live. All I will say is that it is finished; God has already done it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The President-elect also mentioned that the current government has set him up for failure, but he believes that the Lord he serves will guide him on the right path to make decisions that will lead to success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because the NPP government has set a trap for us. But we shall not be caught in that trap; we will escape unscathed. The Almighty God, who granted us electoral victory, will see us through the difficulties ahead until we achieve success,\u201d Mahama stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect John Dramani Mahama President-elect John Dramani Mahama has urged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pray more than they did during the 2024 election campaign. According to him, given the challenges the country is facing, he and his appointees will need wisdom and strength from God to address these issues. John Mahama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economic Hardship: You need to pray more now - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/31\/economic-hardship-you-need-to-pray-more-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economic Hardship: You need to pray more now - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President-elect John Dramani Mahama President-elect John Dramani Mahama has urged members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pray more than they did during the 2024 election campaign. 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