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Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has declared a 21-day fasting and prayer session for Ghana, charging all church and religious leaders to rise up to their rightful spiritual duties. In a statement, he said spiritual intervention through prayers �will go a long way to create a peaceful atmosphere that will help all political leaders to have a sense of divine direction for the nation and to make wise decisions for the stability and future of Ghana.� Such prayers and fasting, which he and his congregation had already commenced, he said, was themed �Bringing All Things Into Divine Alignment.� He noted that the need for leaders to seek guidance and strategic direction for a nation was steeped in Christian history, pointing out that �it began long ago in the days of the Bible and continued right through history, even to times and dates we are familiar with.� A typical example of a kingdom that had two types of leaders, he hypothesised, �is noted as far back as the 1930′s when we compare Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain�s beliefs on how to secure peace for a nation, with his successor Winston Churchill�s declaration of a national day of prayer in times of peril. These were two successive prime ministers of England and history has recorded the effect of their decisions on an entire nation.� Bishop Duncan-Williams� knowledge of world history is not in doubt as he effortlessly made reference to important chapters on the subject, pointing to the first decision to enter into an appeasement with Adolf Hitler and the subsequent invasion of Britain after Britain�s Chamberlain declared that he had secured peace for all times. Chamberlain�s decision to take what was considered a hopeless situation to God led to �the miracle of Dunkirk�, the great victory for England. While history is replete with many leaders who turned to weaponry to fight wars, Bishop Duncan-Williams said, �Churchill chose to deploy divine weapons of prayer and this was described by the media of the day as divine providence for strategic mistakes to be made on the part of the German army.� The weather, as though part of the divine intervention, he added, �also turned suddenly in the favour of the British that great day of May 26, 1940 when a National Day of prayer was called for.� With Election 2012 around the corner, against the backdrop of the previous polls won by the slimmest of margins in the face of an oil economy, he pointed out that �the country is set for another fiercely contested presidential and parliamentary election in December.� Politicians, over the past few years, months and weeks, had become progressively less accommodating and impatient with each other�s opinions and statements and sometimes had been heard to be overly explicit in their use of unacceptable language, threats and even actions. Politicians, he said, had become less tolerant, becoming desperate in their enterprise and such a simple process, he added, �could lead to confusion, unrest and violence.� To his compatriots, he said, �Let us not go to sleep after making negations and compromises with any other power but God. Let us not feel we have signed a firm peace treaty with mere men and declare calm before the storm. There are clear undercurrents in realms we cannot see as well as covenants of evil, casting lots and plotting decline, destruction and bad tidings for our great nation. Offering consolation however, he invoked a passage from the book of Lamentations in the scriptures to calm worried hearts: �Fear not, �But who is he that saith and it cometh to pass, when the Lord hath commandeth it not?� Lamentations 3:37 Ghana, he predicted, �is on the verge of a great take off, but the realization of that potential will depend on the prayers of all of us willing to spend some time to pray about this critical and precarious situation.�