PRAYING FOR SERVICE DELIVERY

The other day I laughed at how some farmers went to their rural development areas (RDA) to hold a prayer so that government would deliver the much promised and awaited farm inputs to them.

Above and beyond that, these farmers were charged a fee for the farm inputs and now they had to pray for their delivery.
What made me laugh, was not so much the fact that they were praying, it was actually the fact that Swazis now need to seek intervention of the Almighty in order for government to deliver on some of the promised services.

This means that the elderly not to long ago should have held vigils across the country requesting God to help them to get their grants.
Also, before the University of Swaziland (UNISWA) students overturned the police vehicle, they were supposed to hold a vigil to profusely pray to get the allowances that are promised to them by government and they would once upon a time be compelled to repay. Civil servants might also have to seriously consider holding prayers just for them to get their cost of living adjustment.

I suppose the companies that have invoices that government still has not paid and are struggling should also climb up the mountains and start praying.

As someone who is very spiritual, I have to clearly state that I have no problem with people requesting divine intervention whenever deemed necessary. This is especially the case for the people who are expecting our government to give them financial assistance.
Rather, in the case of Swaziland, I tend to ask myself what form of divine intervention these people seek.
Do they ask God to get rid of the person who is causing the bottlenecks towards them receiving the services that are rightfully supposed to be extended to them by government?

Or do they ask God to provide the money, which government seems to desperately need in order to provide the services?
Or do they pray that government divert monies that were intended for other projects into the expenditure that being heavily prayed for against? Or whatever the case maybe. What I find to be worrisome is that government has put in place a number of social programmes that are expected to drive development in the country.

The intentions behind these programmes are to drive sustainable economic growth and development.
However, what I fail to understand is how did government expect to fund these programmes seeing that its capital expenditure is increasing by the day?

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