President Preval Proclaims Fasting and Prayer…

Since January 12, Gary has done nothing but drive to and from Port. Today, he took Service International's Trey and Mike, to catch a small plane to Santa Domingo and from there to St Louis. Certainly don't envy their returning to snow! While we sport 81 degrees at 6:30 AM EST, everyone seems to be inundated and overwhelmed digging out of snow. Guess that's a lot better than the rubble in Port au Prince. But, when I also read early this morning, that a 4.3 earthquake struck near Chicago, wow! As many 4 pointers as we've felt in the last month, I know what those in IL were feeling at the impact of it all. A very "earth shaking" and mind boggling experience!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, typically, the revelry of Kanival (Mardi Gras), will not take place, fasting and prayer will. The President has called the island to prayer. Schools will be closed as churches gather together in parks and fields to pray for their country. They've been instructed not to pray for personal needs but to pray for Haiti. Sounds like 2 Chronicles 7:14, doesn't it? It's wonderful when leaders call for prayer. Perhaps it takes something so horrendous as the January 12^th earthquake to shake people to cry out to God. It's a fact that the church in peace and safety loses it's power because everyone becomes complacent and religious. Even the Christians in Acts didn't fulfill the commission until they were persecuted and dispersed to other places. So, Haiti is going to pray and call on Bondye, the Good God. To the unchurched that's who He is. Good God certainly suggests there are many gods, doesn't it? For those who've trusted in many gods who are not good, who cannot be trusted, who cannot hear the cries of help and desperation, I would expect many to come into the Body of Christ over these three days of meetings. Since the earthquake, Haitians have been coming, repenting, choosing Jesus.

When you consider Haiti to be the most evangelized country in the world, there is rarely a soul who has not heard the name Jesus here. Every child grows up shouting, Halleluia and singing His praises, only to wander off into voudou or worldly living. January 12^th has awakened hundreds of survivors whether they have all their limbs or not. They are worshipping the Lord. All the prayers and prophetic words spoken over this little island will come to pass and Haiti will no longer be a reproach but an example of what the Lord Jesus Christ can do when He is Lord. I wonder if the American President would ever call Americans to a day or days of fasting and prayer. Several years ago, the Holy Spirit prompted me to pray Ezekiel's prayer over this nation, speaking to the dry bones. (Ez. 37). This could be that time.

I know where our thoughts go with calling a nation to prayer based on all the comments that have been made in the past. Haiti has been known for it's demonic worship and fasting and prayer will be to many gods. Yes, that's probably true, and there are many gods here in Haiti as well as the US, but when people rise to the occasion of crying out, there is only one GOD to which they cry and that is the Living God. He's called Bondye. He is the only TRUE and GOOD GOD.