Healing our land includes Justice for Women in Haiti

PRAY FOR HAITI DAILY DEVOTION DAY 26
GLOBAL PRAYER INITIATIVE OF HAITIAN CHURCHES

Theme Verse 2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Healing our land includes justice for Haitian women. As we mentioned yesterday Jesus was very concerned about women in a time where Rabbis avoided women. Women could not sit at a Rabbi’s feet and learn. Jesus however, not only welcomed women to serve in his ministry, He taught them also. Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. Jesus cares for the hurting women. The woman who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair (see Luke 7:36-48) was a hurting women. The woman at the well was a hurting woman at the well was a hurting woman and Jesus tended to their pain.
Many of our Haitian women in Haiti are hurting. One of the greatest injustices against our Haitian women in Haiti after the earthquake is rape. Rape was already a serious problem in Haiti even before the earthquake. The United Nations reported in 2008 that almost half of the girls and young women living in slums like Cité Soleil and Martissant had been raped. Since the earthquake the situation for women has gotten even worse, rights groups say. Rapes have gone up threefold in Port-au-Prince, according to Refugees International, a Washington-based group.

PRAY: Ask the Lord to 1. Help Haiti establish a just justice system, 2. Safe-House for women who have been raped and 3. Support for rape victims who have to raise the child of a rape.

ACT: The Haitian Churches in US and Haiti can provide numbers 2 & 3 from the above prayer requests.

With U4 Him
Mullery Jean-Pierre
Pastor, Beraca Baptist Church