Healing our land starts with believers not neglecting the poor. Part 3

PRAY FOR HAITI DAY 30
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.


Part 3
Healing our land starts with believers not neglecting the poor. How do you measure your faith in Jesus Christ? We will answer that with the third part of “Healing our land starts with believers not neglecting the poor”. When believers neglect the poor it is: A proof of unbelief. Jas 2:15-17 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. This passage is an indictment against the believer who says; I know you are hungry, thirsty and naked but I will pray for you. This is the equivalent of saying “Go, I wish you well….” Prayer is powerful and necessary but after you have prayed, you must act. It is in the acting your faith is demonstrated not just in the prayers. This passage is clear; if you don’t act you don’t have faith. How many of us have pleaded guilty to this indictment. When you don’t act on your faith in this particular matter, it opens up concerns in many other areas in your Christian walk. Especially in the area of salvation. If we are “saved by grace through faith” and there are no evidences of your faith in what you do, we have to question if you are truly saved. It may sound a little harsh but take some time to examine yourself and your practices as it relates to your faith not only in reference to Haiti but in life itself. 2COR 13:5 “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed you fail to meet the test!” We have brothers and sister who are without the basic necessities in Haiti. We can no longer tell them “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” When we go or give our faith is demonstrated as being alive and well.

PRAY: Ask God to have you assess your faith in a sincere and genuine way.

ACT: Give organizations that you can trust to meet the needs of the Haitian people.


With U4 Him

Mullery Jean-Pierre
Pastor, Beraca Baptist Church