Preparing for Haiti ...

By Pastor R Dallas Greene

Here are some of my thoughts on Haiti and specifically how God prepared the team and I for our trip. It was (and still is) an incredible journey of seeing God move and work. I hope that you'll come back throughout the next few weeks to read my blogs on Haiti as we will continue to post them every few days. You'll also be hearing from some of the members of the team and what God did in and through them as well.

Isaiah 58:6 “Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”

I decided to spend the first three weeks of this year fasting and praying.  I know that I would be going down to Belladere, Haiti in April and I was praying this Scripture back to God.  Here were some of my questions and God’s answers:

Q.            How do you want me to fast?

A.            Fast like Daniel eating only fruit, vegetables and drinking water

Q.            What kinds of chains of injustice do you want to unloosen?

A.            The people of Haiti have been exploited unjustly

Q.            What cords of the yoke do you want to untie?

A1            The people of Haiti to break the yoke of slavery to France-made agreement with Satan to owe their allegiance to him if they could be granted independence.

A2            The people of Haiti to experience freedom must renounce their agreement with Satan

Q.            How do you want the oppressed set free?

A.            I want to free them from oppression from the enemy by showing them that I have already blessed them with abundance.  I have already given them plenty of sunshine and 10 million mango trees.

Q.            How do you want to break every yoke?

A.            About 14 days into my fast, I was really hungry.  I had allowed my hunger pains to be a signal to pray.  This time, however, I went to the kitchen to look for food.  On the counter, there was a bag of dehydrated mangos from Costco.  The brand name was Phillipino mangos.  I had learned that a dozen export quality mangoes goes for $1.25.  I figured we could pay the farmers a fair trade price, dehydrate them, export them to America, sell them and return the profits to Haiti.  The profits would be used to transform communities.