Happy Independence Trinidad & Tobago
Pray for the Grace to know the difference between what is truth and what is lie; to discern deception; to see the fronts that will be presented to us and see the real intent of the ungodly.
Pray for those seeking office; pray for those currently in office. 1 Timothy 2: 1-4 tells us, “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.“
ALL of us who can legally vote must, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, exercise our civic duty, and leave the rest entirely up to God – regardless of our political beliefs and affiliation. At the end of the day, we must all be united, less we fail; less we fall.
Our prayer for T&T in not just for elections, but should continue well after September 7th has come and gone. With hearts and minds lifted up to God, we all must commit ourselves to HIM and to HIM alone, for HE IS our ROCK and our FIRM FOUNDATION, and HE will direct our path as a people and as a nation. There are many, many things that are wrong with us as a nation and will not go away after elections. Much of what is wrong with us as a people will go away when as one nation, we come back to GOD; when as one nation, we proclaim that we have no other god but the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We must therefore as individuals, and as a nation, turn away from our sins, humble ourselves and pray; turning and running far away from our wicked and evil ways. It is them that HE – GOD – will hear from Heaven and HE will heal our land of Trinidad and Tobago.
We must turn away from corruption, and from all the evil deeds that have plagued our nation like parasites, sucking the very life out of our nation. We have an entire generation that has been left to follow their own desires and who know nothing about the Love of God. Jesus warns us about giving in to self-indulgence and sin.
He said to them, ‘Even you — don’t you understand? Can’t you see that nothing that goes into someone from outside can make that person unclean, because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach and passes into the sewer? And he went on, ‘It is what comes out of someone that makes that person unclean. For it is from within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within and make a person unclean.’ (Mark 7: 18-23)
St. Paul also exhorts us in his letter to the Galatians –
After all, brothers, you were called to be free; do not use your freedom as an opening for self-indulgence, but be servants to one another in love, since the whole of the Law is summarised in the one commandment: You must love your neighbour as yourself. If you go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one another.
Instead, I tell you, be guided by the Spirit, and you will no longer yield to self-indulgence. The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition to the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are in opposition to self-indulgence: they are opposites, one against the other; that is how you are prevented from doing the things that you want to. But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.
On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such things as these. All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires. (Galatians 5: 13-24)
Looking at these passages, one would think that St. Paul was writing about Trinidad and Tobago when he wrote about the sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. Jesus tells us that it is “from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly.” He is also saying that it is “all these evil things that come from within that make Trinidad and Tobago unclean.”
But God is a GOD of infinite Mercy who waits for us to return to Him with repentant hearts. DO NOT DELAY!!
Happy 53rd Independence sweet Trinidad and Tobago. May our eyes be open to all that binds us and imprisons us as a nation. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, may we repent of our sins and return to our GOD who waits with open arms for us.
