For His Glory Outreach Blog: God at Work in the Earthquake

I recently had the opportunity to talk with Pierre about the ways he saw God working through the earthquake. I hope you can see Him working too.

There is a four story house or building that started to collapse and there was a lady in the highest story. When she saw the house collapsing, she was very scared, crying and screaming.

She was the only one on the higher story. She was waving her hands for people to come and help her. But people were afraid to come and help her because they were afraid the building would collapse.

The police came, but they wouldn’t go in. They said she would have to just jump and they will stay with arms linked to catch her. She said, “No I will die.” They said, “If you don’t want to jump, you will die. Do you want to die upstairs or on the ground where your family will know where you died?”

She said, “I don’t want to die.” So now they said, “Ok, either way you will die. But the best thing you need to do is give your life to Jesus.” They called a pastor. The pastor came and shared the gospel with her. “I am willing to give my life to Jesus,” she said. The pastor prayed from the ground with her. “Do you believe it?” the pastor asked. She said, “Not yet. I don’t feel like it right now.”

“Lady you need to hurry, this is the time for you. Either you go to heaven or hell. Choose right now,” the pastor said.

“Ok I believe,” she said.

“If you believe jump,” he said.

She said no.

The pastor said, “When you believe, you can jump.”

She felt someone grab her by he sides, pick her up, and throw her out the window. The police caught her on their linked arms. She had no bones broken.

The same day when the earthquake happened, there was a famous voodoo priest on Delmas 33. He was so shocked that the evil spirits had not revealed the earthquake to him.

At midnight he set up a ceremony to find out what was happening. All night long there were aftershocks. When it was 12:30 am the evil spirit came and he said to the spirit, “Why you did not tell me? I’ve been serving you a long time.”

The evil spirit said, “You need to know. I don’t have control of the earth. Now we all have problems. Leave me alone don’t bother me.”

The voodoo priest said, “You need to know too from now I am not going to serve you because you are not as powerful as I thought.”

He burned all his voodoo things. He turned the perestil (voodoo ceremony place) into a place to pray to God.

There were some Haitian Americans that came to Haiti to honor what they call the guardian (evil spirit) of the family. Usually they make a big ceremony and pay the voodoo priest to set up the ceremony to please the evil spirits. All of the sudden the earthquake happened and the perestil was shaking and there was part of it that collapsed. Everyone got outside including the priest. The priest already got paid for the ceremony but his money was left inside. He left all the money and people were asking him why the evil spirit did not protect him. He was more upset that the evil spirit did not save his money. He said, “If I did not run out of the perestil I would have lost my life too.” So he told them he would begin serving Jesus. All the people there gave their life to Jesus.

Another family came from the U.S. They are Haitian. They came to make a sacrifice in Gonaives. They started their ceremony at 6 am and it was after 5 pm. The evil spirit finally showed up. And the voodoo priest said, “Why did you take so long to come down and answer us?”

“You need to know…{voodoo priests never name Jesus…if you are possessed and say to the spirit get out in the name of Jesus, the spirit has to go, so they never say Jesus} Emmanuel is coming. We were in a meeting to find out what to do to protect ourselves. Don’t bother me,” said the evil spirit.

The voodoo priest was surprised to here this. “If the spirit does not know how to save himself, I need to go to the one who saves, who is Jesus.”

Every Tuesday at 4 in the afternoon the women at the church get together to pray. On January 12 they started to pray. All of a sudden the earthquake started. The building was swaying, moving back and forth. Some of the ladies laid down to pray, some of them held a wall just to not fall down. They were asking God for protection. The building collapsed. They were saved and nothing happened to them. But the way it collapsed they were trapped, there was no way for them to get out of the building. So they decided to start praising God and singing. They were scared the roof would collapse on them, so they kept singing, singing, singing. After 30 minutes {hands motion an explosion} and aftershock happened and a hole blew in the wall and they were able to get out.

We can die in one second but God can do a zillion things in one second. That’s amazing. When the boy said that, the blood of Jesus protected him. He understood enough to know that.

There is a joke about that {the earthquake} too. Some people say there was a meeting between Jesus and Satan. Satan said he had more people in Haiti following him. Jesus said He didn’t think so.

Satan said, “Wait for Carnaval. Then you will see.” Jesus said, “I can’t wait to show you. I will shake Port au Prince and show you right now!”

In the earthquake no one said Satan. They all said Jesus Jesus Jesus!

Everybody was calling Jesus! If you were there to hear you would hear ‘Jesus Jesus!’ Even now, when there is an aftershock, ‘Jesus Jesus Jesus!’ Many were protected and saved by Jesus.

An old man he lives by my house and he is a mason man. I used to talk to him about Jesus. When the earthquake, happened he was in his house. The house started collapsing. The wall inside the house fell over him and he fell down. His children were saying, “Daddy what is happening to you?” While he was under the blocks he said, “Jesus!” All of a sudden he was able to jump up and run, and when he ran out the building collapsed. Now he follows Jesus.

Not serving Him, Jesus saved them., Name of Jesus is so powerful.

The girls had just got home from school. Marlah was trying to find something to eat. Marie France was there but Marie France sat down on the bed nursing the baby when the house was swaying. She fell down on the floor with the baby. She started screaming. The other children started screaming. She thought the house was going to collapse on them. They were calling Jesus. She was so scared she could not stand up. I could not go, so I sent Clenide to her. When Clenide got my house, she found Marie France in the house. Marie France said, “I feel so weak I cannot stand up.” Clenide helped her stand up and get the baby and the girls out of the house.

I was so scared if all die.

When we got her at the orphanage I was so happy, so happy. Since then whenever we have aftershocks Vicki has heart beat fast.

I think that took me 3 hours to hear from Kiki. I kept calling calling calling. I could not get through. He called and said, “Where are you?” I said, “I am fine.” And then we got disconnected. But I knew he was okay.

Franckis was in the countryside. They felt it in the south, but they did not get any damage,.

The Sunday before the earthquake I preached. We lost 5 people in the church. Yes they knew the Lord. One of them was supposed to be in the women meeting which motivates them now to go to the meeting. Because those in the meeting got saved. She did not come for some reason.

One nanny died when the wall fell on her. But the bad news is that she did not give her life to Jesus. She came to her sister in a dream and said I don’t want you to put my dad where they put me. Go tell him now.

They found her under the blocks with her two children.

Everybody was there at the orphanage. Some were so worried about their family they went home. Some were on the road to come to work, they still came to see what happened with the orphanage.

Some people from the dayshift stayed for 3 days, some go and check on families, and come back.

Many that lost their families. Esther in 2^nd baby room lost her baby. Rennate had 9 cousins die. Janet in toddler room she had her house collapse on her son, but he did not die. They got him under the rubble. She has nephew that died too. Another lady named nadia has her mom her dad her brother her sister, her cousin..in total 10 people that died. She is the only one left in her family. What amazing? Try to save yourself. You cannot pay attention to the lost. You have to take care of yourself.

Everybody’s scared.

Time for God. We are getting worse and worse since 200 years. God broke the building of the government every office serves an evil spirit. Director…minister of—you have to serve that evil spirit to stay. This the same thing in the national palace.

If you are working for government you are strong Christian or serving the devils the only way to keep your job your position.

People that want to have your job will do whatever they can to get rid of you. If you are not strongly planted in the Lord they will kill you. Not find so many ppl in the govt serving the Lord.

That’s why a lot of people saying this is
God’s judgment. Because most of the government building collapsed.

Congress collapsed. Senators died. Even in building they serve evil spirits too. Get inside the car, you can smell it. Unclean spirit, smell bad. Smell very bad.

It’s an old building. It’s still standing. Second the walls they only fell over 2 workers. Most of the children were outside. Third, even the house of our neighbor collapsed. With no people inside. We would not be able to stay at the orphanage with dead bodies.

The other thing is the wall did not fall over anybody that was on the street. It collapsed outside, and nobody got hurt. Not even on the street. That was amazing.

The other thing too, we the children stayed outside and the babies, and we had people that come to help us. God put people in your way. That’s amazing because, I think we were the first orphanage that got an official visit from the US side. I remember I saw 15 cars. Most of them had US soldiers in them. And I didn’t remember why I was outside but I was driving and I saw 15 cars. Wow, where are they going? I tried to follow them. They were on Delmas 31. I saw them stop in front of the orphanage. They all go inside and said we come to check on you. What’s going on, check on the children. We need security. They will send some soldiers if necessary. They spent 1 hour checking. They check my leg. They say, ok, we come back and bring food back to you.