God is merciful and just.
God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. There was hope for a city called Nineveh; there is still hope for Trinidad and Tobago.

The Bible tells us that Nineveh was a great city, but their ways were wicked. Jonah did not believe that they were deserving of God's mercies. When Jonah eventually obeyed God to forewarn Nineveh of His judgment upon them, the bible says that the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Even the king of Nineveh laid aside his robes and covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. The animals fasted from eating and drinking. The Bible said that God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them and He did not do it.

God wants to do the same for our nation.
We the church has a role to play.

I believe that the church in its intercession for the nation has been focusing too much on the symptoms that have surfaced in the land but has not addressed the root cause of the problem. We have been silently waging warfare in our own congregations against the ills of society such as murder, kidnapping, gang violence, sexual immorality etc.

But we have not been the voice crying and warning the nation of its condition of sin and its need to repent.

I sincerely believe that unless our nation repents from its unrighteousness, our land will not be healed.

I believe that repentance should begin in the church. The church has not been truly united. Whilst many ministers have been interceding on behalf of the nation, seldom are we coming together in unity for the cause of intercession, even though some attempts have been made by members in the body of Christ.

We are all familiar with 2 Chronicles: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 I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their land".

I pray for the unity of the church in this nation.
I also pray that we, Trinidad and Tobago, shall become like the people of Nineveh and repent and surrender our hearts to God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Amen.