Faith's Payoff!

Faith’s Payoff

The Payoff After Faith

One recent move of God that we experienced in CMM, Christ's Mandate for Missions, (http://cmmissions.net) and for a missionary couple in India.

Jai and Yori are strong and fruitful in the Lord and have been facing persecution for some time in Eastern India in AP, Andrha Pradesh, near the Orissa state where more publicized persecution had occurred in August and September. They are pastors and have an orphanage. The Hindu landlord has been wanting them to move and giving them a hard time. They found a piece of land a few months ago and put a deposit on it. They missed one deadline. Jai wrote to me to help raise the funds to pay off the land for the orphanage. We made several appeals on our website and by email and some small amounts came in, but not enough. They faced a final deadline by Oct. 29th. They faced losing their original deposit and having no place to go at the same time.

The 27th of October I sent out another email to some folks. I encouraged Jai, that by faith, the money would come in. He had written me a sincere email and I replied for him to send that same email to the few Americans he knew from before the time he joined CMM, (which was about six months earlier). During that six months we had gotten to know each other more and he was very open to building a strong relationship. We are assisting him in getting his Master's degree and eventually starting a CMM School in his area.

I knew I would be sending the money to Jai from the CMM reserve account, but did not tell Jai that. I wanted his faith to be engaged even further, and mine too. I went to the bank and sent him the money so he would have it. There is a 10.5 hour time difference and the 29th there is really like the 28th here, especially for business hours. I did not want him to miss the deadline. By faith, I sent that money from the CMM reserves believing that God would bring it in from somewhere. Many had been praying for weeks.

Within one hour after I sent the money I got a phone call from one of Jai's friends, who had received the email from Jai, and he asked about the dire situation and asked several questions. I told him I had sent the money from reserves by faith. I told him I am planning to go there in January and my job, one among many things, is to inspect and verify the legal taking of the land and proper recording of the deed, etc. and I had spoken with Jai about the legal necessities, deed recording, the land being named in his ministries name, etc. and this caller felt relieved and said he would pay half the amount owing. We rejoiced together. God is awesome!

We still had the half to see come in. I kept praying and believing God was going to do it. He is the God who does it.

The next day, a pastor from Albany NY, who knew Jai's wife, Yori, when she was in school here in the US, called, and asked about CMM. I shared some background and some testimonies of faith. He told me the night before he had seen Jai's email and prayed and felt God was speaking to him to invest in this orphanage. He asked the Lord to make it clear to his wife also. The next day, when he shared how God spoke to him about this. She agreed. I explained how I had sent the funds by faith from the reserve fund. He said they would cover the other half to replace the CMM reserve funds. God is amazing! I know these orphans are precious to God and His will is to see them come into the Kingdom.

About 6-7 weeks previously I was in an OSJ meeting with Rick Joyner and I remember Rick talking about Prince Nicholas in Greece and how he and some friends support over 100 orphanages in India and I have been thinking "Why not!" God is the God of the impossible and I know God loves India very much and has connected us with some wonderful, fruitful friends there. With God all things are possible.

The Lord had told me about ten years ago in Guatemala that "if He could show me how to buy 100 houses that He could also show me how to build 100 churches around the world". We are in process, by faith, toward that goal also.

blessings,

Jorge

Thursday, October 30, 2008