Thursday we started building Alberto and Theresas house. Knowing that we needed to be home for a UPS delivery and two ministries coming to get beans and rice on Friday morning, we told Carmelo that we wouldn't be coming to Mexico. Carmelo and the boys agreed to continue working on the house anyhow. During the day, our phones were blowing up with all kinds of reports of major violence in Reynosa after the military caught a cartel leader. Buses and trucks were set on fire, 60 to 100 bad guys creating havoc in the streets causing the closure of the bridges coming back to the US.
I usually don't post things like this on our blog, because I don't want people to be afraid or to fear joining us on Mission down here. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is always going before us, and directing our paths, and orchestrating circumstances, and allowing things to happen that change "our" plans to get us to a certain point or to keep us from a certain point. Always interceding for us. Do you get the picture yet? God is absolute control of our lives!!! WHY? Because we have learned to trust him. Trust him with our lives, trust him with our ministry, trust him with our money and our future. Were learning how to lean and trust in Jesus. So we didn't go to Mx. Friday, because God did not want us there then, but it won't stop us from going tomorrow, unless The Holy Spirit restrains us.
We had a young lady last week, take a huge step of faith for herself, to move her to trusting God more. She had been saving up some money and waiting on God to direct her where to sow this seed of faith. Well her company closed down and she was loosing her job and thought to herself, don't give that money away now, because you can't trust God to provide. The battle raged in her heart and head, and finally she gave us the money that she had saved. No small amount either, a thousand bucks! We told her God would honor her faith and we used the money immediately to fix up a house for a lady that has cancer in Mexico. She got a new job immediately, and last week her old job gave her 3 thousand dollars of severance pay. Something huge happens at a thousand dollar level of giving in the kingdom. I could tell you story after story about trusting God when writing out a thousand dollar check to a missionary, or another ministry, or using a thousand dollars to help a poor family. God has said, test me and see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing that you won't be able to handle it. I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU. Sow a thousand dollars into the kingdom somewhere and watch what God does.
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