Miracles in the works

After telling my fiancé about how things are going with Yah, he let me know I needed to update my blog asap – he says we’re seeing a miracle in the works right now – and I have to agree!

Yah told us a week ago a moneylender came to her house daily demanding her loan be repaid. This particular loan is one of the high interest loans. Yah borrowed about $660 last year, and now owes about $1000. A moneylender made violent threats in the past, and her husband (who usually works in the city) worried this one would do the same. Yah considered taking out an even higher interest loan to repay this one. This kind of thinking is what put her into so much debt already.

We decided to lend Yah money at no interest for this loan. She “bargained” with the moneylender to lower the interest if we paid the loan in full. We prayed for the moneylender to cut the interest in half – and she did!!! Yah will have us take out money each week from her paycheck to repay our loan. We were happy to tell her we will “match” whatever she and her husband repay each month. It took her a moment to understand that we want to help her financially, not just buy her more time. When she did, she began to cry and showed one of the highest forms of respect in Thailand: she touched her forehead to my hand and bowed in thanks. As she did, Prang and I bowed our heads as well and thanked God from whom all blessings flow. Moments like these convince me I’m the luckiest person in the world to call this my job right now.

And it gets better…

2 months ago: We first prayed for Yah and her family’s financial situation.  Her husband found work with a group of Christians in the city. They’re paying him well and teaching him to read the Bible. They even gave him extra money to call home.

2 weeks ago: Yah had us pray for her husband’s salvation. She was frustrated at how he was abandoning his family simply to drink the day away. She asked that we pray for his eyes and heart to be opened to know God and walk in His way.

1 week ago: We went to visit Yah and decided to help her with her debt. Her husband called later that night to let her know he wanted to become a Christian.

Wow. What a miracle. Words simply don’t do this justice… I guess all I can say is God is amazing. Stay posted :)

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Nok
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Praise be to God
Reply #5 on : Mon April 07, 2008, 15:30:56
Hello Michaela,
Thank you for the news you posted on your blog. The ministry you are involved and the fruit it brings give me so much joy, hope and thankfulness to the Father. He is indeed loving, good and able. My little faith taught me to see things from human perspective, not from God's. I am glad to hear about Yah, about Prang and people in the village. I really do wish to visit you guys in person in May. Still praying and looking for the way to make that happen. Please tell Prang that I miss her and remember her in my prayer. God bless.
PS. I just ran into a lady, who with her husband, will do their internship with the well in the summer. What a joy to hear.
May God strengthen you today.
NOK
Roy Bessell
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Re: Miracles in the works
Reply #4 on : Sun March 16, 2008, 04:03:44
I am crying tears of joy. I have been there when Hmong people in Thailand asked to become Christian. And I have been there when animists renounced the spirits they worshiped and took Jesus as their Lord.

God bless you!
Brother Roy
Jan
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Yah
Reply #3 on : Fri March 14, 2008, 14:44:21
What a witness to God's power and love for all his children! I pray Yah and her husband continue to have faith in what God can do if they believe.
Also, I'd be remiss not congratulating you and your fiance, Michaela. Your Dad showed me pictures. He really is a homely dude.:) The best thing going for him is he's a Nebraskan.:):) Presume you know I'm kidding. The urge to give you a bit of grief was overpowering.:)
God's blessings!
sarah
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praise Him!
Reply #2 on : Thu March 13, 2008, 14:21:36
oh Praise God from whom all blessings flow! He is such a good God who provides for us in times of need and satisfies our desires with good things. I am so grateful to hear this testimony of God's goodness and your (Mckay) steadfast pursuit of the Eternal!

i love you and am so glad we could talk just a minute today. i re-sent you all the emails that i have sent you over the past month or so. did you get them this time? they were all in my sent folder and viewed as successful.... let me know ! i love love love you!
Noah
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Praise God!
Reply #1 on : Wed March 12, 2008, 14:06:39
It's encouraging to see how the Lord is working in Yah and her husband's lives. Thanks for the update!