Lè Bondye Voye Ou...

"Lè Bondye voye ou, li te peye bòdwo a." 

(When God sends you, He pays the bill.)

Plans for my Haiti trip caught a few snags, hit a few bumps in the road. By the time we worked out all the details, the trip was a little over a month away. 

I didn’t have much time to get prepared and raise support. No worries, I thought, there was a missions board meeting that week where I could easily make a request. However, that month, the board decided to make some cuts and pull support - not the best time to ask for money. I remained quiet. 

At the meeting, emphasis was on investing wisely and having a good return on money spent. Dollars should translate to souls in heaven, they decided. Fair enough.  So I’m riding my bike to work a few days later and began to pray...

“Aren’t I a good investment, Abba? Am I not a high-yield missionary? Am I not your chosen daughter?” I prayed. “You called me to ‘go’ and you called me to bear much fruit. How am I to make disciples of the nations unless you send me? Please, Daddy...pay for my trip.” 

No sooner did I say an ‘amen’, when I saw a dollar bill on the ground! I hit the brakes, spun the bike around and reached down to pull the money from the grass. It was as if my Heavenly Father was saying, ‘Of course I will pay for this trip!” I put that dollar in my back pocket and rode off, full of faith. 

That night, I was at a Bible study which ended with small group prayer time. I asked for prayer, inviting my friends to agree with me that God would finance this trip. That same night, a young man approached me. He had been raising support for his own trip to Nicaragua and received a surplus. He wrote me out a check for half of what I needed, on the spot. The next day, another couple hundred was donated by a friend and medical missionary to Guatemala. “Tax refund,” she said. “God told me to give towards missions.”

I spent the weekend praising God. Early Monday morning I received a call from the pastor of a local church who is going with us on this trip. “Kristin,” he said, “the church and I have decided that we want to sponsor you ourselves. Whatever your balance is, we would like to cover it.” And with that, all of my support was raised. 

“My yoke is easy and my burden is light,” Jesus said. 

Believing what the Lord says in the Word is effortless. I am so glad the the Lord has already made promises to me in His Word about missions work. The only work I have to do, is believe. God gives us rest and surety that He will pay the bill. 

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God."  Phillipians 4:6

"And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him."  1 John 5:14 

"And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father."  John 14:13 

"The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me; your love, O LORD, endures forever--do not abandon the works of your hands."  Psalm 138:8