GOD CAN AND WILL CANCEL DEBTS !
I have been wanting to share this testimony as I realise debt is such a problem with many people today. It is a major factor of strive in relationships and nobody likes to live indebted and pressured . Debt is a problem many people go through it silently...because to many its an admission of guilt and mismanagement of finances. This is where the devil will win if we stay silent and try to fend it off our way.
You see, since October 2009 when we were forced to take time off to pray and seek God, my wife and I had accumulated debts amounting to nearly RM13,000.00.. This was from the unpaid renovation cost of the previous church premise + carelleslly using our credit cards + owing supplier for our booktable ministry etc. This was where denial came in. Oh it's the Church's debt...not ours. So God will deal with it.
From then on as God was dealing with us, I had to admit, the debt problem was our own fault and not anyone else's. You see DEBT in the first place is NOT of God. In fact scripture discourages (Rom 13:8) us from owing anyone anything but to love. Why do I say debt is sin ? Matthew 6:12 in the NIV translation interprets Sin as Debt..Forgive us our DEBTS (SIN) as we forgive those..
It showed me one thing. Like unforgiveness, we take on something that is not our right to take in the first place. When we do not forgive, we are no longer doing what God would want us to do..to forgive. We do what we want and how we want it. Debts are like that. We make decisions without instruction and revelations from God. We buy, purchase, deal rashly...we just CAN'T WAIT ! or we Think God CANNOT or UNABLE TO HELP. That's where we went astray...using our credit cards to purchase Church material, petrol etc..thinking it WILL be alright. Or going ahead to rent instead of waiting to hear from God where to rent. Or you sense God's leading, but you rush ahead..instead of letting God go infront to lead. This is where debts come into place..too greedy...too foolish...too impatient...too anxious...SIN.
This is where debt becomes the legal claim of the enemy over your lives as it was over us. Try to pay try to pay..but just does not go away. Now this is where the breakthrough came when I finally admitted to God of my SIN and repented never to repeat the mistakes...but at everytime to seek God first and learn to wait. Manage finances properly.
So how, it was a long drawn out war and determination to get the victory over debts. BTW, my wife and I have not had a proper salary for 6 years now..there was a time when I asked God if I shud work in the early days of ministry, He told me no..learn to trust Him. Through many many experiences, I know Jehovah Jireh in my Heavenly Father. We've learn to pray harder and harder and harder at the same time open to His command if He wanted us to receive the miracle thru normal work or in another way.
It was this year in this battle, I've come to know Bishop Daniels Benny from South Africa. I shared with him our predicament..amazingly found a man that BELIEVED God for miracles.It stirred me to know that someone from South Africa is praying for us and told us that God is going to see us through.
By the way, the Banks, the creditors have been calling and calling and sending us mail after mail. I knew God will do something great...but QUICKLY LORD ! Bishop told me , Hang in there..God will deliver. So we kept on praying and praying and kept on delaying the creditors..amazingly God gave us favour with the creditors too. Some off them just extend the period for us to sort things out.
Through enough, God delivered again and again and again. Not in my timing or in my way..but He did. A friend of mine asked me to help her buy something for her in Malaysia...she is living in SIngapore. So I did. She repay me and even bless us more than enough...WOW..we were making headway with the debts. She blessed somemore...and at the right time too...one debt down !
The word that God gave me when we were praying was " God will make a way where there seems to be no way"...and Psalms 103 - He forgives out iniquities (Sin = Debt) and delivers us from destruction..and will crown us with lovingkindness and mercy...To break the legal claim of the enemy..is Rev 12..we overcame the enemy by the blood of Jesus ! and God has indeed forgiven us..and cleanses us from sin (1 John 1:9)
You see debts are the enemy's way of holding people back and people just cannot go forward. Debt in our lives was hindering us from stepping out to do new things. So when God showed me Debt was sin, and we confessed and repented..wow the change started to come. Instead of using money just for our own purpose...we determined to use whatever resources God gives us to bless others. We become stewards and not owners.
Today (18/6/10)...I receive a legal letter of demand ...demanding me to pay the overdue outstanding on my credit cards or else further action will be taken. Just one day before, a pastor told me asked me if it is right to trust God to cancel our debts knowing debts are not off God and etc...he said from his own experience we cannot trust God for this. I was stun ! How can ! Has God been lying to me and the progress we made thus far..just a mirage ? Its like saying sin cannot be forgiven. God cannot do certain things.
God reminded me of how the Israelites in Exodus cried out to Him..and He delivered them. Whenever people cry out to Him for help...He always comes to their deliverance ! Scripture is full of stories of God forgiving debts / sin and setting people free ! He advice me to get a job to pay it off...but even with a job I will only be paid at the end of the month. The banks want my head now !..Strangely too in a good way..when I was praying few nights ago..God told me alot more money is coming and He even told me how much. I just have to make sure..the monies come, I put it to cancel the debts.
So yah..today..I had to deal with the immediate demand..don't know what to do. So i just prayed and felt led to just ask my parents if they could help. They gave me more than enough. So went to the bank payed off the cards. Now its all up to date.
I came back...look at my wife..and testified to her..God does cancel debt ! Just trust Him and do what He says. God always act for those that trust Him. So from here on..don't be rash with finances ..manage properly and wait.
