A Blessing

This is a testimony I wrote last October that illustrates the wonderful things that can happen when we put God to the test by calling on Him to bless someone in a particular way.

October 23 2008
Today my outreach partner Daniel Frenette and I stopped at the nearby town of Ixtlahuacan on our way home from visiting people in Chapala. We had decided earlier that when we were done with our business in Chapala we would visit all the stores in Ixtlahuacan and offer our 2009 poster calendars as a fundraiser.
The second place we entered was a very small restaurant known in Mexico as a “cocina economica” (economy kitchen) run by two middle aged ladies, Araceli, and Maria.
They told us that they had recently started their business (In Araceli’s words: “Maria had the experience in preparing food and I just wanted to do something”). They really liked our calendars, which have a beautiful poster along with the days and months printed on the front and a several page long message printed on the back, and they each bought one for themselves and then told us that we could come and eat there later on. In spite of their generosity in helping us, Maria and Araceli told us that business was very difficult for them and they had very few customers, so before we went on, Daniel told them that we would pray a blessing for them and their business. And so we did, asking the Lord to bless them for helping us and to help make their restaurant successful.
Several hours later, when we were ready to leave the town we stopped at the restaurant to eat like they had told us we could. When we got there, we found the place to be literally full of people. When there was room for us to sit, the ladies invited us to sit down and eat. They were so excited by what was happening and kept telling us that they knew it was a result of our blessing for their business.
It was so neat to see the Lord acting in a very visible way to reward the faith of those two ladies and our own faith too.