MINISTERING TOGETHER

Recently a man came to church one Sunday with his wife. He is blind. I was called up with several other people to pray for him. I knew better, so I turned around and called my wife (I know how the Lord uses her in certain areas). As several of us prayed for him, the Lord told Tiffany to pray for his leg instead of his eyes, and also for fear. A week a later, the man came back to church testifying that it was his first week in almost of year that he stopped taking medicine for his leg. The Lord is also taking away his fear. The Lord has been changing the man’s life so much that his wife stood up and testified that her husband is a new man. He doesn’t lay in bed all day anymore, his faith is increasing, and even though his sight is not restored yet, he’ll walk around and do things. She’s almost more excited than him. Our church continues to pray for them. This man firmly believes that the Lord will restore his sight. We also believe he will see again.

My wife spends a lot of time, most of her time, indoors teaching Amerel and Isaiah. But it is often very obvious that her ministry extends well beyond the school room (sometimes even she doesn’t see it). The first Sunday in May she taught an awesome word during church service.

Often I, Tyren, am off in the city or in the village ministering, or running errands and shopping. My wife, like many of you, is praying for me (yet even more) and opening up amazing opportunities for the kingdom to go forth. It’s easy to focus on the part of the flowering part of a plant (like the one that gets to go out the house the most), but we usually don’t focus on the parts that hold up the actual flower. Yet, it’s all one. Here in Lichinga, my wife and I are one. Most of the time, we do different activities, but its one and the same ministry. We work together, seeing eye to eye, as Hearts are being harvested for the glory of the Lord. The Lord upholds all parts of us as we minister in homeschool, church, within the children’s center, the village and the city.

THE HOUSE

The “House for the Pleasure of God” continues to be built. The workers work hard, but recently I had to ask all the workers at the center to stop, so we can spend time worshipping and setting the focus on the real work that the Lord is doing here - building the real house, a dwelling place for the presence of the Lord. The head builder of our house is off for 2 weeks visiting his family in Malawi. During this time, 2 of the workers will be digging a septic tank, clearing the land around “Dancing hill” (the small hill behind the shed), and breaking huge rocks into smaller pieces to use for the flooring inside the house.

Thank you for all of your prayers. It’s impossible for you to know the full extent of your prayers. So many times we see physical evidence of the Lord protecting us, we experience sudden waves of glory in the village, and the Lord continues to bring our own hearts into lower places, into the secret place of His holiness. Hallelujah! The Lord is with you and with us as we harvest hearts. We know He is pleased.

Bringing in the harvest together with you,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes