Building Our House Is Pure Ministry

We wanted to share with you a little about the testimony of our house. This blog is a little longer in order to give you an understanding of why we are building and what is being built through the ministry of building the House For God’s Pleasure.

First, exciting news: Everyone is waiting for the government to finish its process of officially approving our center as an orphanage. But in the meantime, everyone is planning for the “spiritual inauguration” of the children’s center this Saturday, August 30. Heidi Baker is coming to Lichinga to bless the center, as well as several other people. On Friday night we’ll have an outreach in a village and on Saturday night we’ll have one in Iris’ church in the city. This weekend we’ll celebrate as a praise offering to the Lord for all that He is accomplishing at the center. Our focus is on Him alone, and we cry out for His Holy presence to be made manifest in great ways at our center.
House For God’s Pleasure
All the workers are excited. Last week we laid the floor within the house and the veranda in the back. We have to finish the pipes for the septic tank, some cement plastering around the roof, and the floor and bars for the front veranda. Then, I’ll have to work on putting in the windows and the outside doors. Afterwards, we’ll connect the toilet and sinks. We don’t have running water now and we won’t have it at our new house until we can get a bore hole (machine dug well). But, at least we’ll be able to take indoor bucket baths, flush the toilet using a bucket of water, and wash dirty dishes in a sink instead of a big plastic bowl (basin) that we use now.

Where did the name “House for God’s Pleasure” come from? It’s the name the Lord gave us. It wasn’t a “nice name for a house project”. The name is about the testimony the Lord wanted to establish in our lives and through our ministry. He wants to build our lives, which are His houses, for His pleasure. His pleasure is that He wants to experience the people He created in Christ Jesus just like we love to experience the relationships we have with each other. Often, we don’t give Him that opportunity because we are always asking Him to tell us what to do, when, how and if to do it. We don’t trust Him to purify our hearts so that His church can truly be His bride who is likeminded in creativity, desire, passion and will. God made us for Himself. He wants us to use the wisdom, creativity, ideas and dreams that are inside of us. He wants to have the pleasure of being loved, of having us share our dreams with Him, of coming up with plans and holy and outrageous ideas. He’s the one that made us wonderfully and fearfully. Now, we’re restored back to God through Christ. Let Him experience the awesomeness He put inside of us, and His “goodness” (Genesis 1:27, 31; Galatians 5:22) that is now in our new nature and laid up in purified hearts.

God longs for a pure relationship, not built on the things of this life. He wants to relate to His creation solely on the basis of who He is and who He made us to be. This is love. He doesn’t want a people with a passion regulated by the things of this life. A regulated, self-passionate people, who’s faith and desire for Him go (who will only relate and walk with Him) as far as their money will allow, or their own understandings or worldly resources will allow.

The Lord didn’t tell me exactly what to build. He wanted me to dream. He tested me several times to see if I would share with Him the true plans of the house with Him. He refined some of my ideas, and shared His own with me. When I thought about a nice looking house that didn’t truly represent His work, He let me know. I would turn my face back to Him and again could think with a pure heart. Then, the things I imagined were things He enjoyed using to testify of His pleasure. We drew up the plans of the house before we even knew how much we had to build. Twice He showed me a vision of part of the house. But, the room of lights with its triple-paneled huge windows, He let me plan out. The back veranda was made just for the children to play on. The front veranda was added just for Tiffany to enjoy herself during the day. The Lord liked the idea. The Lord has and will continue to honor what He made us to be. He continues to bless the work we do for His glory. The real work is that His testimony is being revealed in the lives of His servants, and His own hands are building dwelling places (houses of His pleasure) in the lives of us and the workers.

I hope you understand a little bit more that building this house is purely ministry for us. We are not trying to build a house to be a little more comfortable as a family. We thank Jesus for what this house means to us. In building, the Lord is establishing His testimony that will help people see Him more clearly, and become more of the indwelling place for God in the Spirit (people of His presence) that we are meant to be. Hearts are being harvested for His presence.

In love and in His pleasure (Psalm 36:8 NKJV),

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Tyren’s phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Tiffany’s phone: 011-258-827-316-365

Email for Ministry only: heartsforharvest@yahoo.com

Blog entries: http://www.clgonline.net/blog/haynes

Building our House For God's Pleasure

Building A House For God’s Pleasure

The Lord is continuing to build in the lives of the workers the dwelling place for the Holy Spirit. It’s wonderful to see how much they have grown. Daily around lunchtime, they quickly stop working to worship, receive teaching from the word of God, and drink in the refreshing water of life from the presence of the Lord.

I started teaching one of the workers, James, to read and write. He was so excited that a few days ago he stopped working to spend some time practicing writing in the sand. Another worker decided to stop working too, just to help him out. I’m paying them to work, and here they are writing in the sand. But, I was quiet and watched them with joy. Just last week James couldn’t write his name. “Stopping for the one” is still a very important part of our ministry here.

Construction on our house is going well. For the next few weeks, I’ll be spending a lot of time working on our house. The roof is on! It’s purely a work of God. Jesus helped me put it on myself, and use tar to fix broken chapas and seal the cracks in the chapas (cement roofing). The front roof of the house is cement and the rear is tin roofing. In about three more weeks, the house should be finished, and we should be able to move in. The Lord has been so faithful in opening our eyes and in not letting construction issues blind or distract us from purely seeing Him as He is. He is so wonderful! Building this house is a testimony about who He is and not about what is being accomplished in the physical building of the house. We aim to see God for who He is, and allow Him to be all that He is in our lives.

For those of you who know my wife, Tiffany, you know just how excited she is about moving into our own house.

Brief Evangelism Testimony

Our ministry team was excited to hear that two of the people that we prayed for in Utimuile Village were healed. One older lady’s back was healed and she was off working in the gardens again. The Lord healed another woman’s teeth that had been hurting for months. Both women also had received Jesus while we were ministering to them in the village.

Love,Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Tyren’s phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Tiffany’s phone: 011-258-827-316-365

Ministry Email: heartsforharvest@yahoo.comBlog entries: http://www.clgonline.net/blog/haynes

Our Daily Simple Life Of Living By Faith

We live a simple life here in Lichinga. We draw all our water for cooking, bathing and drinking from a well. We cook using a 2 burner gas stovetop. For an oven, we can manage to cook some things in a hole in the ground using charcoals. When we move into our new house we will be getting an indoor oven. We mainly eat vegetables and rice or cema (corn flour cooked until it’s a very, very thick porridge- sort of like grits in America). We also eat small fish like minnows (in America we’d only use it as fish bait). We also help support a local woman by paying her to wash our clothes by hand twice a week.

Tiffany homeschools our children, Amerel (3rd grade) and Isaiah (K5), using the Abeka curriculum based in Pensacola, Florida. Amerel is 7 years old and Isaiah is 4 years old.

As Iris Missionaries we are living completely by faith and are only financially supported through individuals whom the Lord uses to further His work. We don’t receive stipends or financial support from Iris Ministries. Because of our love for God and His kingdom, we do personally financially support the work here at the children’s center, as well as continuing to fund the work the Lord specifically has given to us to do in the villages and city.

Thank you for everyone that joined with us in praying for chapas (cement roofing tiles). Only one store owner in Lichinga has chapas in stock at former prices, but previously that store owner said that ALL of them were broken, and that he wouldn’t sell them. To get other chapas, they’d have to be shipped in at a higher price that is twice as much. Last Friday, the Lord told me that He had released chapas to me, and that I could go get them on Monday. On Monday, I went to the store and asked again. The owner told me that he didn’t have any chapas. The Holy Spirit’s boldness arose in me and I was determined to buy his chapas. I told this non-christian man that I was building a house for the pleasure of God and the glory of Jesus Christ, and I was willing to buy whatever he had (even the broken ones for a discounted price). (I could see the Holy Spirit ministering to him). After he paused, he called a man to go with me and count all the chapas. There were only 32 and more than half of those were broken and split. But there were about 10 good ones after all. For our house we need about 45 more. Today, we are in the process of trying to fix the broken ones. By next week, I should be able to show you pictures of the house with at least some chapas on it.

TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS:

Church of the Living God

199 Deming Street

Manchester CT 06042

(860) 648-0520

All donations are tax deductible and 100% of your donation goes directly to support our ministry.

SENDING PACKAGES AND OTHER ITEMS

For everyone who is eager to send us packages full of goodies (hint, hint), please use the mailing address below. This is the P.O. Box for our center and our personal phone number that you should also include on the package.

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

C.P. 261

Lichinga 90100

Niassa, Mozambique

Africa

Phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Love,Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Tyren’s phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Tiffany’s phone: 011-258-827-316365

heartsforharvest@yahoo.com

http://www.clgonline.net/blog/haynes

Healing, Miracles and House Testimony

Healing

During an evangelism outreach in Asumani, I asked a group of children to pray for all the other sick children around them. Some of the sick children had headaches and stomach aches. When we began to worship, several of the children started pushing and shoving one another (it turned into “holy chaos” as some people call it here). But in the midst of this we continued to worship, and when the children prayed for the other ones, Jesus healed ALL of the sick children.

Miracles

A woman in our church tried several times to plant corn in her garden. Each time the bugs ate everything. If people don’t have successful crops, their families can go hungry. They also will not be able to sell extra food and will therefore suffer financially as well. Finally, this woman planted seed again and this time she cried out to the Lord. Then next time she went to check on her garden, she found that all of her corn was growing and that none of it was being eaten by bugs.

Tyren’s cell phone was low on battery power one morning. He went into the city that morning and then had to his phone to call and talk to two people. He expected the phone to run out of battery power. But when he looked at his phone, he saw that it was recharged. The Lord recharged the phone supernaturally.

Prayer for the Ministry of Building the “House for God’s Pleasure”A lot is being done on the house even though it looks similar to the last picture we sent. Cement plastering (to cover the cement blocks and make smooth walls) is being done in the inside and outside of our house. We continue to contend for the testimony of the Lord in building this house for God’s pleasure. Since we began building, cement prices have gone up, the price of roofing has literally doubled and the builder explained to me that his charge to build the house was really a charge to only build part of the house, and all the other needful parts would be extra. But since April, I had his written and signed quote to build the “whole house”. Well, I know it’s just a misunderstanding due to the way things are done here. Jesus met me in a most wonderful

way that I could no longer see the problems. I only saw Jesus and could literally do nothing but worship Him. People have misunderstood Him, too. He let me know that since He suffered for us, I am always able to see Him and meet with Him in situation I encounter. I never have to lose my focus on Him, nor leave that wonderful place of rest. Now I laugh, even with my builder. Actually, every issue we’re having is looking like an exciting opportunity to see the greatness of God! Things look different when you only see Jesus. Oh, we’re still praying that all will work-out well.

But our focus is on contending only to know Him, that we may lay a foundation in men’s hearts through the testimony that is being made known through the house we are building for God’s pleasure. (This is the pleasure God longs to know (experience) as He intimately experiences the people He created in His image). We know in whom we have believed, and know He is faithful with what He promised us. The call of God for our lives is one of God’s promises to us for what He has delightfully committed Himself to be and do in our lives as we yield and work together with Him. Our focus is on Him. Amen.

We walk through fire and are not burned, through rivers and they do not overwhelm us. In our humility we are accounted as poor. But, in this poverty of Christ-like humility, we being poor are possessing all things for His glory. (Isaiah 43:2; 2 Corinthians 6:10)

In Christ. There is no other “place” to be.

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Pressing In For More of Him

For some reason, the last few blogs we created in July are missing from our blog site. You should have received emails with our latest new though. We’ve updated our blog with the new posting below, and will try to re-post the deleted ones as soon as possible.

A lot has been going on with house construction and our builders so we weren’t able to update the blog last week. Here’s an update on house construction and the new Saturday meetings in the city.


House Construction
House construction is going well (with much prayer) and we pray that we’ll be able to move in during August. We had to postpone putting on the roof but are continuing with other areas. Please pray that everything needed for the house will be supplied. On the other hand, the presence of the Lord is increasing during our lunch time worship and teaching, and everyone is being impacted with a greater hunger and thirst for the Lord, and living in holiness. One of the workers, James, who is 22 can neither read nor write. One afternoon, Jesus touched his heart and he asked me to give him scriptures so his wife can read the Bible to Him (this was a BIG step for James. Hallelujah!). We are praying that either his wife or someone else can teach him to read and write.



Saturday Meetings In The City
Two Saturdays ago we started our Saturday evening meetings in the city. If you remember, this was planned to start about 3 to 4 months ago but was postponed due to not having a vehicle to transport the ministry team. Now, most people will walk and ride bikes to the city church. Instead of meeting in the evening, the event starts and ends in the afternoon while it is still light.


While we were meeting in the church, a man came in and requested that someone from the church come quickly. Up the street from the church, a 22 year old man named Arlindo had been standing still in the road for some time without moving. According to some people in the village, it had been from anywhere between 1.5 to 3 hours. His eyes were open, but I don’t remember them blinking at all. He didn’t move, didn’t respond to touching or questions, and he didn’t talk. His body was very stiff (rigid). This was obviously the effect of evil spirits. His mother requested that we pray for him in the church. His whole body remained stiff while he was carried to the church. While praying for the man and worshipping the Lord, his whole body became limp and he appeared to be dead. His eyes closed and for a few minutes a few of us couldn’t feel his pulse in his wrist or his neck. (Personally, I believe he was alive but that he only appeared as dead). The whole situation reminded me of the boy in Mark 9:18,20 and 26. Later some men in our ministry team took turns carrying him to his house that was about a 20 minute walk away. When we arrived at the house, the mother gave her life to Jesus. Two days later we received a message from the mom. For the first time in about a year, the man ate food and took a bath by himself. She said that he was starting to act like a normal person again. We continue to pray for Arlindo though because he doesn’t talk and according to his family, he hasn’t received Jesus as his Savior. A few days later, Victor and I ministered to him at his house, but he didn’t talk or respond to anything we said or did.

May the Lord continue to bless you all! For some time, we’ve been feeling that the Lord has given us a double, open door to come and abide in His presence. We know we are always welcome, but there seems to a special beckoning from the Lord that is releasing our hearts from all distractions. It’s as though He’s pursing us in relentless love and passion to ensure we don’t miss this opportunity to know Him more than we’ve ever imagined. Abiding in Him all day is worth everything.

In love with Jesus,
Tyren and Tiffany Haynes