God’s Answers: Marcella & Jorge
Jorge, a new believer at Park Lane church, had been praying that God would arrange for him to take his first vacation in 2 years. God answered by having him lose his job a few weeks ago. He and his family were over at Matt and Nathan’s apartment when he got the call, and there were many tears. Tears of sadness and tears of fear. In light of the awful job market here, it was easy to understand why they were suffocating beneath a blanket of fear. I felt afraid for them too. When you’re already scraping to get by, a job loss could easily lead to homelessness. After praying together, Jorge explained to me with a tear stained smile that this wasn’t the vacation he had in mind.
Over the next days we got to pray together a lot and have conversations about God being in complete control and completely loving us, even when hard things happened. We talked about how following God doesn’t always mean that the road gets easier. We prayed a lot for peace and trust with God’s plan as well as purpose and courage during the waiting.
At the time of the job loss, Marcella and Jorge were living in an apartment complex that is way nicer than Park Lane. They were planning on renewing their lease, but with Jorge’s job loss they felt they needed to move into Park Lane where the rent is a lot cheaper. They had felt God directing them this way since soon after they came forward at the revival, but Jorge told me they didn’t out of fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of jumping off their standard of living high dive, fear for the spiritual and physical safety of their family, and fear of roaches and rats. Satan of course played on all of their fears to keep them from moving forward, but they persevered. With a little push from above the faith to obey they moved in a couple doors down from Nathan and Matt.
Shortly after they moved in Jorge told me, “I guess I needed God to send a big fish to swallow me and spit me out here, but I’m glad He did.” The next day, after a few weeks of time off with his family, and after he got moved in and settled, he got a call from an old friend that offered him a better job than he had before. He started his new job a few days ago and loves it.
Watching their faith grow through their childlike obedience and God’s clear demonstration of His sovereignty and love has helped our faith to grow too. Please keep Marcella, Jorge, and their two children Emily and Matias in your prayers as they continue to grow in their faith.
Absolutely awesome! My faith grows too as I watch God answer prayer and take care of His children! We are praying for this precious family. Here’s a hug from your mom!
Love,
Mom
I love it when God’s hand in things is so clear.
Jesus is the Man! I’m excited for you all
I love this! God is so good! He gives and takes away and He makes us stronger. Jorge and Marcella are so blessed by Him! I love them deeply. Glad to hear you are all being encouraged by the obvious hand of the Lord during what may seem like a dark time. You are all in my thoughts and prayers daily.