He Will Bring It to Pass
- Matt Hattabaugh
- Feb 1, 2018
- 2 min read
In 2016, the Lord began to deal with me about teaching on television in Lebanon. At the time, Julie and I were still trying to learn where things were - and using all our faith to raise support to live on the mission field - not get on television! The impression only grew stronger, so in the Spring of 2017, I tried to meet with two different networks. In both instances, however, our schedules didn't line up and I couldn't meet with the program directors.
As we continued to follow God's plan, one step at a time, I received a phone call from our dear friend, Pastor Josef Zorob. He is an amazing Church Planter in Lebanon. As it happened he had been meeting the director of a satellite network. He said as he started to leave, suddenly he asked, "Why don't you have an English language Bible teaching program?" He told me he didn't know why he asked that - they hadn't even been talking about television broadcasts, let alone, English language Bible teaching.
The director answered that there was a demand for that, but she explained that it was important to have a native speaker. He told her that she should meet with me. Two weeks later I was sitting in a studio set to record our first teaching broadcast! The network gives us the studio, production, and airtime - all at no cost to us. The head of the network said, "This is the message we need, not only on our network but in our nation."
Along with Pastor Matt Beemer, we finished 40 Bible teaching programs that are being broadcast weekly to 2,000,000 homes in Lebanon alone. The network reaches more than 40,000,000 in the Arab world. Because of your support and God's faithfulness - all of us working together, we are sowing the incorruptible Word sharing this Gospel of the Kingdom to multiplied thousands.
I share this because its a good reminder to me - and I believe it can help you. Too often we have an idea on the inside that God has given to us, then we try to make that dream a reality only with what we know and with what we can do. I couldn't make the dream of a television broadcast happen - I didn't know how, but God could and He did. The same Provider that made a way for us to share the incorruptible Word of God in millions of homes, will make a way for you to make what today may seem impossible come to pass.
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