When Rex and Rosa moved to beautiful New Mexico, they found themselves in a financial desert. Rex lost his job and money was running out fast. That’s when Rex remembered a principle that lead to financial security in the past. They put it ... ...
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Reporter: REX AND ROSA
JOHNSON LOVE TAKING IN A
BEAUTIFUL SUNSET AT THEIR
HOME IN THE NEW MEXICO
DESERT.
SHORTLY AFTER THEY MOVED
HERE, THOUGH, REX LOST HIS
JOB WHEN HIS COMPANY
DOWNSIZED, AND THEY HAD TO
LIVE ON SAVINGS.
SOMETIMES IT IS HAND TO
MOUTH, BUT I'M DOING MY
BEST.
THAT'S ALL A MAN CAN DO.
Reporter: MEANWHILE,
REX WAS HOME MORE OFTEN AND
STARTED WATCHING "THE 700
CLUB" WITH ROSA, WHO HAD
BEEN A LONG-TIME VIEWER.
THE BIBLICAL TEACHINGS ON
THE SHOW REMINDED HIM OF THE
IMPORTANCE OF GIVING AND
TITHING FAITHFULLY,
SOMETHING THEY HADN'T DONE
FOR YEARS.
BUT AS I GOT INTERESTED
IN "THE 700 CLUB," I STARTED
REMEMBERING WHEN WE WERE
TITHING REGULARLY, AND WE
WERE DOING THESE THINGS.
AND IT WOULD SEEM LIKE WE
WOULD NEED SOME MONEY, AND
SOMEHOW IT WOULD HAPPEN.
I'D GET OVERTIME OR
SOMETHING UNEXPECTED WOULD
HAPPEN.
Reporter: WHEN ROSA
SUGGESTED THEY START GIVING
TO CBN, REX WAS WAY AHEAD OF
HER.
GOD MADE A PROMISE, AND
REALLY CBN BROUGHT THAT OUT
AND IT KEPT RESONATING IN MY
MIND.
THAT'S WHERE HE SAID, TRY
ME.
I SAID, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING
TO DO IT.
Reporter: SO THE
JOHNSONS BECAME CBN
PARTNERS.
SOON AFTER --
ONCE I MADE THAT
COMMITMENT, THE NEXT DAY I
GOT A PHONE CALL FOR A JOB I
DIDN'T APPLY FOR.
YES, I WAS SURPRISED.
IT IS MIRACULOUS.
Reporter: IN FACT, THE
JOB WAS BETTER THAN THE ONE
HE APPLIED FOR, AND THE
JOHNSONS BELIEVE IT IS
BECAUSE OF THEIR
FAITHFULNESS TO GIVE.
NOW THEY'RE EXCITED ABOUT
GIVING.
THEY SAY THERE HAVE BEEN
TIMES THEY COULDN'T WAIT TO
INCREASE THEIR PLEDGE TO
CBN.
I'M WATCHING "THE 700
CLUB," AND GORDON IS
TALKING, AND I'M SITTING
THERE AND I'M GETTING
STIRRED IN MY HEART.
I THINK, I NEED TO GIVE A
LITTLE MORE MONEY.
Gordon: A "700 CLUB"
MEMBER SAYING I WANT TO BE
IN THE CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE.
I WAS WORKING OUT, AND
AFTER THAT, I DID MY
COOLDOWN AND INCREASED OUR
PLEDGE.
Reporter: REX AND ROSA
ARE CONVINCED THAT THROUGH
THEIR GIVING, GOD HAS
BLESSED THEM IN MORE WAYS
THAN THEY CAN COUNT.
I'M ABLE TO GIVE.
I'M ABLE TO SAVE.
I'M PAYING OUR BILLS.
AND NOW I WOULDN'T THINK OF
NOT GIVING TO GOD.
SO I'M FEELING GOOD.
