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Manuel Din had dreamed of running a successful Christian karate school. He’d taken over a business from an associate, but that school soon went bankrupt. Manuel was forced to start all over.

After only six months, he began to struggle financially again. He wondered if he would have to close this school too.

“I wasn’t getting any students,” Manuel says. “I wasn’t getting any business and the bills. The rent was due and the phone bills and the light bills were due and I just couldn’t sleep.”

He ended up deep in debt.

“Me being in $18,000 worth of debt meant that one or two things would have to happen,” he says. “Number one, I would have to close again or two, I would always have to be at the mercy of the landlord.”

One day, as he sat in his office he turned on The 700 Club and learned a principle that would change everything.

“Pat was talking about giving. He said start at $20 dollars a month. So, I made a $20.00 check. I said, ‘I am going to trust God. I am going to expect a miracle.’ I was expecting God to bring me some students,” Manuel recalls.

Three days later, that’s exactly what happened.

“I decided to do a special. And probably an hour later I put the flyer in the window and a gentleman walked in the door and signed up four students. And he paid me cash,” he says.

That’s when Manuel decided to increase his pledge to CBN.

“I went to 40 dollars a month and soon the school began to fill up. I started to have the money for the rent, which at the time was like $2,000. I didn’t have to borrow any money anymore to pay the bills or light bills. When I saw that happen, I continued,” Manuel says. “I just continued to give and God kept on giving to me back.”

Manuel increased his pledge again and became a CBN founder. His business increased so much that his wife Elizabeth came on to help. Within 6 months of that pledge, Manuel’s landlord decided to cancel $18,000 worth of back rent because of small improvements Manuel had done around the business.

“They decided that they were not going to bill me for it. And I give thanks to God for it,” he says.

Since that time, the school has doubled in size – to 145 students. Now, Manuel is looking to buy a larger building and his family is benefiting from the growth in the business.

“I don’t know what to say,” Manuel says. “I just know that it was the Lord and that God did it. So, I am challenging anyone who is listening to me today to do what I did. Just trust God and start giving. And watch God move in your life."