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Page 1: The Redemption Collection: Jagat's Story
Page 2: The Redemption Collection: Jagat's Story

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive.

Genesis 50:20

In God’s hands, intended evil becomes eventual good.

Max lucado

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Pastor Jagat Wagal knows how important human life

is to God, but that was not always the case. Before he became a Christian in 1995, Jagat was a Hindu. He grew up in a high caste family and, though he felt pressure from his family to follow their Hindu traditions, he was never passionate about following the religion or taking part in the rituals. Rather, he chose to walk his own self-destructive path.

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Soon, Jagat realized he was on a path headed towards death. Only God’s love could save him. He felt completely unworthy of God’s love because of his sin, but God redeemed and changed his heart. He realized God loves the outcasts – the ones that everyone else has forgotten; the “unworthy” and the discarded of society.

From that

moment on, Jagat

dedicated himself

to being used by

God to redeem

good from

evil.

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Jagat decided to go after some of the most “unworthy” and discarded in Nepali society: prison inmates. Jagat began ministering in the Bhadrapur prison and has since seen God do amazing things. In 2010, someone in Bhadrapur told

him about Tiny Hands Nepal. Jagat saw that this was a way of preventing young women and children from becoming outcasts in society, so he joined Tiny Hands’ transit monitoring work at the border in Bhadrapur.

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Jagat saw what happens to traffickers after they are imprisoned, so he decided he wanted to do more than just “conquer” trafficking through Tiny Hands’ transit monitoring work.

Jagat wanted to redeem good from evil by reaching out to the convicted traffickers themselves.

So Jagat started a

prison ministry.

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Amir is one of the believers in Jagat’s prison ministry. He is a convicted trafficker. Amir only has an eighth grade education and he did not have much guidance from his family growing up. One day, Amir’s friends approached and told him he could make a lot of money, enjoy free airline flights, nice hotel stays, and lots of

great food if he trafficked girls. Amir completely understood what trafficking was about, but he didn’t care because he was desperate for money and a better life for himself. All he had to do was find a girl in the village, pretend he was in love with her, convince her he wanted to marry her, and bring her to the border to be sold.

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Ultimately, Amir was arrested and incarcerated at the Bhadrapur prison. When he arrived, he was angry and seeking revenge against everyone. As a result, Amir was alone and a complete outcast. However, the Christians in the prison befriended Amir. They

consistently asked him to think about this life and they told him about Jesus. As a result of the Christians’ encouragement, Amir started going to Jagat’s prison fellowship where he found friends and a place where he was accepted despite of his past.

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Amir’s new Christian friends encouraged him to be thankful instead of revengeful because it was in prison where he found a new life. Amir understood that God chose to protect his life by bringing him into the prison and showing him the Gospel, so he

repented and gave his life to Christ. He now has a strong faith and is an active member in the prison fellowship. Amir’s wife is now also a believer because she saw such an incredible change in him.

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Each of our redemption stories start the same way. We were once “alienated, hostile in mind, doing evil deeds.” (Col 1:21) Even those of us who accepted Christ at a very young age were living a life, separated from God and ultimately working against

Him; hopeless to ever cross the vast chasm before us without a dramatic rescue.

If you are anything like me, you forget that. Or, rather, maybe it’s more accurate to say, we choose to forget…who we were before our rescue. To look back can be a painful process, marked by regret and shame. It’s much easier to forget that dark and ugly season and move on. But to forget our story, means we forget what He has done for us. What he has brought us through. All the ways He has slowly and incredibly changed us. We risk loosing the opportunity to see His redemption

story unfold, IN US! We may miss seeing Him do the impossible…the miraculous….turn what was once evil into something good.

When we forget our story of redemption we are tempted to think that we’ve always been like this. That the good residing in us came from us, resulting in the thinking that those around us who seem to have no good or to be no good, are a hopeless cause.

Nothing could be father from the truth.

Friends, be reminded today that there is NO life God cannot and does not desire to redeem. He is, as we speak, and has been for all time, relentlessly pursuing ALL hearts, inviting them to know His steadfast and redeeming love.

God can, will and desires to take the evil in us and done to us, and transform it and use it gloriously for our good.

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God wants to redeem evil from good – even in the lives of traffickers who have subjected young women and children to the horrors of sex trafficking. In fact, there are now 75 Christian

believers involved in Jagat’s ministry at the prison including several convicted sex traffickers.

Stay tuned for next week’s story of redemption.

Visit www.tinyhands.org/BeRelentless to learn how you can help.