Followers, my only hope of this post is that it makes you smile as much as it made me smile. I will try to keep the story short, but want to make sure that I fully reveal the beauty of the Lord within the story.
A friend of mine was facing a difficult situation with finances. There was a deadline to have fees paid by- otherwise it meant sianara (how do you spell that??) to school for the semester. I myself had been in the same situation just last year.
We decided that the best thing to do in the situation was get before the Lord. What I am about to say is absolutely nuts! He totally wrecked the both of us hard core! Here's how it went down:
My friend was going to be guaranteed to receive the money by a certain date. So she emailed the school and we were awating their approval. So let the prayer begin….
1. I called my friend and prayed over her. The alternative to not getting approved lingered in the back of her mind. It would mean a longer time in school, and that she would not be able to go on the trip to Haiti that she has been looking forward to for quite some time now. As she mentioned these things on the phone, I provided weak sauce words of encouragement. End call one.
2. Call my friend back. Two things: 1- I felt that it was the work of the enemy when we were considering the alternative. That he was trying to distract us and cause us to think on the wrong things. So immediately, we came against that. 2- My friend had shared with me a story that came from the book "The prayer of Jabez" about a filing cabinet that stretched for miles, and when the man asked what it was, the Lord responded that they were blessings that he wanted to give out that his followers never asked for.
I was reminded of that story and told her that I felt like the Lord was telling us to focus on asking for his blessing. She was reminded of it at the exact same time I was. End call two.
3. Shot her a text saying "knowledge of the reward is worth the fight," meanwhile she was reminded of an anonymous donation she received that made it possible for her to go to Belize.
4. I randomly found a poem I'd written a few months ago entitled "The Fight." When I wrote the poem, I didn't feel all that great about it. Yet when I read it in the moment…. There aren't even words. It spoke volumes to my friend– as if it were a poem written specifically for her. I wrote that poem before I even knew her. Coincidence that I found it right then? Hardly.
5. My friend says "I need to let go and let God." Not two days before, I received a journal from a dear friend with encouraging excerpts for the remainder of my days before graduation. The first 3 pages were on letting go. WHAT?!
6. This one may seem silly, but for me, it just proves that God sets things up. This all happened on a Friday night. I felt like a loser that I was sitting alone in my room and considered going to a friends apartment. My roommate was on RA duty.
I was meant to be alone that night.
The Lord has been revealing himself in crazy ways lately. And I'm realizing that it's a constant. He's always revealing himself, we're just not listening a lot of the time. We get distracted by the enemy and his lies. That's all he does is lie and hope that we believe him. Well, this kid right here is suiting up, putting on the full armor of God, and entering the battle scene. My God is ALWAYS speaking, he's ALWAYS good, he's ALWAYS searching for us, and he's ALWAYS faithful. No one is going to convince me otherwise.
Blessings,
-The Biz (short for C-Biz, which is what a lot of people call me)
