This morning I was moved to actual tears as I tasted and saw the Lord’s goodness.
Last month my team and I started a 40 prayer challenge. Each morning we prayed over each other and then individually brought specific requests to the Lord. One of my biggest prayers over this time has been for financial provision.
Within this request there have been multiple smaller prayers the Lord stirred in my heart – such as for my parents meeting a stranger, telling them about the race and them feeling led to donate, or for hearts to be stirred to donate on a specific day. And it’s been the most incredible thing to see the Lord answer these specific prayers! But through it all I’ve been holding onto one more – a financial miracle.
There are countless journal passages over the past few weeks that include, “Lord, thank you so much for this donation! I truly cannot praise you enough for answering this prayer! And I know this is just the start of your provision. I also know that you know this Father, but I’m only such and such days away from my deadline and I need a financial miracle…”
I’m going to be honest, there were times I almost gave up on the idea of being fully funded by the deadline. Thinking, there’s no way. Maybe the Lord is trying to test my faith in a new way by not getting me there… Why am I so quick to make easy ways out for God? He doesn’t need them!
I kept bringing it to Him anyway. In John 11:40 Jesus says, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of the Lord?”
Today as I brought this request to the Lord yet again He called me to check my donation page. As I got on, at first a little unsure if it was truly Him or I was just getting my hopes up, a $2,300 anonymous donation came in. My miracle.
God is so dang good at being God! And sometimes He waits till the last minute for it to all come together. But if there’s anything I’ve learned from the race it’s that He always hears us, He delights in answering us, and He also delights in showing off in the process 🙂
I am just 8 days away from my deadline of being fully funded and now only $259 away! I truly cannot thank everyone who decided to journey with me and has helped get me to this point enough! The Lord has used so many of you to be my miracles.
