My next financial deadline, it’s next week.
I’ve felt like I should be stressed/anxious/worried about it, but I haven’t been. I have felt completely at peace about it. It’s been amazing, and a little concerning.
Before my last deadline I was stressed. I had no idea how I was going to make it. Finally, on the last day, I decided to put my own savings into this trip, and God supplied the rest of what I needed to make that $5000 deadline.
This time I haven’t been stressed. I still have had no idea how this deadline was to be met, but I have been sure that God would supply what I needed. People have asked me what my backup plan was if the donations to meet my deadline didn’t come in, and I’ve had no answer other than, “God will provide. He has called me to do this and he will provide what I need.”
I’d leave every one of these conversations a little concerned that I should be worried. I should be finding a backup plan. I should be doing more of something. What, I wasn’t sure. Yet even with all of these thoughts floating around my head, I have felt at peace.
I’ve already given all the money I had to give. I have nothing left to give, this time it’s all up to God.
And God Provided! He answered my prayers, and the prayers of everyone who has been praying alongside me, in a wonderful way.
I went to a Christmas party last week. I was tired that night and considered skipping the party to get some sewing done, but I’d told my friend I would go to her party, so I went.
Soon after I arrived at the party, I told a friend of a friend about the World Race. She asked if I needed donations, and I said yes (of course!). Later she overheard me talking to my friend about how much I actually needed to meet my next deadline, and God stirred her heart.
She’d had a sum of money set aside to donate to something, but then she found out she didn’t actually need to donate to that thing. So, she had that money earmarked for a donation, and it was the exact amount I needed to meet this deadline next week. I got a message from her yesterday saying she wanted to donate that money toward my trip!!! Today, that check is in the mail.
God provided. Now I know why I wasn’t worried; God had it figured out all along. I didn’t need to figure out a backup plan, because God was, and is, always in control. I just needed to be obedient to him, to keep my commitments and to talk to people about what He is doing in my life. God is wonderful like that!
Now, I have another financial deadline coming up in January, and I have no idea how I’m going to meet it, but I don’t need to worry because God already knows!
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, to every single person who has answered God’s prompting and donated toward my trip! You seriously have no idea how much each and every donation means to me! Thank you for believing in me and the path God has set me on! Preparing for this trip has been such an amazing season of life to be in!
