Over the past couple days I’ve been starting to feel pretty discouraged…
Why is no money in my fundraising account?
Am I doing something wrong?
Why hasn’t God encouraged people to support me?
So last night I prayed, hardcore. I’m talking on my knees, deeply connected and seriously focused kind of praying…
I told God that I know he has perfect timing but, man it is hard for me to see and understand that! What feels like late, what feels like last minute, what seems impossible to me is not for God. And I have to really learn to remember that!
So I did what I do when I’m uncertain or lost…I prayed…
“God, please please please (sometimes a lot more pleases, I’m quite polite when I pray) show me that you are really in this and it isn’t all in my head. Show me this is what you want me to be doing, God. And remind me that your ways are so much better than my ways, so much more productive and fruitful! Keep me relying on you, God. I need you.”
For whatever reason, sometimes it is really hard for me to remember that I need to rely on God more than I rely on myself. Maybe its the perfectionist in me… But if it is, someone smack me because compared to God, I am sooooo far from perfect!!
So today I went out with the flyers for my kids carnival. Before I went out I prayed a pretty similar prayer to the one above, and went out on my way.
I stopped at gas stations, grocery stores, nail salons, pizza places…anywhere in town that would let me hang up the flyer. At some places, I even asked for gift certificates or items that I could use at my silent auction. My first few places shut me down pretty hard. “Sorry, we cannot donate to a Christian organization.”… ouch.
But then it took a turn for the amazing…
I stopped into Coffee Culture, a restaurant in the town I am going to college in. At first I was just going to hang up a flyer, but I felt like I should see if they would be willing to make any sort of donation. It is a kids carnival, but kids have parents, and parents need coffee!
I talked to the manager, who went out back and came back out with 10 gift cards that valued around 25 dollars a piece.
250 dollar of free coffee….
What? For me? Seriously?
Do you understand that I am no one special?
You’re not donating to like, the mayor or something…
So I get back in the car and well, lets just be honest. I was like “Wow Lacey, you are pretty good at this…”
And God was like, EXCUSE ME?!… not really but, you know what I mean. Who am I to take credit for that at all?! I asked God to show me he was in this, and he had a small little coffee shop hand over 250 dollars in coffee to support me! That has absolutely nothing to do with how “good” I am, how nice I looked today or how polite I was. It had everything, absolutely everything to do with how amazing God is! I didn’t expect it. I could never have even thought to ask for that much! But God provides a way for where he is leading you.
I was also blessed with 4 tickets to the Knighthawks, 4 tickets and shirts to the Muckdogs, gift certificates to a local cupcake bakery, and hopefully a few more in the works! A local grocery store also donated food for one of the events as well! Last but certainly not least, My bosses went out and bought TONS of bake sale items as well, which was a serious blessing because I wasn’t sure how I was going to fund that without spending more money than I could earn back.
God is good. God is seriously so good!
“Hey God, show me your in this…”
BAM!!!
I love my God.
The kids carnival will be held on May 3rd at Genesee Community College. I would absolutely and wholeheartedly appreciate any prayer that could be sent that way! I have a huge, awesome group of friends that are helping me run the carnival, and they could use prayer as well. It is a stressful time in the semester. Finals are just around the corner and graduation is not too far behind that, and the carnival is right smack dab in the middle of all of that!
So if you would, please pray for encouragement, energy, positivity, and enthusiasm for everyone helping me, and myself! And please pray that, if it is God’s will, that he makes this a fruitful fundraiser, not only in cash but in uplifted spirits!
God bless you all and never forget to turn everything, absolutely everything over to God. He is the best navigator there ever was and ever will be!
God is good! 
