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(This is a post that’s going to be updated often on the Race, so check back sometimes to see God’s newest workings!)
Hello y’all and welcome back to Thailand News! Newsflash: God provides.
“He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”” ~Matthew 17:20 NIV
In the States, I never really felt my faith was strong. It was more of a passing thing- something I knew I had and was real, but I didn’t really talk about it that much in depth. I was extremely eager to discard that mindset on the Race.
As everything, it’s a work in progress. I’ve been praying to God every day at any time, I’m reading the Bible and looking deeper into passages, becoming interested in different parts of Christianity and finding people to talk about those parts.
And one of the things God is teaching me, is that He works everywhere, at all times, and provides. But, He also helps those who helps themselves.
I have heard from my squadmates and leaders the array of miracles God has performed. For sake of privacy, I won’t post them, but they ranged from the right person in the right place to a lost item suddenly appearing in their room.
As for me, I’ve got three already. And there will definitely be many more.
The first two both happened in our first week in Thailand!
For the first week, we were given 1,050 baht, the Thailand currency which converts to about 50 US dollars, for our meals for the next two weeks. None of us knew how expensive or cheap things were, so I was worrying. A lot.
I usually bought meals at either the local Big C (Thailand’s version of Kroger), or at the night market. And boy, is everything deliciously cheap. For two pork kabobs and a side of fried rice is 70 baht, or a little over two US dollars. (30 baht equals one US dollar.) So money-wise, I was okay!
I kept track of all my purchases. And I started noticing that people were taking money out of the ATM, while I hadn’t yet. The next week, we were given our next allowance for food, and I looked over how much I had spent in the last two weeks.
I hadn’t taken any money out of the ATM. I had used 1,750 baht. God had added to my money.
I hadn’t even asked Him. I hadn’t prayed for this, I was just a little ball of anxiety over it. And God had seen that, and He provided.
The second miracle that week could be brushed off as just a little coincidence, but since when has there ever been coincidences with our God? He scripts the whole world out and knows exactly what is happening everywhere – there are no coincidences.
This was at the end of the second week. I had been craving sweets for a while, but never actually gave into the urge. Instead, I’d wash the urge down with water.
On the first floor of the hostel is a bakery, and the bakery has a policy that one has to first use physical cash to 100 baht, before one can use their credit card without a minimal fee. In Thailand, if one uses their card to purchase something, there’s usually a minimal fee of 200 baht or more that’s automatically taken along with the purchase on one’s card.
That day, I decided I’m finally going to order something sweet. I got in line, and then one of my squadmates, Sarah, spoke up. “Does anyone want something?”
ME PLEASE! I immediately zoomed to her side and ordered a slice of chocolate cake. Sarah thanked me and I thanked her, because I been really wanting something sweet for a while now! The cake was delicious, albeit less sweet than I’d been expecting. As an American, most countries’ desserts are less sweet than I’m used to.
But that was the only day I had decided to actually do something about my sweets craving, and THAT was the day Sarah needed to order something for someone. There are no coincidences.
The last one, for now, was a lesson in trusting other people, and assuming. I know what assuming does, yet I still do it :/
If you read my post last week, I had lost my bag. I found it yesterday!
So. I had left it in the common room. It wasn’t there the next day. I knew the cleaning staff clean up the common room every day, therefore they had to have seen it, and probably put it somewhere. Nope. I assumed that the news of my missing bag had been told to the team and squad leaders.
I had left a note and one of the mentors informed me that none of the staff had seen it. Weird. Well, the guys’ team had been working in that room all day, so they had to have seen it. Nope. I had no idea where it could be, other than in the hostel.
This in between state continued for three days. I was extremely hesitant to use my money, since I had so little, and it was the loss of stability. Again, if you read my blog last week, I had a nice dinner with Lily and Heather, which Lily paid for (Thank you so much Lily!).
Yesterday. I had a one on one with our squad mentor, and immediately launched into my issue of my missing bag. Our mentor then informed me that she had it in her room. She and the team and squad leaders pick up the things left behind in the common room (since Racers go in and out of it so often) and put it in their room so Racers can find it later.
I had assumed that our squad mentor would’ve been told about my missing bag already. Shows what I know xD So I have my bag back and everything’s okay!
In God We Trust,
Cheyenne
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?… Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” ~Matthew 6:25-27, 34
