Prayers get answered. It’s crazy when they do, especially when it’s dealing with a situation way out of your control. At the beginning of December, I was looking at 3,400$ that I still had to raise. This is an intimidating sum of cash. I sort of just stopped thinking about fund raising when I reached my second deadline of 10,000$. I was more focused on the fact that I was already over seas so I just didn’t think about it for a while. After four months of not raising much came the last dead line in late November, where we needed to be fully funded. At that time I was still sitting at $10,400.
I had no clue how I was going to raise the rest but seeing how far faith has brought me, I couldn’t simply just stop believing God was going to provide. I set out to pray every morning and every night for 5 or so minutes a day with the complete belief that this money was already raised, that I had already received. I’ll remind you, I needed to raise 3,400$. This is a big leap of leap of faith. I wrote in my journal on December 1st, fully committing myself to believing that this was going to happen. That night I prayed with the full belief I have already received this amount, the next day I woke up to pray and center myself on the fact God has already provided.
Within four days 1050$ was raised. The next week 1100$, a week after that 500$. Within days of praying intently, I got an answer. Actually multiple answers, at weekly intervals. I was blown away.
It’s happened before so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but it’s still freaking crazy! Something interesting I found was when I examined my account that kept track of fund raising. It showed the amount that was raised for each month and I realized that the most money had been raised during December. The month I had completely set out to believing I had received my prayer already.
Past months of fundraising, when I sold coupon books and raffle tickets didn’t raise as much as December. The month when I sent out support letters didn’t raise as much as December. My graduation party didn’t raise as much as December.
I’m not fully funded, but I’m only a couple hundred dollars away from reaching my goal compared to the three thousand dollars I needed to raise at the beginning of December. It’s crazy what faith does.
