Written January 26th, 2012
Looking back one day later I have to laugh to myself. God is
awesome! And it’s so funny sometimes how
he works in our lives.
See, a few months ago, I received a substantial amount of
money from someone close. This person offered to allow me to put the funds
either in my World Race account (since I was still underfunded) or my personal
account. For some reason I said my personal as I needed to pray for what to do
with these funds. For two months I agonized over what to do. Come January, this
person contacted me and said they knew I was close to a deadline and still
needed money. They would be more happy to fully funded the remaining part of my
trip, they had already given me some money and wanted to know what I was
planning to do and also if, when and how much they would need to contribute. I
just kept feeling the Lord say “wait”. So I responded and said that come
January 25th (7 days before deadline) I would contact this person if
I was not fully funded. I was use the amount previously given and then let this
person know how much more I need but that I was going to wait on the Lord as
instructed.
Come January 25th, I became fully funded due to
several small donations and a large anonymous donor!
So get this….
On January 25th our team was able to go to a
Brick Factory to feed the families rice. I was sick the previous day when the
team had gone the first time so I was so excited to be able to go! When we
arrived I couldn’t believe what I saw. Check out the blog here.
Anyway, while looking around and hearing that the bag of
rice we bought will only feed 10 out of the 20 families I thought, no problem
we can just go buy more rice, I’ll even pay out of my own account if need be.
Then a sudden a light bulb went off in my head as if God just took my blinders
off and I heard a voice say, “You have money”.
I have money! Why didn’t I think of this before!? I have money! I didn’t
have to use that gift that was given months ago and God just kept telling me to
wait on him because he was planning of having me fully funded with other means
and here I stood among slaves in a brick kiln and I had money to feed them not
just one bag of rice but lots of rice. Duh!
I couldn’t believe it. I honestly just couldn’t believe it.
I saw God’s plan. Right there, in that moment I saw his plan. I had agonized
over what to do with those funds and I could have easily just wrote a check and
put them in my World Race account immediately or I could have saved them for
when I return home and have no money or I could have paid of some debt but
something in me said, “Wait”. And so, for the first time in my life, I can
actually say I listened to God, I waited. It wasn’t easy but I’m so glad I did
because I got to see God work.
No wonder the Bible says “wait, patiently on the Lord” –
Psalm 27:14, 37:7, 34
No wonder the Bible says “he is our provider” – Matthew 6:31-33
No wonder the Bible says “he is faithful” – 1 Corinthians
1:9
He IS!
