I love stories of God's crazy amazing provision...just hearing them builds up so much faith and is encouraging...but testimony after testimony of how God was supernaturally providing the finances for other Bethel student's needs made me wonder...would God every provide for me in the most surprising ways???? Or would I be one who just gets to hear the testimonies and agree about how God truly is Jehovah Jireh and not experience it first hand. God has always had a hand of provision over my family's life and I recognize how He truly cares for His children and desires to see their dreams fulfilled as much as we do, but I want more.
Well before Christmas break I was kind of telling God all that was on my heart...how I needed the finances to come in so I could make my first missions trip deadline on January 5th so I could go to Ecuador with Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. After getting that off my chest I randomly received a message from a guy that I had met once and he told me how he wanted to donate money to go to my missions. He said "just a little bit". Faith starts small...so I told God that at least $100 would be fantastic thinking it wouldn't be that much just because I didn't really know the guy. An envelope comes in the mail, and as I open this envelope I pull out a bunch of twenty dollar bills....as I counted them out it came to a total of $400.00!!!!
Then I sent out another message to friends on January 3rd about how I need to make my deadline in two days! I go to bed that night and was kind of getting nervous about how I needed quite a bit more money to come in. Well I had a dream that someone had donated towards my missions account...so I wake up the morning of January 4th and head straight to the computer knowing that someone had given me money for my trip to Ecuador. Sure enough as I look up my school account online...someone from my family had donated $150.00, during the day money kept coming in and coming in and eventually in one day a total of $580.00 came in!!!!!!!
God continually is showing me more and more of His love and care and how He is the ultimate provider!!!! I feel so incredibly blessed by Him and especially to my dear friends and family who have poured so generously into my life and am so grateful!!! Thanks barely can express how loved I feel!!!
God is always good...always.
