"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
important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And
why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do
not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his
splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes
the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the
fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do
not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What
shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your
heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom
and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as
well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6: 25-34
When God made it clear that I would be going into
missions full-time, the word worry and financial support keep popping up! I
knew that I would have to rest solely on God for this, and the kindness of
other people. My faith would be put to the test! I made a promise to God when I
took the step (it was a leap… who am I kidding) of faith that I would not worry
about money. Any missionary will tell you that worrying about money is on top
of their list!! Well, I decided to say “God if you want me there, then you have
to put together the funding. I will do the leg work, but you will have to turn
the hearts to this!” I am sitting back and laugh at this… because to this day…
(17 more days until I step out into the field) He has done just that! He gets
all the credit!
Because God has done all the work… I am just willing
vessel, I thought I brag on HIM! Here are some of the ways He has worked:
1. I
contacted a non-profit about booking my airplane tickets… which I felt God
telling me to wait… I was antsy about the wait, and about coming up with that amount
of money.. I got an email on Friday in January that the tickets had drop $400
so it be less than $2000 to get the tickets… the hard part was coming up with
the money… they gave me until Monday to pay for the tickets. I was about $900
short… I prayed and asked God for wisdom… at 10:00pm on Sunday night… someone
donated close to $1000 to my web site… Once again God gets all the credit!!!!
2. I
had a list two pages long of things that needed to be purchase for this trip…
once again God step forward…I got a call from Crossroad Missions Thrift Store
saying someone just donated a ton of sewing supplies… would I be interested in
taking it off their hands… Yes.. Yes I would!! Can you see God smiling about
that!
3. Ok,
once I had all the supplies, the issue of getting it overseas was going to be
problem… until God soften the heart of twenty people who took the shipping challenge!
4. I
will let you in on a secret… I felt God telling me to take 21 people for the
shipping challenge… not understanding why until I shipped one of the boxes… it
took two people to ship it! Once again… God got all the credit!!!
5. Coming
up short on a bill for Africa, when my airline called to let me know that they
had processes my card wrong and that I would be getting a refund… hum same
amount as the bill… God is awesome!!!
Those are just a few
things that God has done in the last past year… So here I am, sitting at the
end of a long journey about to leave in 17 days and guess what… I am about $2000
short of my goal… Am I worried! Nope not at all… I know that God has a plan and
that when I board the plane for Africa… I will have the $2000 or more in the
bank account!!
So my question to you
is: what are you worrying about? And why do you think God is not big enough to
take care of it?
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