Let me just give you the details of these miracles. Number 1: We have been praying for God to
heal our family for over a year now & He has provided countless times for
us to spend time together, rebuilding relationship and restoring hope. In the past two weeks, our whole family has
been able to be together! And while God
still has healing to do, I see Him at work and I am so thankful and excited to
see where He brings all of us. I know it will be more healthy and more centered
on Him, which is how our family should be.
You have to understand, this was an impossible prayer. There was nothing a single one of us could
have done to repair the hurts and fix the problems between us. We went into prayer completely dependent on
God to provide a miracle for our family because we were so broken. And in just a short year, look where He has
brought us! God honors impossible
prayers that honor Him!
Number 2: I can’t pay for school by myself. God had provided me enough money in the first
semester to pay for school, and after that I was going to have to be on my
knees asking for provision. Every
semester, He has provided money for me to pay for school. Every month He has provided money for me to
pay rent (usually within a day or two of it being due) and every day He has
provided enough money for food. It makes
Matthew 6:8, 25-34 really come to life. [“For your Father
knows what you need before you ask Him.”; “For this reason I say to you, do not
be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor
for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the
body more than clothing? Look at the
birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a
single hour to his life? And why are you
worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not
toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you
that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field,
which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much
more clothe you? You of little faith! Do
not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What
will we wear for clothing?’ For the
Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you
need all these things. But seek first His
kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. So do
not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”]
This past semester, I still owed about $600. Without it, I can’t sign up for next semester’s
classes. So I kept praying, knowing that
God would do something, somehow, but not knowing where the money would come
from. I have also been making a point of
giving money back to God, trusting that even though I don’t have a lot of
money, He would be faithful to give me what I needed. My friend, Alison, told me she’d be praying
for God to provide and the next day she called to tell me that God had spoken
very clearly. He told Alison and her
husband, Brad, to help me pay for school.
I knew that the bill was a little over $600 but I figured I could give
them a round number and take care of the little bit extra by myself. (silly!) Today, I checked my bank account and saw an
extra $100 in my account but didn’t know what it was for. My Mom had given it to me for cleaning….she
did not have to do that! The number wasn’t
a coincidence. My bill was actually
$690.75. So with the money from Brad
& Alison plus the money from my Mom, I am able to pay off my school bill
and still have $9.25 extra in my bank account!
WHAT UP! Seriously, God is
awesome!!
Maybe this doesn’t seem like a big deal to you. Maybe you believe it was all just coincidence
and God had nothing to do with it. But
this is a big deal. And God has
everything to do with it! I can’t tell
you how many times money has randomly come in from somewhere because God is
looking out for me. Ask me for more
stories! I’d love to show off what God
has done! So thank you to everyone who
has financially supported me in school: Mom, Dad & Lynne, Alyssa, Brad
& Alison, Mae & Al, Ari & Matt…not to mention all the people who
have lifted me up in prayer not only for financial provision but to be
effective at Moody & to learn as much as I can.
If you’ll keep reading just a minute longer, I want to show
you something. This post is called
Yahweh-Yireh, which comes from Genesis 22 when Abraham named a place “Yahweh-Yireh.” It means “The LORD will provide.” If you read through that story, God asked
Abraham to put his love for God above his love for his son & Abraham was
faithful to it. The decision was
incredibly hard, but he had faith that the LORD could and would raise his son
from the dead if Abraham were obedient.
But before Abraham could sacrifice his son, God provided a ram for an
offering—He provided a way out and a gift to offer….it was in this exact same
place that the Temple would later be built where the curtain was torn in two at
Jesus’ death so that we could have access to God. God provided Jesus for us too! The point is that Yahweh-Yireh is not just
for those spiritual giants in the Bible like Abraham and Moses. It’s for us too, because God never
changes. He still loves us just the same
as He loved them & He will provide for you.
So ask!
Impossible prayers honor God & God honors impossible
prayers.
“Ask, and it will be
given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
