Jehovah Jireh. God our provider. God knows my needs. He knows what's best for me.
Here I am again. A few weeks before I'm supposed to leave. Why is this a trend for me? I guess it's a thing God and I have got going on. I WILL TRUST HIM!
This time I'm supposed to leave for school.
I can't tell you how frustrated and disappointed I have been while trying to work with the financial aid office. You know, I'm just gonna be real. I'm there, or, trying to be, to study world missions.. ministry. Simpson's catch phrase is "Gateway to World Service." Really, can't there be some sort of funding to help me out?? I'm going there for what that school is all about!
Ok. But I didn't want to rant.
I wanted to write to remind myself how great our God is. There is nothing our God cannot do! If he created the Heavens and the Earth, what's a few thousand dollars really?? Who am I to worry about that?! I've seen him work miracles before. I've seen the numbers crunched wrong, the dollars given by others, I've seen the unthinkable happen. There is nothing my God cannot do.
I am encouraged by a parable found in Luke, Luke 18:1-8:
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
I feel like that persistent widow. How many times can I ask the same people the same questions about money??
But I will. Again. I am going down to Redding to meet with the financial aid office face to face, and see if my plea won't get me somewhere. I would appreciate your prayers beyond anything you can imagine. Pray for grace and understanding with the office. Pray that they wouldn't be afraid to stray from the books or rules, and find money. Pray for donors. Pray that the money would just appear in my account, even if I don't have a clue how it got there! Pray for the unthinkable. (I am praying too, by the way ;) )
I must keep reminding myself that my God it is the same God who has raised people from the dead. The same God who multiplied 5 small loaves of bread and 2 small fish to feed 5,000 people, with food left over!
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do!
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be GLORY in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
Ephesians 3:20-21
Here I am again. A few weeks before I'm supposed to leave. Why is this a trend for me? I guess it's a thing God and I have got going on. I WILL TRUST HIM!
This time I'm supposed to leave for school.
I can't tell you how frustrated and disappointed I have been while trying to work with the financial aid office. You know, I'm just gonna be real. I'm there, or, trying to be, to study world missions.. ministry. Simpson's catch phrase is "Gateway to World Service." Really, can't there be some sort of funding to help me out?? I'm going there for what that school is all about!
Ok. But I didn't want to rant.
I wanted to write to remind myself how great our God is. There is nothing our God cannot do! If he created the Heavens and the Earth, what's a few thousand dollars really?? Who am I to worry about that?! I've seen him work miracles before. I've seen the numbers crunched wrong, the dollars given by others, I've seen the unthinkable happen. There is nothing my God cannot do.
I am encouraged by a parable found in Luke, Luke 18:1-8:
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'" And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
I feel like that persistent widow. How many times can I ask the same people the same questions about money??
But I will. Again. I am going down to Redding to meet with the financial aid office face to face, and see if my plea won't get me somewhere. I would appreciate your prayers beyond anything you can imagine. Pray for grace and understanding with the office. Pray that they wouldn't be afraid to stray from the books or rules, and find money. Pray for donors. Pray that the money would just appear in my account, even if I don't have a clue how it got there! Pray for the unthinkable. (I am praying too, by the way ;) )
I must keep reminding myself that my God it is the same God who has raised people from the dead. The same God who multiplied 5 small loaves of bread and 2 small fish to feed 5,000 people, with food left over!
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do!
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be GLORY in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."
Ephesians 3:20-21
So encouraging, Jessica! I was just thinking about money and all of it's woes... how I work my butt off to put a few dollars into my account just to see them immediately go right back out. But you're so right! He is Jehovah Jireh. The Provider. He will supply all our needs according to His riches in Glory!
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