I Believe

I believe in the power of prayer. I always have. I also believe that God takes care of our needs. I have seen it happen over and over in my life. This time was no exception. I got a call this morning at 8 from the contractor asking me was it alright if they came today at eleven instead of tomorrow. He said that their appointment for that day had been postponed. Here I was in tears just two days ago because I felt like I was fighting a losing battle and I asked everyone that prays for prayers. I just simply asked for prayers. And today the contractor is coming after the man in charge told me two days ago that he was not coming. God is good all the time…even in the bad times. Not only was this resolved the financial issue is better too. Thank you for standing by me with prayers and good thoughts.

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I believe that our needs will be taken care of and I can tell you story after story showing how my holding on to that faith…that something happened to take care of things financially. When my son was laid off, we were on the other side of the mountain. We had a big house payment that was more than my disability check. I kept telling my son that our “needs” would be taken care of. …not our wants…but our needs. And something happened every time to do just that. The gas bill would be due…a check from the electric co-op back east would send a refund from twenty years ago for the exact amount of the gas bill. The taxes came due and our escrow would have sent a check refunding overage from the past year for the exact amount of the taxes. We would be short on food and a neighbor would be seen going to all the neighbors and show up at our house with a big box of food because his freezer quit working and the food would thaw before he could get the new one delivered. So, he was giving it to his neighbors.

I have found that our needs have always been taken care of. We never went without food, a roof over our heads, warmth in the winter, cool in the summer, clothing, gas for transportation, medicine..things we needed. And the most glorious thing about last year was watching my son as each need was taken care of. Was it ever hard to rely on faith? Yes at times but I knew when the doubt crept in, I had to get it out quickly. There were times we were right up to the last minute, but it always came through. We had to do our part though. We had to exhaust all our means to try to solve the problem. We did not just sit back and say “ok God…you do it”.  We had to do our part and find ways to accomplish it. Sometimes the taking care of our needs is in providing us the means to make what we need.

The other day I had done all I knew to do to get this work accomplished. I had done all I knew to do to get the financial situation also resolved. And finally I did the one thing left that I knew I could do and that was to ask others for prayers. And both needs have been taken care of.

So, to you all that prayed…thank you for the prayers. Thank you for standing by me and walking my journey with me. I do believe in prayer and I believe in you all.

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