My God Provides....

this is my money testimony…this might not mean as much to you as it did to me, but it reminded me that my God provides!

So going back to about last Christmas, when I got home, I started freaking out ( probably when I looked at my bank balance ) about not having enough money to pay all my expenses here at GFM, and I was also worrying about not being able to pay expenses during my break home.

That was when God reminded me that He was God and that He owns the whole world, and He doesn’t worry about stuff like that. He gave me a few reminders of His power through these little, but awesome testimonies:

First, I was broke and I only had three weeks so I couldn’t get a job. That’s when it snowed like two or three times, so my little brother Daniel and I shoveled our friends’ very long driveway and I made like $60-$70 bucks off that. Next, I had about seven rolls of film ( yeah…still very behind the times! lol ) that I wanted to develop, which would have cost like $50.00. I didn’t have enough money for that, and so I disappointedly decided to only get my pictures on CD, much cheaper, but not as convenient or nice. Well the next week when I went to pick up my film the store had “accidentally” printed all seven of my rolls of film, so I got all of them, and the CD’s, for the price of what I would have paid if I had just gotten the CD’s. Then I got a shirt for Christmas that just really didn’t fit, so I took it back to the store hoping maybe to get five dollars or so ( since I didn’t have a receipt ), and unbelievably ended up getting around $20 - $25-ish for it.

At that point I decided to just give it up to God, and stop worrying about money at all. So I headed back to Mexico, having no idea how or where the money I needed was going to come from, but just keeping the promise in my heart that God was God and that He would provide.

I was still like extra skipping on money though, and not enjoying spending money for fun, or like if a group of us went out to eat I wasn’t able to enjoy it because I was still a little worried about not having enough money. That was when one of my friends approached me and reminded me how much God was in control, and how I was acting through my worries like He was not. So I started praying and working on that part of my life.

Also around that time it was brought to my pastor and my church boards’ attention that I was short on money and they began to pray about supporting me. My pastor had me write a letter and he put it in my church bulletin, and my mom sent out the same letter to a few other of my friends. I had asked for about $1000.00, and God has provided about double the amount! This process has been just an awesome lesson on trust, letting God be God, and just learning how to get over my foolish fears and worries.

God is an awesome God…not just when everything works out, He’s awesome even when bad things and hard times come along. I always want to remember that…I never want to forget that…I always want to trust God and know that God is God….no matter how scary things get…no matter what happens in this world…no matter how many terrifying things happen….no matter how far away from home I am…God is God, and He’s an awesome God at that!

Thank you all for your help, love, and support! You have blessed me greatly!