Testify of God's provision(s) in time of need

[Malvaro]

Share a testimony of God's provision in time of need....

[Malvaro]

I remember when I was in Bible college, I was really, really poor.... and would usually go to Walmart with maybe $10-20 and buy snackies/cheap food to suppliment the meals that the school offered.... many times I would get to eat bagles/cinnamon rolls and drink orange juice for dinner at my Fairfield job when I'd have to skip dinner at the campus....

I remember one night after work, in the middle of the week, when I was hungry and didn't have any snackies/food in my room and prayed that God would continue to provide for me through the week as I knew that I was more more broke than usual....

I remember that Marcus H knocked on my door about a minute or two after that prayer and said, I ordered a whole pizza and I'm full. Do you want the other half of it? Of course, I thanked him and took the rest of the pizza....

a day or two later when I was checking my mail, a friend from out of state sent me a card with a check for $20 and wrote, I just wanted to say hello, I've been thinking of you this week.

I sit here at my desk thinking to myself that God has always provided for me, even when I was penniless Bible college student that couldn't afford a Taco Bell meal. I am SOOOOOOOO blessed; God has always been kind to me....

[freeatlast]

Several years ago now, my only child, my 17yr. old daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease.

That is a lymphatic cancer. It was adavanced stage 3.

15 months of chemotherpy, a couple times that things really looked scary.

Through every step of the journey our God was with us.

At the Des Moines General Conference, it happened. God let her know that she was healed in His name.

That was 12 or 13 years ago now. She is in good health today and we Thank God for his mercy.

She is actively involved full time in the Lords labor and is a testimony of the goodness of God everyday.

[rgcraig]

Mal,

Your story reminds me of a time God provided a "desire" for my husband and I - it wasn't even a need.

We were pooooooor and assisting in a church and after church one night we both wanted something from Baskin Robbins (right by our apt), but didn't have any money. We went home all sad and feeling sorry for ourselves and someone knocked on our door.

We opened the door there were two ice cream cones and giggles. Our pastor's wife and her daughter said they were getting ice cream and thought we might like one too.

We COULDN'T believe it!

We were teaching a home Bible study with a dear lady and told her our testimony and she was just amazed. The next week at her study, she presented us with an ice cream cone shaped pot holder that I have to this day. She said she wanted us to have something to remind us that God heard our desires!

It was pretty cool.

[myhaloisintheshop]

Just last month my husband's company was going through a very rough time. He gets paid commision only and it was rough! We didn't have the money to pay our bills. We barely had money for groceries--with 4 kids we were doing without a lot of stuff so they could just eat!

We filed our taxes and just prayed for a big enough return to cover the light and gas bill and buy a good amount of groceries.

Not only did our return COVER the nessassary bills--it paid off all of our bills. We paid off our van, hopsital bills, loans--everything!

[Tina]

I remember telling this story once on NFCF about God multiplying my laundry detergent-- but I'll tell it since it is one of the more recent things....


We were running really short on money one week.. and didn't have the money to buy laundry detergent. I remember looking into the bottle and seeing there was barely a little blue liquid left in the bottle-- and seeing mostly the orange plastic bottom of the bottle. I said a little prayer-- and put the lid back on the bottle. I washed clothes from that bottle all week long. You have to realize... me doing laundry in this house with 5 people is on average 2-3 loads of clothes a day. So doing laundry for the whole week isn't just a "little" thing to me. I remember every time I took detergent from the Bottle that week, I said "Thank you Lord for providing the need." I didn't run out of detergent before the next payday. In fact, I remember opening the detergent bottle on Friday morning... and seeing nothing except BLUE liquid covering the bottom of the bottle. I couldn't even see the bottom of the bottle that had been almost empty the previous Friday morning.

There have been numerous times that there will be cash or checks to show up in the mail in exactly the amount needed for something we were doing without. There have been times that we had run out of an item that we used in our homes-- and the exact needed item would show up as a "test product" from one of the companies I do consumer research for.

I don't think those things are just coincidence. I give God credit for those things....

[Malvaro]

To God be the glory for His many provisions!!!!

[LaVonne]

These are all awesome testimonies!!!

[Malvaro]

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showpost.php?p=19240&postcount=97

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My wife and I had been through 8 months of terrible car trouble. We had 3 vehicles and it was everything we could do to just keep one running enough to get me to work and back. For nearly 2 months we couldn't afford to pay any bills. It took all of our money to just keep a car running so I wouldn't lose my job.

One night on the way to church our car caught fire. We left it on the side of the road and walked to church. That night I danced around with my keys in my hand and the pastors wife said "That's right brother... claim a car" or something like that. I stopped the service and made it known (with all respect to the pastors wife) that I wasn't dancing with my keys claiming a car. I was dancing with my keys and telling the devil "Remember that sound"... Remember when My God took away the keys to death, hell and the grave"

He had tried to defeat me but I made it anyway and I was just making sure he knew that he was defeated one more time. SO Many stories I could tell about that 8 month period.

I remember one time my car died and the battery was dead. I was trying to get home to get to church. I remember standing behind Church's chicken in Minden Lousiana saying to God "You can make the lightning fly from the east to the west and all I need is 12 tiny volts" :) Ahhhh the memories. :)

One night the pastor called me out and said "Brother... I want to tell you something. You have been through a lot but I see a light at the end of the tunnel and it's not a train." :) He said... "God is fixing to send someone to you... someone you would least expect and your coming out of this trial"

Needless to see you would have done well to not be standing near me about that moment. :)

The next morning on the way to work... the transmission went out. LOL I was on my back... under my car... in the driving rain... with 1/4" to 1/2" constant flow of water parting around me like a rock in a river.... with a smile on my face. I had received a word.... I believed the word... and I had hope.

Not long after that a man knocked on my door who basically trusts no one. He has been through a lot has a very big "everybody is out to get me" type mentality and he doesn't do much for people because he is just afraid people will just want what he can do to help them.

he said "Do you know what my preacher preached on this morning?" "He preached on Jesus turning the water into wine. Do you know why Jesus turned the water into wine?

I answered "No sir"

He said... "No one was dying... no one was going to hell... why did he turn the water into wine?"

I still didn't know.

He said "Just to make people happy" He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a set of keys to a used car he had bought and spent several thousand dollars fixing it up real nice for his daughter. She didn't want it. It wasn't nice enough.

He threw the keys across the room to me and said... "Here.... just to make you happy"

Oh friend... there are people who tout their words as prophecies and God is nowhere near it. But through these instances and others like it I have seen the power that a word from God in due season has to shake a life thoroughly with the realization that the Almight God... the creator of this universe... He knows where I am and He cares.

And that realization.... is a life changing event.

(Okay... gotta go now... it's hot in here... my eyes are sweating :) )

[LaVonne]

I was just a month or so along in the pregancy of our second child, I didn't work and we were sooo poor. We had virtually nothing to eat in the house and would never ask anyone for food or money. One day, my MIL came over with a sack of groceries, she said that she didn't really know why she was bringing it over, but had felt to do so. What a blessing and answer to prayer that sack of groceries were!

[Blubayou]

How marvelous is our God. He not only meets our needs but the desires of our heart!!!!!!

[Margies3]

I could testify over and over regarding this subject! God has supplies my needs repeatedly over the years!!

When I was a teen, I was, like most typical teens, always driving my car on "prayer and air" instead of gasoline. One Sunday when I arrived for church, our pastor asked me to go and pick up a lady who needed a ride to church. Understand now that I had just enough gas to budge the needle off of empty. I hoped it would be enough to get me home after service (I lived about 15 miles from the church). But I knew there wasn't enough to get this lady, take her home after church AND get home myself. So a friend rode with me to pick up this lady. We decided to pray and ask God to help us out here. We finished praying and I am telling you the absolute truth - we WATCHED the needle go up on my gas guage all on it's own. It went up and up slowly, finally stopping at just over 1/2 of a tank. As it turned out, that gas was just enough for me to go on until my next payday.

[Margies3]

Another time, when I was about age 19, I had moved from our safe little town where I knew I could always go home if I was hungry, to Pontiac, Michigan. Big city. And I was so determined to prove my independence that I would never ever have let anyone know if I was in need. At one point, I had absolutely NOTHING in my refrigerator and only a couple of cans of vegetables in my pantry. Nothing else to eat!! And no means of getting any money until the next payday 2 weeks away.

Well, I went to church on Wednesday night and found a gift from my Secret Sister. FOUR bags full of groceries!!!!! I found later at revealing that there was no way in the world that that Secret Sister could have known that I needed those groceries. She just followed the nudge of the Lord.

[Sherri]

Once when we were first married, the whole bottom part of my car fell out on the ground (rusted completely). It was going to cost several hundred dollars to fix and there was no way we could afford it. All we could do was pray! That day I went home and there was a check in the mailbox from my mom for almost exactly the same amount, where she had sold an instrument of mine that I didn't even realize she was selling.

[Margies3]

And I also want to let you know that through this whole thing with Walt's aneurism, he didn't work from May 12 through the beginning of November. Not one day. And I didn't work from May 12 through mid-September. Yet, through all of that time, God supplied every single need we had. When I was low on gas, someone would bring me a Speedway gas card. EVERY time. When I needed to be able to feed my kids, the church brought over groceries and gift cards for the grocery store. We received gift cards for different restaurants (fast food mostly). And in addition to all of this, we never one time had to be late on any bills. The house payments were all made on time, the utility bills, everything!!! God supplied over and over!!!! :bliss :bliss :bliss

Even to the point that this month, we have our car insurance quarterly payment due. I was juggling things trying to figure out how to come up with this large amount. Then we went to present the special award to Swanton Rescue for Life Flight. While we were there, they presented us with an enelope of money from a 50/50 raffle that they did. (no we didn't win the raffle. We don't even enter those things. They had chosen us as their "charity" for that raffle). The money was just enough to cover our car insurance. One again.................. :bliss :bliss :bliss

[Sherri]

When my daughter decided to attend a private Christian college, we realized that we only had enough money in her savings to pay for one semester. She applied for scholarships, but didn't get them, so she just went on faith. Midway through the semester, we were in a special service and were prompted to give away her remaining college money that we had saved up. We wrote the check and just had to trust God. Within a few weeks, she received a totally unexpected scholarship for four years worth of full tuition and they even made it retroactive. She finished college without any student loans!

[Sherri]

And I also want to let you know that through this whole thing with Walt's aneurism, he didn't work from May 12 through the beginning of November. Not one day. And I didn't work from May 12 through mid-September. Yet, through all of that time, God supplied every single need we had. When I was low on gas, someone would bring me a Speedway gas card. EVERY time. When I needed to be able to feed my kids, the church brought over groceries and gift cards for the grocery store. We received gift cards for different restaurants (fast food mostly). And in addition to all of this, we never one time had to be late on any bills. The house payments were all made on time, the utility bills, everything!!! God supplied over and over!!!! :bliss :bliss :bliss

Even to the point that this month, we have our car insurance quarterly payment due. I was juggling things trying to figure out how to come up with this large amount. Then we went to present the special award to Swanton Rescue for Life Flight. While we were there, they presented us with an enelope of money from a 50/50 raffle that they did. (no we didn't win the raffle. We don't even enter those things. They had chosen us as their "charity" for that raffle). The money was just enough to cover our car insurance. One again.................. :bliss :bliss :bliss

Wow, Margie!!! Isn't God wonderful?

[Malvaro]

When my daughter decided to attend a private Christian college, we realized that we only had enough money in her savings to pay for one semester. She applied for scholarships, but didn't get them, so she just went on faith. Midway through the semester, we were in a special service and were prompted to give away her remaining college money that we had saved up. We wrote the check and just had to trust God. Within a few weeks, she received a totally unexpected scholarship for four years worth of full tuition and they even made it retroactive. She finished college without any student loans!

God is AWESOME!!!

[Margies3]

Wow, Margie!!! Isn't God wonderful?

He surely is, Sherri!!!! It's humbling to think that a God as wonderful and marvelous as ours wants to be such a huge part of our everyday life. He truly cares about the small details. The God who created the stars and the planets and the universe still cares when we stub our toe. Is that amazing or what!

[Tina]

This is an AWESOME thread, Malvaro! Thanks for starting it. :)