God Provides!

Part of the sacrifice that Lisa and I are making to plant ExponentialChurch.tv is taking a 21% pay decrease.  It won’t be easy but we are already seeing God bring Philippians 4:19 to life.

My car’s transmission went out about 2 months back and we decided to try to survive off of 1 car for as long as we could.  Two Friday’s ago a man from the church e-mailed letting me know that he was selling his car and willing to give a really good deal on it…I’m talking well below what he could have gotten.  That same day, a check arrived in the mail  for $1000 from another person saying they heard we were without a car and they wanted to help us with some of the cost.

Then today I stopped at the bank to deposit my last check from my employment with the Chambersburg First Church of God.  When I went to put the deposit slip in my wallet, I noticed another check in there that I had forgotten about so I told her “Oops I need to make another deposit”.  Then I went to the coin counter machine and poured in some coins that had been accumulating on my desk at home.  I didn’t realize that it prints you out a slip and then you need to take it to the counter for deposit.  So for the third time within a few minutes the same girl waited on me and made yet another deposit on my behalf, this time for $210.72.  I apologized for doing 3 deposits and promised I wouldn’t be back today…I promised there were no more checks…but then I added, unless God wants to bless us with something in the mail today.  When I got home and got the mail, sure enough, we got a check from a class action lawsuit for $327.47.

My point is this…You can’t out-give God.  His promise to us that are faithful in giving back a tithe to Him is that He will open up the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that we don’t have enough room to contain it.  Lisa and I have tithed all 15 years of our marriage and we have never been in need.  Even during times like this where we’re not sure how we’ll make ends meet, God always figures it out!