In My Shoes: "God Provides" OR "I've Never Been So Excited to Get Toilet Paper"

"God Provides"

"I've Never Been So Excited To Get Toilet Paper"

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I'm smiling so big today. I love to see how God gives us the things we need.

Sometimes it's BIG things and sometime it's little things.

I have learned so much recently about God's love and care for me and
I am humbled by it. I know who I am...

I am a wicked sinner who doesn't deserve anything, yet He chose to
save my soul and He loves on ME just because I am His child!

PRETTY A - MA - ZING!!!

As our Heavenly Father, His love is nurturing & caring. God's nature, as our FATHER, is to provide for us... He LONGS to bless us. He LONGS for us to come to Him with a sweet, humbled spirit and ask for our needs. We need to remember to crawl up on His lap, with childlike faith, and just tell him our thoughts and our desires.

I've been reading the Gospels and I love the verses in Luke about God caring for the sparrow, the verse about the lillies and grass being clothed and protected, the verse that says if sinful earthly parents give good gifts to their children, how much MORE will the Heavenly Father give to us...

God says ask...He wants us to ask. God says trust...He wants us to trust. I'm not a parent yet, but don't you mommas take extra care to make sure your kids have what they need? How much MORE will God do that for us!

I've been working on my prayer life, my Ladies Bible Study at church is on Faith, and also Neil has been preaching on prayer on Wed nights. So, I'm getting a triple dose of this good stuff :)

I'm thankful God has been

growing Growing GROWING my faith...

as I trust Trust TRUST my Heavenly Father.

I CAN'T WAIT for you to read this story...there's so MUCH MORE to it...but I'll try to be brief... Key word is "try" LOL!!!

My boss had given me a little bonus raise each weak at work, so knowing I would be home with the baby and that finances would be different, we had decided to use that bonus to stock pile some items and get some things in bulk to put away for later(when money would be tight.)

Just like Joseph in Egypt,

we realized we were in a time of plenty

and so we were preparing for a time of "not so plenty" LOL :)

I made a list of needs and things that we specifically use, and I started to pray for them. Some things I just went out and bought at Walmart. Others, God provided at a thrift store or God provided a coupon, etc... The list was stuff like makeup, toiletries, kitchen & cleaning supplies, Clorox wipes, a few extra jean skirts for me, shoes for Neil(he goes through shoes like crazy so we were just gonna get a few pair to stick away) etc...stuff like that.

I had a pretty specific list and was working on marking things off, but there
is a lot more on the list that we still need...

Losing my job put a pretty big kink in this plan!

When I lost my job the "plenty" was no more.

NOW, It has been over a month, and with no prospect of a new job, I had recently started to get a bit frustrated at the situation.

This morning I decided to humbly crawl up on God's lap, get His attention,

and just tell him that I felt unsure & vulnerable.

That I was frustrated that we could no longer

prepare for the times ahead.

I shared with God...It wasn't that we had been using the money and depending on ourselves to provide, we made sure to acknowledge HIS provision of the bonus money and we were making wise choices with it.

I shared with God...even Joseph took advantage of a time of plenty and wisely prepared for the future

I shared with God...I honestly believed that everything on the list was needs and not wants, but I would surrendered that to His will. He knows MORE of what we need than we even do.

I shared with God...I was okay that we could no longer tackle the list, but that I was FULLY TRUSTING THAT NOW HE WOULD PROVIDE EVERYTHING ON THE LIST!!!

Yes, I was asking boldly, but isn't that what God wants us to do?

I prayed my prayer around 9AM this morning(remember this)

A couple hours later my husband
walked in the door with this stuff...

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!

BRAND NEW

IN THE PACKAGE

FROM COSTCO

SUPPLIES - STRAIGHT FROM THE HAND OF GOD!!!!!!!!!

(and yes, these items were all specifically listed in my book)

Toilet paper, napkins, kleenex and swiffer wet wipes! Woo hoo!!!! and a few more little things...

My hubby works for an apartment complex and as people move out he prepares for the next person to move in. He does things such as...painting, replacing parts, fixing breaks or leaks, etc... It's called "turning" the apartment. So this morning, as he was doing his turn for the day, he found a cabinet full of stuff. Any time he finds things people leave, he has to clear it through his boss before he takes it.

Guess what time she gave him permission that he could take it?

Around 9:00

The same time I was "on God's lap" talking to Him!!!!!!

Need I say more...

NOPE