God’s Provision

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published on 12/01/05
categories: Grace  

... and so many more things.  Everytime a need arose, we prayed and God provided.  And when it came up to the two-year mark of his unemployment (yes, that’s not a typo ... two YEARS!) ... I was getting ready for work one morning, stressed as usual.  And I can’t explain it other than a ‘voice’ came to me.  ‘God is going to give you a miracle.’ It was so perfectly clear that I immediately stopped what I was doing and stood for a few moments trying to really believe that I’d heard what I heard.  Two days later, my husband’s recruiter, who he hadn’t heard from in months, called.  He said he had an interview for my husband with a company that’s 6 miles from our home.  My husband interviewed on Tuesday morning, was offered the job Wednesday morning, and started Thursday morning.  An executive-level position that he didn’t apply for ... didn’t even know existed ... and it came to Him. 

I have absolutely no doubt, it was by God’s grace.  The time of my husband’s unemployment brought us to Christ in a way we never could have before, in any other circumstances.  When you are praying desperately, brokenly ... and come to the point of surrender when you say, ‘God, there is nothing I can do ... we are doing all WE can do ... I leave it up to you’ ... He provides.  Even now, four months have passed since my husband started working again in a job he loves ... people he loves ... 6 miles from home (!!) ... making good money, and free health insurance ... I feel like weeping from the joy of what God did in our lives.  The trial taught us so much ... and made us have a relationship with God that couldn’t have come about any other way.

We have had several great trials in our lives and while it is so difficult when you’re in the middle of the wilderness, I’ve learned to cling to God ... because even if it seems like it will never end, God was with us ... teaching us ... strengthening us ... and I love Him endlessly for each and every trial.

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43 year old wife and mother of 2 sons, 16 years and 6 years, living in the Midwest USA.


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on 03/07/06

I am a single mother with four children. My
oldest daughter is married with afamily of her own. My children at home with me are all in school.I gave Christ my life almost three years ago. Financialy I am at my wits end. I don’t want to complain because God is good to us. Your testimony brought tears to my eyes. Thank God for testimonies. I know if He did it for you and your family He has already done it for mine. Thanks for the encouragement. My God continue to bless.

on 03/28/06

I am 53 year old Christian male living in Minnesota struggling in my 13 month of unemployment. I found your story after Google searching the internet in a desperate attempt to find God’s job for me.  You see, this is the second time I have been laid-off from the same company.  The last time they hired me as a consultant the very week after being laid off. Eventually, they re-hired me to provide recovery plans for their troubled accounts. I did that successfully on three different programs. Then, I was laid off again. It seems there is always enough money for top management bonuses, salary increases, and stock options, even when the company is losing money. However, it seems that salary to pay the people actually performing the work is harder to justify. My self esteem has really been reduced to the point where I question whether I was ever of any real corporate value in the first place.  Maybe I have been deceiving myself all along. So, when I read your story it gave me hope.  It caused me to cry out to God. Even though God has helped me before, I needed to hear how he helped someone else. Thank you for the encouragement.

on 12/07/07

I’m too weary, and tired.have been living for 15 years in a storm, and it just gets worse...I know the word of God, and I know that God has promised to more than just provide.but today, I find no comfort in anyones story.I have been in this far too long, and I’m just tired.  The fact is, I know the word God is true, every bit of it, and I also know that Gods timing is never in sync with ours.I’m 3 months behind on my rent, and everything else.  I have one child, she’s away at college, and I may not even get to see her for Christmas.  I hung in there though, because God did not tell me to leave or ask my husband to leave...he’s bi-polar/manic depressive, and his condition sank us...........I see God moving in his life, and I see God moving mountains for our daughter, I’m just trying to figure out why it is that I’m doing all the praying, for them, and me, but my situation gets worse.  My husband moved out in May of this year in a manic state, and now wants to come home.......all summer long I held down the fort for my daughter who was away doing an internship, (non paid), and her Dad who found a friend who let him stay with him for free.  Meanwhile I got left all the bills, no car, and a whole lot of other debts, he was responsible for......and if I don’t get this rent paid by Sat. 12/08, I’ll have no home..so.I’m just feeling a bit rejected, and so alone..No one, no one, unless you’ve lived it will ever understand the stress, trauma, and shear hell it was living with my husband in his state.  He never held a job longer than a few months, I had to work 2, and do everything else.........I was a single parent with one big out of control child who I could not take the keys to the away from......I’m spent............I need a miracle, but I don’t think I’ll get one.........my faith is dwindling, funny, my middle name is Faith.

on 12/26/07

Interesting story. it gives you hope and it makes you believe in miracles. 

on 03/21/08

All other forms of emotional healing that avoid the recognition and putting into practice daily of our need to be crucified with Christ are counterfeit, temporary, and, ultimately spiritually fatal.

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