God CAN be Trusted

Philippians 4:6

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Yesterday Pastor Mel preached on this scripture. He was encouraging us all to totally give our cares and concerns to God and quit worrying about them. Most of us know this simple truth, but many of us do not practice it. Well, being the loving Father that He is, God decided to give the kids and I an object lesson yesterday to be sure we start really understanding how to Trust Him. See God knows me all too well, and knows I used to LOVE to watch our children's pastor do object lessons. I think it is so cool God gave me one!

Darin stayed home last night while the kids and I went to play practice. He was concerned that the truck was a little low on gas, so on the way I stopped to fill it up and discovered that I had left my wallet home. Right then I asked God to help me and make our gas last. On the way home the low gas light started blinking. Since we have only had this truck a week, we aren't sure how many miles we can drive when the light starts blinking, so I started stressing. I didn't even have any change to use the pay phone and I live 25-30 minutes from church. So I told the kids to pray. The gas gauge is a picture of bars stacked on top of one another, and we only had 2 bars left before the gas was totally out. Andy was asking me about the bars, and I said that we had three bars, now we have only two. Then it went back up to three bars! That's when Andy told me that he asked God to put the gas back up where it was and to make it last until we got home. We were so blessed! The kids we saying things like, "When you pray to God He answers," or "I trust God so I'm not going to worry. He will make the gas last." I tell you what, God DID make that gas last and the bar did NOT go back down to two bars! We made it home and we got to see just how much God looks after us!

Thank you God, you are so good! You give peace to your children and take our burdens so we don't have to worry! PRAISE YOUR NAME!

Fresh Clean Water

Psalm 111
Praise the LORD. I will extol the LORD with all my heart in the council of the upright and in the assembly. Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them. Glorious and majestic are his deeds, and his righteousness endures forever. He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate. He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations. The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy. They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness. He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever-- holy and awesome is his name. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. (NIV)

God's love just blows me away. He always provides everything we need. We live in the country and do not have city water. When we bought this house it had a shallow well. We were experiencing a drought that year and our well kept going dry. You don't realize how much water you need in a day until you have none. This happened off an on for about a year. It was hard but then God led us to a program that drilled us a deep well for free! Well, that was a big mile stone as the well would probably have cost us around $5,000. But we were lacking one important element - a pump to get the water from the well to our house.

We waited another year and God provided enough in our tax return that year to buy the parts and He provided someone at our church that knew how to put it in. So a bunch of people from the church came one day and helped us put it in. We felt so blessed! You should have seen the line of us holding a 300 foot pvc pipe, lowering the pump into the well. Now we are told we have so much clear, clean, fresh, cold, wonderful tasting water that we could sell it! God not only provided for our need of water, but He provided abundantly! We did have a waiting period, but God came through!