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We needed $370.00. That’s what I figured up after looking at the bills.
Why was this important on this day? Because I was leading a “praise revival” at a small church in north Texas. Because we were newly-married. Because we were short on cash. Because this was the last day of the conference, and the love offering check would soon be coming in.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that preachers prayed about such things.
Anyway, on this day, we needed $370. I could have asked the Lord for more; after all, it’s nothing to God to see to it I got $1,000, or $10,000 for that matter.
I could have asked for nothing, and said, “Lord, whatever your will is – that’s fine with me.”
But I sensed the freedom to ask – not big, but not small either. The need was for $370.00, so that was what I asked the Lord for.
That night, after the last service was over, the pastor handed me an envelope with a check in it. Per proper ministerial etiquette, I slid it into my inside coat pocket (they teach you these kinds of things in seminary). Later, on the way out the door, a guy walked up and handed me a check for $20.00, saying he hadn’t had time to write the check prior to the offering.
As soon as I got in the car and made sure no one was looking (they didn’t teach that in seminary – I just learned it on my own), I opened the envelope. You guessed it – the check from the church was for $350.00. God not only answered a specific prayer, He did so in a way that called attention to the fact that HE was the one providing it.
Nearly 25 years later, it remains one of my favorite stories of answered prayer.
How about you? How has God answered specific prayers for you in the past? Click on the comments below, or fire me an email if it’s longer, and I’ll post your story as a guest writer.
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Well, My answer come by way of a “People of the first fruits” deal. I have for some time now felt that we needed to be tithing. We have always live on exactly what we made each month, give or take a little of a lot. My wife being the sensible, bill paying, smart person said there was no way that we could afford it. I had to agree because logically there was no way.
Well we started going to a new church recently (you can probably guess which one). Not long after we started going they started this First Fruits Weirdo Thingy.
We started giving and trying to make it work out every week but it just never did.
We were told one Sunday to take inventory. My wife did just that.
We had started taking our daughter to Mimi’s house on Friday nights and that was our date night. Even though I did not know it, this Friday was not going to be a good night. The inventory revealed that we would be doing without several things that I really liked (like food).
If you took how much we needed to be paying in tithe for the time the First Fruits deal was going on, it would equal $1650. If we were going to pay tithe on our handy dandy economic stimulus it would be $150 for a total of $1800.
When we got to Mimi’s houses they told us that God had been telling them that they needed to pay one of our house payments. After they picked Pam and me up off of the floor, we realized that the amount they were going to give us, with out us telling them about the previous amounts, was $1800 exactly.
We have not missed paying since and will vow to continue.
That is a prayer answered.
1. That we would start paying tithe
2. That we could afford it and not have to go without food
like I ever have
Thanks
kenSwitzer