With that being said I want to share with you how HE provided for a woman in my community. I will call her Rebekah. I met Rebekah in September of 2009. She came to our house to get our consent to have the twins evaluated for a state therapy program. Our first meeting was on professional terms but I believe she told me at this first meeting that she and her husband were full-time missionaries in El Salvador. She said that her husband drowned there after only serving in the mission field for three weeks. After she left my house, I could not stop thinking about this tragic story and what a strong and faithful Christian woman she was.
The next time I saw Rebekah was at a local eating establishment. Me and the 4 P's were grabbing a bite to eat and she asked if it was okay if she came over to say hello. I said sure and was already trying to figure out how to tell her how disappointed Jamie and I were that Phelix did not qualify for the program she works for. She was kind and commented on how much the boys had grown since she had seen them last. I am sure she never saw this coming but I just kind of said to her (as nice as a mother bear can be when she feel her cub has been unjustly treated) that I was not happy with the decision that was made and that I felt that my son should have qualified for the tx program. I told her about the therapy he was receiving through one of the hospitals and about some of the findings those therapist had. As kind as she could be, she told me she could understand my frustration and suggested that perhaps I would want to have him re-evaluated.
After the first of the year I called back and requested another evaluation for Phelix. Rebekah came to our home again to obtain consent for a therapist to come and evaluate him. It was during this meeting with Rebekah that I spoke to her of the Celebrate Hope event we were working with and invited her to come to the event. She asked me how much the tickets were and I told her $50 per couple or $30 for one. I sensed that this may not be in her budget and so I just asked her if she wanted to go I would be honored for her to be my guest. We talked more about her mission experience and she told me she believes God has a plan for her and that she hoped HE would use her again for His work. I told her a little more about the event and Heart for Africa, Janine Maxwell and her book, It's NOT Okay With Me. She then shared with me that other than South America and El Salvador the only other place she has felt called to go is Africa.
Since our third meeting, I have just felt that Rebekah was suppose to go on the Heart for Africa mission trip that is this July. The team that is going is a lot of the same team that is working to raise $100,000 to build the orphanage in Swaziland. I can just tell you that I have a sense that God wants Rebekah on this trip and that He may have plans to use her missionary heart through Heart for Africa.
Yesterday was our fourth meeting. I gave her the ticket for Celebrate Hope and invited her as my guest to a VIP event before the actual event to meet Janine Maxwell. I also gave her a copy of Janine's book to read. We talked about her going on the mission trip and she confided in me that she would, without a doubt go, but she did not have the $3,800 it cost to go.
The Holy Spirit whispered to my heart that I should contact the event team and share her story and ask them to pray that if the Lord wants her on this mission trip that He would provide financially and for how the Lord wants to use Rebekah for His glory in Africa possibly even through Heart for Africa ministries.
I emailed the team Rebekah's story and asked them for their prayer support. I received two emails back last night from team members who had attended the same church as Rebekah a while ago and both team members remembered her story and pledged their prayer and financial support for Rebekah's trip. This morning I heard from another team member that after she received my email about Rebekah yesterday, a friend of hers emailed her and said he had some money saved and wanted to know if he should give it to the Celebrate Hope event or if there was anyone that needed money to go on the July mission trip. My friend forwarded my original email to her friend and when she called me this morning she had just received another email from her same friend that said for Rebekah to clear her schedule he already had half of the money to pay for her mission trip and that he would make sure the rest was provided also.
See what I mean? Is your jaw not on the floor right now, are their goose bumps all over your body and is your spine tingling? I guess there was a lot of prayer going on through the night last night. He has made it known that Rebekah is suppose to be on this trip. He alone has provided the way. He is just so AMAZING. I wish you could have heard the phone call I got to make. Rebekah is so excited, so joyful, so thankful. We were both in tears. Both at a loss for words at what He accomplished over night.
I hope this story inspires you to do what He calls you to do, go where He calls you to go, step out in faith even when it is uncomfortable. Let HIM use you to accomplish His plans.
Be blessed! Soli Deo Gloria!
1 comment:
In tears ... I love it. His heart is, too, for the widow. I pray for this awesome trip for her -- that she would sense what great lengths He is going to for her!!
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