God is simply amazing. In January this year (2009), just before midnight I was praying out on the church verandah in Bendigo, Victoria. Things were not going to plan, a little bit of confusion had set in, another possibility had arisen, ’stay and pastor this church’ was the cry. So, here I was, late on a saturday night, pacing up and down this verandah on a very hot evening, praying and seeking, questioning and arguing with self and God…when very quietly a scripture floods into my heart……Isaiah 26:3, ‘He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is fixed on Him, because, he trusts in Him’.
Wow…what a word…trust God when things are not looking all that positive.
Well, it is now 10 months since that late January evening, a lot has happened. Out of nothing, finances have begun to appear, ideas long prayed over are coming to pass, hope, energy and direction are flowing.
I should not be surprised when it comes to Gods provision, in the 6 missions trip Shirley and I have undertaken into East Africa we have only paid for 1 airfare and that was for my first trip in 2000, ever since then, every time we stepped out into missions for Christ the money has been there, even for all our expenses for our last 6 month stint in 2007.
If that is not enough for a testimony, how about this……have you ever received money from ‘out of a brick wall?’, literally, out of a brick wall. In 2000 I was in Holland and had given all my money away and I needed to buy my wife a present. The stores would not accept the credit card, so I went out into a quiet alley and literally screamed out to God…..’God helpppp’….instantly I heard a voice saying very clearly, ‘go to the end of the end of the street, turn right and go to the end of that street’. I obeyed and came to a brick wall and there in small gap was this money. As I looked at it, I heard this voice saying over and over and over again for a few minutes….’this is for you, this is for you, this is for you’.
If God can cause a fish to give up a piece of gold to pay taxes, I will accept Gods blessing for serving Him.
In Romans 4:17 – it says, ‘God calls those things which be not as though they did’. Out of nothing things appear because God speaks. This is the world I want to belong in, the world where God speaks and things appear.
In October 2000 in Rongo, south west Kenya, again late at night when out for a walk to pray, God spoke, ‘you are to return to these lands and heal the sick and teach the people how to minister my Healing Spirit’. God spoke, Shirley and I are obeying, and God is providing, hallelujah, I suspect there is some adventure about to begin.
