I have always read those wonderful stories about the GREAT saints like George Mueller, etc. Mueller prayed when there was no food on the table for his orphans in England, and miraculously bread, milk, donations, etc. would show up. I have read those stories about countless other well known Christians. But who am I…a pipsqueak pastor from the Midwest who no one knows and who ministers in obscurity. Could I hope for the same? I wonder, and then remember…
The God of the universe is incredibly caught up in each one of His children. Is that not amazing when you think of the grandeur and the expanse of Creation? We can’t even begin to understand it. In a country sky we apprehend hundreds of thousands of stars twinkling in the vastness of the dark night, but blessedly, the thought may occur, “He’s huge but He is thinking about me.”
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"(Psalm 8:4)
“Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.” (Psalm 68:19)
Well, like others, I have been trying in very real ways to help those who are at the bottom of the ladder in life and it is sometimes costly. I remember one night, seeing my resources dwindle and asking God, “Oh Lord, another $____ for ___________,” thinking that just that much would ease their burden. Within two nights, my parents called and my mother offered to send 20 times what was needed. I had not told them anything. I was stunned.
My parents are of that careful, WWII generation who still keep coin purses and 3% interest savings accounts! This was totally God’s stirring of their hearts to share so much, so spontaneously.
The money has come and gone, now, as there have been many needs for it from a number of places including our own needs, but it carried us in ministry for a number of months and I am humbled and grateful to our God who supplies.
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:21
There are so many meanings to those words, but God knows our practical needs as well as our spiritual needs and this precious, beautiful God will supply if we depend.
If today you are struggling and frightened, turn to Him in prayer and tell Him precisely what you are needing; not that He doesn’t know, but He loves your voice and you and wants you to feel that warm, safe feeling of leaning in on Him.
“(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7
Cast even the silly stuff, the small stuff, the embarrassing stuff – you’d be surprised how the Great Lord of Hosts will come flying to your aid. In case you doubt, remember this scene from Psalm 18:
“In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, [even] into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness [was] under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him [were] dark waters [and] thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness [that was] before him his thick clouds passed, hail [stones] and coals of fire. The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire.
14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.” (Psalm 18:6-19)
Yes…Jesus loves you!
Pam Morrison
