Bountiful Blessings #3

I feel like I just made a whole new set of friends... what fun!!! I think I'll do that every once in a while, just to meet more people;o). Now I have a better grasp on who is where and all that good stuff:o). The only one who stumped me was Macungie... hmm. Not too sure about that one. Anyway, on to my super-big blessing!

Do you remember this post? Boy, if I was excited that Wednesday, then my thrilled level jumped about 10 times that this past Wednesday! If you were in church last night (I should say at LVBC, because I'm sure many of you were in church last night, just not here:o)), then you already heard my blessing (unless of course you were stuck at home because of the snowstorm, so then during the streaming over the Internet you saw me - I think - but didn't hear me!) Anyway! (What did we always call that in Bible Institute when our teachers did that, Rachel? Rabbit trails???:o))

I sat down a week ago Friday night to figure out how much it would cost to go to Thailand for 2 1/2 months this summer (this also includes my bills back home), and I was pretty discouraged over the total moolah needed for this missions trip. All I could say was, "Oh boy. Oh no... uh oh." After that, I thought of any and every possible job I could take on for the next three months and even went to the extent of asking my sister-in-law to keep her ears open for babysitting or cleaning jobs.

Just to insert this in, I'm sure God was laughing while I had that conversation with Ann:o).

As I was talking with a co-worker on Tuesday, I made the statement, "I know God's going to provide... I just don't know how." We both agreed it would have to be God though, because the amount was waaay too big for me!

Since this is the big world wide web, I would like to believe that only nice people come for a visit here. But I do know better than that, so I'm not going to be divulging the amount I needed or the amount I received! If you do want to know the specifics, you can e-mail me:o).

But I will tell ya this: God provided in a very unexpected way and it was two-thirds the amount I needed!!!!

If it seems to you I'm a little excited, well, you're right... I was truly flabbergasted at it all, but then I started laughing because it's so like God to provide! May I refer back to my all-time favorite quote by Hudson Taylor?

"Depend upon it, God's work done in God's way will never lack supplies."

So if you heard a little shouting on Wednesday afternoon around 3:30 from Pennsylvania, that was me:o).

The other thing I did want to share was the fact that God gave back to me what I had given back to Him through tithing and faith promise last year.

Plus a little extra.

Ha! God is good and I can prove it;o).

Just one more thing, and then I'm done. If you go here and click on February 25 AM, you'll hear what I think was one of the best messages I've ever heard on tithes, offerings, and faith promise. And I'm not just saying that just because it's my Pastor preaching;o).

Since this is Bountiful Blessings, don't forget to leave a blessing of what our amazing God has been doing in your life! For 5 minutes in Sunday School yesterday we shared blessings about people who have been generous to us, and it turned into a blessing for me to hear! Let's encourage one another, shall we?!?

Until next time... :o)