I have to testify today of God’s faithfulness. This morning when I was on my walk, I was trying to figure out how everything would be covered at the beginning of the month with just my paycheck. I couldn’t pay as much towards my rent out of the check the month before like I normally do because of some extra expenses such as school supplies. I knew there were things that would automatically come out and I knew that if I added up how much I needed to pay my rent on time and those bills it was going to be more than my paycheck.

In my mind I was thinking about how my bank account going negative would really cost me and trying to figure out how to avoid it. I was also thinking about how my children needed supplies for school and I had only really been able to purchase some shoes so far. Now I knew that my child support would come, but not in time. It would arrive a week or 2 after I needed it. This would be too late to cover all the bills automatically withdrawn at the start of the month and I didn’t want to go negative. So, I tried to work out in my head some way to solve the problem.

About 1/4 of the way through my walk I stopped trying to solve my problem and realized I should pray. So, I did, I just prayed. I said God you know what I need. I’m going to stop trying to fix this and find a solution and I’m going to ask you to make a way. And I did stop trying to solve the problem. That was in the morning time. By afternoon my children’s father had contacted me and arranged to pick up and take the boys to get school supplies on Sunday afternoon. So, this was pretty amazing right? But the Blessings didn’t stop there. You see I was surprised to receive an e-mail later that very same day that my child’s supported came in about two weeks early. God knows my needs before I know them. He’s was already making provision. I don’t have to try to solve all my own problems. I don’t have to try to solution out every answer. As a believer I am blessed and honored to be able to go to him and lay my needs at his feet. I don’t have to come with an answer, I come with a problem. And he then that provides the solution and the answer.

It’s so easy to read and not really absorb the scriptures about how he provides everything we need for life and godliness. We read it but I don’t think we really believe it. How many times have you come across a need and instead of going to God about it you try to solve it yourself?

I know I’ve been guilty of doing that before. I made the right decision this time, but I haven’t always done that. We know that he owns the cattle on 1.000 hills, and we know that he gives us favor in situations. We know that he provides for our needs. Or we know that this is what he has is promised but sometimes I don’t think we believe that promise is really for us. I’m here to tell you today that the promise is for you. God’s faithfulness extends to all generations. To you and to your children. When he’s your father and you have that relationship with him you can go to him with every need. No matter how minor it might seem to others, no matter how it might be something that only really matters to you, no matter how impossible or great it seems. No matter what you can come to him.

Don’t come with an agenda and an answer. Come instead inspecting him to meet the need. To meet your needs in his very unique way. I wouldn’t have guessed that he would have met mine through child support coming in early, I wouldn’t have guessed that my ex-husband would so generously offer to help with the children’s school supplies. Yet this was God’s solution for me.

As I sit here this afternoon, I am reminded that God is faithful. We put our hope in him we are not disappointed. I have to tell you that I would have still believed in this faithfulness even if I hadn’t gotten an answer this quickly. I’m confident that God would have found some way to meet my needs and that it wouldn’t have been late even if it might have been a bit longer than I would have wanted to wait. The truth is I don’t deserve anymore blessings from the Lord. None of us do. We don’t deserve the love and faithfulness that he so graciously extends to us. We don’t deserve to have his ear or a piece of his heart. We are faithless, fickle, weak people. Yet he made a promise and when God makes a covenant, he keeps it. So just try it. If you’re a believer and you have a need, any need come and go to God and ask him to come through with an answer. Be patient. Not every prayer God has answered so quickly for me, yet every single time he has proven himself faithful. Reminds me of that song Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus. how I prove him over and over, Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus oh for grace to love you more.