My God is a God who Provides!

If you would have asked me in January how I felt about the fact that I would have to pay for more than half my school tuition, tour team, phone bills, transit, food, and almost everything else in the next 4 months I would have told you that I was scared silly. I mean wouldn't anybody be?

Approx 3 grand is alot to make in 4 months while doing full time school and part time ministry too.

I battled with my financial status constantly- letting worries consume me-and my security be founded in each paycheck that came.

I was a wreck. Many tears were shed because I was overwhelmed and overworked. Ask my life-group- they know haha.

But yet in the midst of it all I felt God's voice reaffirming me that he would provide over and over again. Everytime I placed a bill into the offering plate I saw it as a way to show God that yes, I trusted him with that which I seemed to be so in need of.

I remember feeling so convicted when asked to test God with my finances- to give so much that I would be completely reliant on him to come through.

Malachi 3:10 "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."

I have never been able to give as much as I have in the past 2 months before! Its like the money just disappears out of my hands and reappears before I notice.

Now I stand before you with my school tuition paid in full, 1000$ saved for tour team-that includes 400$ spending money, money for necessities, and loads more money to give!! I have worked hard for it, but no doubt God has provided for me in miraculous ways.

I want to encourage you who are struggling financially or just having trouble letting go of the money you have been entrusted with to give more than you ever have before. Trust that God just as God has provided for me, he will provide for you too! Don't let worry or discouragement or comparison steal your joy, use this time to show boldness and confidence that he will come through.

My God is so big so strong and so mighty theres nothing my God cannot do for you!

Tess