I apologize for not blogging yesterday, there was miscommunication and it did not get published. This was yesterday’s post:
Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. 1Chronicles 16:8
As Thanksgiving is approaching, only two weeks from this Thursday, I have chosen to dedicate the next few Mondays to make known what God has done for me this year. I hope that it encourages you, and reminds you of God’s Faithfulness. Most importantly, however, I also hope that as you read it sparks the memories of what God has done for you this year. Every small and large thing He has blessed you with.
Last week I shared about my “High School Musical Miracle”. This week I am going to continue sharing about the details God is into:
My daughter is 6 years old. Six years ago, my husband and I decided that we wanted our daughter in private schools. Ben had always attended private schools, and wanted the same for his daughters. Three years ago when we were deciding to buy a house, and where, we chose to move closer to our church. Emily was only three at the time, but we knew we wanted her to attend the preschool and Academy at the church. We had no idea how we were going to afford it, but we moved our life towards that decision.
Two years ago my husband went full time for himself, Emily started Preschool and some how we had the $170 a month to send her to the preschool. (We were worried about how we would afford it right up to the time she started attending, we had made our registration in faith.)
This year, January 2007, it was time to register her for the 2007-2008 school year. I was very nervous about how to afford it. I even looked at Public schools and home schooling. But after it was all said and done, the only peace I had was in the Private School. So we paid the registration fee, and the fee to have her tested. I asked my husband if this was wisdom, as we are just building a business and it is not always the steadiest of income. He said if we decide what God wants, God will provide. We prayed, and we both agreed.
Within a month of paying the non-refundable registration cost, Ben got a phone call from the headmaster at the school. For the six years we have attended Trinity Chapel, the academy has had no plans to add a High School (it ended at eighth grade) because they had a “sister” school that already offered High School and they saw no reason for adding the extra cost. At the end of the school year in spring 2007, they made a sudden decision to add the ninth grade.
The phone call? They needed a multi-media instructor for 2 hours a day. The headmaster had been referred to Ben by someone else. What was not even known was that Ben had taught these same classes at Kennesaw State University before leaving to pursue his own business, making him more than qualified with both teaching and real life experience.
Three months before Emily was to begin the Academy, Ben was handed a job of steady income which more than provided for Emily’s tuition. Plus he has his own classroom, and was given a Mac. laptop as a part of the class. Even this was an answer to prayer because he needed a Mac. laptop and it was on our dream board for him, and he now has one, free!
(Click here to read about Dream Boards.)
He answered several prayers in one phone call! God is the God of More Than Enough!
What is your story, what has God done for you this year that showed you His power, His provision, His Love for you? Please share it with us.