Making Known God’s Goodness 2

Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. 1Chronicles 16:8

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Matthew 6:33

I told you earlier in the year about my “Carolina Girls” beach trip. Well what I didn’t tell you is how I received what I needed to take the trip.

For years now this group of women, I have known ten years +, has been saying we needed to take a girls trip. Finally, one said this year we are doing it. She planned it, and invited the guests. In the planning she asked us if we knew of any places to stay, so I called one of my husband’s family members to see if we could rent their beach house. The first miracle is that the week they had available worked out for all 5 of our schedules! The rental for the house was well phenomenal, it was a tenth of what any other place we could have rented would have been.

So we set the date and made the plan. I trusted by the time it rolled around, surely I would have a few hundred dollars to go. Our only intention was to lie on the beach, so I didn’t need much. I had made plans to be able to save money to go, but in the course of the year both of my grandmothers died, and we had unexpected expenses,etc. which cut into my saving money.

The week before the beach trip, I had no idea how I was going to go. I told my sister I would just back out but it was my husband’s family’s house, plus they were counting on me to go. So my sister said “Angel when we started planning this trip you told me God would provide, now you are just going to have to believe it”. I knew she was right. There are times to be frugal, and there are times when we need to take a break. In this case we had done everything we could to do both.

The Friday rolled around for the other 3 ladies going on the trip, with my sister and I, to arrive in Atlanta. I was praying for Jesus to show me a way to make this work. Friday morning, before we were to leave on Sunday, I received an unexpected check. Three months earlier I had done an interview for a talk show. The week prior they had decided to begin giving their guests a “Thank You” gift, and also decided to make it retro-active to their previous guests that season. Between that and a check I had earned, I had plenty to go on my trip.

That trip was God – ordained. I have not even said this to my girlfriends, but so many things came out of that trip. I was refreshed, and even though embarrassed by all the tears, it changed the course of my decisions these past few months. Each woman that came on that trip had monumental things in their lives they needed God to give breakthrough in their lives for, and each woman had a measure of faith to minister to one another.

God is faithful. You can see that He has not only provided for the big things, but for the small things. Again, this was something God provided for me debt free!

The small desires of my heart. Think about every time the smallest (and the biggest) things in your life has just seemed to “work themselves out”. That is God at work in your life. What has he done for you this year?