Serving A Caring Savior

If you read my blogs you know that not to long ago I wrote a blog about no knowing what to do about our current income. Like so many of you out there our husbands have good jobs and work hard, but b/c of rising prices of everything, your paycheck goes to pay basic bills just as fast as you get it. The same has been for us all though out this past year. It seems as if things had just been getting worse and worse. This past 2 weeks I had been so confused about why God would allow us to go through a time like this in our lives. Why were things not getting better. In my blog I included a portion about worrying what my kids were going to eat from week to week and day to day.
On Sunday our pastor announced that as a church we would be gathering food for Thanksgiving baskets to the poor, in my heart I began to cry. I began to think of the fact that as a family we are not poor, we are the working class, as mention in my blog we make just above that line for any kind of assistance. When our pastor told us this I automatically thought there was no way we would be able to help in any way since we ourselves have not been able to provide for our own family. It was such a scary thought.
On Tuesday God began to deal with me about stepping out in faith and helping a family in our church that has been a similar situation as us for some time now. God directly told me to give some of things we had to this family, in fact he said half. I decided to listen and obey what God was telling me to do. I contacted the family and let them know that I had some things for them. Later that afternoon this same family called us back and told us that they wanted us to keep what we were going to give to them and instead they wanted to buy us some groceries. The mom of the family told me to make a list, I didn't really know what to put on the list, because I in no way would want to take advantage of someone that was willing to help and than on the other hand I was so shocked at what God was doing. I was a little confused as to why God would tell me to get this food together for this family and than in return give us a double blessing, or a triple blessing at that. I didn't call to get help I called to help someone else.
That afternoon the family came and got the list and went shopping. I didn't expect much, I would have been thankful for one can of green beans, one small bottle of oil, and one stick of butter, anything would of been a blessing. But God had other things in mind. When the family came to bring the groceries all I could say was thank you to our caring Father above, at that moment I saw a miracle happen, I saw God's provision over his children.
That afternoon I realized that God was seeing if I would obey, if I would do my part. We didn't have much, barley anything, but God wanted to see if I would give what we had, God truly taught me once again in my life to trust and obey, and as the old song says, there is no other way. I encourage each of you to trust God with everything, even when you are worried beyond belief, and obey God when He tells you to do something, In return God will do the rest... God reminded me of the story in the Bible of Abraham taking his son Issac to be sacrificed, I know Abraham had to be worrying about what was going to happened, but Abraham trusted God and obeyed in return Abraham was able to keep his son, the same way God allowed us to keep our food when we obeyed!!!

The pictures above are pics of all that God provided for us short term, than to top everything off my husband received another blessing long term. The same day we received the food, Bob got a raise of 52 cents an hour!!! Much of the food can not be seen well, but in one of the pics it includes over 9lbs of hamburger meat!!!!