Hey friends!
We are so so so excited to share a huge God story with you: After praying and waiting for 2 + years God has provided us with a larger vehicle!!!!!! We are so excited!!!
As our family has grown over the last few years, we have frequently been faced with an ever demanding need for a car more suited to our family. However this has seemed financially impossible to us. Saving for a large vehicle when you are living on faith based support as missionaries is tricky business.
As we have prayed and waited on the Lord about this, we continually felt it pressed upon our hearts to walk in faith by being grateful for the car that we have (as it is a good reliable car) and to wait on God: He would provide the car we needed when the timing was right. And did He ever!
Recently, the parents of a fellow staff member here at YWAM Montana became interested in donating their van (which wasn't getting much use by them) to someone in missions. They wanted it to go to a family that really needed it and through a series of circumstances it was brought to their attention that we had need for a van. After spending some time in prayer, they felt that the van was meant to go to us! God truly did fulfill His word to our family: He dropped a whole van right into our laps at no cost to us! Is that amazing or what?!
I am so happy that we trusted God's timing, as we might have missed out on this awesome blessing had we done otherwise. It is experiences like this that encourage our hearts and help to build our faith for those difficult seasons of waiting that inevitably make their way into our lives. For our family, this act of provision will be a stone of remembrance of His faithfulness to us. We are amazed at how the Lord has provided for us over the years. It all just doesn't makes sense how we are able to do what we do, but it works. God is our provider in every respect and he is so incredibly faithful!
Thank you Jesus for your constant faithfulness and provision for our family. Your acts of kindness to us outnumber the stars and we love you so much! And thank you to every single person who took the time to pray for us about this! Thank you thank you thank you! God heard your prayers and He answered in a big way!
Love,
Justin, Annie, Ella & Bennet
What an awesome testimony! I know it builds your children's faith! God is good. What incredible provision and a encouragement to us all. I personally know how this exact gift is such a faith builder.... For as I child, I had the faith to believe that God would provide a car for our family when ours kept breaking down all the time. I think I prayed for a year and thanked God for what he was going to do... And one day a couple from our church took my parents to lunch and told the they wanted to buy them a car! You can imagine how shocked and surprised my parents were when this actually happened!
ReplyDeleteHaving faith as a mustard seed as a child launched my belief that with God... All things are possible and that He wants to give good gifts to his children. Praise God for his provision.
Paula R. -- Your cousin
Great story, glad I read it! It's reassuring to hear things like this- He is listening! Love to Annie and all the Frases :)
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