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Trusting God
It’s been a while since I’ve written about my faith and trusting God. I’m a strong believer of tithing and my intentions are to doing a post every Sunday as a way to give back on my blog as well. I hope you’ll find my Sunday Stories to be encouraging.
About 2 years ago our financial situation was very stressful. I wasn’t really putting God first with our finances. I would tithe a few dollars here and there, but that year was the year we disciplined ourselves to tithe 10% of our salary. Once we started tithing I felt God challenging me more and more to give. I didn’t understand why God would challenge me to give more when I was already doing what the Bible said to do. Wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to challenge me when I was only giving a few dollars? I just didn’t understand and Trusting God with this was really hard.
I know that money is one of the biggest things I struggle with. Trusting that God will provide and take care of everything, just didn’t seem possible. Maybe it’s because of all my years in finance, 2+2=4 Right? That made it so hard for me to think outside of the box. How could God change that? Why would he? Needless did I know that he would show me how.
One Sunday, God challenged me to give $300 dollars, and this really freaked me out. Why would God want me to do this. It was more than what we normally tithed and if we tithed this, it would cause all of our bills to fall behind. It didn’t make sense to me. Truly God wouldn’t want me to do this and spend our next few paychecks catching up on late fees and cause our bills to fall behind. I even went so far to questioned God on whether or not I was hearing him correctly. So I threw my hands up and said Lord I’ll do what you want, no matter what! Just so I can know that I’m actually hearing you, can you tell my husband to confirm the amount you want me to give. Right before we left, I grabbed a check from the checkbook and was ready to give, but I really wasn’t Trusting God.
When we got to Church , I was hesitant. I didn’t really know how to ask my husband, but I did. I asked my husband how much I was supposed to give, he said I don’t know, that’s between you and God. (He knew I was struggling with this extra giving) I said I know, but I want you to tell me the amount. He said, ” $300.00 and I don’t know why I know that.” Now you must understand that my husband doesn’t remember things like this. Specific amounts especially. He can buy gas, and a few minutes later forget the amount he put in the gas tank. All I could do was smile and thank the Lord for showing me that I was hearing him correctly. I was happy to reach into my purse and write my check. However my check, wasn’t a check it was a deposit slip.
God tested me! He wanted to teach me to trust him and I passed! Once I understood that, I no longer felt the feeling that I needed to give that money. God showed me that I don’t need to struggle with my money. He showed me I just needed to trust him and he will provide. I was so relived and comforted that I knew from this point on trusting God would be easier.
Even though the things we encounter may not make sense to us, just remember it doesn’t have to. We will never know the answers as long as we breath air on this earth. Trusting God is hard, I guess that why it’s called faith.
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Thank you so much for posting this and putting yourself and your faith out there. I too was tested but in a different way. This was over 15 years ago sitting in church and the Lord said “You need to quit your job” plain as day. Boy it freaked me out. My hubby had a good job and I was working part time at an animal hospital (best job ever). This was BC (before children) and we were doing pretty good financially. I remember at decision time I went forward and just kneeled and prayed “Okay Lord I am scared but I will do this.” I turned in my resignation the next day. It gave us the opportunty to learn to live on one income before we had children because we planned on me staying home with them.
When God called me to be at home, that was one of the hardest decisions we made. It was the best decision and our family is balanced because of it. Thanks for sharing your story!