God has literally done a miracle. The money for my Europe trip was due yesterday, but God did some serious provision work.
As of Friday before our mini-tour weekend, I needed $2,038.50. (Or something like that). What seems to human hearts as something impossible to raise in two weeks. But God showed me how he is bigger.
This weekend our Choir went on a mini weekend tour around lower Michigan with stops in Luddington, Charlotte, Lansing, and Hudsonville. And from the very moment we walked off that bus into Luddington High school for our first gig, God was working. I'll tell the story of Mr. Parker and what happened in Luddington later, but first I want to explain my money situation.
So the first night we stayed in Luddington and my cousin Karen and I were visiting with our host family. They were a great family with two younger girls. It was great to get to know them more. The next morning though, we had to leave and as we were leaving, they handed me a check for $400!
I shared this huge praise with our director and he was excited for me as well!
The next day was Sunday, and my mom called me to tell me that someone handed er a check at church, another said a check was on the way. Awesome! But then my mom shared that I needed money in a very short time frame as a prayer request in her Sunday school class - and someone decided to anonymously donate the rest of my tour funds! It was literally a miracle and I was in tears when she told me.
Just earlier that week, I had decided that I was probably not going and didn't want to get my hopes up. Then the speaker in chapel that Wednesday, the speaker said something along the lines of "I know you got money troubles, but don't give up - you go get it, and get it to win!" It kind of put me in my place and I felt God was saying to me, "why are you giving up?" Then that weekend all my funds were provided.
I tell this story to not only say how grateful I am for generous people, but for how grateful I am that God moved in hearts of people, and provided for me to go on a trip HE has called me to go on!
Since then, I had a few more donations as well, enough to cover my cost and a little left over to help others. Also this is probably more exciting yet, all 30 of the chorale members raised money in similar ways, that are only by the mighty provision of the Lord! He is so good, and called us to go, and so we are rejoicing because we have the opportunity to do the Lord's work in Europe!
Praise Him today for he is Yahweh, Jehova Jira, El Shadai. (Lord, the God who provides, and God with us).
Just some words I needed to hear in my time of need:
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[a] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (Matthew 6:27-29)
And our theme passage for this tour:
My heart is steadfast, O God,
my heart is steadfast!
I will sing and make melody!
Awake, my glory![b]
Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
my heart is steadfast!
I will sing and make melody!
Awake, my glory![b]
Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
For your steadfast love is great to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
Let your glory be over all the earth!
(Psalm 57:7-11)
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