Learning faith, part 2
Vas: In my last post I was mentioning about having more faith and trust in the Lord. I have been taking advantage of any little opportunity to build my faith by looking over all that the Lord has done which is a lot. To list a few things, number one it’s miracle that we found our present house and the way we found it and the fact that it is big enough to fill our needs more affordable and enjoyable to live in. Also the Lord miraculously opened the doors right away to getting a 4 month gig at a night club that we weren’t actually ready for and this not only brought in the finances we needed for our budget and to basically set up our home but also helped us to gain some much needed experience with our band in the way of teaching us more about music and playing live, as well as controlling the crowd and holding their interest. Progress would have been much slower if we would have had to raise the funds for our budget any other way.
Something else the lord did was provide a bunch of furniture for our house which is honestly a monumental job and we just met someone who will donate everything else we are missing to completely furnish the rest of the house. One little thing that was a real faith builder for me was when I was on a trip just a week ago we had had the opportunity to get some personal needs and I really wanted to get some Persian style rugs as the floor of our little cabin where our family stays has some stains that would be easily covered by a nice rug. I found these rugs are not cheap and even the bad quality ones are not that cheap so I wasn’t able to get them and on the way back from our trip as I was driving I was thinking about the fact that I wasn’t able to get these rugs and almost complaining to the lord saying why can’t you just give us the money we need to get everything we need and the lord said to me clearly why don’t you ask me to give you the rug and that woke me up to the reality that I had not asked the lord to supply a rug for our room and actually I had not been faithful to use prayer to supply specific needs. So I said a heartfelt prayer asking the lord for the perfect size rug. The truth is I didn’t know what size I need but it turned out I need the larger kind of Persian style rug and I was already scared by the prices of the smaller ones. So anyway 3 days later someone came to visit and had said a friend of theirs was moving houses and gave them two Persian rugs and they didn’t need them so they gave them to us and one was the perfect color and size for our cabin I couldn’t of picked it better myself and the other one we put in the main living room and it also was the perfect size and color to match our living room furniture. So that was something that was quite faith building for me and I hope that I can continue to accomplish thing that way through prayer and depending on the Lord