He knows our needs

I've been behind on my posts lately so I'm trying to play catch up.

God knows our needs. This is something that I talked with Erin (a dear woman of God from church) about last Sunday. She was encouraging me because last week we found out that we did not get the grant we were hoping to receive. They said they had 100's of applications & was unable to grant our request. I had a deep down feeling we weren't gonna get it, but it still was a little upsetting. :(

So, Erin was encouraging me last Sunday & reminding me about George Mueller. He cared for more than 10,000 orphans. He never once asked anyone directly for money to care for these children. He only prayed. He never took out a loan or went into debt & they were always provided for.
Here is a portion of what he said, "Now, if I, a poor man, simply by prayer and faith, obtained, without asking any individual, the means for establishing and carrying on an Orphan-House: there would be something which, with the Lord's blessing, might be instrumental in strengthening the faith of the children of God besides being a testimony to the consciences of the unconverted, of the reality of the things of God. This, then, was the primary reason, for establishing the Orphan-House. . . The first and primary object of the work was, (and still is) that God might be magnified by the fact, that the orphans under my care are provided, with all they need, only by prayer and faith, without any one being asked by me or my fellow-laborers, whereby it may be seen, that God is FAITHFUL STILL, and HEARS PRAYER STILL."

Wow! She was encouraging me & reminding me that God knows our need better than anyone else. We don't have to tell anyone about our need. He can place on someone's heart to help us with our adoption expenses.

The very next day, on this past Monday, God blessed us. We received a card in the mail from someone that I know, but never see & have only seen a few times. She wrote in the card that "God impressed upon me to send this to you...isn't God good!" Yes he is! Wow! I am so thankful for her & that she blessed us.

I reminded my husband (when we didn't receive the grant) that our prayer from the beginning was that God would be glorified, so why would we think that He would do it our way, or any way that we would expect? We still have a lot to save up for, but we're trying to trust in Him. He is a miracle & mountain moving God!