Yippee... Pennies from heaven!!! - 26 Mar 2002
Things have been very exciting for us recently and we've deliberately not been telling you!!!We feel like we can now be honest with you. Over the last few weeks, we've really had our backs to the wall financially - facing the likelihood of not being able to pay wages, bills etc. But instead of telling people about it we have really felt God speaking to us to simply trust him - responding prayerfully and practically. As a result we've been fasting (hard!), praying a lot and cutting every cost we possibly could (plus doing a 'sale' on CD's to try and get in a bit more cash!).
We didn't want to just put out a request for 'prayer' as this can so easily be a veiled way of asking for money! We do hope you're not offended at being left in the dark til now about this particular challenge. Through it all there's been a real sense of excitement wondering:faith adventure
"How is God gonna do it???!"+++ +++ +++
Jehovah Jirah
Well, it's been amazing to see the way he has spoken to people. 2 people who've never given us anything before and know nothing of our serious present situation were supernaturally prompted to give quite large sums. As a result we now have the money to pay this month's wages. You can imagine us dancing round the office!
We still don't know where next month's money is gonna come from but really feel like God is taking us to school, teaching us to trust him radically for our daily bread. It's so exciting to know with such certainty that he's with us and providing for us. Jesus told us not to worry about tomorrow - that his Father looks after the birds and the flowers. That's tough, but we're trying to live a lot more like that.
Of course things continue to expand so fast with stuff like:
With all this increase our costs are also growing. Our trustees make sure that we're wise with the money we have. Please pray for us as we meet with them on 12th April to discuss some longer term strategies for growth.the launch of our 2nd Boiler Room, Mission Teams all over Europe, 100's of Prayer Rooms Our news letter this month required a run of 15,000 quite apart from the 5000 people we email it and all those who download it as a pdf too.
Exciting isn't it?!