Urban Pioneer

• Feb. 20, 2006 - A Testimony of God's Provision

Last fall my husband lost his job and decided to start his own business. Combine that we trying to get out of debt and paying a double mortagage and utilities for almost a year while we lived up in New York....you can say that things have been pretty tight in the least.  My pride would not usually allow me to expose these kind of circumstances except that I want to testify to God's faithfulness through them.  During these lean times, there has been a particular verse that I have relied on.  It is Psalm 37:25 "I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." This past week things have been even tighter due to that fact that we are waiting for payment on a couple of jobs that my husband has done. Today,  I was down to our last few dollars and was desparately in need of groceries so I prayed that God would show me what I was to buy and provide for us. I didnt have time to make bread this morning, but was determined not to buy any.  I headed off to Aldi with my list and bought the items that I needed to make the next few days meals (no bread).   I had to decided between cheese or peanut butter for sandwhiches, but finally settled on the cheese as I prefer to get the Natural Peanut Butter from our health food store.   5 minutes after I arrived home, my doorbell rang.  There was my next door neighbor with a bagful of groceries.  In it were 3 loaves of bread and 3 jars of peanut butter as well as a few other things.  This is more than what I needed to just help me out with the lunch portion of our menus until I can buy groceries probably at the end of this week. My daugher started yelling "Thank you, Jesus".  I think she was glad that is wasnt the natural peanut butter.

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