God Will Provide!

By Amy Diaz

Why do we ever doubt the faithfulness of God?

Many times I stress over daily things.  Mothers never stop stressing about their children!  One thing I truly believe is, if you tithe, the financial side will be taken care of!  However, I won't lie, my flesh and faith conflict on this often.

My mother was coming out to visit for a couple of weeks in May. I knew this months in advance. It seemed like everything worked against me and I was barley sliding by.  Two weeks before she was coming out , I had only saved $400 for my $900 in bills! I was counting on two weeks of income in May to help cover the rest. My girls got sick and, since I do daycare, the kids were unable to come to my home.  I made no money at all!

  As a single mom who has emptied all her savings, closed her 401k, and literally had no other hope, I would say my flesh sure came into play at this point!   I only get to see my mom once a year so we enjoyed our time away for the weekend and came home.  That night I stayed up thinking about bills and how I could juggle them over the next month.  I was just not sure how things could possibly come together. What I didn't realize, and I'm sure God was laughing at, was that a check was sitting in the stack of mail I threw on the table and never looked at. It was a check from a car accident in 2010.  They had mailed the check to the wrong address. It was returned and just now reached me?! Over time and through these stories I hope you see that God already has it figured out. We can worry and stress and lose sleep but what he really wants to say is, "Hey,  it's already there!!  Just have faith!"  I do believe we need to tithe and do what he asks of us but once we do, he will never let us fall!