Trusting God

So we leave in a week (A WEEK!) life has been very stressful. But God has helped us by letting us have a empty house this week, (my grandparents left for Wisconsin) They get home tomorrow...I believe. In my last few posts you've seen that we have been having to do a lot of trusting in God. To relieve that He is the provider, of money, a place to live, and strength. The story that pops into my head about God providing is Jesus feeding the 15,000.

¹⁵As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."

¹⁶Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."

¹⁷"We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish," they answered.

¹⁸"Bring them here to me," he said. ¹⁹And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. ²⁰They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basket-fulls of pieces that were left over. ²¹The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.

5,000 is a lot (not including the women and children)! And Jesus took 5 loaves of bread, and two fish, and fed all those people! So He can give us the money to get to Uganda. So there is really no need to worry. Now we don't need to worry about little things like money, that is NOTHING to

God! We just need to trust that He will provide! If He could feed this many

people ---->

with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish, and STILL have some left over, then he can provide for us, so there is no need to worry. Another story that makes me think of God who provides is the

parting of the Red Sea.

¹⁹And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: ²⁰And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night. ²¹And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. ²²And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. ²³And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. ²⁴And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, ²⁵And took off their chariot wheels, that they drove them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fight for them against the Egyptians. ²⁶And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen. ²⁷And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. ²⁸And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. ²⁹But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. ³⁰Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. ³¹And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.

Now this is the Red Sea we're talking about! This thing is HUGE, but that didn't stop God. Now if the Red Sea can't stop God, then neither can money, or anything else. So all i'm really trying to say is, TRUST GOD!