Pamela JoyousNJesus McDonald
Our Father provides the means to the plans He has for our life and IN our life!!
I know this for a fact, He has done it with me so many times in these last 3 years.
He wants to supply our needs and the means to do His Will.
He does this for His Glory and also to protect you from pride sneaking in unknowingly.
In November 2017 the LORD told me to move back to Stockbridge. I had no job, no income whatsoever, no place to live, no friends, and had not driven in many years.
What He said to me was impossible for me to do on my own.
So I prayed and told Him I had no way to do as He asks me, so if He wants this, He alone must provide the way.
In less than a week I believe it was, this is what He did, not me.
I was finally approved for disability and received a large back pay from it.
My ex husband got ahold of me and offered me a room to rent if I wanted to move back to Stockbridge. I accepted and have lived here ever since.
I was able to put tags on my truck, get insurance on it, and then prayed and ask Father to help me relearn to drive from Saginaw Michigan to Stockbridge Michigan. At night and with detours, He did!
Then He laid it upon someone’s heart to buy me a car, I paid zero for this car mind you. They paid everything tags, license plate everything. I paid insurance. I probably can count on both hands and feet how many times I drove this car myself. I gave my truck to my cousin Toby, I gave my other car to my nephew.
My new car sat there in the driveway, maybe every now and then Nikki would drive it.
So I began let people borrow it. I let my friend drive it to her daughters down south, I let my other friend drive it until her car was fixed, then I let another borrow while waiting for her truck to be fixed.
In October the LORD woke me up and told me that I was going to Istanbul, Turkey. I questioned it greatly for more than one reason.
First off that was never on my mind to go there, second I do not have that kind of money for such a trip, and third I am pretty much crippled with arthritis, fibromyalgia, and neuropathy why would He want me to go there cause in my mind I was pretty useless.
So I prayed and let Him know again I have no way that He would have to provide the way. I also prayed a Gideon style prayer like the fleece asking Him to confirm that I was hearing from Him.
He confirmed, He supplied the way and I went. I went not knowing if I would return alive or knowing what I would encounter but I went without fear. I met some of the most precious and beautiful people in my life.
Then a month later He sent me to Rome, Italy. Some people were nice but honestly the majority was not.
After going to both places and comparing the places He showed me clearly the humble verses the proud.
And how the Roman Catholic Church was never Christian it started off very pagan and has grown greatly in its idol worship.
~AND~
And how those who did not know Him at all was ready to hear about Him and ready to believe.
~THEN~
When I got my car back in late March or early April the LORD told me to look for a box truck. He told to trade my car for it.
I said ok and began to search.
I found two and felt obligated to check out the first one I found because I had talked with the owner. But there was another one that really struck me as the one.
Nikki and I went and looked at first truck, it was rusty and in need of windshield and other things. So I said no, so her and I decided we had just enough time to go to the dealer of the other truck. So I called and asked if it were possible to go and see it, he said he would wait for us.
The asking price for this truck was 5,500, it was a one owner box truck, Amish owned and refrigerated inside tor foods they sold, as well as an office behind the seats of the car with hook ups for computer and a sleeper overhead. The dealer loved my car, we had an even swap across the board and once again nothing came out of my pocket. It was all the LORD.
Then this pandemic of craziness happens. I told told everyone that I would not accept a stimulus check and even stated I would tear it up on Facebook live.
The LORD let me know the refusal was ok but the intentions behind the refusal was prideful!!!
In order to keep me from falling into the sin of pride, God said I AM NOT EVEN GOING TO LET YOU GET A CHECK!! So He did not, again it was all Him and not me.
As everyone around me got checks and began to stock up and whatnot I began to feel like a useless person again. I felt that I am no good for anyone cause I can’t pitch in with money to help. I wanted to help, I was always a helper but now I am the helped.
Did you read all the “I’s” in that?
Humbling…which was and is needed for me from our Father who knows all and sees all.
He has been teaching me about pride and after 3 years I am understanding finally.
He cannot use a person who is unwilling to submit everything, not only body, or money, or things, He wants that deadly pride that destroys He wants complete submission to Him and His Will.
Everything that I have, was not gotten by my own hands, none of it. Everything has been given to me by the Father and in Him I will exalt.
Now, He has told me to look for land, just a couple of acres with water in it. He started by allowing me to answer a question by a sister in the LORD and her giving me very old maps of Michigan and a compass an old one for the right answer.
Today as I was thinking about the land He has me searching for, it came to me very clear.
When I come across the land He has already chosen for me, I will know it immediately and He alone will provide the means to get it. He alone will be praised and called Jehovah Jireh the LORD WHO PROVIDES!!!
Humbling is so important, God will not share HIS GLORY with ANYONE!!
He gives grace to the humble but He resists the proud.
So, I continue to get emails on land daily, but when it is time He will place before the land He has chosen and the means.
God loves us dearly! So very, very much!
Just thoughts going through my mind….
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