Lord, Bless Us!!!

For quite some time, even before Pappy's unemployment, I've asked the Lord to bless us financially.  I'm not talking about winning the lottery....which would be difficult to win anyway, since we don't play it.  No, when I pray that prayer, I'm just asking for Him to help us meet our needs.....and maybe have some left over to "play" on.  We had a small line of credit loan that I borrowed against so that we could pay off a couple of higher interest bills....because our goal is to become totally debt free, other than the normal monthly bills.  When I went to pay the monthly payment on the loan, I was told that we didn't owe anything.   I tried to explain to the lady that yes we did owe on it and this was the first payment....and she looked again and told me the date it was paid off.  After a bit of research, they were able to tell me when....and who....had blessed us by paying off this loan.

A couple of weeks ago, we had 3 HUGE trees cut down in our yard.  We received yet another blessing from someone who paid to have them cut.  We tried to pay them back, but they refused.    It took Pappy and me close to a week to clean up the brush from the cut trees (they only cut them down, didn't clean up the brush which would have cost a lot more).   When I work outside, I do a lot of thinking.....and I suddenly realized one day....that God had answered my prayer.  Not in the way that I might have thought....actual money in my hand....or in the checkbook.  But, what a blessing to have those two expenses taken care of by people who care and heeded God's prompting!!!

And....yet another to add to the list....is my poor car.  If you remember the saga of Izzy last summer when she overheated and was down for the count for 5 weeks....and one pitiful person offered us $500 to take it off our hands....just so he could fix it and sell it for a tidy little profit, I'm sure.  Anyway....Miss Izzy started making a humming noise.....I told my sweet friend, Ms. Norma, that it wasn't even a tune I could hum along with!!!  Pappy met with Mr. Jeff....the fellow who helped Pappy fix her last year....one afternoon after he got off from work (Jeff's work, not Pappy's!!!)....and he listened to it and told Pappy what he thought was wrong.....so Pappy purchased the $15 part and I....yes, me, Deb....helped him put it on....and then he spent another $15 and changed out the spark plugs....totally without any help from me.....and I'm so happy to say that Miss Izzy is running better than she did, even before the meltdown!!!  That's also a "financial blessing".....because the Good Lord knows we cannot afford another car!!!

Ain't our God just simply AWESOME?!?!?

Oh, yes HE most certainly is!!!

Psalm 28:7

 The Lord is my strength and my shield; 
   my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. 

My heart leaps for joy, 
   and with my song I praise him.

Happy Thursday, Sweet Reader!!!

In HIS Most Precious Love.....and with mine!!!