Believing God

Long time no post- sorry. I'll be posting a couple to get everything up to date.

First of all, I am really excited due to a Bible study I have been doing with PWOC. It is called Believing God by Beth Moore. Ironically, I actually decided last minute to do this. I had made up my mind at the end of last semester that I was going to join the weight loss Bible study and get rid of the extra weight I had gained during my time on Effexor for postpartum depression. It totally seemed like that was where I was being led. Well unexpectedly over the Christmas break, the pain I had been experiencing for months got much worse and I had many days where I cried out to God trying to figure out what was going on. Due to the process of getting in to be seen and so on, I had way too much time to think about what was happening to my body. The hardest part was having so little control over it. Obviously, trying to make the ever important lifestyle change was going to be more of a challenge than I needed to take on at the moment. I prayed over the other Bible studies offered and thought this would be a great way to just "get a little farther along" in my spiritual walk. WELL, God has a plan that's for sure. This study digs into whether we just believe in God or truly take God at his word. The weekly video lessons have been challenging and the daily study takes it to a whole new level.
So, I have been praying things believing that God will come through- not necessarily in my time or plan but looking for him to show up. Too often we miss his 'miracles' because we weren't paying attention.
In regards to praying specifically, I have a dear friend who has been through an incredibly trying year due to her husband abandoning their family and all the emotional, financial, mental stress that has created. We have watched in awe as time after time God has come through providing for his daughter. She and I had been talking and knew that the child support was in process, but no one could say exactly when she would start receiving it. Once that came in, her financial load would lighten tremendously. She had said in passing one day that she would love to go to the Third Day concert coming to our town. It was just a wish, but she knew that with money as tight as it was, that it wouldn't be possible. I prayed one afternooon in the car, telling God exactly how much money she needed to come in so she could pay all the bills, take care of the kids and also be able to splurge on this concert. I also was very specific about when she needed the money to arrive because of the due dates on certain bills. Well, lo and behold a day before I had asked God to have it arrive she had received the exact amount she needed and was able to buy not only tickets for her family but also for our family as well. We are looking forward to spending those hours at the concert in celebration for what a mighty, all-knowing, amazing and loving God we serve.
I do believe God!!!!