Rent Money

I remember a time when we were in Broken Arrow, and God was trying our hearts! On a particular day God was directing me to give some money. We had the money so everything's cool, just give it, right?  The only problem was, that money was the money I had to pay the rent that was due in three days! A problem for me, but not for God. 

I considered it and we (Misty & I) gave $1000. We were believing that God would give us our rent money and we only had three days. The day finally came and I needed this same money to pay the rent and had believed God had directed me to give it away, my rent money. And, by the end of the day...no rent money. So now what?  Gird up your loins and believe God, that's what. 

I called my landlord to let him know I would get him his money as soon as I had it. Now we were a couple of days past due, and that meant I'd have to also pay a late fee. I want to tell you, I appreciate God. I thank him for his goodness and his mercy. If you don't know it, I'll tell you....He wants you to thank him. By Jesus, let us offer the sacrifice of praise, that is fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 

Yes I was late. Yes I was embarrassed to call my landlord and say I'll be late on my rent. Yes our faith was tried. But, yes! God provided that money in a couple of days. In fact, someone gave me money, who knew nothing of the matter. It was all God and I thank God for it. 

God bless,

Anthony

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Salvation from Day to Day

Psalm 96:1-3 

1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord , all the earth. 

2 Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day. 

3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people. 

"Shew forth his salvation from day to day!" How do you shew forth his salvation?  Believe the gospel. 

Romans 1:16 tells us the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. Salvation includes everything you have need of. Whether it's a job, healing, or just putting off the oppression of the devil, salvation will come through putting your trust in, believing, the gospel; the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

In 2011, I was in need of a job. I had resigned from teaching high school Algebra in 2008. It was a job I loved. But in 2011 I believed God was directing me to get a drafting job.  That was a little scary to me because I had not done any drafting work since I graduated college in 1996.  My first drafting class was not even on a computer and when we did begin to learn AutoCAD, the version we used was still DOS based, not even Windows.  And these days there are many programs companies use for draft work. 

God was with me.  I went to a manufacturing company that was advertising open positions and turned in my resume. They asked me to fill out an application.  I filled it out and talked with the Human Resource manager. It turned out this woman was from my hometown (Stigler) and she was related to friends of mine. God set that all up and I was asked to come in for an interview with the drafting supervisor. 

I was still a little unsure about what changes in drafting had occurred since 1996. To help prepare myself, I found a company that did a 1 hour training course on the lasted AutoCAD software.  I learned nothing.  I didn't even get to work with the software. 

I went to the interview and talked about my experience (or lack thereof) with drafting and using the latest software.  The supervisor responded back, "That's OK. We only have AutoCAD R14 here."  Thank God!  The version I used was R12.  To put this in perspective, the current AutoCAD release is R30.  They weren't even using the latest and greatest. They were using a version close to what I had been taught. 

When I left that company in 2014 they were just beginning to implement changes that included upgrading to the latest version of AutoCAD. Isn't it marvellous that God knew where to send me to get that job in 2011 that was using software that I learned in 1996. 

I was called back and interviewed with the Vice-President of Engineering and he offered me a job.  That was salvation that day! 

Trust this gospel. It is the power of God for your salvation from day to day!

God bless,
Anthony

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