I love this story; how awesome!!!

I’ve seen God do some wierd crazy miraculous. But something Always clicks, the question of WHY is always answered. God’s ways are his ways, but he always proves himself to be great.

Bob, I’m not 100% up to date with your story, but wouldn’t the time of one year ago put you at the time when you guys were much more at the beginning of your financial change?

In other words, would that $1k be a lot more significant a year ago?

And now that you have the money now, whacha going to do with the winfall =) Is their some ministry need or personal need that happens to be about $1k ?

I also think that maybe the reason that $1000 is used frequently (at least in the two data points we have here), is that is was in fact, significant for both parties involved. To me, it’s a lot of money. It took faith for me to part with it. To the recipients, it was a lot of money. It might have taken some faith on their part to accept it. It might have been ‘significant’ enough that it really made a difference in a situation that a $100 gift might not have. It might have been significant enough (they know we aren’t wealthy) to boost their faith to really follow God in their calling.

Maybe it wasn’t significant, and was really just a nice round number though. My wife and I almost always settle on amounts that are divisible by $100. Maybe God figures that it’s hard enough for us to listen to him, maybe he’d better just round to the nearest hundred to make it easy for us.

I used to be really hung up on answering all the questions that couldn’t be answered. I always searched for some logical answer or some logical explanation. When I finally figured out that I couldn’t find the answer to every question, and that in some cases, I may never know, and that only God knows some answers, I was at peace with it all. In fact, at that point, many of my questions were finally answered, only many not in the way I had originally thought they would be answered.

I also thinks it takes some faith on both parties for something like this to work. We called the couple we gave to before we sent them a check. We knew they might have a hard time accepting help from US. We called to explain we felt that God was leading us to give some of HIS money to them. I think that was the key. We wanted them to know it wasn’t us doing this, we were simply the vehicle to complete God’s plan. When they understood that, we were sure they wouldn’t just rip up the check when they got it. The couple we gave to is faithful, and they understood exactly what we were saying, and accepted the gift without question.

I suppose to me, $1000 is a lot of money. But to God, it’s just what we need. He owns it ALL, who are we to say if we will or will not give it, or if we will or will not accept it. Do I have $1000 sitting around to give someone? No, not really. But if that’s what God tells me to do, I’ll be able to handle it, and I know God will provide. My response would be no different if the amount were $10 or $10,000. It’s not mine to begin with; what God chooses to do with it is fine by me. With a fair amount of faith, and some experience to back it up, I know that if I listen to what God tells me, he’ll be faithful on his part of the deal.