Morning thought 1
Monday August 13th 2018
Good morning.
A few weeks ago, I met with my
partner Audrey and we prayed about a number of things, some to do with the
family, some to do with the church and some to do with Mustard Seed Jersey.
I was really quite concerned about Mustard Seed’s need for
funding of just under £1000 to provide a much needed toilet, of which we had raised
only £200 - we had been working on the need since the new year.
The toilet was needed at our Changed
Lives project. This offers accommodation to the homeless in
Romania. 2 of the residents are disabled and physically unable to walk to use
the other facilities on the site. Reading the social worker’s account it was clearly very urgent to provide that toilet. So we prayed and asked God to help.
Now 6 weeks before this the Poker
Club had kindly arranged that Mustard Seed would be the beneficiary of a
fundraising evening. As they have done this before I expected that the amount
would be between £250 and £350. We had already decided to put this money
towards the toilet.
However less than a week after Audrey
and I had prayed I received a text message that said £718 had been raised at
the Poker Club - this with what we’d already raised that nearly the full
amount.
Then 5 days later a car boot sale
raised all the remaining money needed for the £1000 for that toilet.
I do believe prayer changes things.
Often it seems it is after we pray, that things just slot in together. Jesus
said to his disciples that they should pray as the Holy Spirit guided them that
their joy might be full. Now if you have a need or a problem can I recommend
that you pray about it.