Provision

Right, so now I can speak a bit more freely about what had been a financial concern to us. The reason I can speak about it now is because God has provided.

Here's a bit of back ground info:

When we first moved to India we had ended up needing to pay more than we thought we would need to, in fact, it was way more than anticipated. We had to pay 10 months in advance on our rent as a bond plus pay monthly on top of that. This means about NZ$20,000 this year just for rent. So.... we had also opened a bank account here in India and it had a minimum amount that needed to be in it, this was NZ$16,000. We ended up borrowing this from our business in New Zealand (all legit) with the thought that we would then be able to transfer it back quite quickly. As it turned out, we needed it for the rent. This lead to us being $20,000 short in our business account and we needed to pay our sub contractors their terms salary. These sub contractors also happen to be friends. I would be lying if I didn't say that we were pretty stressed out about this. How were we going to find $20,000 when we are not earning anything. We prayed and we fasted and we even tried to apply for an overdraft on our account but because our business financial statements were being done late this year the bank would not do this until the report was in. We were kind of doing the pray but see the doctor too thing.

During this time we went through huge emotions of stress, lack of faith, worry of letting down friends or simply going into debt so we could at least pay our guys (not something we wanted to do) but... during this time we came to be able to rest in God and be able to say "it's got to be you God" we can't do anything and before our very eyes God did it. Money started being returned to us from various sources. Tax rebates, donation rebates, a client that I had forgotten to invoice (oops) It was amazing, something that seemed so huge to us just melted into being.

It was an amazing feeling to pay the last of our guys the other day and we sat back with dopey grins and said, "how did this happen? This is just amazing provision" Every time I think about it I am filled with over whelming gratefulness. It seemed impossible but there it is. Man, our God is amazing and yet he did just what he said he would, " God will provide all my needs according to his to his riches and Glory." No income= $20,000, go figure.