Early this week, I was looking at our bank account and saw that I was in trouble. I had automatic payments coming out of my checking account in a couple of days and I didn’t have enough money to cover them. There wasn’t any way that I could think of to raise the $500 that I needed. I could have borrowed the money but I had just taught a class on Managing Money God’s Way and I knew that borrowing was not the answer. I didn’t have anywhere else to turn except to God. So, here is what I prayed. “God, I know that you have promised to meet all my needs and you have always provided for us. I don’t know where I will get the $500 to cover these bills. I do know that I can not borrow the money because that would go against what you have convicted me about debt. So Lord, I’m leaving it in your hands. I don’t have the answer. I need $500. Amen.”

A few hours later, someone walks in to my office and hands me a check for $500. Although I knew that they owed me the money and knew they would eventually pay, I had no expectations that they would pay that day. I was overcome. I broke down in tears right there, in front of them, in my office. God had provided – exactly the amount I had asked for.