Hullo, this is God, I will be handling all of your problems and concerns today. That’s My job!
Your job is to give them to Me and then trust Me to deal with them. Have a great day!!
We were staying with a friend for a couple of days, and this note was on the inside of the door of their toilet room. It reminded me of the little ditty based on Philippians 4:6 in the Bible which says… If ever you are in a fix, remember Philippians four and six! This says (depending which translation of the Bible you are using)…. Don’t worry about ANYTHING. Instead, pray about EVERYTHING! And whatever happens, don’t forget to give thanks for the answer!
We saw this put into practice one weekend, when we were in charge of a girl’s camp. The visiting speaker was from down country, and he had chosen this verse as the weekend’s lesson. So at the evening meal on the first day, we all learned to say it the way he instructed…with great emphasis on the “Anything” and the “Everything”. He gave a short talk about what it was saying and later on we all went to our dormitories. He and his wife were sleeping in an outside cottage with their car parked beside it.
When he got up in the morning and looked outside, horrors! His car was gone!! That was bad enough, but in the front up under the driver’s seat, was a packet with a couple of month’s rent that one of his friends had asked him to pick up for them, amounting to several hundred dollars. After breakfast, he got up and told the girls what had happened.
“Now,” he said, “ We are going to put our memory verse into practice. What did it say?”
The girls remembered it and recited it all together.
“Yes,” he said, “And what do we have to remember after telling God all about it?”
One bright young thing put up her hand and said, “We have to say thankyou for the answer no matter what happens!”
That day probably would have been one of the hardest days that that man ever had to go through. Thoughts running through his head would have been, “How are we going to get home?” and, “Will the police be able to find the car? I hope that rent money is still safe there!”
However, he got through the day with the rest of his talks and the girls’ programmes, and once more took the girls through the memory verse that night.
He got up early the next morning, still anxious, and looked around not feeling particularly thankful. But then he could hardly believe his eyes. Down at the entry gate he could see a car parked under the trees. And what’s more, it looked like his car! So he ran down the driveway, and sure enough it WAS his car. He opened the door and saw the keys there, and then put his hand under the seat, and sure enough the rent money hadn’t been touched!!
How pleased he was to find all this! We can imagine how much he would have given thanks to God for having brought everything back to him safely ! At breakfast that morning, he could hardly wait to tell the girls how God had answered his prayers with a YES! What an example it was to each of them, and something that we leaders never forgot.