Post by benshelpmeet on Sept 23, 2009 10:08:43 GMT -5
This sisters post was a really big blessing to my heart because.
We have some really big constructions bills to pay, one due in a few days 656.87 and a 902.17 the beginning of January, and around 800.00 in property taxes due the end of Feb. The baby is due mid Febuary...we have a mid wife to pay as well. So we decided to just pay our bills, and save food money.. etc. to pay these extra bills... I'm use to having money for food when we need a jug of milk, cheese, eggs, etc. I do not even know how to cook without needed items...I'll learn, it will be good teaching for my girls as well. Ben is looking for a second job, but with his health (bones) being limited...it's hard
We give this all to God...do I worry? some, but I turn it over to God when I feel worry coming on. I have to say my pride makes me feel bad too see the mid wife with no money to give her yet...she hasn't said anything, but I dread that she will.
She is worthy of being paid a good amount.
I am use to having enough money to make ends meet. But God must want us to learn once again to pray much, and walk by faith. We've done it before, we can do it again.
This sisters post was so uplifting and encouraging to me.
She has 9 children also. I hope this will be encouraging to someone out there struggling.
Let me add..Sunday we went to a small newly started church in a neighborhood to encourage the pastor and his wife. It was a small congregation of about 10 including all the children and pastor and his family. The message was very uplifting to our heavy spirits. The pastor also mentioned in his message that he had another message to preach, but that the Lord changed it at the last min. He also told about his freezer going out last night and that his father had just caught and dressed bags and bags of croppie fish, and that he would be giving everyone some after church. It's neat how the Lord provides and encourages. After church we went home and cooked up all that good fish, it was just enough for one meal, we had some Tater Tots in the freezer to go with it, we were blessed and filled, and our children saw the good hand of the Lord upon us.
The very next day (Monday) some dear friends from up North sent us a care pkg, full of little notes, pictures, hand made gifts, letters from their precious children, family pictures, their 5 year old daughter sent a dollar...it brought tears to my eyes...(that precious little girl) ,some zippers
,close pins "which we needed", some iron pills which are very expensive, "which we needed", A drawing pad for my second oldest daughter, she loves to draw, and... a gas card, and a Wal Mart card! They sent this pkg on Saturday...we decided Sunday to stop buying groceries, etc. to pay for our upcoming bills..Gods mighty provision again.
There is nothing we can sell except for our 1992 15 passenger van which we need. We have started to use the out house during the day to save on water (flushing the commode), we make our own detergent, we cut off hot water to our bathroom sinks to save the money on the hot water needing to heat up every time we wash our hands, we've cut down on showers, we do not use the dryer at all for any reason...Thats a big statement because this is the second week it has rained, just when my close are almost dry it comes down a gully washer and drenches them again.
, we do not use lights during day light hours and few after dark, we cut our downstairs air conditioner off during the day, we got rid of our long distance, and caller id, and all of that.. which will save us about 70.00 a month! 
We have cut all the corners we can. When I start feeling better I'm going to start washing by hand. I love washing by hand! If I can think of any other ways to save money I'll sure do it. ~ Darlene ~
ladyofvirtue.blogspot.com/2008/04/frugality-is-fun.html
Frugality is fun! (Friday, April 25, 2008)
Hold on to your hats, girls--the economic wind is blowing, and all predictions are that things are going to get more expensive in the near future.
But God has been preparing us for this, at least in our hearts, hasn't He? There is just a sense that He has such a great blessing for us as we learn to trust Him more for our daily bread.
The other night my dear husband had a significant dream in which someone handed him a check that did not have the amount filled in and said to him, "Fill it in according to the content of your need". We knew that God was telling us to fill it in with our needs.
Right now our needs are many--I could make quite a list--and so we thought at first that we should make an extensive prayer-request list, which we do periodically anyway, since it is fun to see God meet each item in a specific way that says, "I love you". But this time it was different. We knew, after some discussion and checking in the Word, that we were to ask only one thing...
...we asked for more of HIM! HE is the content of our need!
When times turn difficult, we are never alone, and we need never fear. God will supply, just as He did the ram in the thicket for the sacrifice on Mt. Moriah. It just may be in some very different ways than we are expecting.
The apostles knew this, the persecuted church knows this. Paul said, "Having food and raiment, to be content therewith". How can we be content?--by feasting on His faithfulness.
There is something about contentment that brings heartiness to beans and rice. There is something about contentedness that doesn't mind the sideways glances of those that judge us. There is something about contentedness that is a continual feast.
Contentedness is not miserly--just read Psalm 127. It doesn't make you lose sleep or keep you from enjoying things or giving to others. It just keeps you from pining over things you don't have and don't need, and it keeps you resting in thankfulness. It turns your eyes upward, and keeps your focus on things above this earth--see Col. 3:1-3.
I personally enjoy a challenge--and having less just gives me a chance to tap into God's mighty mind for new ideas and ways of doing things. It is fun to feel as though you've given "want" and "poverty" a good lickin' just by being innovative! It's even better to have more fun living simply than anyone has that can afford all sorts of things that just get in the way of happiness.
Many blessings,
Sherry
We have some really big constructions bills to pay, one due in a few days 656.87 and a 902.17 the beginning of January, and around 800.00 in property taxes due the end of Feb. The baby is due mid Febuary...we have a mid wife to pay as well. So we decided to just pay our bills, and save food money.. etc. to pay these extra bills... I'm use to having money for food when we need a jug of milk, cheese, eggs, etc. I do not even know how to cook without needed items...I'll learn, it will be good teaching for my girls as well. Ben is looking for a second job, but with his health (bones) being limited...it's hard
We give this all to God...do I worry? some, but I turn it over to God when I feel worry coming on. I have to say my pride makes me feel bad too see the mid wife with no money to give her yet...she hasn't said anything, but I dread that she will.
She is worthy of being paid a good amount. I am use to having enough money to make ends meet. But God must want us to learn once again to pray much, and walk by faith. We've done it before, we can do it again.
This sisters post was so uplifting and encouraging to me.
She has 9 children also. I hope this will be encouraging to someone out there struggling.Let me add..Sunday we went to a small newly started church in a neighborhood to encourage the pastor and his wife. It was a small congregation of about 10 including all the children and pastor and his family. The message was very uplifting to our heavy spirits. The pastor also mentioned in his message that he had another message to preach, but that the Lord changed it at the last min. He also told about his freezer going out last night and that his father had just caught and dressed bags and bags of croppie fish, and that he would be giving everyone some after church. It's neat how the Lord provides and encourages. After church we went home and cooked up all that good fish, it was just enough for one meal, we had some Tater Tots in the freezer to go with it, we were blessed and filled, and our children saw the good hand of the Lord upon us.
The very next day (Monday) some dear friends from up North sent us a care pkg, full of little notes, pictures, hand made gifts, letters from their precious children, family pictures, their 5 year old daughter sent a dollar...it brought tears to my eyes...(that precious little girl) ,some zippers
,close pins "which we needed", some iron pills which are very expensive, "which we needed", A drawing pad for my second oldest daughter, she loves to draw, and... a gas card, and a Wal Mart card! They sent this pkg on Saturday...we decided Sunday to stop buying groceries, etc. to pay for our upcoming bills..Gods mighty provision again. There is nothing we can sell except for our 1992 15 passenger van which we need. We have started to use the out house during the day to save on water (flushing the commode), we make our own detergent, we cut off hot water to our bathroom sinks to save the money on the hot water needing to heat up every time we wash our hands, we've cut down on showers, we do not use the dryer at all for any reason...Thats a big statement because this is the second week it has rained, just when my close are almost dry it comes down a gully washer and drenches them again.
, we do not use lights during day light hours and few after dark, we cut our downstairs air conditioner off during the day, we got rid of our long distance, and caller id, and all of that.. which will save us about 70.00 a month! 
We have cut all the corners we can. When I start feeling better I'm going to start washing by hand. I love washing by hand! If I can think of any other ways to save money I'll sure do it. ~ Darlene ~ladyofvirtue.blogspot.com/2008/04/frugality-is-fun.html
Frugality is fun! (Friday, April 25, 2008)
Hold on to your hats, girls--the economic wind is blowing, and all predictions are that things are going to get more expensive in the near future.
But God has been preparing us for this, at least in our hearts, hasn't He? There is just a sense that He has such a great blessing for us as we learn to trust Him more for our daily bread.
The other night my dear husband had a significant dream in which someone handed him a check that did not have the amount filled in and said to him, "Fill it in according to the content of your need". We knew that God was telling us to fill it in with our needs.
Right now our needs are many--I could make quite a list--and so we thought at first that we should make an extensive prayer-request list, which we do periodically anyway, since it is fun to see God meet each item in a specific way that says, "I love you". But this time it was different. We knew, after some discussion and checking in the Word, that we were to ask only one thing...
...we asked for more of HIM! HE is the content of our need!
When times turn difficult, we are never alone, and we need never fear. God will supply, just as He did the ram in the thicket for the sacrifice on Mt. Moriah. It just may be in some very different ways than we are expecting.
The apostles knew this, the persecuted church knows this. Paul said, "Having food and raiment, to be content therewith". How can we be content?--by feasting on His faithfulness.
There is something about contentment that brings heartiness to beans and rice. There is something about contentedness that doesn't mind the sideways glances of those that judge us. There is something about contentedness that is a continual feast.
Contentedness is not miserly--just read Psalm 127. It doesn't make you lose sleep or keep you from enjoying things or giving to others. It just keeps you from pining over things you don't have and don't need, and it keeps you resting in thankfulness. It turns your eyes upward, and keeps your focus on things above this earth--see Col. 3:1-3.
I personally enjoy a challenge--and having less just gives me a chance to tap into God's mighty mind for new ideas and ways of doing things. It is fun to feel as though you've given "want" and "poverty" a good lickin' just by being innovative! It's even better to have more fun living simply than anyone has that can afford all sorts of things that just get in the way of happiness.
Many blessings,
Sherry