Lack of Faith

Yesterday the Lord showed me just how little faith I really have. Manta has been having quite a bit of rain, which is very unusual for us. I mean this is the time of you when we do usually get a little rain, if we are going to get any, but we have had downpours now for a little over a week. Everything is pretty much a muddy mess.

Yesterday was to be a pretty big day for us. Not just a normal service in the morning, but we had an important "business meeting" planned for 6:00pm. Tony has been announcing it for a couple weeks, emphasizing that it was really important for people to be there, if they were concerned and committed to our church.

Well, this past Wednesday at our prayer meeting at the church, we had a young lady visiting, who is hoping to go to Thailand as a missionary. She brought along a presentation, and we had been looking forward to the opportunity to view it and to get the church excited about supporting her ministry. Well, it poured down rain again, and we ended up having 10 present... what a disappointment!

On Thursday, as I wrote to our girls about the prayer meeting the other events going on... I asked them to please be praying for Sunday and especially for the meeting Sunday evening. I asked them to pray that we have nice weather and a good turnout...

Sunday morning dawned, gray and wet as the last few days... about 8:45, we had a huge downpour... As we got in the car(about 9:00) and was pulling out of our garage, Tony said, well, I'm preparing myself for a really low day. We discussed, how no one here would go out in the rain... they act like they will surely "catch their death" if they get wet, never mind that we live at the equator and the temperatures are in the 80's even with the rain!

We pulled up to the church about 15 minutes later and the rain had stopped. by 10:00 the sun was shining! There ended up being 28 ladies in my class and Tony had one of the highest attendances he has had in the men's class with 20, with a total of 72 in Sunday School. By the 10:30 service we had 93!

We returned for the meeting at 6:00 and had 35 adults present! It did start to rain again... at 7:00! :-) It has rained all night and is still raining this morning.

On the way home last night, Tony and I were talking how we had prayed and asked others to pray about the services and meeting, yet we had both been "surprised" by the sunny weather and the great attendances!

I am so thankful that the Lord, didn't look at our lack of faith and give us what we were expecting! It was great reminder to both of us that we serve a great God, who is in control of all circumstances, even the weather. There is NOTHING too hard for Him!

Blessing on you as you serve Him this week!
Joy