I love sleeping! I can sleep anywhere at any time, regardless of the circumstances. I remember one December while being in Lesotho, I fell asleep outside on the grass behind the shed that we stayed in. My friend Ethan came to wake me up just before a storm broke loose and apparently the group left me sleeping while they went to go bath in the river.
For the last two weeks I was sleeping more than usual due to a cold. I can’t remember being as sick as I was. Sleeping, eating and watching the Kings XI Punjab’s play cricket was all I did.
It has not been the most pleasant year of my life and especially not from a financial point of view. I lost a R100 000 bursary in the beginning of this year due to the fact that I am the assistant residence head of two ladies residences. The bursary argued that I will be working too many hours to still be considered as a full time student. I am not allowed to say how much I get for the position but I can say this, I get twice as much for one cricket game than what I get for the months’ work as an assistant residence head. I was not permitted to do much but the residence head refused to write a letter to say that I was working less than 15hours a week. I should have taken the bursary and left the job but at that stage I wanted to honour my commitment. Lesson learned.
In all the ‘should and should not have’, I have learned that God is the source of my provision. Two weeks ago, the Sunday morning while I was sick in bed, I got a WhatsApp message from a friend asking for my bank details. He felt that the Lord said that he had to contribute to my car. When he asked me how things are going with my car, I just laughed. I am not saving for a car at the moment, I still need to pay my student account and these new medical bills. A car is the last thing on my mind. Anyways, saving for a car is as far away as the moon at this moment.
My friend deposited R10 000 into my bank account!
Whaaattttt!!!!
At first I joked because I thought that the money was provision for my medical, “I hope I don’t need to be hospitalized”. He strongly felt that the Lord said that it was for my car, so I prayed and I agreed. That money will be my first saving towards a car.
The beautiful thing about this testimony is that three days before he contacted me I came across a list I have made of everything that I am trusting God for and next to everything I wrote, “Happening”, except for the car. I then clearly heard the Lord say “Now you can write “happening” next to the car as well. Blown away by who He is, how He sees me, and how He is part of my everyday life.
That Monday I got an email from the University saying that they will pay my student account. Now I know that the money was definitely for my car. Student fees paid…thank you Jesus!
Yesterday however, the doctor referred me to a specialist for a heart scan. My heart is doing funny stuff like singing off beat… Nothing new, my heart literally and figuratively has never really functioned well, so don’t worry I am not dying yet.
By now my medical bill is almost more than my tuition fees. Eish… there goes the money for my car. I have to pay these bills. I was completely stressed out about this medical bill. My heart was the last thing that I was worried about. At about 7pm, the Wednesday evening, I decided that I am not going to sit and stress about this, I prayed and said, “Lord, you have to come sort out these bills please, I am going to go sleep now”, and I went to sleep. The next morning, just woken up, I checked my phone. No ways, it was a message from my bank, someone else deposited R10 000 into my bank account. He said it was for my studies. I messaged him to say thank you but my studies was already paid and I actually needed the money to pay my medical bills since I do not have medical aid. Kind hearted person that he is, he said that I can use the money according to my need.
So while I was sleeping, the Lord paid my studies and set money aside towards a car and my medical bill is now also paid!
I would like to encourage you that no matter what your circumstances are, or the ‘should or should not's’, of the decisions we make, God remains faithful and He alone is the source of our provision.
Matthew 6:
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than
clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
For the last two weeks I was sleeping more than usual due to a cold. I can’t remember being as sick as I was. Sleeping, eating and watching the Kings XI Punjab’s play cricket was all I did.
It has not been the most pleasant year of my life and especially not from a financial point of view. I lost a R100 000 bursary in the beginning of this year due to the fact that I am the assistant residence head of two ladies residences. The bursary argued that I will be working too many hours to still be considered as a full time student. I am not allowed to say how much I get for the position but I can say this, I get twice as much for one cricket game than what I get for the months’ work as an assistant residence head. I was not permitted to do much but the residence head refused to write a letter to say that I was working less than 15hours a week. I should have taken the bursary and left the job but at that stage I wanted to honour my commitment. Lesson learned.
In all the ‘should and should not have’, I have learned that God is the source of my provision. Two weeks ago, the Sunday morning while I was sick in bed, I got a WhatsApp message from a friend asking for my bank details. He felt that the Lord said that he had to contribute to my car. When he asked me how things are going with my car, I just laughed. I am not saving for a car at the moment, I still need to pay my student account and these new medical bills. A car is the last thing on my mind. Anyways, saving for a car is as far away as the moon at this moment.
My friend deposited R10 000 into my bank account!
Whaaattttt!!!!
At first I joked because I thought that the money was provision for my medical, “I hope I don’t need to be hospitalized”. He strongly felt that the Lord said that it was for my car, so I prayed and I agreed. That money will be my first saving towards a car.
The beautiful thing about this testimony is that three days before he contacted me I came across a list I have made of everything that I am trusting God for and next to everything I wrote, “Happening”, except for the car. I then clearly heard the Lord say “Now you can write “happening” next to the car as well. Blown away by who He is, how He sees me, and how He is part of my everyday life.
That Monday I got an email from the University saying that they will pay my student account. Now I know that the money was definitely for my car. Student fees paid…thank you Jesus!
Yesterday however, the doctor referred me to a specialist for a heart scan. My heart is doing funny stuff like singing off beat… Nothing new, my heart literally and figuratively has never really functioned well, so don’t worry I am not dying yet.
By now my medical bill is almost more than my tuition fees. Eish… there goes the money for my car. I have to pay these bills. I was completely stressed out about this medical bill. My heart was the last thing that I was worried about. At about 7pm, the Wednesday evening, I decided that I am not going to sit and stress about this, I prayed and said, “Lord, you have to come sort out these bills please, I am going to go sleep now”, and I went to sleep. The next morning, just woken up, I checked my phone. No ways, it was a message from my bank, someone else deposited R10 000 into my bank account. He said it was for my studies. I messaged him to say thank you but my studies was already paid and I actually needed the money to pay my medical bills since I do not have medical aid. Kind hearted person that he is, he said that I can use the money according to my need.
So while I was sleeping, the Lord paid my studies and set money aside towards a car and my medical bill is now also paid!
I would like to encourage you that no matter what your circumstances are, or the ‘should or should not's’, of the decisions we make, God remains faithful and He alone is the source of our provision.
Matthew 6:
25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than
clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?