On Saturday, I went for a tv interview to give my testimony of being healed when I had my heart attack, and other testimonies I gave, all of which included an incident my husband, David, and I faced a few months back, and it involved tithes. And this was the testimony I gave:
A few months ago, our car broke down and we had to have it towed in. They checked it out at the garage and decided it needed a new starter on it....cost us over $300.00, but they said that should fix it. That was on a Wednesday. On Saturday, David took the car and put the last $20.00 he had in it for gas. Now mind you, at the time, we were struggling with finances. Our church was planning a supper for Sunday evening, to go and feed the less fortunate and we were looking forward to going and meeting the people and just sitting down with them. On Sunday morning, I got up bright and early and began cooking my meal to take on Sunday evening. We had our usual cup of coffee and finished getting ready for church. We went outside, got in the car, and ......yep, the car wouldn't crank! David got out, raised the hood and gave it a once over, checking everything, tried to crank it again......NOTHING!!! He began pacing, aggravated, trying to figure out why this car wouldn't crank after we just spent so much trying to get it fixed! I got out of the car, walked to the end of the patio, and said, "What God? Are you trying to tell us something? What? I don't understand! You know we have no money left! What are we going to do?"
All of a sudden, David turned to me and said to come on...we were going to church. I asked him how we were suppose to do that? Now we had an old work truck, and we didn't have hardly any gas in it because we had just really not been using it that much because it used so much gas. He said God told him to stop standing around being mad and just get in the truck and go. So we got in the truck, and headed to church. I looked at the gas hand and it was on empty. I said, "Do we have enough gas to get to church?" He said, " We've got enough to get to church, but we don't have enough to get back home." I asked him what were we going to do then? I knew he had to have enough gas to go to work the next week also. Finally, as I sat there and ponder in my mind what to do, it came to me......we had our tithe money! I looked at him and said, "We are going to have to use the tithe money. God will understand...We have no choice honey."
I mean, when you don't have a dime to your name, and you're facing a situation like that, and all of the sudden you remember you have that money you were going to tithe with, isn't that the logical thing to do??????
So when I said that, David looked at me and said....................
Wait a minute. Before I finish telling you this story, tell me......if this was you.....what would you do???? I'll be back with the rest of this story this weekend... In the meantime, tell me what you would do.....honestly....how would you handle this situation?? And I'll be back this weekend to tell you what happened........
A few months ago, our car broke down and we had to have it towed in. They checked it out at the garage and decided it needed a new starter on it....cost us over $300.00, but they said that should fix it. That was on a Wednesday. On Saturday, David took the car and put the last $20.00 he had in it for gas. Now mind you, at the time, we were struggling with finances. Our church was planning a supper for Sunday evening, to go and feed the less fortunate and we were looking forward to going and meeting the people and just sitting down with them. On Sunday morning, I got up bright and early and began cooking my meal to take on Sunday evening. We had our usual cup of coffee and finished getting ready for church. We went outside, got in the car, and ......yep, the car wouldn't crank! David got out, raised the hood and gave it a once over, checking everything, tried to crank it again......NOTHING!!! He began pacing, aggravated, trying to figure out why this car wouldn't crank after we just spent so much trying to get it fixed! I got out of the car, walked to the end of the patio, and said, "What God? Are you trying to tell us something? What? I don't understand! You know we have no money left! What are we going to do?"
All of a sudden, David turned to me and said to come on...we were going to church. I asked him how we were suppose to do that? Now we had an old work truck, and we didn't have hardly any gas in it because we had just really not been using it that much because it used so much gas. He said God told him to stop standing around being mad and just get in the truck and go. So we got in the truck, and headed to church. I looked at the gas hand and it was on empty. I said, "Do we have enough gas to get to church?" He said, " We've got enough to get to church, but we don't have enough to get back home." I asked him what were we going to do then? I knew he had to have enough gas to go to work the next week also. Finally, as I sat there and ponder in my mind what to do, it came to me......we had our tithe money! I looked at him and said, "We are going to have to use the tithe money. God will understand...We have no choice honey."
I mean, when you don't have a dime to your name, and you're facing a situation like that, and all of the sudden you remember you have that money you were going to tithe with, isn't that the logical thing to do??????
So when I said that, David looked at me and said....................
Wait a minute. Before I finish telling you this story, tell me......if this was you.....what would you do???? I'll be back with the rest of this story this weekend... In the meantime, tell me what you would do.....honestly....how would you handle this situation?? And I'll be back this weekend to tell you what happened........
i think you did a logical thing and i guess anybody would have done the same thing:)
ReplyDeletewhat is the most important thing is that you had the mentality to help the less privileged and that's so rare in today's world:) so god will definitely understand.
waiting for the rest of the story:)
-love
haritha