By Faith Rawley
Currently I’m trying to sell my car – not very easy! I’m doing this for a few reasons: firstly to save money, secondly because Ben and I can get by with one car – with a little compromise. But mainly I need to sell the car in preparation for moving to California for nine months to do a ministry school there.
So far we haven’t had much interest and at times I do feel a bit anxious about the whole thing because we have a deadline by which time we definitely need to sell it, but also the longer it takes to sell the less money we will save for going away. In prayer I find myself thinking, ‘God, we’re following you to do this school so you need to sort this sale out for us’ (that’s the blunt version). The verse: ‘Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you’ (Matthew 6:33) comes to mind. As selling the car is part of the plan to move in a direction that we feel God is leading us we believe we are trying to seek His Kingdom first, in the best way we know how to, but I’m still waiting for the ‘all things shall be added’ part – is that twisting God’s arm?
I’m reading ‘When Heaven Invades Earth’ by Bill Johnson and in it he looks at that verse in Matthew. Johnson says,
‘It has always seemed to me that the phrase “and all these things shall be added to you” meant that if my priorities were correct He’d make sure I got what I needed. After understanding the model prayer better [from Matthew 6], I’m not so sure that was His intent. He was saying that, if we seek His Kingdom first, we’ll find His Kingdom comes fully equipped. It brings with it His answer to our material and relational needs.’
Even though we are putting God’s Kingdom priorities first that doesn’t mean that God’s outworking of the ‘all things’ will be according to what we think should happen, in the time frame we think it should happen. Maybe I’m thinking too small by just focusing on the car sale as that being God’s answer to our material needs? Maybe I am actually still more concerned with my material needs being met than trusting that by truly seeking His Kingdom, there is no lack in it or in Him? My outlook is now shifting from focusing on getting the car sold to believing that His Kingdom will bring with it the answers, provisions and blessings we need, even if they’re not the ones we were anticipating.
Watch this space…..
**So since writing the post, we have sold the car! A friend of ours bought it from us and she actually gave us the full asking price for it!! She recently came back from attending the same course that we are planning to go on, so wanted to bless us in our preparations. We are totally blown away by God’s provision in this situation. But we also feel privileged to be part of the answer to someone else’s needs.
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