The Lord will provide!

[MrsPete]

The Lord will help those, who help themselves!

Actually Ben Franklin said that particular thing.

The Lord will provide the opportunity, but it's up to us individuals to take advantage of it.

 

[breezy1077]

God provides for us, but it is more often in opportunities and situations. What non-believers would call luck and coincidence. I call God providing for me.

To some, it may be coincidence, but I will always believe it was God providing for her. We do things because God calls us to. I am so glad my mom's dear friend heard God's calling and sang my mom a song. It was a blessing to everyone in the room.

Coincidences are God's way of staying anonymous

I think you may have been called today. I am having a "bad" day. Having just lost my Dad to cancer, you may never know the comfort your story just gave me. Do you mind if I pass it on to my Mom?

God bless you.

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."




If we worry-- then it shows us that we are trusting in ourselves and we have little faith in God's sovereignty and power.

Jo

One of my faves.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

LOL about the OP's question.

It mystifies me.

My stepdad sent me all my mom's stuff shortly before he was remarrying. I demanded it; didn't trust her, and since my mom had left her money to HIM, to then be split between us and his kids when HE died, I didn't trust that in case he died and left that money to his new wife etc etc.

Anyway, he sent it and had it all insured.

And when it all arrived, I watched the mover drop the box containing either the turntable or the laser disc player...both of them were damaged. The LD doesn't work at all, and the turntable's lid was smashed to smithereens.

The turntable I could deal with, but the player was important b/c of all the movies I'd inherited. So we spent money we barely had to get an estimate; it was unrepairable.

So I asked stepdad to file an insurance claim. And waited. And waited. And waited. 6 months went by, or something maybe not that long but still counted in months.

We happened upon a used CD store one day, wandered in, and there was a Pioneer LD player for $50. We bought it.

And told stepdad. Who replied that he'd never filed the claim, but isn't god great b/c we'd wandered into that store.

Um. We needed a thousand dollar player replaced, and we got a $50 player. Now...that player is probably what we would have ended up with anyway, and it turns out it's a better player than my mom's Marantz was (they just didn't make LD players that well), but still, I lost a 1K player and replaced it with something MUCH older than it. There should have been some compensation from the insurance company, so he should have filed the claim.

Otherwise, why ever buy insurance?

And he never reimbursed me the money for the estimate OR the player we bought, even though he'd bought insurance that would have covered it (even if he kept all the other money from the claim) and he should have done so.

Very frustrating.

I worked for a moving company for many years. As the receipient of the shipment, you signed the inventory sheet and Bill of Lading for the Moving company which would have stated the type of insurance on the shipment. You would only have needed the shipment #, inventory number off the paperwork you received and you could have filed the claim yourself.

So I guess my point is....

Live and Learn!!

 

[All American]

Because faith is a principle of action.

 

[breezy1077]

Because faith is a principle of action.

DH is always saying that faith requires action.

 

[dislal]

My grandmothers favorite saying was always The good lord only helps those who help themselves.

 

[Shel]

Another twist I heard/read someplace is that while the Lord does provide for the birds, He doesn't throw it into their nests.