Tell God your requests

Hi All,

I’ve not written of God’s provision for several weeks; believe me he provides for me constantly, but today I was bowled over by his provision.

Several weeks ago my old warped plastic garden table was blown across the garden by the wind and a large piece was broken off.  My old table had served me well but it had been past it’s best for the last couple of years, and as I love to eat in the garden I had been looking for a replacement but with no success.  I like to have a fairly large table so that I can have people over but the cost of larger tables was out of my budget.

So this morning I wrote a Prayer List of my wants and needs to take down to the Charity Shop, where I work, so that it could be put on the notice board. Then if anything suitable came in they would hold it for me. The third item on the list was a garden table, we rarely get garden tables in the shop but I put my trust in God that he would find me one.  When I arrived I showed the list to the manageress and she said there was a table at their Church and she promptly rang the pastor to enquire about it.

Now she said it was wooden and needed sanding and varnishing but it was good quality and had 4 chairs with it, she said it would be £35 delivered to my home.  We had a dining table in the shop which she said was roughly the same size, so it was agreed I would buy it and pay for it over the next few weeks. As the van wasn’t booked for any deliveries at the charity shop a work colleague went to pick it up and deliver it to my back garden.

When I arrived home I could hardly believe my eyes, the table was closed up when I first saw it and a little larger than the table in the shop, but I soon discovered that it had an extra section that could be raised up into the centre to make the table even larger.  The four chairs all recline.

Yes it needs a little TLC, but if far exceeds my expectations and I would imagine it cost a few hundred pounds when it was new.

So I urge you all to have faith in God’s provision, see

Philippians 4:6

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;

Love and Blessings to all of you, may God answer your prayers as magnificently as he has mine, JF