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Last time my feature was about a Biblical lesson I had learned about whom or what to lean on when we run into problems. Today I’m on a similar theme. You see, I’ve been telling a continuing five-part story at the Vacation Bible School for kids at our church this week. I chose to tell the life of Amy Carmichael who dared to do some great things for God. As a single missionary in India, she had a burden to rescue the children sold or given to the temples to be trained as temple prostitutes.

Today my story revolved around the many ways God had provided for her and her home of many rescued children. Not because Amy begged and pleaded for funds from others, but because of her policy, “It is enough to ask the Father.” So her children learned to pray and ask their Heavenly Father when they needed anything. He provided for their food and clothing. He provided a car, and a camp grounds higher in the mountains to cool off in the very hot weather, and He provided funds for a hospital, and a doctor and nurses. What started out as one little girl that ran away from the temple and came to her for help, grew to thirty, and then more and more until there were over 700, and then 1000 in that Dohnavur compound!

So today I’m feeling convicted. Although I resolved to trust God and ask only the Heavenly Father, when I moved home nearly 23 years ago to care for my aged parents, I have slacked off and not asked for all that I should have or could have. Now I am thinking especially in relationship to my business ventures. In the last month or two I’ve begun to pray specifically most days, for more income, and lo, an affiliate commission check, and I received some birthday gift monies too. Yet, I know I should be asking for still bigger and better resources to forge ahead.

I want to pledge to do just that! I invite you to do the same.

Oh, and don’t hesitate to donate some of your time to serve others. God will not be beholden or in debt to us, so He will repay you in surprising ways.