Jehovah Jireh

I made it back to NYC! This time, I'm here as student staff, so my role is partially the same, but also different. I'll be leading a Bible study this year and I'm discipling two girls. I'm really looking forward to seeing how God is going to move in the City, in my team, and in myself as well!

The road to New York City hasn't been a nicely paved one. There have been many obstacles, but God has taught me a lot about His provision through the whole process. I had been looking for a job for over a year, but there wasn't really anything that fit in my schedule. I decided to move off campus for the upcoming school year and really needed to start working to save up for bills in the future, so being jobless was no longer be an option. Miraculously, God provided the perfect job. It gives me money to pay future bills, gets me experience in my field of study, provides a place to co-op, and also gets me more in contact with non-believers. Also, getting the job really solidified my plans of going to New York. I would have had to have worked during the summer, but OfficeMax let me take off for 4 weeks. Praise God!

Raising support for the trip was another issue for me for a long time. I had to raise around $4,000 and it just wasn't really coming in. So, here I am, one week before I leave, still needing about half, and not knowing what I'm going to do. That day, I realize that I hadn't really been using the best resource I can get my hands on: prayer. I prayed with full assurance that God knew what He was doing and that He would provide for me what I needed. Within the next couple days I received almost the full amount of what I needed and by the time I left for Project, I had the whole amount. It was insane.

Last year during one of our meetings here in New York, we did a study on different names of God--one being Jehovah Jireh, which means the Lord will provide. It really caught my attention for whatever reason and has just stuck with me since then. Over the past year, I've really seen His sovereign hand at work providing for me and others around me. It's truly amazing.

So, I say all that to say this: I canNOT wait to see how God provides for us while we're here in the City. I know He's up to something and I'm looking forward to finding out what that is.