Sunday, January 10, 2010

Standing in the Queue

This past summer i read a book called Rees Howells Intercessor. i highly recommend it. Anyways, this guy Rees, who lived in the early to mid-1900's lived his life completely dependent and surrendered to the Lord. One of the stories in the book is about how he and his wife were traveling to Africa to be missionaries. As they were leaving their house they had no money. Rees had enough change in his pocket to take the train to the next stop, so he and his wife bought the ticket for as far as they could afford and boarded the train.
When they reached the station Rees stood around nervously not sure what to do. He knew that he was not to ask anyone for money, but he also knew that God wanted him to get on the train to continue his journey to Africa. Then he heard God ask him 'If you had the money, what would you do?' Rees replied, 'I would stand in the queue' so God told him to believe that the money was his and to go stand in the line, and Rees did.
So there he is, standing in line to buy the tickets with no money and as the line gets shorter and shorter, Rees gets more and more nervous. By the time that there are only two people in front of him, he is sweating. Suddenly, the man in front of him turns around declares that he doesn't have time and thrusts his money into Rees's hands. Rees takes the money, buys the tickets and soon after, his friends and colleagues are providing him with everything else that he needs. He said afterward that as scary as it was, he would not trade the test in the queue for anything.

The reason that i am sharing this story with you is because tomorrow morning i am going to stand in the queue. i think that i may have mentioned before that i am in graduate school? Well the thing is, i am in graduate school by faith. Last semester God provided for me to take two classes. i signed up for three this semester without any idea of how i was going to pay for them.

My classes start tomorrow. i have no money. i am going to stand in the queue. We'll see what happens.

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