Our Footsteps: Back To School

Monday, August 4, 2008

Back To School

We did a little 'back to school' shopping tonight. My sons both picked out their bookbag/backpacks and lunch boxes. We have a few more things to get before the first day of school at the end of August. It may sound trivial, but the bookbags and lunch boxes are an answer to prayer. When you thank God for His provision, and pray for Him to continue to provide - and then when there is money to get backpacks and lunch boxes - that is a direct answer to prayer.

We recently had another direct answer to prayer regarding the kids going back to school. They attend our church's school - First Baptist Christian School - where they are receiving a top-notch education. We have been extremely impressed with the program. For some months now, there has been a need to fill a vacancy in the Principal position. And so we prayed. This is no light matter for us, and so we prayed for this person who would be a key in setting the direction and policy for the school. We prayed for this person who would be shepherding our children for 7 hours out of the day. We prayed for this person who would be bringing new ideas and thoughts to the table.

Yesterday, we spent the day helping our new principal, his wife and seven children move into their new house. This man - and his family - are a direct answer to our many prayers. We have heard him speak several times at our church, we spent time with his family yesterday and we are looking forward to knowing them more personally in the coming days and weeks. We are quite confident that this man and his family were the ones that God had in mind to minister to our family at the school - and to use in increasing our faith, seeing as how He is interested in hearing and acting on our prayers.

In a familiar passage of scripture, James 4:2, we are told that 'you have not because you ask not'. We can literally state the converse of that: 'we asked, and we received'.

Thank you Lord, for another answer.

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