Shekels, Shackles, and Supply

Trusting God’s Supply

2 Corinthians 11:9 (KJV)
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

I’ve been in the ministry now for more than forty years. We started out with absolutely nothing. I had been an ironworker and my wife a schoolteacher in the public school system in Oregon so, at the ages of twenty-two and twenty-three we were quite well off.

At age twenty-two my wife and I had:

· A brand-new house (built one year previous)

· A brand-new pick up

· A brand-new car

· A brand-new motorcycle

· A brand-new Kawasaki Jet Ski and

· A hang glider (it wasn’t new)

Of course, all of that was financed.

When I surrendered to go into the ministry:

· We lost the house to the bank[1]

· We gave the car to a friend who could take over payments

· We sold the motorcycle and hang glider or what I owed

· We gave the Jet Ski to my sister[2]

During that same period: