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January 28, 2012

Choosing God as your financial supplier

The Rev. G. David Henderson

“Man did eat angels’ food” (Psalms 78:25)



My wife, Charlotte, and I have always realized that one of the worst testimonies a church pastor can have is not paying his financial debts. Many years ago because of medical expenses, we were approaching the danger of not being able to pay our bills. We asked God to help us.

My family believes and practices the prayer promises in the Bible that we can ask God for “whatsoever” and “anything” (John 14:13-14), including according to “our will” (John 15:7), plus the “desires of our heart” (Mark 11:24), and it works for us!

Soon after our prayer, I saw a sign advertising a reward for anyone finding a lost ring. I have a metal detector and called the residence offering my assistance. The husband answered the phone and promised to relay the message to his wife for her to phone me when she returned home. I never heard from her until many months later when I was returning from the grocery store and saw her removing her sign.

I never go to the grocery store on that particular day of the week and time. I even had to run a red light to ask her if she had found the ring, and told her I was the minister that offered to find it for her. Her husband never told her I called, because he was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. If I had not gone to the grocery store that day, at that precise moment the traffic light having stopped me, the lady and I would have never met.

When the lady trusted me to follow her home, she told me the sentimental value of her ring that her husband had made special for her from rings when they first married many decades earlier. She told me she would pay double the price of her reward to anyone who found her ring. Because it was drizzling and cold that day, we agreed I would try to find her ring another day.

When I arrived home, I could not even sit down because I knew I could find her ring that day. I phoned her and told her I was returning to find the ring. When I asked the lady on her property where she thought she might have lost it, she told me, but the Lord whispered in my heart that she was wrong. When I asked what else she did that day, she told me she raked grass. The Lord told me to ask where she threw the trash, and there I would find her ring.        

When I went to the spot where she threw her trash, my metal detector found her ring on the first half swing. She got so excited that she awarded me four times more than her reward offer, which paid off our debt!

“You have not, because you ask not” (James 4:2)!



The Rev. G. David Henderson is the pastor of Temple of the Lord at 611 S. Green St. in Dalton. You can reach him at angelsfood@optilink.us. His column appears on Saturday.

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