Money money money

There is a lot of stuff going on in the world at the moment to do with money. Oil prices are high, the dollar is plummeting, fear over banks' ability to lend money and oh yeah, me and my wife seem to be a little short of it too.

I don't really have a proper job anymore - I do some hours for my church and I'm trying to set up the music mentoring project (which currently doesn't pay me). I was doing some freelance work for my brother-in-law, but business is tight and there is no work at the moment. So when I came to crunch the numbers on our outgoings I found we had a teeny weeny gap in what was coming in and what was going out.

Actually, it was quite a lot - and as I looked at the numbers my only thought was 'God, I am going to need a little help on this one.' Surprisingly, it didn't actually worry me at all - as I feel confident that God has put me in this place and if He wanted me to stay there, we'd need to have some money to keep it that way. So I was speaking to our church senior leadership team about this and we committed it to God in prayer.

About six hours later, I got a phone call from our church administrator saying that Sure Start (who use our church building in the week) have agreed to give me over a months paid work to make a CD for their Dad's Project that they run. I'm not kidding - literally 6 hours later. And who says God takes ages to answer prayer! I couldn't quite believe it. So not only has God provided for me and Marianne financially for the next few months but He has done it in a way that allows me to make music doing it! More than that - if this had come along at a time when business for my brother was good - I wouldn't have had time to do it.

There is nothing left to do here, but sit down, point to my forehead and say genius. God is the one who never lets us down and always knows what He is doing. Legend.