Manna.... pure manna...

You always hear people stand up and tell these stories in Fast and Testimony meeting, but you never really expect it to happen to you.
As you have read, Roxy and I are struggling to get our of our current living situation and into a better one. All the stars have aligned. We have found a house. We have been able to break our lease with a minimal penalty. We have been able to come up with all the money to get into the new house. But there was one thing that is vexing us. That is our Car payment. We had it split up into 2 payments for this month to ease the burden. We had already sent in the checks before all this happened. This week we have worried about whether or not we were going to be able to afford the deposit and the car payment this weekend. Both of these things MUST be paid or this whole thing doesn't work. With my salary, we can afford to do both, but we would be short on our tithing. We were not sure what to do at this point. I had decided in my mind and I am sure that Roxann did as well that we were going to pay our tithing anyway and just pray for a miracle.

Today, we went through the daunting process of calling our car creditor and asking for the check (read: ach) not be processed. They told us no, but we could either let the check bounce or put a stop on it but be behind in our bill either way. So Roxy and I talked about it this afternoon and we decided to go ahead and put a stop on the check. So I hung up the phone with her and tried to get back to work. She called 10 minutes later. Through tears, she informed me that we had recieved a check in the mail for the exact amount of the car payment. THE EXACT AMOUNT. Now Roxann hasn't checked the mail on her own since the criminal incident as the mail box is 10 feet from where it took place. She told me that she felt like she should go and check it because someone could have sent us money. I have to tell you that there are several reasons why this happened. We have been praying for guidance and success in our move, we have been paying our tithing and our children have also been praying for success in this endeavor. When I called our contributor, I was informed that a lesser amount was to be sent, but a prompting for that exact amount was received and was followed.

Words cannot express how much this means to us. We have been directly blessed by the Lord for paying our tithing and communicating with Him. To our contributor, you have been an instrument to answer our prayers. Thank you. We appreciate all of your prayers but we still have a week or 2 to go so don't stop now.

--Spence