Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
If you’re facing an impossible situation with no human way out, I want to encourage you today that God has everything under control—as long as you continue to trust in Him.
I quit my job right after Thanksgiving. I had been selling timeshares for about three months, trying with all my heart to succeed—but I just couldn’t do it. I found myself longing to tell people about Jesus, not about timeshares. And I sometimes talked them out of attending the 90-minute presentation that would get me paid because I knew the 3-day, 2-night trip to Oahu they would receive was really two days of travel and one short day of sightseeing—hardly enough time to even catch your breath.
When the company reduced my hours to 15 per week and moved me from a booth inside a retail store to standing outside on a sidewalk across the street from Disneyland’s California Adventure themepark, I just couldn’t do it anymore. I literally could not go to work one more day. So I requested prayer at church, and then I quit.
I didn’t work for 10 weeks. Understand that I am a single mom, and right now I have six children living with me. This meant I went through Christmas and half of January with no income. One thing I learned during this time is that God is the source of my supply, not a job. I continued looking for a job, but I seemed to hit obstacles at every turn, including a two-week period when all my children were seriously ill with strep throat. And yet God miraculously sustained me through unexpected income and the kindness of Christian brothers and sisters.
In January, things finally started to break loose. I ended up with two job offers instead of one. I accepted the higher salary offer to become operations manager for an entrepreneurial start-up. It sounded like the job of my dreams. A few days later, they lowered their salary offer by $3,000, so I ended up accepting the other offer (for the same salary) from a non-profit. My job is to train the employees at all the homeless shelters in my county to use software that tracks how many homeless people they are helping. If they don’t use the software, they lose all their HUD funding (job security for me). I will also be acting as an advocate for the homeless with private and government organizations.
The point is, don’t trust in a job to support you. The time may come when that job isn’t there—but God will still be there, and He never fails. And don’t be surprised if He redirects you from what seems like the safe, logical thing to something else. I’ve wanted to work for a nonprofit for many, many years. I have two certificates in nonprofit management, but I’ve never seriously pursued a nonprofit job because the pay is too low. Once I saw how God miraculously sustained me and my family with no income, I don’t have a hard time believing He can sustain me with a meager income (less than half of what I was making a couple of years ago). I’m excited about my job for the first time in years, and I know with total assurance that I am right where He wants me.
Cathleen
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
If you’re facing an impossible situation with no human way out, I want to encourage you today that God has everything under control—as long as you continue to trust in Him.
I quit my job right after Thanksgiving. I had been selling timeshares for about three months, trying with all my heart to succeed—but I just couldn’t do it. I found myself longing to tell people about Jesus, not about timeshares. And I sometimes talked them out of attending the 90-minute presentation that would get me paid because I knew the 3-day, 2-night trip to Oahu they would receive was really two days of travel and one short day of sightseeing—hardly enough time to even catch your breath.
When the company reduced my hours to 15 per week and moved me from a booth inside a retail store to standing outside on a sidewalk across the street from Disneyland’s California Adventure themepark, I just couldn’t do it anymore. I literally could not go to work one more day. So I requested prayer at church, and then I quit.
I didn’t work for 10 weeks. Understand that I am a single mom, and right now I have six children living with me. This meant I went through Christmas and half of January with no income. One thing I learned during this time is that God is the source of my supply, not a job. I continued looking for a job, but I seemed to hit obstacles at every turn, including a two-week period when all my children were seriously ill with strep throat. And yet God miraculously sustained me through unexpected income and the kindness of Christian brothers and sisters.
In January, things finally started to break loose. I ended up with two job offers instead of one. I accepted the higher salary offer to become operations manager for an entrepreneurial start-up. It sounded like the job of my dreams. A few days later, they lowered their salary offer by $3,000, so I ended up accepting the other offer (for the same salary) from a non-profit. My job is to train the employees at all the homeless shelters in my county to use software that tracks how many homeless people they are helping. If they don’t use the software, they lose all their HUD funding (job security for me). I will also be acting as an advocate for the homeless with private and government organizations.
The point is, don’t trust in a job to support you. The time may come when that job isn’t there—but God will still be there, and He never fails. And don’t be surprised if He redirects you from what seems like the safe, logical thing to something else. I’ve wanted to work for a nonprofit for many, many years. I have two certificates in nonprofit management, but I’ve never seriously pursued a nonprofit job because the pay is too low. Once I saw how God miraculously sustained me and my family with no income, I don’t have a hard time believing He can sustain me with a meager income (less than half of what I was making a couple of years ago). I’m excited about my job for the first time in years, and I know with total assurance that I am right where He wants me.
Cathleen
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