A Hero For Cinderella

 

 

Going through this journey of faith living with God has often felt like sailing through a tumultuous sea. There were so many waves that attempted to sink our ship, and yet God’s love has been a constant rescue time after time. 

 

Right after I shared the last room rescue that God performed for our journey in Chicago, I found myself surrounded by towering waves of opposition once again. This time, the rescue was not just for our room, but for my “Cinderella” bank account. 

 

A few years after the Lord brought us from Florida to Grandville, Michigan, I opened a bank account that was very special to me. I was beyond thrilled when I was able to pick a Cinderella debit card, and from then on, I called it my “Cinderella account”. 

 

Cinderella was unsinkable through so many storms and attacks. I felt like that bank account was so symbolic of God’s love to prevail despite the mounting attacks, and troublesome circumstances. 

 

We were about midway through our reservation, and I was already praying to be able to stay in the same place for another month. Moving a lot can be extremely exhausting, and it was all starting to wear on me. 

 

As I was praying for God to show me the hidden riches to cover the next room, my bank account went through a harsh attack, due to many bank errors, and unexpected charges. 

 

Suddenly, I found myself sinking from needs, and the waves of the storm were submerging the Cinderella account into the negative depths of no return. Even though it seemed very far-fetched that I could ever get out of such a deep hole, God kept giving me promises that He would “Save Cinderella” and delver the room money for the next month as well. 

 

Deep in the night, God had even spoken and said to me that He was able to reach the unreachable. Since my bank account was attached to my store, I had lost the way to receive my store payments. I suddenly owed money to everything, I needed food, and we had the room need closing in. It was scary, but I knew the Champion Savior was with me.

 

I remember walking to my PO BOX to see if God would send me a blessing through there, and I saw so many homeless people that were unreachable. With no phones, no way to connect with anyone, I thought about how God’s love could reach them as well. 

 

As an act of faith and love, I even gave seeds of what little money I had to the unreachable. God had said to me that “the best time to give is when you are in need”. 

 

So many times in the past, God had told me to give to others in the place that I had a need, whatever that was. There is power in planting the same seeds that you are in need of, just as a seed will always bring the fruit of the same kind that was planted. 

 

This is not a story of the faith tools that God led me to use, or a unique strategy, it is a story of God’s love to keep His promise and to rescue us when we are in an unreachable place. 

 

I was already underwater. The cords of death were wrapped around me, like in Psalm 18. Not only did I need the room support for our next month, but my Cinderella account was drowning, and several thousands in the negative. 

 

It was distressing, yet I knew from all my encounters of walking through the storms with Jesus, that He would keep His promise, and rescue our room, and Cinderella, just as He said He would. 

 

I remember during the midst of the chaos of sinking and having no way to save myself, God had given me the words, “I’ll Come Early”…and there was even a love letter of promise about it. 

 

Sure enough, God took me by surprise! He showed up so abruptly, and early, when I wasn’t even ready or expecting. I was sitting at my computer working on a love letter, and I had a notification to say that I was given $15,000 to cover my ship-wrecked bank account and to cover the room for another month. 

 

I was so deep in the negative that the love rescue that God sent soaked up our needs like water in a sponge. However, I knew that God’s refills would never end, and I joyfully drank from the wells of His life-saving love. 

 

It was such a relief to see Cinderella rise back to life again, and no longer be sunk at the bottom of the sea. She was unsinkable, just like God’s love. God also answered my prayers to pay another month on our room, and the parking and other bills that had me under the surface, struggling for air again. 

 

It was a LOVE RESCUE of God’s promise, and a gift of His intentional love. Yet, once again, I am already in another faith test for the next promise all over again. Living on God’s income means resting in the ebb and flow of the rising and retreating waves. 

 

Just like waves in the sea, when the support goes low, it means it will rise up again. His support is never-ending, so we never have to be afraid to let go and release what we have. The more we trust in His endless support to flow in, the more we will encounter it. 

 

One of the hardest things I have had to learn during this journey was to stay present at the moment, and not panic with greed to pay everything ahead. I have had to give generously, and also receive generously. Just like God’s love support that always pours in. 

 

The real test of faith was learning to breathe underwater. To know that even when I am sinking and drowning with needs, that God will rescue and support Me, because He promised that He always would. God is not worried about the expenses, He loves to give us the experience. No amount is too big for Him. 

 

We have to see His support as always circulating, always flowing in. There is no lack, or limits, because there are no limits in HIM. There are no limits in the HEAVENLY ACCOUNT. He is the vessel that carries us through, and once we understand that, we can rest in the storms with peace and confidence. 

 

He makes us true believers, not through just words, but through experience. The storm was another opportunity to experience His rescuing presence. 

 

Oh, but my enemies cannot breathe underwater, and that is the beauty of it all. God will cause those attacks to be swallowed by the waves, as He causes us to float into promise, all on the account of His never-ending LOVE. 

 

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Psalm 18:16-19