US Diaries - Week4

 Week 4

Chronicling some memorable things that happened on our fourth week , in the land of the free, home of the brave. This week we saw God answering our spoken and unspoken prayers and hearts’ desires.

▪️ Jehovah Jireh provides furniture

Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭7‬ ‭

““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

Myself & my wife were doing a lot of deal hunting and online searching to find some cheap furniture for our new rented apartment. Since we were new to this country and starting from scratch, we were struggling to find something that is good and within our budget.We were even ok to have some good condition second hand furniture.

Finally the good Lord Almighty arranged for us to receive two piece of sofa used by an Indian family in excellent condition. This family was moving to Texas (which is far down south in US) and forgot to sell off their furniture, in their rush to move they covered the furniture but to list for sale.A friend of my brother in law, informed us and we went and gladly received this furniture for free, with a heart full of gratitude to God.

A couple of days later we were informed that an excellent office chair ,which was given by the family which moved to Texas to a family friend of ours was no longer required and that was also given to us.Praise be to the Lord , who provides all that is needed for his children.

Again some known and unknown friends informed my brother in law that they have some good furniture they wanted to give us. All in all most of the costly furniture we needed are now taken care. (2 set sofa, computer chair,TV,TV stand, comforters etc).

“The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭10‬:‭22‬ ‭

▪️ An answered prayer

Psalms 37:4

Rejoice in the Lord and he will give you desires of your heart

By grace of God our application for an apartment for rent was approved in the same community where brother in law and family are staying. This was one desire in our heart and a not so strong prayer. Since we are new to US and we are being taken everywhere by my brother-in-law in his car until we settle down, we wanted to be near to his home to avoid unnecessary travel for him. My wife most likely will be working in the same location where my brother in law is working, so they can travel to work together until we get a car for ourselves. God graciously answered this desire and suddenly got the apartment at a rate within our budget. 

God the father knows our deepest desires and according to his heavenly riches he provides the same. Thank God.

▪️ The Down but not out

“The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness”

Psalms 41:3

 This week all family members were down with sickness, either fever/body pain/stomach bug. Prayed for protection of God and healing over everyone. The sun outside was playing hide and seek for many days with temperature fluctuating between negative to low teens. May be the sudden fluctuations in temperature was causing issues for body.We were told that until body temperature stays above 100 degree for kids don’t stay any fever medicine/antibiotics. This is for developing natural immunity for kids.

However medicine for soul that is prayer is always needed.

We are thankful to God for protecting us so far from any major disease. Also thanking God for healing us from all minor illnesses.

By HIS stripes we are healed indeed.

▪️ The God who heals his children

James 5:14-15

 "Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up.

For two days my son was suffering a lot with diarrhea , it was sad to see him so tired due to continuous loose motion.

He is usually a bundle of non stop energy but he was down for couple of days. finally I couldn’t take it any more and couldn’t hold my burden in my heart. Even though myself and my wife had the same condition before it didn’t bother us much. However when children go through sickness and suffering it pains the hearts of parents.

Since we don’t have insurance (it will start only once my wife starts working with her client as per her contract) we can’t go to a hospital. We can only do home remedy and over the counter medicine. But nothing was working so far.

Desperate, I prayed and surrendered our 17 month old son to God and requested his divine healing in the name of Jesus Christ.

God graciously healed my son. Though it took longer for healing of my wife and me my son healed soon without any medicine. All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ who hears the prayers of his children and heals them immediately.

▪️ Showers of blessing

Psalms 34:1

“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise will always be in my lips”

Psalms 136:3-4

“Give thanks to the Lord of lords, His love endures forever. To him who alone does great wonders,His wonders endures forever “

We still needed some more household essentials which cannot be avoided like heaters (it’s an extremely cold part of the world where we live ) , microwave, stools, office desk, drawer, bed and many other stuff. But we didn’t want to spend much money for these as the work didn’t start and salary was not available. However these items are essentials and cannot be avoided.

Again kept in prayers.

It helped a lot that we started from nothing after our marriage in a rented house in Chennai without a vehicle. God had taught us lessons in faith, in trusting God.

God again answered us, through a couple of friends in church, we came to know about an app which sells brand new products at deep discounts (these products which are returned or over stocked, but the retailers cost for transporting back is more than doing a write off sale). The App Store review was pathetic, the friends opinions were divided and no return policy was there. It’s a risky gamble. 

But with some strange faith myself and my wifey decided to try bidding for some essential items. Either we will lose fifty dollars in a scam or we will get some good products at steep discount. I didn’t have much hope to be honest. After successfully winning the bid we had to collect the products. The location was far away from where we lived (close to 20-25 miles away). The warehouse was a bare minimum one ran by a couple of employees who had neatly categorised the products. We had to search over that huge warehouse to find the products ourselves. Finally we got all our products checked they were all working. Good condition / brand new electronic products from original manufacturers at less than 20%of the MRP rate.

I couldn’t believe my eyes. We got microwave ,a tower heater and a thermometer for around 25 dollars while its MRP is around 200 dollars or more in Amazon. And all equipment was brand new and working fine. Praise be to God once again.

God is miraculously meeting so the needs.

To be continued ….