No Credit Crunch in The Kingdom of God
A few weeks ago, one of our best friends called us from Nigeria wanting to commiserate with us as he had heard about how the credit crunch has hit the United Kingdom. I could genuinely tell him that we have heard of it but we have not experienced it because we chose to believe the word of God that one of our elders had brought to us that there is no credit crunch in the kingdom of God.
One Sunday morning, Gavin White told the Church that there is no credit crunch in the kingdom of God. As he spoke that word, something within my spirit caught hold of the word and it became a reality to me. The immediate effect was that it brought me peace and joy.
I had been slowly saving up to change my car much later on in 2009. However, as I was driving to work from a Life in the Spirit meeting one Tuesday night, a Finglands bus crashed into the side of me and the driver immediately started lying and denying liability. To cut the long story short, both his insurer and mine decided to split the liability because it boiled down to one person’s word against another’s. That meant that after deducting my excess and my premium for the year, I only received about two thousand and seventy something pounds for my car. At that time, I only had about one thousand pounds saved. In the meantime, whilst this was being sorted, I was giving a courtesy car which was almost a brand new Mercedes Benz E- Class so I was cruising around like the princess of the Most High God that I am!
I decided that I was going to go ahead and buy another car and I wasn’t going to borrow any money to do it. For practical reasons, I decided to wait until after Christmas. I was prepared to be travelling around by public transport until that time. However, one of my friends said she could not bear the thought of me travelling by public transport for one month in one of the coldest winters we’ve ever had. So she gave me her car to use until I got my own while she shared with her two sons. On the tenth of January 2009, I bought another car for £7,000.00 without having to borrow one penny and not having had any money put aside for this.
At some point whilst I was trying to gather money together for the car, I thought of reducing my offering but I decided to go ahead and give what I normally gave on the Sunday. The very next day, I received a cheque in the post for twice that amount. Imagine how awful I would have felt if I hadn’t been faithful in my giving only to find out that God had planned a surprise for me.
We have also been able to increase the money that we send regularly to out family in Nigeria. Neither of us has had a recent promotion at work. All these things have happened because we chose to believe the word of God that there is no credit crunch in His kingdom.
I feel that I should share this with you to reinforce the truth that God is continually faithful. He will supply ALL of our needs according to His riches in glory BY CHRIST JESUS.
Shalom!
Sumbo.
