Walking in God's Blessings

I’m so glad I lost my phone! Well, now I am. That wasn’t my first reaction. A week ago, when I couldn’t find it, I went from curious to frustrated, to anxious, to resigned, to finally committing the issue to the Lord and being at peace about it.

You see I always enlist the help of the brilliant Holy Spirit to help me find things, and He usually does. Once I lost the mouthpiece of my heraldic trumpet. It always shone silver in the black trumpet carry case, but one day it just wasn’t there, or anywhere else either. You can’t blow a trumpet without a mouthpiece and so the whole thing was useless. I heard a teaching about calling back lost things or lost money in Jesus’ name and tried it. It worked! Miraculously there it was when I looked in my case! It worked on another occasion when my account was scammed too, but it wasn’t working now. This time I had no leading from the Holy Spirit, no word of knowledge, nothing, in spite of the fact that several of my friends were praying about the issue. I looked everywhere: I searched every room, every cupboard, every drawer, in the garage, and all around the garden. I even looked under my broody hen. (I really did!) I asked a friend if she had picked it up by mistake, as we both have pink covers, and she looked for it too, but to no avail.

Finally, I got quiet and had a serious conversation with the Lord about it. He reminded me of several promptings to buy a new phone which I had ignored. I had put it on my mental to-do list, below paying the electricity bill, getting the car serviced and buying new glasses.

‘What would you do if you had the money?’ Jesus asked.

‘I guess I’d go and buy a new one,’ was my feeble answer.

‘Well…?’ He didn’t need to finish the sentence. I knew he was challenging me to faith. I had learned to live by faith in my travelling days, but got too comfortable again and stopped taking risks.

So, this morning I thought I’d better search the internet for a new one, but which one? And how much should I pay when I currently had so many other expenses? I prayed for wisdom and was drawn to a Telstra deal. It would have to be Telstra as there’s no other signal here. I explored my options, read a review of the phone I liked, and took note of the details of the deal, including that only today was that one $150 off. Without delay I headed down to the local Telstra store where a sweet girl answered my questions. Forty minutes later I walked triumphantly out with a lovely new Samsung Galaxy A52s. I say triumphantly because only today was it on special. Moreover, by reducing my present data, which I never use, I could put it on an included no-interest plan for only $3 a month more than my present bill. And, yes, they could migrate my old number to the new sim. Even the colour I wanted was the only A52s they had. Brilliant Holy Spirit did help me after all!

On the way home I reflected that recently I had lost an old cook’s knife, probably in the garden as I was harvesting. That was replaced a few days later by a brand new one that I got for free with supermarket credits. Now my old phone has been replaced at negligible cost for a much better one—small things I know, but proof to me yet again of my heavenly Father’s attention to the details of my life, of His amazing love and the blessings that come my way as I walk daily with Him. It not only made me feel loved, but that I truly am ‘the head, and not the tail,’ as promised in Deuteronomy 28 :13.

I chuckled all the way home, feeling the Father’s delight in blessing me, and once again reminded of his promise in Romans:28, that He ‘works ALL things together for the good of those who love Him.’