Last week the kids and I were in Walmart to pick up some nonfood items we needed. They asked me for a box of chocolate donuts , but we didn’t have the extra money at that moment. We don’t normally purchase donuts anyway, but they really wanted them. My 13 year old even offered to pay for them with her own money but decided against it when she saw the almost $4.00 price tag.
The next day a neighbor who barely knows us gave us a grocery bag with 3 loaves of bread and a box of chocolate donuts.
Now you may think that this was just a coincidence. I believe it was God saying once again that He sees our situation and cares for us, even my kids’ desire for chocolate donuts.
If you would like to read more stories like these, check out the God Provides Page here or my Pinterest Board here.
Have a God story? Share it in the comments. 🙂
Love your inspiration and have been praying for you guys and your struggles. Love everyone’s stories 🙂
Thanks so much Lisa!
I love your down to earth approach to life. It helps so much just to read your blog ! Seeing God in the little everyday things of life is what I always look for. He’s all around us, but we so often miss it. Those donuts most definitely came from Him, through a kind friend of course! I pray that God will bless you and your family in a special way!!
Thanks Martha!
My husband spent 3 bucks at the convenience store yesterday and so I’d told him that it meant we couldn’t get the ice cream we planned on at the grocery store today along with all the items we NEEDED. My budget today was 30 dollars. I got everything on my need list and it was totaling to 24 bucks, so I said to myself ok, great I will get the ice cream, so now we are at 27. I was worried we’d be short 3 bucks because of what he spent but instead we were three under! Which meant it was as if he’d never spent it at all and we got our ice cream! God is good!
All the time! 🙂
Thanks! this was a great reminder that God cares even about the little things in our life:)
I have to be reminded sometimes too. 🙂
My husband & I were rearing our grandson. At the time he was about 8 and wanted to play Pop Warner football in the worst way. We were living on Social Security, but managed to scrape up the fees for him to play. Soon we were living and breathing football as it seemed most of our church had children either cheering or playing! When it came to fundraising a boat was being raffled. My husband bought a ticket for $25. I ranted and raved! How could he do this? We could barely afford living expenses! When the winning ticket came up it was our number! We kept the boat at our house for a few days, dreaming over it, then took it to the marina owner who originally donated it. He resold it for us and we lived on the proceeds for months. God is good, all the time!
Thank you Judy. That is another sweet example of how God cares for us.
Thank you so much for sharing stories like these. I came across your blog through pinterest, and i’m so glad i did! Loving the inspiration to trust God and try to live on less money for my family’s benefit.
Love when you have these posts. Makes. My.Day.
Thanks Jenna!
I totally agree! We have been doing the Dave Ramsey money management program and God shows up for us in little ways like this all the time! We stay faithful and don’t spend- he blesses us with it anyway!! He is so amazing! Thanks for sharing, it helps us all to stay encouraged.
Thanks Stephanie. 🙂
I love these God stories! Thank you so much for providing encouragement to me and all of your readers. I was going to say they are goosebump moments but I do believe they are GODbump moments! 🙂
I think I may have to add a GODbump moments section to my own blog! 🙂
Thanks again! May God continue to bless you greatly!
Do it Lynnea! Wouldn’t it be great if we could hear all of the stories of how God is moving in other people’s lives, even in the small things?
Today I asked God to send me someone with a special message for me and I don’t know who you are but you have done exactly that. Thank you for your inspirational words.
Thanks so much for letting me know Lily. You made my day! 🙂
Hi! We recently had to sell our house and took a HUGE hit on it. It wasn’t an option not to sell so we had too. We were pretty devastated. A few months later we were fortunate to have an offer accepted on a house we really liked. We got a good deal on it and when the appraisal came back, we got the house for a lot lower than it was appraised at. The difference between the appraisal price and our accepted offer was the same amount we had lost on our previous house, within 200 dollars. I cried. 🙂 God is so good and it is pretty cool just how He watches for us and provides.
Oh I LOVE that story Courtney. He is the REDEEMER! He redeems all things. 🙂
I love to hear stories about how God provides for our every need, even the things we don’t truly “need.” If God takes care of the flowers of the field, how much more will he take care of you? 🙂
I am always amazed at what God can do! I have seen His awesomeness in my own life but I am always in awe at the things He does. I love your page and all over your tips and inspiration.
Thanks so much Rachel!
I believe you. I can’t even tell you how many times the littlest things we want, and don’t need, are given to us when we want them. I don’t believe in coincidence, and I’m thankful for the little blessings every day. ^_^
-Bear
Absolutely. He is ever mindful of us…even when it comes to the seemingly ‘mundane’ and ‘unimportant’ things on our hearts. How awesome!
I love this!!! I have so many similar stories that I KNOW God cares about whatever we care about. And He rewards richly when you are willing to delay gratification on something, I’ve seen it again and again. He’s so in love with us, isn’t it incredible?!
That makes me want to just cry tears of joy! We’ve had those moments too…God does care about those little things!
sweet!!!
Literally, right Jenny. 😉
Love it! Back when my husband & I were struggling through infertility, we had a dog that we loved dearly. She ran out in front of a car one day (she never did that)! She was badly hurt. We lived in a rural area and I was trying to figure out how to get her out of the road when a truck stopped and a man hopped out. He was a vet and had taken a wrong turn to get to the farm where he was going to check on cows. He might think he took a wrong turn, but God sent me a vet to get my dog into my car that day. (She had to have a cast but was fine & lived many more years until well after God gave us children.)
Thank you for sharing that Nancy. I love how God cares about every detail of our lives.
WOW- brought tears to my eyes.
My family and I have been struggling financially and today I decided I wouldn’t let it get me down. I said God, I know you’re just waiting to help me and that I have to learn something from all this and I somehow came across this inspirational website from looking for “healthy waffles”. Today I said God just give me a sign!! And here it is. 🙂