“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in Glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).
Lisa Groves is a missionary for Overseas Crusades in Brazil. She recently wrote about a widow there who has four children.
This widow had just five cruzados, or 20 cents, in her purse. She was trying to decide whether to buy either milk, which meant her children would go without food, or to buy bread, in which case they would go without milk.
So she prayed to the Lord for two hours, and He told her to buy all the groceries she needed for three months at a huge supermarket called El Dorado. She was to go through checkout stand number seven. (There are 124 check stands!) So she filled three grocery carts to overflowing and proceeded to checkout stand number seven.
But the employee at the cash register was leaving for lunch and other checkers motioned for her to go through their stands. The woman replied, “But my Father told me to go through number seven!”
The checker left for lunch. This widow who heard God’s voice trusted, stayed and waited at checkout stand number seven for one hour, with 20 cents to her name.
When the checker returned, she was astonished to see that the lady had waited all that time. As the checker tallied the price of the groceries, an annoucement came over the loud speaker: “Good afternoon, shoppers! Today is the seventh anniversary of our opening, and the person in checkout stand number seven gets all her groceries today, free.” (From the monthly contact letter written by Bud Schaeffer, missionary with Sports Ambassadors (OC Ministries))
