A few days ago, I had a flight to catch but the experience before the flight is worth sharing. I was to get my ticket at the airport with the airline in which I am to travel but getting there, I was shocked to be told the ticket price had risen by 26% of my known price. I wasn't with much cash but after much deliberations and actions, I decided to go pay after about 15 minutes but, again I was informed, the price had risen by 98% of the initial price but, still available at the 26% rise if I choose to travel the next day with the first flight and I agreed as the trip was mandatory for me and my company wouldn't listen to my excuse for reasons I'm aware of. In just a few minutes, my ticket was booked but I could not go back home to save the cost of transportation as my home was far to the airport. As God would have it, I got helped with feeding through a police officer to whom I explained my situation.
That was not the real deal. After eating, I was feeling a need to have myself checked with the immigration and I proceeded to the office. Getting there, scanned through, I was told I'm having a fine to pay for having broken a law. My fine was just about 5% lesser than my ticket price. I laughed it off the face of the officer as I told myself, "when tomorrow comes, it will sort itself". I worried less because I couldn't even think of begging around to raise such amount of money, no, no, no; it's not an option.
Exactly 5:15 am, I proceeded for my check-in and after just about 15mins, I was faced with my final clearance with immigration. There the ma'am told me also, "sorry you have fine; please go and pay at the counter and come back for your stamp". As I walked the stairs down, I remembered, "they looked unto Him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed". Immediately, I wasn't running helter-skelter, I rather decided to get a good breakfast and God again used an officer who had seen me all through the night for the supply. After taking the breakfast, I just moved to the center hall and I looked around and I was led to enter an office tagged "Public Relations" and I met just two people in the big office. As I explained my case, three others came in (I believe God ordered them in) and they all listened to my story. While I was yet speaking, they just communicated in their native language and I just saw them taking out their purses and contributed equally among themselves, the amount I needed and even a little beyond.
Many times, just like Martha in John 11, we try to hinder God's blessings through our worries and murmurings. Like I would always say, almost every churchgoer knows every scripture the pastor quotes; the difference between them is that the pastor is practically living by the word while the churchgoer is only theoretically reading the word. It is not a joke or mere words when the Lord said, "WORRY FOR NOTHING..." Phil 4:6
BE INSPIRED!
Wow! Glory to God.
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