God of provision. HE is faithful!!
I was completely helpless. I had no money for anything and didn't know what to do. I went on the internet and sent an email to my father asking for 200 reais to borrow. I felt so bad about it, not because I asked for my father's money, but because I felt so unable to do anything. If God sent me, where is providence? This was the voice that screamed inside me.
Moments like these you get very distressed. The problem is that the 200 reais was useless, because there was late water, late electricity, no merchandise in the kitchen and rent due. A complete package and 200 reais is not enough.
When I sent the message my father said that the next day he would send the money. It was already about 21:00 (BO). Really, just a transfer for me to take at that moment, but I gave my father peace of mind so he wouldn't be worried. I don't like to do these things, after all my age of 28, married and in a situation that I've been telling everyone God has put me in I don't have the face to throw my load on others, even if it's my father. Well, in extreme cases, health, or something that I really see that is extreme, I believe that's what family is for. And that's limited. But, I always thought like that and all this anguished me.
I got home to say that the other day the money would be in my account, but Mina tells me that there was no milk from Deborah. That broke my heart. I left the house saying I would see what to do. I went out into the street, looked this way and that and saw that we had no one.
I started walking, walking around the blocks not knowing what to do and where to go. I looked at the stars, the sky full of stars and saw the power of God. The same God who once told me to be in Bolivia and now saw me without $7 dollars to buy the powdered milk that my daughter drinks.
As I walked along, the thought came to me, “What if someone sent you an offer through Western Union and you don't know?” How crazy – I thought. But, I walked the streets near my house and thought about it. I went back and asked Mina if anyone had emailed him anything about an offer. She said that some time ago some friends of his from Japan, from the church of Pastor Timothy, an American missionary in Japan, had said that she wanted to send.
We went to the internet to look for the old emails to see if there was one with the shipping number, but there wasn't. I said that it was late and that they would soon close a drugstore near my house that has a Western Union station.
Well, for you to receive something through these international shipping systems, whether it's Western Union or Money Gram, you have to know who sent it, how much it sent, and give the spin number. Otherwise, nobody pays anything.
But, I got there and said there was a spin for me. He asked who sent it and I said it was from a church, but they didn't say the name. I explained that he was a missionary and how the young man had already received me a few times and offered to look for him using my name.
He said: Actually, there's a tour here from Japan in your name, but I can't pay if you don't have the password. My heart exploded with joy and at the same time I didn't know what to do.
The young man told me to at least give the name of the sender. I call Mina and ask the name of someone from the pastor's church
Timothy, someone who works in the church office. She told me a name of someone, a Japanese name. The young man said it wasn't.
I began to pray - Lord, you send me the blessing and now because of this number I will not receive it. Touch this man's heart. Well, out of nowhere he said to me: Look, the shipment is in his name. But what assures me that it's you is the data you're not giving me. But I'll do it, just this once. So he opened the system and told me: It wouldn't be So-and-so (given me a Japanese name) I replied: THE SAME ONE!!!!! (…laughs laughs...)
He walks out of there with 288 dollars in his hands. Glory to God!!!!!!
At the same pharmacy I bought Débora's milk. When I arrived with the milk can in my hands Mina was startled. I told everything and once again we glorify the Lord for the provision.
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