Heaven In My Heart: Don't Worry.....I Will Take Care of You

Do Not Worry …I Will Take Care Of You.

The other day…I was chatting on the Facebook with my sweet friend, Trace…she was about to go on a weekend trip and was trying on different clothes and discovering she needed new clothes…

Instantly my mind began to get flooded with the memories of how God has provided for me. One incident in particular replayed in the theater of my mind, with complete clarity. As I reflected on this…..

God said to my heart…”That’s it, I want you to write about that. I want my children to know, how I Am the One that meets all their needs.“ “I take good care of my own.”

I got filled with joy and I am so excited to tell you this remarkable story.

At the time I was attending a weight loss program at our church…It was a spiritual avenue to weight loss. Using scriptures and depending on God for all the emotional and physical needs toward losing weight. I really loved this class and felt it was going well for me. I learned so much about how much God cares about what we eat and how He created everything for our good and enjoyment. He wants us to apply self control in our lives and depend on Him to meet our needs in everyway. I met some wonderful women in this class, on this journey of rediscovering who we are in Christ.

Trusting God is not easy, you have to die to yourself so many times, so often.
It is work. The rewards are great.
God teaches you how and walks with you each step, every emotion, every desire, and every need.
And He is in the things that are beyond what we could do or hope for ourselves.

This is Faith in action.
The Faith He alone gives us and builds within us. Drawing us ever so closer to Him.

At this time of my life, I was considerably heavy. I had lost about 45 lbs in this program…Trusting God with my food. But it is so much more than that. Deeper. God is incredible.

I had learned that what I wanted and what I needed were two separate things. This takes some doing.
We confuse these 2 things. Wants as needs and needs as wants.
God can teach you the difference. Oh, He gives you wants too, often beyond what you thought you wanted, better than you thought you needed.

Whenever I listened to my spirit and not the desire of my flesh…I lost weight.
But I was experiencing more than weight loss…

See, every time I obeyed God, trusted Him, with my weight, concerns, feelings and needs and even wants…Every single time, I trusted and listened….
I received an unexpected jewel from God. His jewels are priceless and life changing.

Don’t think I had easy times. Oh no….It is hard to die to myself. Food is what I ran to then and still fight it today…I was learning to run to God instead.

One time, I was having a very hard time. I prayed hard and sought after God with everything that was within me, in this moment.
The next day…I decided to weigh myself…normally I did not use the scales…I wanted to trust God. I didn’t want the scales to govern my life or emotions. I wanted God to do those things for me.
I had lost weight.
God had put promises on my heart for my life. He told me He was going to heal my life.

I learned I was responding to food to fulfill my inside needs and hurts…trying to fill those deep places with food that God is supposed to fill and take care of.

After some time, I began to notice my clothes hanging off, falling off.
One morning, I complained to my husband….
”I don’t have anything to wear, even my underwear are falling completely off. What am I going to do? We don’t have money for me to go out and buy a wardrobe. I can’t go around like this.”

My husband said to me, “Kim, if you are trusting God with your weight, then why aren’t you trusting Him with the clothes you need?”

The night before, I had written out a list of things I needed, I wrote…underwear, bra, shorts, pants, dresses, shirts, and even put on there a bathing suit. I had shown the list to my husband.

Right after my husband had asked me to trust God…The very second after he said that…The phone rang.
It was the leader of the class calling me.
She said, “Kim, I was just sitting here thinking about you. I have a couple of boxes of clothes, I don’t want them anymore. I thought maybe you would like to have them.”

Oh My Goodness!
YES! I got off the phone and told my husband.
He said, “See, I told you to trust God.”

I had class that night. I went to church and my class leader came out and pulled her car next to mine and unloaded the boxes into my car. I was so excited.

After class, when I got home, I went through those boxes with happiness in my heart. I felt like a little girl with dress up clothes, putting on this and that.
Trying on this and that and prancing in front of my husband to show him.
Everything was in there from what I had wrote on my list. It all fit perfectly. Even the bathing suit.

I have so many stories like this…Our God is so good.
He does take care of His own.