Have You Prayed for It? — Basilea Schlink

God's Power in Present Experience

God lives and works today. This statement can be true for us today if we give God the chance to show his power. How do we do that? We can see the answer in today's meditation by Basilia Schlenk as we take a glimpse into the life of the land of Canaan.

Seeking First the Kingdom of God

Trusting in Jesus' words, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. We sisters have experienced how wonderfully God cares for us when we're willing to depend completely upon him.

Prayer for Everyday Necessities

Our sister in charge of the household management has the job of issuing the toothpaste, soap, and other small items which each sister needs, for we do not buy any of these things. One day she said, we're all out of toothpaste.

What shall we do? The immediate response was, have you prayed for it? You know we don't buy such things. If we all pray about this, the Father will answer us. A short time later, a large box of toothpaste tubes stood in our dining hall.

God's Timely Provision

They were exactly the right number for our sisterhood. A barber had sent them to us to express his thanks for some pamphlets he had received. They arrived at just the right time when not a single tube was left in the house.

This is only one of thousands of such experiences. We have lived completely in faith, trusting in the Father's love and care. We have bought no toothpaste, soap, shoe polish, linen, food, or other similar things.

Thanksgiving for Answered Prayer

As these gifts are displayed each evening, there will be a little cry of joy from this or that corner of the room as a sister catches sight of the very thing she's been praying for. Songs of thanksgiving fill the room.

The Father's Care for Physical and Spiritual Needs

Indeed, everything we need comes to us from God's fatherly hand. For as we read in Scripture, How wonderfully the Father fulfills Jesus' words of Matthew 7. How much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

The promise of his word that he helps like a father has not changed. It still applies today for you, too. If he so cares and provides for our bodily needs, how much more will he care for our spiritual needs?

Therefore, bring him all your needs in childlike trust, and you will experience his amazing loving care. You have been listening to a program written by Basile Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website www .canaan .org.

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God bless you.