He will always outgive!

At the beginning of this DTS, I was reading a really good book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan and the Holy Spirit. In it is a direct challenge to increase your giving, in faith that God will increase His giving. The passage he used is powerful: Malachi 3:9-11: ⁹ You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. ¹¹ I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty

God spoke to me through this passage, and since that day He consistently told me to give away little portions of my savings to friends for their outreach money, or maybe to congregations for an offering. Now I want you to realize that this was all His money anyway, that He was just letting me borrow it. So He tells me to give all of it away bit by bit. I came to DTS with about $600 in my savings. So then I literally have such little money in my bank account that I can't even take it out because it is so small, and for about a month I've had to trust God for everything. I trusted God for laundry money, for contact solution, for the money for my infection medicine. He always came through, by working miracles through friends and just taking care of every single need that I had the whole time!

Now, at the very end of lecture phase, I have received $1,256 from the extra money given to me for outreach. That is more than double what I came here with! It is so cool to see God let me borrow His money, and then after I put it where He tells me, He gives me back more than double! You guys the God's promises are legit! Praise God!

In case you're wondering, The Lord told me to take $200 on outreach, and then to specifically keep $1000 for the trip to Haiti that I hope to go on in the future.