Soooooo last weekend we went to this really good community yard sales up in the Desert Ridge area of Phoenix, its a really uppity area and these communities are only allowed to have yard sales twice a year and when they do, US NOT SO UPPITY people go to town shopping at them!!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllll the whole time I was begging and pleading with God to help me find some GOOD DEALS on hiking stuff!!!
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Well in the beginning of shopping I found a pair of sneakers for $2 and a headlight for $3...I didn't any of it was all that amazing, buuuuut I figured for the prices I could just get them until something better came along, annnnnnnnd the whole time, EVERY YARD SALE i'm just praying, come one God, let there be hiking stuff, bless me, BLESS ME!!! PLEASE GOD, BLEEEEESSSS ME!!!
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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllll by the time the yard sales were over, those were still the ONLY two things I had gotten...BUMMMMMERRR, buuuuuuut OH WELL!!! As I was putting stuff away in my rooms a few days later, a slip of paper fell out my sneakers, its said, Merrell Hiking boots...I was like, Hmmmmm...maybe these are better than I had originally thought! I decided put the exact shoe into Google and see what come up...MUCH TO MY SUPRISE, it was $100!!! WOW!!! Then I put in the headlamp and it came up at $49...WOW too!!!
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So God blessed me with $150 worth of stuff for $5!!! That whole time I was saying, God bless me, Bless me, BLESS ME and that WHOLE time I was praying that, GOD ALREAY HAD BLESSED ME!!! That whole time I'm like, GOD bless me with hiking stuff and he was probably thinking, I did! I did!!! I DID!!!
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It me to thinking about how GOD is a BEHIND THE SCENES kind of God. Sometimes he does HUGE miracles that are like, WOW!!! Buuuuut for the most part, He's like that quiet person in a play, there is the main person in the show AND then there is the man that is working behind the scenes, Costumes, scripts, prompting, lighting, ALL that stuff that a play can't make it without, AND YET, know one really notices or gives credit to that worker.
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God is just like that in our lives, he's busily working on things that we have NO CLUE he is working on and will have NO CLUE until BAM! It happens and then we're like, WOW!!! Buuuuut the whole time God has been working on it, you just had NO IDEA, because he was working BEHIND THE SCENES!!!
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How many times has God protected us, kept us from harm and we didn't even know it?!?! How many times has he provide for us??? We're just like, COME ON GOD, Do it! BLess me!!! And God's like, I AM! I AM!!! Today I just want to encourage us all to THANK GOD for all the BEHIND THE SCENES BLESSINGS he has performed in our lives without ever getting a moments credit for what he has done for us!!! We serve an amazing, wonderful, BEHIND THE SCENES God!!! Thank Him today, FOR ALL that He has done in your life!!!
"And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 4:19)