My Prayer Life - Part 7 - "The Lord Provides"

Part 7:

My Daddy was saved about a month before he died, and it was an answer to my prayer from the first day I trusted Jesus when I was 12 years old. I went home and told him I had accepted Jesus as my Savior and I wished he would too. He said he was glad and that he would someday. That day didn't come for about another dozen years.

Me and my Daddy

After his death we moved back to Texas to take over his dairy and be with my mother. We were so  broke by then we didn't know where the next meal was coming from. Our second son was born and we didn't even have a penny to pay the doctor and hospital bill. The Lord knew our needs, though, and the day I was to come home from the hospital, a man came wanting to buy a plow that we wanted to sell. It brought just enough (no more) to pay for our baby. We have laughed many times and said we should have named him "Graham Hoeme" after the name of that plow! But we knew Who sent that man that day.

Graham Hoeme - AKA- Harold Joe

Danny Wayne & Harold Joe

Another time we had a note for $300 coming due the next week at the bank and we didn't know how we were going to pay it. A man, who has helped us in many ways, came out one day and asked Curtis if he could plow some land for him with our equipment. The amount was $300...no more...no less. But we had asked the Lord about this and we were so humbly grateful when He answered.

Through this experience we became convicted about our need to tithe. The Lord had answered so many prayers for us and we were not giving Him anything in return. Oh, true, we put some offering in the plate each Sunday so we could check the "Offering Giving" on our 6 point record system envelope, but we weren't giving systematically. We had quite a struggle with this, because when the Lord starts dealing with your pocketbook, He gets next to your heart! Our pastor was so good in giving us the promises of God and told how many times they had given their last penny....not knowing where groceries would come from the next week....only to find a $10 or $20 bill that someone placed in his hand or pocket. Many told us their blessings of giving the Lord His part, and we became convinced it was the thing to do.

One day we had a Layman's Program at church and Curtis was given a part on the program. It scared us both to death because we were so young in the Lord. What could he say? That speech was another turning point of our lives as he chose the scripture in Joshua 24:15-16, "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

This scripture was taken literally by my husband that day and is underlined in dark ink in his Bible today. He decided to be the spiritual leader of our home. He began to read the Bible to us each morning at the breakfast table and all four of us would pray. Our boys were about 2 and 5 then. He began to tithe and then bring an offering above. The Lord was good to us and gave us many physical blessings and many spiritual blessings.


Read the next entry in my prayer journey - "The Faith of a Child"