I Will Never Leave You nor Forsake You

My Bible is "alive"! When it says "you" - that means "you"! All these things are promised to you. It says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33) When I first noticed this, I really started reading it like God wrote me a letter every day.

When we got our 2,000 acres of cotton hailed-out.... the crop that we thought was going to get us out of debt.... we went out to the farm to view the damage. We knew we had "gone broke". I came home crying and said to the Lord, "I've prayed over that crop and thought it was going to get us out of debt.... What is going on?"

I always went to the Word for my answer and I didn't know where to turn in the Bible. I opened my Bible and it opened to Hebrews 13, and my eyes fell on the 5th verse...like it was in darker print, and it said, "Let your character be free from the love of money, being content with what you have, for He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'"

I was so shocked because it felt like He took me by the shoulder and shook me and said, "Don't be so anxious for money. Be content with what you have. Don't you know I'll never leave you nor forsake you?"

The boys came into the house with their wives and I said, "Boys, cheer up- let me tell you what He just said to me!" When I told them the promise I had just found in the Word, we all joined hands and began to thank the Lord. Jim had just gotten married and thanked the Lord for the privilege of working with his dad and brothers and he thanked Him for his wife. Each of us prayed and praised the Lord for what He had always done for us.

We knew that this was the end of this precious time of farming together as a family. We would have to have a farm sale and sell all the equipment and sell some land to pay our debts. 

The sale was a success, and we had just enough to pay the bank. But we still had a small business loan with the government of $100,000 we had made when we had gotten our cotton accidentally sprayed with poison that drifted over all our cotton a few years earlier. How would we pay that??

We had always sent our cotton to Littlefield to the Levi factory where they made denim cloth.We got more for it there than on the market, but we didn't know we were also given shares in the plant. That year, the denim plant sold, and we didn't know it, but a few days later we received a check for our share......$100,000!!  We were DEBT FREE!!! - What a relief!

Curtis turned 65 that same year, so he put our land into the CRP program (putting the land back into grass, and receiving a check from the government). Plus, he was able to start receiving Social Security. Our needs were met! Can the Lord take care of you?!! Oh, yes, He promised me that He would never leave us nor forsake us! 

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