Page 93 - Evidence of Things Unseen

to this brook during a time of drought, and each morning and evening ravens would bring
him his food. Slowly the brook dried up until it was no longer able to sustain Elijah. This
was God’s way of letting Elijah know that it was time to move on. I stayed six more months
at the college working only ten hours a week, and then the Lord indicated once more that
it was time to launch out into the deep. It was pretty easy to take this step, for the ten hours
a week I was working were not nearly adequate to supply the needs of our family of four,
and we were already having to look to the Lord to supply our necessities in very substantial
ways.
I considered that working zero hours was not much different than working ten hours,
and God could surely take care of us. God still had to coax us to take this step, and He
ordered our situation in such a way that I was willing to let go of the slender provision I had
been receiving, to lean fully upon Him once more. On March 17th 2003 I worked my last
day at the college. This began a tumultuous five months in which God would stretch us
further than we had ever been stretched before, yet we were also to experience things that
were simply astounding.