In Great Awakening Tours one morning, a few short weeks after I had been living here in Tampa, pressing in, and starting to attend services regularly at The River, my mom came to visit us. We were sitting in Sunday service, and a young lady came up on stage to give a testimony. Rodney Howard Brown tells us that she was talking about trusting God and sewing and reaping. She gave a two hundred dollar offering, and then the next morning the young girl went to check her mail. There, sitting in a blank white envelope – was double the amount of money she had given the day before.

I remember looking over at my mother’s face and seeing nothing but discouragement. I asked her what was wrong, and she simply replied with, “nothing like that ever happens to me.” I got to share with my mom about how I had been praying months before moving here for school, about the apartment and about my car. I told her all we had to do is believe, and receive. It was that easy. She listened, and we went home, nothing more was said. The next day, my mom was checking OUR mailbox, and in it, was not only a envelope from the bank for her, but envelopes for me, and my brother as well.

She sat down on the sofa, and slowly opened hers, handing me mine. Immediately I started laughing. God is so good. With tears rolling down my mom’s face, she read her check from the bank out loud, and in it was eight hundred dollars. Thank you Jesus! We both sat in the living room of our new place, laughing and crying. God’s love washed over me. Not even caring about opening the check, all I could do was thank Him – realizing and seeing everything that he has done for me. Holding the check in my hands was a wakeup call. Just to remember what he is doing daily, and to not become complacent or selfish. He promised us he was going to take care of us, and we have to try not to take things for granted. We have to count our blessings daily. Carly H.