"All I Have Is Change"

Starting in 2002 my family began living in British Columbia, serving as the directors of a house of prayer that Patricia King had opened the year before called "The War Room." As US citizens living in a foreign country, we could not receive income or a salary. Therefore, we were dependent on the Lord to lead people to give us gifts of support to provide for our family of six as we served in this position. Actually, this is still how we live as we continue to serve wherever the Lord leads us to go.

On one particular Sunday in 2005, we were in a place financially of what I'd call "dire straits." We were out of money with the exception of some change in the bottom of my purse. In British Columbia, they have one and two dollar coins called "loonies" and "toonies" (the loonie is a one dollar coin and the toonie is a two dollar coin). I had both loonies and toonies, equaling $7 total, which I had been holding on to for milk for our family. We had no idea when or where more provision would come from, but we were trusting the Lord to come through once again.

On that Sunday morning, the Spirit of the Lord asked me to give my all. I thought, "All I have is change." But once again I heard the Lord ask me to give it all. So, when the offering plate came by, I put all of my money into it, all seven dollars—all my change... (Read More)