26: Carey - stretching a buck and the call into ministry

In 2009 we were living with one income and two mortgages.  Money was tight, to say the least, and mathematically, the numbers didn’t add up.  But God’s math is not our math.  We tithed to the church consistently, we put our daughter in cloth diapers, I couponed systematically, we made our own baby food and laundry detergent and somehow, we never missed a meal or were late on a bill.

The Lord used that season to teach us so many things about stewarding His money.  We went through Financial Peace University with Dave Ramsey and we learned how little we actually need.  This season of struggle taught us lessons that shaped our future.  Today, over a decade later, we are walking in the fruit of the hard lessons we learned then.

On February 5, 2010, Nathan was running on a treadmill during his lunch break, training for a marathon.  The Lord met him in that space and gave him 4 very specific instructions.  Instructions that sounded ridiculous at the time, but yet undeniably perfect.  Jesus did a happy dance that night as He finally revealed what He’d been working on in our lives.  Like a master artist, He had been shaping us…preparing us for a calling, a shift in perspective and purpose.  We would no longer be living for ourselves and our tiny American dream, but our eyes would be opened to the greater calling He had for us…a complete surrender to His Kingdom vision.

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