Some people get a bit wigged out when I get “all spiritual”. Well, this particular post is “all spiritual”. It’s undeniable.
A week ago, we had a very sad meeting with our staff of The Keep. We told them that the money was gone. We let them know that we did not have enough money to pay their salaries for next month. We’ve been covering expenses (electric, water, supplies, etc) from profits for a while now, but we haven’t made enough to pay salaries. It’s all been out of pocket. Well, the pocket was empty. Hence the meeting.
We told the staff it would take a miracle to keep us open. We asked them to pray along with us, and we would seek a sign from God that we were to keep going. It was God, after all that dropped miracle after miracle on us to even open the place, but if it was His timing to shut down, we were prepared for that.
Three days later, I was on Skype, and an old friend asked for our bank account information, saying he wanted to wire us money. I was surprised and humbled by the gesture and by my friend’s charity, but at that exact moment, I was multitasking, so I didn’t think too deeply about it. Then he told me the amount, and my spinning brain ground to an immediate halt. The donation was the single largest donation we’ve ever received from anyone. No single person or corporation has ever donated more, and this was from a friend of relatively modest means. It was enough to cover staff salaries for about the next eight months.
The thing that’s the most interesting about this situation is that I didn’t tell anyone other than our employees that we were in financial trouble. I didn’t post it to the web, and I didn’t go publicly asking for help. We just prayed for a miracle, and a sign that we were on the right path, and it came decisively and suddenly. It was crystal clear. So The Keep will stay the course.
In the mean time, I’m fully confident that the work permit issue will work itself out as well.
I was working in radio in ’94. I hadn’t received a paycheck in about 6 months. I had been shuffling bills from credit card to credit card and paying minimums. Debt was piling up around me. Our studio was on the corner of 2 major highways. I’m doing my afternoon drive shift, and being a major stress monkey about the $900 I need to come up with that week to be able to keep my vehicle so I could come to work for the station. A semi screeches to a halt on the highway, and a big burly guy walks across the road and enters the studio. “God, told me to give you this.”, he saaid as he hands me 10 crip $100 bills. I said,”A donation for the station? Thank you very much.” He replied, “What station? All I know is God told me to give YOU this money.”
I need to get back to that full reliance on God for my provisions. It was then that I had time to form the relationships that allowed me to have an impact on a culture.
Thank you for the encouragement that God still does amazing things.
He works miracles Johnny! We’ll keep praying for you and your family and the amazing work God has set out for you.
You may have not told anyone, but you did tell God about your problem.
just like us as fathers, we like it when our children seek us out with their problems.
Gotta love God! I love that, he works in strange and miraculous ways. I love what you guys are doing! Keep up the awesome work
Wow, good stuff bro!
You can wig me out like that every day! Beautiful.
The will of God will never take you where the Grace
of God will not protect you. You guys are such an inspiration, keep it up!
Praise GOD.
Our GOD is an awesome GOD.He works in ways we cannot see.
Johnny you are a real inspiration to lot of ppl.Keep going.
Our God is an awesome God. I’m so glad you were blessed! I read something in one of my devotionals that I think applies directly to you today.
“If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord – and he will repay you!” Proverbs 19:17 (NIV)
Never forget that.