"Message in a Bottle"

A couple in our church recently moved here from Illinois a few weeks ago. It has been almost 2 months and the husband still didn’t have a job. They had bills to pay, they needed food, and they needed haircuts. They had no plan B.

Here’s their testimony:

My husband and I discovered that our own efforts had been futile to come up with any means of provision. Our striving hadn’t produced anything. We decided to do something we had never done before. We took our eyes off our situation and off the ‘storm’ and onto the One who calms the storm. We began to REST in Him and trust Him. All worry and doubt began to disappear and we began to enjoy Him and His promises to us. We began to pray for five or six other households for their financial provision. We then began to declare the promises of God over our own situation with assurance that He would do what He said He would do.

Two days later we had a knock at the door. It was a delivery man with a ‘Message in a Bottle’. He said, “I was told to bring this to you.” He held in his hands a wine bottle. My husband had answered the door and was dumbfounded by what he saw. He became immediately ‘drunk’ by the heavy anointing that accompanied that special delivery. I came to the balcony to see what was happening and I felt a ‘wave’ of a thick anointing overwhelm me. We both became extremely drunk in the Holy Spirit.

There was a note attached to the wine bottle. It said, “Warning: contents may cause drunken and unruly behavior”. Inside the wine bottle were fifteen $100 bills rolled up individually!! This was enough to pay our rent and a little more besides! My husband and I couldn’t even speak for several minutes. We were totally saturated in the glorious presence of the Lord and began to laugh. The only way we could retrieve the money was to smash the bottle. As my husband did this we declared “Here’s to a new voyage” just like a new ship being launched on its maiden voyage.

Awesome.