{"id":1089,"date":"2011-03-31T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2011-03-31T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T22:09:34","slug":"one-hundred-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2011\/03\/31\/one-hundred-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1091\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/brazil-trip-villagers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/brazil-trip-villagers.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2011\/03\/brazil-trip-villagers-180x106.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>What can $100 buy?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 100 cans of Arizona Sweet Tea<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Groceries for a week\u00a0\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Gas for a few\u00a0days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few months ago, Nathan\u00a0heard a call from the Lord.\u00a0 Our church here in Florida has a\u00a0short-term missions program with the theme, &#8220;Someday is\u00a0 Today.&#8221;\u00a0 Nathan believes his\u00a0&#8220;Someday&#8221; has come!\u00a0 <!--more-->He\u00a0wants\u00a0to go\u00a0on Northland&#8217;s\u00a0missions trip\u00a0to Brazil this summer. The trip\u00a0starts June 4, just one day after school lets out for vacation.<\/p>\n<p>At an information meeting this week, we learned that\u00a0Nathan still needed to fill out an application form and that half\u00a0of the money for the trip needs to be\u00a0turned in\u00a0April 15th.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some serious\u00a0panic set up in my heart.\u00a0 I actually turned to Nathan and exclaimed &#8220;We don&#8217;t have\u00a0enough time!&#8221;\u00a0 Felipe, the coordinator of the Brazil trips,\u00a0challenged my faith.\u00a0 &#8220;Why not?&#8221; he said, &#8220;There&#8217;s 20 days &#8211; plenty of time for God to work it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I read over the application form, I\u00a0saw that Nathan\u00a0needed\u00a0$100 as an application fee.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;ve been living on an extremely tight budget since August, and literally don&#8217;t have that kind of money.\u00a0\u00a0So I prayed, asking God for\u00a0$100.\u00a0 But my prayer was much more &#8211;\u00a0it was more pleading with God to give me faith, to give assurance that He wanted Nathan to\u00a0go on this trip, to supply the money needed by the deadlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nathan has been\u00a0planning to have a fund raising yard sale this weekend.\u00a0 (Providentially, our neighborhood is hosting a multi-family sale, so the timing was perfect.)\u00a0 Neighbors across the\u00a0street are moving, so yesterday, I sent Nathan over to check if they might have anything they didn&#8217;t want to move that they might want to\u00a0donate to his yard sale.\u00a0\u00a0The husband said to Nathan, &#8220;Hold on a minute.&#8221;\u00a0 He went inside, came back out, and pressed a $100 bill into Nathan&#8217;s hand.\u00a0 Not what we expected for a donation!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What can $100 buy?\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 Absolute peace that:\n<ul>\n<li>(1) God is in control.<\/li>\n<li>(2) God answers prayer.<\/li>\n<li>(3) God wants Nathan to go on this trip.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pray with us for the remaining money to come in &#8211; half of it by April 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can $100 buy? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 100 cans of Arizona Sweet Tea \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Groceries for a week\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2022 Gas for a few\u00a0days A few months ago, Nathan\u00a0heard a call from the Lord.\u00a0 Our church here in Florida has a\u00a0short-term missions program with the theme, &#8220;Someday is\u00a0 Today.&#8221;\u00a0 Nathan believes his\u00a0&#8220;Someday&#8221; has come!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,3154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nathan","category-prayer-request","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}