I'm very grateful to see how the Lord provides step by step as we obey him. Being a church planter / pastor does not somehow make it so that you no longer have to live by faith - quite the opposite actually.
Last week-end, in preparing for services, we weren't sure, humanly speaking, how to pull it off. We asked some friends to pray, and we prayed, too. We were out of fuel to run the barely-working generator to print tracts. We prayed, and God helped us fight it until it worked, and it quit the very moment the last tract was printed!
We barely had enough fuel to make it into town, much less get back home onto the farm. Yet, somehow, God carried the vehicle in, through door-knocking and visitation after church, and back home - about 100 miles beyond what we had in the gas tank.
We returned home to find the door kicked in, and all the food that we had dumped all over the living room. We prayed, and God provided unexpectedly. All through this week, God has gotten us to the next step, and we praise Him for it.
How can we teach people to trust God and live by faith on Sunday, if we are not willing to do so ourselves throughout the week? The ministry that we had on Sunday was so important - and an encouragement to us - that we wouldn't have wanted to miss it. I'm glad that God provided miraculously so that we didn't have to miss it.
Psalm 78:4, "We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done."