While I was at the Speaker's Week conference, I was sitting next to a young Hungarian man, and we had an opportunity to pray for each other during one of the sessions. We started talking about what each other needed prayer for, and I explained to him my current financial situation and asked him to pray for wisdom concerning it. From language lessons, to paying for the bus rides, everything costs here, and it's a very mobile culture.
What complicates this for me is that about half of my year's support was savings, while the other half I have been relying upon others to donate. Recently, I've been relying almost entirely upon my savings and have had some unexpected expenses.
The conclusion I came to after talking to him was that, living the way I was, I really was trusting in my own methods rather than trusting God to provide for me, and I was inhibiting God's ministry. I decided to resume living the way that I believe God has called me to. That basically means that I'll be spending according to the budget that I have, even though I don't have the funds to support myself for the full year.
As it is, the funds may last until sometime mid-spring, unless the Lord provides otherwise, totaling about 6-8 months stay in Ukraine.
Now, I definitely don't want to beg anyone for money or anything like that. It could be that God planned for me to be here a shorter time than what I committed to... and I'm definitely not saying, "Oh, please! God needs your cash! He can't do His work without it!"
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