God has promised to provide my needs. I only need to stand on his promises…

Recently I was the victim of a scam which resulted in me losing a considerable sum of money. When I found out I was shocked, hurt, upset, angry and I felt cheated and violated. After a short while I took this to God and really shared with him all that had happened and how it made me feel.

As the day passed my thoughts on it started to change in unexpected ways. Firstly I realised it was only money and in my life I have had worse things taken from me – My innocence, my childhood, my home, my children and very nearly my life – but God has been there, has brought me through and helped me overcome.

I got a new home and from there have been able to develop to the home I have now. My children were restored to me, I have a close, strong relationship with them and the lost years with them are being replaced by a close relationship with my grandchildren.

The perpetrators of the scam will have to face their own consequences and hardships, they are not my problem or responsibility. They will not truly gain from their actions .

I am not financially loaded and things may be tight for a while but I will be ok God has promised to provide my needs. I only need to stand on his promises. He has provided before and he will again. He is true to his word and his promises.

I admit I have a bit of a trust issue but with God’s help and guidance this has come on a long way so that I am able to meet and talk to others and start to become a part of God’s family. To be able to love each other there has to be an element of trust (not blind trust but trust all the same) and God clearly wants us to love others and himself. I need to trust in his protection and not allow others to take this away from me as this would be a greater loss.

I am sharing this because others will be facing their own issues and I would like them to know that if they take all aspects to God and stand on the promises he has given they will come through it because of the love of God.

He has promised to meet us where we are. To provide and protect us and lead us in his ways. He instructs us to stand strong in him and most of all to love as he loves.

We are only human and will struggle and fall sometimes but he is constant, always there and longing to help but most of all love. He can heal our hearts and hurts in most amazing ways.

I pray this will help and encourage someone.