Miraculous leading

It was way back in September last year that I planned this years mission work [or at least the dates for them.} I decided to try to combine statutory holidays and holiday entitlements to give me a full six weeks to use for missions in 2011. That made the Easter period vital so I put in for time off during this period. However, there was a problem.

No matter how I tried to calculate it I was left a day short of six weeks for 2011. It just didn't work yet I had a sense that this was what God wanted me to do. I put in an application for two weeks off during Easter and another week off at the end of may to coincide with the bank holiday. The rest would be used at the latter end of 2011.

I felt quite urgently to put the application in at the time although no applications at my work place for 2011 would be considered until the start of January. Again this didn't seem to make sense but I just did what I felt God wanted me to do regarding the Easter application.

GOD SEES THE ROAD AHEAD : Later on in the year the date of the royal wedding was announced. It would be during the time I was due to be away in Kenya! This means that day would count as another statutory holiday leaving me with another day of holiday entitlement spare making my total time I can take for missions add up to six whole weeks!

Now bear in mind my maths is pretty good yet even I can't take into account future changes. Yet God knows all about those and factored them in. Sometimes the things God asks us to do don't 'add up' at the time yet God sees the whole picture whereas we are looking at it from one point in time. God's view is an ETERNAL ONE. That was not the only evidence of God's hand on this though.

Several days into the new year many of us were called into a meeting with our supervisor who told us that all holiday applications for the Easter period would not be considered except for those already accepted! I turns out that many people were trying to take advantage of the numerous statutory holidays of that period to book extended holidays. Had the company accepted all those requests they would have been hopelessly short staffed. Now it all began to make sense. I am notoriously late doing things and am very much a 'late minute man'. To book this time off so early was very unusual for me and I did it only because I felt so stirred in my heart with a sense of urgency to do it. Again I can only thank God who knew and saw the whole picture. God knows what He is doing and I have no doubt that he wants me back in Kenya at this time.

God bless you...Steve