We had a yard sale on Friday. I've been planning on having one for a while. Organizing well in advance and was going to do it on May 2nd. Matt came home from work on Thursday and suggested that we do one on Saturday. We had most of the stuff gathered up, I just had to price it all, and then pick up tables from the church. We called the pastor to make sure we could get them and then rushed around pricing everything.
Friday morning I went to the bank and took $60 in change out of our savings account in quarters, ones and fives. While I was out and about I also hung up signs with info about the sale for Saturday AND for May 2nd on it. I really didn't expect to do much at all since I didn't even get any signs up until 24 hours before the sale. Plus....it was supposed to rain Saturday too, so we didn't really know how long we were going to be able to stay set up. I only had it scheduled until noon anyway because we had some other plans at noon. (Friends were coming over to watch a baseball game and cook out.)
We said a prayer before the sale started asking God to hold off the rain and to help us have a successful sale. We are trying to teach the kids that prayer is a very important part of our lives, so we are doing more and more prayers involving the entire family instead of just at dinner time. We are trying to show them that God does still answer prayers, and that miracles do still happen.
(Some pictures of the sale during a slow period.)
(The kids with their lemonade stand and a close-up of their sign.)
Sadly their lemonade stand didn't do very well. They only sold two glasses, but it was cool and windy and we shut down by 11 A.M., so we had prepared them for the fact that they might not do well on this day. They are hoping to do better when we repeat this in two weeks.
They did get to see proof that prayer works. God held off the rain until we closed up shop for the day. We hadn't had any customers in a while, so we decided to go ahead and take it down early. We already had most of it inside when the rain began. Another way our prayers were answered.....in only a few hours, with just a handful of customers we made over $150!
The lesson continued on Sunday. We frequently tell the kids that if you trust God, He will supply the means to meet your needs. Sunday morning at church my MIL brought us a piece of mail that went to her address. It was a bill that we had somehow overlooked and they were going to take action against us for collection. Our spur of the moment yard sale that we didn't expect to do well at all raised enough to cover that bill and allowed us to give Matt's grandparents some money so that they could visit our church on Sunday night.
God definitely answers prayers, and ALWAYS meets our needs.
They did get to see proof that prayer works. God held off the rain until we closed up shop for the day. We hadn't had any customers in a while, so we decided to go ahead and take it down early. We already had most of it inside when the rain began. Another way our prayers were answered.....in only a few hours, with just a handful of customers we made over $150!
The lesson continued on Sunday. We frequently tell the kids that if you trust God, He will supply the means to meet your needs. Sunday morning at church my MIL brought us a piece of mail that went to her address. It was a bill that we had somehow overlooked and they were going to take action against us for collection. Our spur of the moment yard sale that we didn't expect to do well at all raised enough to cover that bill and allowed us to give Matt's grandparents some money so that they could visit our church on Sunday night.
God definitely answers prayers, and ALWAYS meets our needs.
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