Financial Breakthrough!!!

So I was accepted on to a ministry trip to Australia in March with Bill Johnson! Amazing in itself! Crazy stuff... only obstacle in the way has been the moola to get me there. The travel interns here at Bethel, e-mailed me and told me that for me to stay on this trip, I needed to have $1,300 by January 5th, 2010. None of this money for this trip could be provided from myself because currently, I have no job and am pretty much fully supported through my parents, in turn making them unable to help me either.
It was a little over a month before the due date that I sent out letters to everybody, but I had a vision. I had a vision to go on this trip to see what God is doing in Australia, but also to get to hang out with one of the most anointed men on the planet... I was going. LOL. I am going, to be technically correct.

Bunny Trail... It's always a really interesting thing when you step out in faith to ask the same people once again for support in your dreams to see who follows after you. It's amazing to see the Church at work thrusting the other parts of the Church into their callings through prayer and provision. I love it. Those are the ones who inherit the same blessings and breakthroughs that they sowed into.
Anyways, I wrote my letters and sent them out just after Thanksgiving Break and before my Norway trip. I had that one day inbetween those two trips to get those letters out and thank God I did! I would have been totally up a river with no paddle, no life jacket, no food, provision, compass,... boat sinking... hungry bears in the river... and no ability to swim... Okay so maybe a little dramatic, but you get the picture. So I got those letters out and I decided to challenge my faith and to give the Lord a chance to show me His goodness in a new way by telling my supporters to send money straight to Bethel and not to me.
See, what the people don't know about that detail is that I had no idea how much money was being deposited because that information is not accessible to everyone. You have to seek it out with the travel interns who refer you to someone else who refer you to someone else who refers you to someone else who e-mails you your amount about a week and a half later... lol...

So while on Christmas Break, I decided to pursue the matter on knowing how much money was in my account at Bethel for travel. So a week and a half later, I received an e-mail telling me that I have about $330 in my account. That was a great start... the only thing was that I needed $970 to come in in little less than a week after that e-mail... Great... "Well Jesus... Here ya go..." Is pretty much what was running through my mind most of the last month regarding finances. But as I kept declaring that I was going to Australia and keeping my heart open and willing to hear what the Lord was doing for this trip, the Lord continued to bless me. That week, I received two checks from two people at Bridgeway, (my fantastic, on fire church) giving me an amount of $600. So at that point, I needed $370 in like two days. Breakthrough sometimes is a process...

Break finally ended. The day had come. *Dun Dun DAH!!!* I was back in Redding... totally unaware if the money had come in or not, but in faith believing that it had and that I was going still. I had a vision for this trip! I was going on it! So I tracked down Aaron Tessaro, the main administrator for 2nd Year, to find out my trip account balance. After a long process of him texting, e-mailing and IMing people, he texted me and told me that I had a total of $880.80 in my account plus the $600 I had just deposited myself into that account. This gave me a grand total of $1480.80. This is $180.80 more than I needed for that first deadline. How good is God! He will take care of my every need even if it seems small, insignificant, stupid, or whatever. He loves my heart's cry. :) It's helped me stretch and grow in such amazing ways.

Deadline two is coming up pretty soon and I guess I get to go through most of this process once again :P, but tell you what... I have so much more faith than I ever thought I would. Amazing! Jesus is so Faithful. Never failing. That's a good word. Never failing. Something to ponder about later... Just think about that... HE IS NEVER FAILING... EVER... Oh man... here comes a brain explosion revelation time. :P