The Message is Reinforced

The following day Mary found herself working in the kitchen for the most part of the morning. She had cooked all the pumpkins and now was making up a recipe of chocolate cake and pumpkin that her Pastor had suggested was good to help her be regular. She made enough from one jar to make 12 small muffins, 8 large muffins tops, and a muffin cake in the shape of a cross. The later she was sending off with Robin to give to the pastors and staff for a snack.
Needless to say Mary found herself covered in chocolate and feeling high from the sugary residue she had ingested. At lunch she had stopped to pick a few things up at the grocery store and spent her last 15 dollars. It was nice to find a free shopping cart someone had abandoned. This always pleased Mary because it was like getting 25cents off her purchase. Sometimes she found as many as three carts left waiting in the parking lot and she would march them all back to their rightful place and retrieve the 75 cents change for an even more enjoyable moment.
However, today Mary was even more blessed because when she came outside to put her cart back in the stall she noticed a $10 bill sitting on the sale sheet in her cart that someone else had left behind. She hadn’t noticed it sitting there all while she shopped! Mary couldn’t believe her eyes. Boy, was that a delight and a gift from God. It was more proof to Mary that God’s anointing and blessing were on her life and time as it stood right now.
Further delightful evidence came when Robin handed Mary over $5 and change she had told him to keep when he had gone to the store last week for her. Mary had felt sorry for the poor guy at the time because he never took any cash for himself. It wasn’t much but she thought it might afford him the opportunity to buy himself and someone else a coffee someday. But here he was giving her back this money. However, it only reinforced the message God was trying to get across: that her assignment and anointing were in this house. Mary was grateful for these blessings because they encouraged her to go on. She wasn’t to look elsewhere but be satisfied with where she was right now.
God would supply their financial needs just as he had done now. She had spent $15 but between the found money in the cart and Robin’s gift she now had back the money she had started out with! God was amazing. What else was He going to do? Mary didn’t know but she would wait and see. God wasn’t finished with her yet!