{"id":1201,"date":"2010-05-05T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2020-02-05T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:10:24","slug":"faithful-jim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/faithful-jim\/","title":{"rendered":"FAITHFUL JIM!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Proverbs 3:5-6<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTrust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved Jim Graham. He was a man of faith and integrity. He drove a church bus with devotion and purpose \u2015 it was his ministry and he was as faithful to his task as any minister who stepped into the pulpit. He has gone to be with the Lord, but his dear wife sent me an e-mail in response to one of last week\u2019s E-Votionals. Here is a portion of Sally\u2019s letter:<\/p>\n

This is such a blessed story!\u00a0 I can\u2019t hit the delete button.\u00a0 It just touched my heart.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of back in the 1980\u2019s. Olympia Nazarene Church bought that big Trailways bus.\u00a0 My husband drove it whenever he was available, but the church needed a driver more than Jim was able to do it.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

One morning when we woke up, he said,\u00a0\u2018You are going to think I\u2019m crazy.\u2019\u00a0 I replied, \u2018So what else is new?\u2019\u00a0 He said, \u2018I had a dream and God told me to quit my job and drive the bus full time.\u2019\u00a0 I said, \u2018If you believe God told you to do this, then you had better do it.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t like it when we don\u2019t listen to him.\u2019\u00a0 He said, \u2018But it is a job that doesn\u2019t pay anything.\u00a0 What do we do about living on your income only?\u2019\u00a0 I said, \u2018If God told you to do it, He will provide for us.\u2019\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

So Jim quit his job, we cut back on a few things, and I got a good promotion almost immediately.\u00a0 We tithed the same amount as we had when Jim was working and\u00a0we never missed paying a bill and we never did without the necessities of life.\u00a0 God blessed us and took care of us.\u00a0 Jim quit his paid job June 30, 1985 and drove the bus until 1999.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Wow! That really touches my heart and makes me want to do more than I ever have for the Lord. He will take care of His children when they fully trust Him!<\/p>\n

Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!<\/p>\n

– – – Pastor Cecil<\/p>\n

360-570-0074
\nPastorCecil@Daily-E-Votional.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proverbs 3:5-6 \u201cTrust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.\u201d I loved Jim Graham. He was a man of faith and integrity. He drove a church bus with devotion and purpose \u2015 it was his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proverbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}