Please Pray for Provisions and Productivity

I admit I am powerless again over how I will pay for my stay at the homeless shelter tonight. God has brought me to this place of trusting Him for my immediate provisions several times in recent weeks. Each time He provided my need right on time. I hope and expect that He will again. But that provision always happened after I had requested prayers and that is what I am doing now.

Please pray for God to guide and provide.

May the Lord guide my thoughts, words and deeds.

The need is 10 dollars per night at the homeless shelter. Mostly God has provided that 3 nights at a time. So with fees it would be 35 dollars. The gate closes at 800 PM and so to have margin I need that before 700 PM. I could make it one more night for just 12 dollars.

Also I learned what the bill is on my things in storage. There is a past due amount of 33 dollars and 97 dollars is due before August first. A friend has paid the 33 dollars and I need to repay that soon.

My bare minimum need is 10 dollars a day. I can also use money for bottled water, fruit drinks, bus fare and laundry. God has provided those needs before. May I have faith and take actions to raise that money too.

The reason I am in this jam is that it has taken far longer to get the crowd funding platform online. At first I thought that would be active within the first week of my homeless season but that was more than a month ago. There have been lots of obstacles that included relational, logistical, technical, mental and emotional.

The Holy Spirit has prompted me to consider the possible spiritual warfare parts of these challenging weeks. I ask you to pray for God to grant me His wisdom and insights about these matters. I do not want to either neglect this might have been a factor nor go into imbalance and put all blame of my discomforts on the works of the devils. What I seek is discernment. I want to know what I can repent of, pray and request prayers for related to these matters.

From where I sit at this moment there is no logical reason I could not create a few more short videos this afternoon. I could make some more tomorrow and finally launch the crowd funding site shortly after that. I cannot set a hard deadline just now but I hope that will possible soon. When that online service is active then I know ways to promote it. That will lead to funds from strangers that want to partner with me in launching the innovative educational nonprofit. Then my modest living costs will be met. I will continue to add more materials to the crowd funding site and enroll more supporters.

The title of this message is Please Pray for Provisions and Productivity. I both need money to meet the immediate needs and I need to become far more productive. That will lead to increased income streams. I am reminded of the three words that you can pray about that will help me the most.

FOCUS

I always need to learn to focus better.

I have lots of online tools to aid.

I spend time with them.

Maybe I spend too much time planning some times.

But when I neglect those I get very scattered and waste many hours.

DISCIPLINE

I like to plan and organize plus I do that very well.

But I do not have self discipline to follow through on my plans.

That is a different kind of skill that I must learn to develop with steady practice.

There are times I wish I was more like a robot that I could just program.

But I have human nature that needs to be disciplined.

I am seeking for one or more accountability partners to help me.

I need to set reasonable yet challenging goals for each day and week.

Then I need to declare those to my partner and give updates.

This is one proven way to gain more traction.

Others have used this system before and I am willing to use it.

But I need God to connect me with the right person or people.

Please pray for this connection.

PRODUCTIVITY

Get the job done is a motto that I say to myself.

There are always far too many possible tasks every day.

There will be things left not completed.

I need to learn to execute on those tasks that will bring the best results.

When I get into the creativity zone then this unfolds gracefully and quickly.

I can get an amazing amount accomplished in a few hours when in that flow.

I have come to associate that with abiding in the True Vine Jesus Christ to bear good fruit.

FIRE

There are two related issues happening here. On the one hand I need to put out the fire of paying for a place to sleep tonight. That is the immediate and urgent need. On the other hand I need to take wise action steps to prevent needing to put out this kind of fire again in the near future.

I need God to connect me with generous donors again and grant me favor in their site. I promise you I dislike going through this over and over again.

Then I need to greatly improve the focus, discipline and productivity. As that happens then it will lead to funds from strangers that will move me to a more stable financial base.

MUST
There is a spiritual part of this that I sometimes get a glimpse of and it boils down to I must to STAND UP ON THE INSIDE. Then I must JUST BOLDLY DECLARE WHAT GOD HAS BEEN SPEAKING TO MY HEART FOR MANY YEARS. Then I must just let the people respond. Some will like it and others will not. So I need to be OK with what gets back to my fear of rejection. I must LET GOD USE ME TO CAST THE VISION AND THEN WATCH HIM PROVIDE THE SUPPORT TO BRING IT TO PASS.

Normally I do not include the Pay Pal link in the request for prayers but the time is short. So if God is prompting you to give then the link follows. Note that the goal for today is 35 dollars. The minimum to make it to tomorrow is 12 dollars. http://www.freewebs.com/jsohub/give.htm

Again the central prayer request is for God to guide and provide both short term and long term.

Shalom