Here is one of my first lessons. While at Bible school we were taught to trust God for all we needed, and as a rule the needs which pertained to the school also were shared. One day Miss G., one of the teachers, came into the prayer meeting to say that we were sorely in need of fresh type. We published a paper every month called TRUST, which was mailed free of any subscription price or fees for advertis­ing. We sent copies to hungry, needy peo­ple all over the world, from four to six thousand copies a month, besides thousands of tracts, all free, as God gave us means to operate the publishing department.

While we were praying and presenting the needs of the school to Him, this re­ quest came in and the sum of $50. was mentioned as necessary to cover the need. As I was asking God to lay the need upon someone’s heart to send us $50., suddenly God spoke to my own heart, and said, “You give the $50. Trust Me and I will give you the $50.” This, of course, was very strange to me since I knew I did not have $50. to my name. If He had said, “You give the first dollar toward it,” I might have been obedient at once and gone on my way. But for Him to say that I should give $50. when I did not have the amount was a different matter.

Sometimes it is easy to pray and ask someone else to do thus and so, but it is quite different when He speaks to your own heart to do it. Of course, I could have said, “I believe God answers prayer; I believe He will supply this need; I believe He is able.” That would have been a declaration of general faith and all very true. But could I then and there, regard­ing a specific need as related to me say, “Yes, Lord, I believe Thou wilt give me the $50. and I praise Thee?”

As I knew God was dealing with me, I slipped out of the meeting and went before Him alone in my room. Let me suggest something to you here. Don’t make the mistake of at once dismissing God’s dealings from your mind just because in the natural (as things are seen) you don’t have the means, the grace, the power, or the skill to do that which He is asking of, or suggesting to you. I might have said to my heart, “Be quiet. God knows you don’t have the $50. and He would not be so foolish as to ask you to give it, for He does not require one to do impossible things.” Since that time He has made me face quite an impossible situa­tion, one beyond any human help. But I know now that I am not to look at “things seen” but to look away to Him and the finished product. A miracle always happens in the atmosphere of natural im­possibilities.