Sometimes it takes desperation to bring God on the scene. A couple years ago, in the middle of the rainy season, the roof of my house was in a bad condition; everywhere there were leaks.
I had to use containers, buckets, and pans to catch the water. My children complained about getting wet while they slept. I had all the materials to change the roof, but I got caught in the middle of the rainy season.
Rain was falling every day. I just did not know what to do. Something came over me in my desperation and frustration, so I just walked to the back of my home, put my hands up in the air, and said, “Lord don't let the rain fall until I finish my roof."
Being a steel fabricator, I proceeded to take off the roof, and I did not look at the sky. Over a period of two weeks I framed it up. On the second Sunday, I testified in church what was happening. However, I saw a brother laughing at me.
The next week that followed on the Monday morning, I saw some black clouds coming at my home. I said, “No, no, you are not going to fall.”
I turned my back and continued welding up the steel pieces, when I looked back there were no clouds. They separated and not even a drop fell. All this time my family stayed at my mother-in-law’s, where I it rained but not on my house.
I asked a brother to help me put down the sheets for the roof. As we finished putting down the last sheet, the rain began to fall.
God is so great, so awesome, so faithful. I thank Him for being a very present help in time of trouble. Not forgetting my neighbor was watching all the time. He said, "Something happened here in the middle of all this rain, the rain did not fall on your house." I said, “This had nothing to do with me, I was desperate and God supplied my need.”
Bro John
Trinidad West Indies