God Almighty

This morning when we were doing our devotions in the office from the book "Experiencing God" we talked about the names of God and what God meant to each and everyone of us. For me over the last couple of weeks I have come to see God as God Almighty.

It is hard to explain the feeling you have when you know that God has arranged things in such a way that it all works out for you. Or that He protects you from harm and danger while traveling. It makes you realize that indeed we serve an amazing God. He is more than worthy of our absolute trust but often we want to keep in control over the things we think we need to do or accomplish. But God shows us over and over again that He has His own plan and timing and He wants us to be obedient.

On Tuesday morning we had to call our private CAA, being Humphrey, who came with Willy and Phil to help us out. The Noah van didn't want to start and as it turned out the battery was too low to get the engine going. After taking one of the batteries out of the Landcruiser and hooking it up in the Noah, it started without any problems. While still running, the put the "old" battery back in the Noah and told us to keep the engine running till we would be at the office. In the afternoon a new battery was bought and installed in the Noah and it has run perfectly fine since then. It was a good thing that we were not somewhere along the road or far away. And Willy earned a new nick-name: CAA - Can Almost Anything when it comes to cars.

This afternoon Gert went with Machteld and Caison, the accountant, to Ross Breeders to buy and pay for feed and 3,500 chicks. The chicks will be delivered tomorrow morning and the feed had to be delivered still this afternoon. When we got there and ordered the feed they told us that the price of the feed had increased by KR5 per bag (about $1/bag) and we needed about 185 bags. Furthermore, she told us that our discount was no longer 7% but only 2.5%. This would increase the costs for raising the chickens significantly so we called one of the managers from Ross Breeders that we met a few weeks ago. In talking to him we found a willing ear and he asked to hand over the phone to the lady we were dealing with in Sales. After he talked to her she handed the phone to Charles, the Sales manager. After a short while Charles handed the phone back and we were told that Charles who would explain to us what would happen. So Charles explained to us that the prices had increased as of January 1, 2013 and that there was little he could do, especially since the General Manager was not around. But he could give us 5% discount. We told him that in October 2012 (after their last price increase) we had a 7% discount and that there was no real reason to change that. Charles went back to the office and paperwork and came back and confirmed that we had received 7% discount so he would give that to us again. At the same time, we were given a 5% discount on the chicks that we didn't have before. When everything was said and done we only paid about $25 more than we would have with the old prices and discount on a total amount of about $8,000. Again God was at work in a miraculous way and provided for us by basically neutralizing the increase in feed prices.

After that we went to Zamtel, the phone company that provides the landline for the office. The invoice that we received on Monday was about three times as high as usual, which was a great shock. In taking a closer look it turned out that there were a lot of line items that were charged twice and at the same time Zamtel almost doubled the rate. So yesterday we went to the Zamtel office and the manager there told us to write a letter to Customer Care with our complaints. And that is what we did this morning and after we had been to Ross Breeders we delivered the letter to Zamtel. Now we'll have to wait and see what their response will be.

When we got home after work we were talking and relaxing a bit and saw the sun slowly set and put the sky on fire. It was an amazing sight to see the colors changing around the house.

 

 

God showed again His splendor and we were quiet for a while. I certainly reflected on one of the names for God that I start to appreciate more and more; God Almighty. He surely is an amazing and almighty God, who created us in His image and He gave us the earth to work on and enjoy. And what a joy it is see the wonders of His hand!