Jehovah Jireh - God Our Provider

Setback and tears drooling down my cheeks, I sat in Esther Brown's house. Sad and broke.
As I had lost my job.

I worked as a trainee reported for one of the leading magazines in India. I was a trainee and they barely paid me. The bylines were not sufficient for living. I was looking for other jobs and a low grade news channel hired me, just to fire the next day. They had got a hopeless guy ready to work for half the salary I demanded.

Extremely excited about the new job (in news channel), I declared to the world and everybody on team about this. One of the stingy colleagues told the editor about this. This resulted in, me loosing both the good and the bad jobs. Nothing could have been worst than this.

I had no money at all. The list of payees was huge, newspaper seller, grocery store, library membership, house rent and many more. I didn’t know how was this to be done? All I wanted was to escape the situation.

Esther advised that I pray and ask Jesus to bless me with a job. It seemed she had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. She suggested that I pray and ask Jesus to PROVIDE. As she called him ' Jehovah Jireh’ which means—‘God our provider.’ To me, this had no reason at all and was the last thing I could have done being a through Hindu.

I tried calling a couple of my best friends however; none was able to help. I had to pay the bills just after a day.

I prayed -" Jesus if you are actually a living God, get my job back right now." I cried and looked towards his picture neatly kept on Esther's Alter.

The phone rang.

It was the editor calling. I was not able to react or think much about it, just took the call.
She was streaming angry and wanted me to report to work immediately.

I did.

She had read one of the stories that I had left on her desk the other day and wanted to hire me as a reporter on team. She passed the papers and effective that moment I was hired!

I learnt.

God is the provider and he provides when we really need.

Esther and I still sing, “Jehovah Jireh, My provider His grace is sufficient for me.”