God Then:
In the Old Testament, God revealed himself as Jehovah meaning "I am". In
one of verses God provided and he was called Jehovah Jireh, meaning "I am
your provider". When the Hebrews left Egypt, God provided for them bread
from heaven to feed them. He also provided water for them. When King David
hid in a mountain cave, his food was brought to him by a bird. In the New
Testament, when they didn't have enough food for the multitude of people,
they thanked God for what little they had and it was enough to feed
everybody and the leftovers was more than they started with.

God Now:
I heard this story and have the jist of it but not enough details to satisfy
Ed Huntress or anything like that. A man, I believe in Africa, has an
orphanage and relies on God to supply their needs on a regular basis. The
person telling of it said they sat at a table to eat but they didn't have
any food. They thanked God for their meal, even though it wasn't there, and
a knock at the door, someone brought food.

My mother-in-law told me about a time when she ran out of money and she had
need of something. She said she pulled over in her car and prayed telling
God that she believed in him as provider and she felt she did her part to be
faithful to the Lord and told him she had need of money. When she went to
her mail box there was money sent to her that she wasn't expecting.

Some missionaries were captured by Japanese during war time and the Japanese
held them as prisoners of war. One of the POW missionaries was telling
about her experience. She looked outside a window from her cell and saw a
prisoner on the grounds make their way close to a fence and someone handed
them a banana through the fence. The banana looked so good compared to what
they were used to the missionary prayed that perhaps God could provide a
banana. They though how it might be possible but then decided it was too
difficult, that God wouldn't be able to get them a banana. The next day, a
guard opened the cell door and men brought enough bananas to fill the cell
floor. The missionary cried as they felt God couldn't get them a single
banana.

Last month my mother had a difficult month, getting on late in the month she
only had enough work that she only made $85 for that month. Then someone
that owed her money paid about half their bill and she got $500. $585 for
the month was much better than $85 but it was still barely getting by. Then
she got a payment for back taxes from a couple of years ago. She didn't
even know that the money was owed to her but she ended up with $3000 for the
month.

God to provide in the near futu (I hope!, No, I believe!)
Right now I am in a situation where I'm not going to make ends meet unless
something changes. Since my wife lost her job and her unemployment ran out,
I need to work a bare minimum of 8hrs per week overtime. I had to buy
Propane for heat ~$485, a deer ran out in front of me and tore up my car,
now I have a $100 deductable to pay, and to top it off the economy has
stopped the project I was getting overtime on. According to my forcasted
account balance I go in the red in early December. So I know I'll be
getting some unexpected income because God will provide. God doesn't depend
on the stock market or the economy, he provides when my ordinary source of
income fails. Hopefully I'll have a testemony before I go into the Red :-)

The Bible says God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Become God's
child and he will be your provider in times of need too. I'm no better than
anybody else, we are justified by faith, not by works, believe in Jesus
Christ and your faith will be credited to you as rightousness. All I can
say is thank God I'm not smart enough to be an Athiest!

RogerN