Today I want to give an example of someone who did this. It is admittedly pretty dramatic. However, I do not believe it is an unreasonably extreme. It is a good example of what G-d can do.
Enter George Müller. He was an evangelist and founded and ran many schools and orphanages in England in the mid 1800's. He steadfastly held on to the belief that G-d was calling him to not ask for financial or material assistance. Over the course of his life he founded 117 schools educating over 120,000 children, mostly orphans, and cared for over 10,000 orphans in his orphanages.
One particularly famous and well documented example was one morning at his orphanage everyone woke up to find that they were completely out of food. He had everyone prepare for breakfast like normal and everyone was seated at the table in preparation for breakfast which was not there. They prayed to bless the food and just as they finished the local baker knocked on the door with a donation of bread which was enough for everyone. Just then the milkman's cart broke down in front of the orphanage and he gave them plenty of fresh milk since it was going to go to waste anyway.
Müller's life was filled with deliveries of coal just as they ran out, money's needed (to the penny) to finish buildings delivered in at the last minute, food provided just when it was needed. It was a truly lean process. But he never asked for anything. He trusted G-d to deliver and He did. Why did He trust G-d? Because G-d said He would provide and Müller believed that.
I don't think every ministry is called to that, but it show's G-d's ability and willingness to provide as we need it.
A lot of people around him thought he was crazy. They thought he would starve himself and all his orphans to death or freeze them with no heat. But He had a longer perspective. He did what WORKED. George Müller was an eternal pragmatist.
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