The Lord Has Met My Every Need...

    I have to take just a moment, ok a few moments, to testify about how God provided in a large way for us yesterday. For you to understand I have to give a little back story. 

 A few years ago we were in a very undesirable situation. We had lived with my in-laws for a year and then moved in with my parents. My husband had joined the national guard but was still waiting to attend basic training. He was having a very hard time finding and keeping a steady full time job, we had zero cash, and I was pregnant. On top of that we were continually going in debt because of custody court battles we were in with his ex-wife. From our perspective, things were looking dim and there wasn't much hope of change anytime soon. 

 Fast forward several months, I was 8 months pregnant, my husband had just completed basic training and was at his individual training. I went in for a normal prenatal check up with the complaint that my foot hurt. My midwife sent me to the ER to make sure I didn't have a blood clot. After an X-ray and doppler of my legs the doctors at the ER determined  I had sprung my ankle, put me in a brace, and sent me home. I knew, however, that was not the case. My foot continued to keep hurting. The next week I went in for an ultra sound, was explaining to the technician how my foot still hurt, how they had checked my legs for clots and the technician said I looked extremely out of breath and she wasn't going to let me leave until I saw a doctor because they might have missed the blood clot and it may have traveled. Well, I knew I was out of breath, but I was 8 months pregnant with my third baby and was thinking that was just the norm. 

 The doctor (not the one I normally saw) was perturbed and thought everything was fine, but per the request of the ultra sound technician, sent me to the OB triage for observation. They hooked me up and I sat there for several hours. Later that night they released me saying everything looked fine. By the time I had made my way to the car my mom was concerned about the lack of breath I had and made her way back up to labor and delivery to demand they admit me and do more tests.

 My midwife was now the doctor on call and agreed to watch me over night. They did more ultra sounds on my legs to again insure there was no blood clot. When, again, that came back normal she decided to get the cardiologist involved. He came and sat beside my bed and asked me about 8000 questions, did and EKG, which came back normal, and then decided to do and ultrasound on my heart. 

With in seconds I hear the cardiologist say to the technician, "That doesn't look good to me, does it to you?" 

 Turns out I had a congenital heart defect I had no idea about, where I had too many veins going into the right side of my heart making it enlarged. To pretty much sum up the miraculous ways God had mercy on me, the cardiologist said that had they not found this when they did, I would have just dropped dead at age 30 because of heart failure. I was 25.

 I didn't have any blood clots, and my foot only had a broken blood vessel. The pregnancy had saved my life. I was put on bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy and scheduled to have open heart surgery a few months after I delivered the baby. My husband arrived home 4 hours before I gave birth to our son. I was thankful to have him home, but that also meant that our insurance was no longer active because he wasn't active duty any longer and that we no longer had an income. 

 My husbands national guard unit worked it out so that my husband could do his 2 week annual training during the time I would need to have my surgery so it would be covered under the insurance. It worked out beautifully. 

 So imagine our surprise when we opened the mail one day to find an $80,000 bill from the surgery. We learned that some how the bill had not gone through insurance because it was showing that we didn't have any. 

 In true military fashion, they had no record of the my husbands orders for annual training. We also didn't have any copy of the orders, only a memo and pay stubs. Neither of which the insurance would accept as proof to run the bill. For the last 2 years we have been back and forth trying to find and get the orders. We most certainly do not have 80k, especially on top of the 50k we are paying in court debt. 

 Since all this has taken place my husband went active duty and the Lord has blessed us immensely. We now have a savings and are on track to be debt free in a matter of years minus this 80k dollar heart surgery bill. 

 Yesterday, my husband was randomly cleaning out his email folders while at work and low and behold found an email with his orders for his annual training two years ago!!! Just like that God wiped out our debt! I almost burst into tears when he told me. 

 There is no doubt in my mind this was God's provision and blessing over our lives. We have been praying for these orders to be found for two years. I am so very thankful for the love God lavishes on us as his children and the way he supplies our every need. There is power in prayer! God is alive! He cares about you! He cares about your needs! He is faithful to provide! Don't forget it!