REMEMBERING 50 YEARS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS

An Amazing Personal Story of How God Confirmed His Promise to Us

By Eddie L.. Hyatt

Sue and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage on May 17 and during prayer this morning I experienced a desire to share some personal stories of God’s faithfulness to us through the years. Today I want to share an incredible story of how God spoke to us, and confirmed, that we would have “No Lack” in our life together.

Shortly after our marriage, Sue told me that God had given her three promises from Scripture for our life together: Psalm 34:10, Psalm 84: 11 and Philippians 4:19. Each of these is a promise of “No Lack.”

For example, Psalm 34:10 says, The young lions lack and suffer hunger but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing. Psalm 84:11 says, No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly before him. And Philippians 4:19 says, And My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory.

Those promises became an important part of our lives and we incorporated them into our prayers and confession of faith. About two years into our marriage, God confirmed and highlighted those promises to us in a very dramatic way.

It was probably 1978 and we decided to attend the Summer Seminar at Christ for the Nations in Dallas where we had met. This was a week-long event with services throughout the day and a great time to reconnect with former classmates and meet new friends.

At the time, we had begun a new ministry in Sue’s hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick. We did not have the money for the trip, but decided we needed the break and would go, trusting God to provide along the way. We told no one, except God, of the need.

We had no credit cards and only enough cash to make it to Dallas and register for the seminar, which included housing on campus and two meals per day in the campus cafeteria. We enjoyed eating out, especially at Wyatt’s Cafeteria, but by midweek we were down to $2.00 with a 2000-mile trip awaiting us. W

I was preparing to go to an afternoon service when Sue said to me, “I am starting to feel discouraged; why isn’t God coming through?” Half serious and half-joking, I replied, “I am claiming a meal for us at Wyatt’s today.”

I went to the afternoon service where Dick Mills was the guest speaker. Mills had a unique prophetic ministry. He had memorized over 7000 promises in the Bible and when he would pray with someone, the Holy Spirit would often flood his mind with promises that were particularly relevant to that person.

After his message, he asked Freda Lindsay, the president and co-founder of Christ for the Nations, to come up beside him and pick out people from the congregation to be prayed over. She came up and, lo and behold, picked me out of that audience of at least 500 people and asked me to stand.

I stood up and Dick Mills rattled off those same three Scriptures that Sue and I had made a part of our lives and daily spoke in prayer. He then added a fourth one: Luke 22:35 where Jesus asked His disciples, “When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?” So they said, “Nothing.”e th

Mills then said, “This is God’s word to you. You lack nothing.” He went on to say, “This will get you through World War III if it has to.” So, here I am standing there with $2.00 in my pocket and 2000 miles from home and God confirms the promises he had given Sue that, “You lack nothing.” God obviously wanted me more preoccupied with Him and His promise than my empty pocketbook.

I went out from that meeting and a missionary to Mexico came to me and said, “God has been speaking to me for three days to give you this.” He then reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out two traveler’s checks for $50.00 each and handed them to me. I went back to our apartment and said to Sue, “Get dressed we are going to Wyatt’s.”

The seminar ended and we headed for Canada with not nearly enough money to buy gasoline, much less food and hotels. We stopped in Kiowa, Oklahoma where my older brother had arranged for me to speak in the small Assembly of God church he and his family attended.

I had preached in this church before I met Sue, and they might have 20 people on a Sunday morning. They would receive a “love offering” for the guest speaker and if it was as much as $50.00 it was considered almost miraculous. Now, it seemed the crowd was even smaller with only about 8-10 people in the Sunday night service.

After the service, as the pastor’s wife was giving me the “love offering” they had received for us, she said. “You know, we take up a missionary offering every month, but we don’t have a missionary to send it to, and it had been accumulating in a separate account. Would it be OK if we gave it to you?” I replied, "yes."

I don’t recall the amount, but it was significant for us at the time and resulted in us returning home with more money than when we left. But even more important was the fact that God had confirmed His promise to us: “You have no lack.”  Hallelujah!!

Does this mean we have never had any financial challenges? No! We have had some incredible challenges during our 50 years, but God has always come through, usually in ways we could never have imagined. We have travelled around the world and found Him always faithful. If there is one testimony we would leave behind when we depart this world, it is this: He has been faithful!

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