| |  Faithfulness and February start with the same letter on purpose. February has been a wonderful month consecutively because it's birthday month for yours truly! I have now been alive for (insert calculation of 365 days times 26, that times minutes , that times seconds and all that jazz) --a long time! A long time of God's faithfulness. I am happy and free and loving being delighted in by the Lord and delighting myself in Him. It's a grand time even though it's not always an enjoyable time. It's rocky and good in a different way. Grace is over sufficient.
A wonderful story for you! I got my Roland XP-80, Rolanda in May 2001 for high school graduation. She's been a good girl but she has so much stuff on there that keyboardists use and I do not consider myself a keyboardist. What am I going to do with sirens and Bubble Bass? Exactly.
When I went to Korea, they delivered a beautiful, real, glossy black piano right into my classroom. I talked about it on here--explore archives if you want to. This thing was great to play on. It was professionally tuned and well, my fingers were spoiled for 8 months. When I went home, I tried to play on my non-weighted Rolanda and there just weren't the same dynamics.
Long story short, I have been praying for a keyboard for a while since then but I didn't know exactly what I wanted. I just knew I wanted something weighted with an accurate depiction of a piano sound. (Sorry, Rolanda, close your ears for this one.) I was getting tired of playing on my keyboard and it was just sounding--wrong. I did my research online. Around the start of the school year, I talked to the Chennankaras and they all told me the Yamaha CP300 was the winner. Meanwhile, I remembered that when I go to the International House of Prayer-prayer room, they have this perfect sounding weighted keyboard that they play on and so I emailed a worship leader to ask only to find out that it is the CP300 that they play on as well!
I began to tell the Lord, I really like this keyboard. I never know how you do it, but thank you for this board. I trust you. You know what I want. February 12, I got a call from the lady who does my taxes in California, who is also my good friend Rebecca's mom. She called me to tell me that I would be getting $791 for my return in the next 4 weeks. I was thinking, Hallelujah! I can sell my keyboard for $700 and then put it together with this and get a couple hundered more and BAM! CP300!
I looked online that weekend and saw a CP33 which is the edition right under for $780 on ebay. I was kinda bummed. I was thinking, If only the money was here right now, I could have bought this board, but it will be too late in 4 weeks!! Then, I remembered God and confessed to Him, No, I trust you, you know what I want, Love.
A week later, I received the tax papers that I had to sign to get the process started. The cover letter on top of the thick packet of papers said, Your refund amount will be paid in the amount of $1,816.00 and it will be processed and given to you in the next 4 weeks after you sign the appropriate forms. I was completely beside myself! That was more than doubled the amount that they told me. I signed the forms and put it in the mail the next day. What was God up to? I felt that familiar feeling of Him taking the reins.
The next day, Rebecca, (who's mom is my tax lady) flew in for my birthday! I told her about the amount and she said it seemed like a type-o and that we would call her mom the next morning to fix it. The next morning, I woke up early and decided to check my bank account. Well, to my shocking surprise, $1, 816.00 was deposited into my account!!!! This didn't make sense. It was only 2 days after I sent the return. The stamped envelope had to hit California and get processed first! God did something! I was ecstatic! I had to go to the bathroom and wash my face and cool off, and I remember thinking, God! What is this? Suddenly, I heard Him in my heart say in my heart, Because you've been faithful. I remember feeling a violent disagreement with this statement in heart. But then I remembered, By the word of the Lord were the heavens and earth made and I will receive His word over me....
I looked online and around at different stores and was somewhat discouraged. This Yamaha CP300 that I wanted cost $2, 199.00. I kept telling the Lord that I know that He is the Author and Finisher and that He won't start something without finishing it. The next day, I looked on ebay and I found a reboxed brand new with factory waranty Yamaha CP300 for $1850.00. My parents gave me a check for $50 for my birthday and I already had $200 in my bank prior to so I used that to in order to pay tithes, so it all totaled out to having a little more than $1850.00!!
I cannot believe that my CP300 that was just a dream a few weeks ago is sitting in my very bedroom! That keyboard a thing of beauty, not just because of aesthetics, but because of the beauty of God in His faithfulness speaking faithfulness over me, wretched and broken, me.
Sidenote: I have this thing about green, right? It's truly my favorite out of existing colors in the world. Thus my guitar's name is Baby Jade--the precious green glass..and so the name for the CP300...Lady Emerald. Because, she is royalty and I feel like a pauper in her presence. I'll take a picture for you guys. Ps. Emerie for short when we're just kickin it girlfriends, oldschool.
Moral of my story:
If you bring the Lord your love with ALL your heart, soul, mind and strength- or atleast posture your heart to do so, you will ask for wonders AND GET THEM! :)
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