Abundant Supplier

In the summer of 2007 Carla Etheridge (who is Lamplighter Ministries missionary in Uganda) was back here in the U.S. and she told her friend Ruth Lynn that she should learn to play the guitar and when she came to Uganda she could teach the Pastor there to play and leave the guitar with him. Ruth kind of laughed about it and didn't think about it very much after that. 

Then this February Ruth came to Auburn during a weekend when another ministry was using our church building for a conference. The conference was primarily Andy Glover speaking on the Father Heart of God. But Bob & Yvonne Gerhardt were also there doing smaller prophetic ministry times. And during the last one Yvonne called out Ruth and said she was going to have "beautiful melodies are going to come forth from her heart and she would share them with others" and that "it would astonish some and even you (Ruth)" and at the end she was told to "not try to figure it out but leave it in the Lord's hands and in time it will yield more and more fruit."

After that I told Ruth that Pastor Abi was selling a guitar that retailed for over 1,100 dollars for 400 and that it would be a very good investment for the money. Ruth's response was,"if God gives me a guitar maybe then I'll do this."

The next week I was in Columbus (GA) for a guitar lesson. Kevin (my guitar teacher) was asking how the previous week had been and I told him about the conference and also about the words Ruth had gotten from Carla and Yvonne.

Now a few weeks earlier he had mentioned that one of his students had left and he was talking about how the owner of the guitar is in the Army and he was stationed at Fort Benning and was taking lessons while he was in Columbus but was moved to Texas and left the guitar behind. Kevin was asking one of the guy's friends about the guitar and trying to get an address so he could ship it to him. But his friend's response was, "if he left it here he probably wants you to keep it." So Kevin called the guy who owned the guitar to ask if he still wanted the guitar and he said he did not.

And after all of that Kevin said he didn't need the guitar and he would be more that happy to give it to Ruth. So the second week in March we were driving to Mexico and on the way we stopped in Pensacola FL (where Ruth lives) and were able to give her the guitar which will be going to Uganda with her at the end of May.

But the coolest part about this story is that the guitar in manufactured by Dean Guitars. And I have never really been interested in Deans but since it was free and an answer to prayer I was just excited that it wasn't from Wal-Mart. But I find names and their meaning very fascinating and a few weeks after we had given Ruth the guitar I finally realized that there might be something prophetic about the name. So I looked up the name Dean and the definition was...

Abundant Supplier or

Prosperous One

This is an amazing testimony of how our Heavenly Father gives good gifts to those who diligently seek him. 

Matthew 7:11

Matthew 12:35