In October 2024, the Lord told me to take a demotion from Full-Time Supervisor to Part-Time Cashier in order to make the transfer from Overland Park, Kansas, to Springfield, Missouri, possible.
A few months earlier, the Lord had started planting seeds that I needed to move to Springfield. So, I started looking at apartments. There was nothing that looked good. I prayed some more, and the Lord said, “I didn’t tell you to look for a one-bedroom. Search for two-bedroom units.” Immediately, the unit He had in mind popped up! It was a beautiful top-floor loft with brick walls, hardwood floors, a dog run, and an art gallery in the hallways.
Then, faith was required. The Lord told me to apply, pay the deposit, and give notice at my current apartment before I even applied for the transfer with Costco! I was sweating, but He had earned my trust.
I was two weeks from my moving date and still waiting on the call from the Springfield location about whether they would accept my transfer. Finally, I got the call. They said, “We can offer you a transfer, but all we have available is a Part-Time Cashier position.” The Lord immediately said, “Take it and trust Me.”
I trusted God in the demotion, hustled with the extra sales and promotions that Cashiers run, and got noticed through them. Within two months, I was promoted back to Full-Time Supervisor!
They promoted me on December 23, 2024. I already had a vacation planned from December 25 to January 11. Because I was promoted before my vacation, it was paid out at my Supervisor rate, even though I’d only been in the position for two days! God is SO GOOD!
With the Supervisor vacation pay AND the promotion, it was God showing off and proving to me again that being obedient, even if it is super hard, will always work out better than the alternative.
“Again” is the key word. In 2016, He paid off around $5,000 of debt in less than a month so I could leave for Malawi. In 2020, He walked me through paying off $34,000 in just over ten months. In 2022, He led me on another crazy faith journey when I transferred from Boise to Kalamazoo. That story is coming soon!
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