Please read this wonderful story that was happened in Bulgaria. This is a wonderful story to ponder upon this Holy Sabbath day.

Stefka Mancheva linves in Bulgaria. Life for Stefka was never easy, but shortly after Communism fell in Bulagaria, her husband died. Inflation wracked the nation and ate up her meager pension until she could barely afford to buy food for herself and her son. She prayed that God would remember the widowed and the orphaned, that He would somehow meet their needs.
One Cold day she needed her scissors. She looked in the drawer, but they weren’t there. She emptied her purse of its contents, but couldn’t find the scissors. However, she noticed that the lining of the purse had been cut, and it felt as if something had slipped between the lining and the outer shell. She reached into the hole in the lining and pulled out some paper. It seemed to be money, but it wasn’t from Bulgaria.
She examined the money and realized that it was Italian Lira – 100,000 Italian lira. It wasn’t hers, for she had never been to Italy. But where could it have come from? God must have sent it in answer to my prayers, she thought. But why is it foreign money?
Stefka thanked God for the lira and placed it in a safe place. Then she went to the bank and asked the manager how much 100,000 Italian lira were worth. She waited, stiff with apprehension, as the bank manager punched some numbers into his calculator. Then he told her that 100,000 lira were worth about four months’ wages at the present rate of exchange. “But,” he added, “with inflation, the value should grow.”
Stefka thanked him and walked home, praising God. She had bought the purse in which she found the money four years earlier. The money had been there all that time. That meant that God had seen her need years before she even asked Him for help. And God had provided for her by sending foreign currency that wouldn’t be eaten up by inflation. How good you are, God! She praised Him in her heart. Before I even called on you. You answered my prayer.
Stefka saved the money, exchanging only what she needed to buy food and clothes for herself and her son. As inflation continued to climb, the lira became worth more and more. Eventually they were worth the equivalent of more than a year’s pension.
“I praise God for His faithfulness to me, a poor widow,” Stefka said. God provides all our needs according to His riches. As He has blessed us, let’s give abundantly to mission so that others can know the God who loves them and will never leave them.

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