“Call on me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalm 50:15 (NIV)
I may sound repetitious but I’ve had remarkable results this week in praying, “Jesus, I surrender this situation to you, take care of everything.”
Now that I have the legal papers as Jon’s permanent guardian, I brought them to the bank, assuming I would be given the right to pay Jon’s legal bills as well as other expenses from his account. I hit a roadblock when the bank informed me that the situation is more complicated than they first thought.
The only account my son had was established as a business account and they said that my guardianship doesn’t give me access to his business account. They said even if they closed the account the check would have to be made payable to the business name. They seemed to leave me in a stalemate situation.
I asked the banker how can this ever be resolved, since Jon is disabled and cannot speak or care for his own estate? Silvia, the banker said she felt bad but that it was out of her hands, since it’s what the legal department told her.
I had prayed before going to the bank that day, asking Jesus to take care of everything, so when I heard this answer, I said to the Lord in my mind, “Lord, please let your will be done and take care of everything.”
I felt peace thinking that God may have a better plan ahead, that I don’t yet understand. I continued thinking, if worse comes to worse, I will call my lawyer, and incur more legal fees, but hopefully will get this problem solved.
Just then, Silvia, the banker, said “Wait, I’m going to call our legal dept once more, maybe a different person in that department will have more insight and help to find a better solution.”
I thought, wow, it’s sure nice of Silvia to have so much compassion about trying to solve this problem. She was the one blessing I could see up to this point in the whole situation.
Silvia made the call and spoke to a totally different person in their legal department, who requested all the documents be sent for their review. Then that person forwarded everything to the head of their legal department, who is over all the bank branches. Silvia assured me that either she or someone will get back to me with an answer.
That evening I received a call from the bank, saying that they will be able to close the business account and open a new account with my name as his guardian.
After hanging up the phone I looked up and said, “Thank you Lord for taking care of everything.”
I thought of all the phone calls that were made, Silvia calling her legal department twice, and the legal department calling their legal expert over all the branches, and then the decision was finally made.
Of all the calls being made over this whole issue, the most important call of all, was the one I made to Jesus, before I ever went to the bank that day.
In times of trouble, our first call needs to be made to Jesus. I called Him, and He did deliver me, by working in the hearts and minds of every bank employee and person involved in the decision making.
I am learning what surrendering everything to Jesus is all about, and now I love the prayer, “Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything.” It’s a prayer that brings amazing results. Today, I praise and honor Him for taking care of everything.
Lord, you will always deliver us when we call on you first. Remind us to make our first call to you. We praise you and thank you for always being ready to hear our call and deliver us from all our troubles. Amen