THE EVERYDAY MIRACLE OF PROVISION: WHEN GOD GETS INTO THE DETAILS
There is something extraordinary about a God who notices the smallest details of our lives. Not just the big emergencies, the major heartbreaks, or the life-altering seasons—but the tiny, everyday needs we whisper under our breath and hope He heard.
For years, I believed in miracles for healing, protection, and spiritual breakthroughs. But it took time, testing, and real-life walking with God to learn that He also delights in meeting our daily needs in personal, unexpected, deeply specific ways. Provision is not just financial. Provision is emotional, relational, practical, spiritual—whatever you need in the moment where only God can fill the gap.
What I have learned—even through the hardest seasons—is that God’s provision is never general. It is never vague. It is never random. It is intentional. Precise. Tailored. And often arrives in the exact moment you need it most.
I discovered this through a black Samsonite suitcase.
A suitcase that, to someone else, might have seemed ordinary. But to me, it was proof that God hears even the quietest prayers. Proof that He sees when we feel overwhelmed. Proof that He attends to details we think are too small to bring before Him.
Before I ever married Steven, before Limitless Church, before this beautiful new season of life, Madison and I planned a dream trip to Paris, France and London, England. For a single mom, travelling internationally after surviving breast cancer was a big deal. I had fought my way through sickness, exhaustion, emotional trauma, and rebuilding life from the ground up. And although I was healed, my upper body strength was not the same.
Dragging heavy luggage through airports, train stations, and cobblestone streets was not an option.
I needed a suitcase that would glide effortlessly. Something lightweight. Something durable. Something that wouldn’t require the strength I simply didn’t have after cancer.
But I also didn’t have the finances to just go out and buy the high-quality suitcase I truly needed.
So I prayed.
And I didn’t pray a general prayer. I prayed in detail.
“Lord, I need a black Samsonite suitcase with expandable zippers, a handle that extends easily, and wheels that spin all the way around. I need it to roll smoothly because my arms can’t fight with it. I am asking You to bring it.”
It wasn’t dramatic or emotional. It was simple. Honest. Specific. Just a daughter asking her Father for what she needed.
Matthew 6:26 says, “Look at the birds of the air… Are you not much more valuable than they?”
If He feeds birds, He could certainly bring a suitcase.
And He did.
At the time, I was working at a Christian thrift store—a season of healing God used to restore my confidence and joy. On the same day I prayed specifically for God to bring me a black Samsonite suitcase (and I had shared it with my volunteers in our morning devotional meeting)….someone donated a black Samsonite suitcase that afternoon. When I saw it, something inside me knew. It had every single feature I had prayed for—the exact brand, shape, wheels, zippers, and handle.
It was my exact prayer in physical form.
I bought it immediately. I thanked God right there for answered prayers. It felt like a kiss from Heaven—a reminder that God was watching over me in ways I couldn’t see.
But then something surprising happened.
Someone called the store saying they had donated the suitcase by mistake. They wanted it back.
I paused. I knew what God had done. I prayed that suitcase in. I stood in faith for it. And now someone wanted it reversed.
But God had already gone ahead of me.
I called the person back, after my assistant gave me the message. They arranged that they would come to the store and meet me in the morning to get their suitcase back. That next morning, I explained that I had prayed specifically for a suitcase to take my daughter to Paris and London because I didn’t have the physical strength to carry or drag anything heavy. I told them it felt like a miracle.
And without hesitation, they agreed to let me borrow it. They said they wanted to be part of the miracle. They explained they didn’t need to use it for another three months when they had vacation booked.
They didn’t argue. They didn’t resist. God softened their heart the moment they heard the story.
So I took the suitcase—God’s miracle—and borrowed it for our trip. I rolled it through airports, through Paris streets, through London train stations. I didn’t struggle once. It moved so smoothly it was almost effortless. It was exactly what I prayed for.
When we returned home, I returned the suitcase. Grateful. Blessed. And confident that God had provided what I needed for that season.
But I still needed one of my own.
So once again, I prayed.
“Lord, thank You for providing for this trip. I now need a suitcase of my own.”
That very same day—around 3:00 p.m.—another suitcase arrived.
Except this time, it wasn’t used.
It was brand new. Tags still on. Never rolled. Never purchased. Never touched.
God didn’t just provide.
He exceeded.
He multiplied.
He upgraded.
And as I stood there looking at that brand-new suitcase, the Lord reminded me of a truth I’ve lived my entire life:
You cannot out-give God.
Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you… For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
What I gave in that season wasn’t money. It was faithfulness. It was serving others. It was loving people through ministry, through motherhood, through daily interactions, through joy, through tears, and through resilience.
God took everything I poured out—and returned it in ways I never expected.
A borrowed suitcase for one season.
A brand-new one for the next.
This is how God moves.
Provision is not always dramatic.
It is often quiet.
Personal.
Precise.
Practical.
And perfectly timed.
Philippians 4:19 says, “My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory.”
Not according to your strength.
Not according to your bank account.
Not according to your circumstances.
According to His riches.
That is why He could bring a suitcase across my path at the exact moment I prayed for it.
That is why He opened doors for me when life felt impossible.
That is why He healed me from cancer.
That is why He carried me through divorce.
That is why He sustained me as a single mom.
That is why He brought restoration to Madison.
That is why He brought Steven into my life.
That is why He built Limitless Church through our obedience.
Provision is not only about what God gives.
Provision is also about who He sends, what He strengthens, what He protects, and what He rebuilds.
Psalm 23:1 declares, “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.”
For years, I lived with deep emotional, financial, and spiritual lack. But I never went without God—not once. In every season, He provided something: strength, clarity, joy, hope, direction, tangible help, encouragement, relief, peace, community, and miracles in everyday form.
Sometimes provision comes as a breakthrough.
Sometimes it comes as a friend.
Sometimes it comes as a cheque.
Sometimes it comes as a word of encouragement.
Sometimes it comes as supernatural peace.
And sometimes it comes on four spinning wheels with a Samsonite logo.
The everyday miracle of provision teaches us to trust again. To hope again. To expect again. To believe again. To look for God not just in the big moments, but in the little ones that show up quietly.
Those small miracles prepare us for the larger ones.
They strengthen our faith to believe for healing, restoration, breakthrough, family miracles, and the next chapters God is writing in our lives.
The God who provided the suitcase is the same God who provides today. He has not changed. His heart has not changed. His generosity has not changed.
Ephesians 3:20 says He is able to do “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.”
And He does.
He always does.
Sometimes you just need to look closely to see it.
Today, take a moment to look back over your life. Look at the moments God showed up in ways that only He could. Look at the provision you didn’t recognize at the time. Look at the unexpected blessings, the perfectly timed answers, the resources that appeared out of nowhere, the encouragement you didn’t even know you needed.
Those are not coincidences.
Those are provisions.
Those are reminders.
Those are moments where God whispered, “I see you.”
And if He cared enough about me to bring a suitcase with the exact wheels I prayed for, He cares enough about the details of your life too.
Your needs matter.
Your prayers matter.
Your whispers matter.
Your heart matters.
You are seen.
You are valued.
You are loved.
You are remembered by the God of Heaven.
Because no matter what you give, no matter how you pour out, no matter how you serve—
You cannot out-give God.