The Little Prayers

HR has finally had enough of the cat neighbor, and she’s moving apartments.  It’s just to an apartment complex a block away, so it’s really not that big of a deal.  However, she got down to the last two pieces of furniture, which were a bed and a bookcase, and she realized that she had no way to move them in her little Honda Civic.

As she stood there pondering her predicament, she noticed that there were three pick-up trucks and a Suburban sitting outside her apartment.  Not for the first time, she rued having never taken the time to get to know her other neighbors better, so that she could ask for help.  She stood there staring at the Suburban, thinking that it would be perfect for moving her stuff.  So, she decided to do something that she never does…she prayed to God.  Specifically, she prayed that God would provide her some way to use that Suburban (this is a perfect lesson with prayer, always pray for what you want…be specific and don’t hold back…you have nothing to lose in the asking).

Less than one minute later, one of her neighbors walks out of his apartment, sees her with a car full of boxes, and asks if she’s moving.  They get into a conversation about where she’s going, and she jokingly tells him about the bed and bookcase and her prayer to use that Suburban.  He looks at the Suburban, then back at her, and says, “That’s my Suburban.”

It was at that moment, that God had floored HR.  He had heard her prayer and answered almost instantaneously.  There is no coincidence to something like that.  It is supernatural.  Only God could do something so amazing and specific.  But the story doesn’t end there.

The neighbor said, “But it would take two trips in that, why don’t we just use my pick-up truck right here?  Let me grab my keys.”  He proceeded to help her load the furniture into his truck, drove it over to her new apartment, and then unload it.  He asked her how she and her partner were planning to get it up to the third floor.  Not wanting to impose on him further, HR told him that they’d manage somehow.  To which the neighbor replied, “I worked for a moving company one summer, I got this.”  And he hoisted the furniture up by himself and muscled it up the stairs.

You see, God doesn’t just give you what you want.  He gives you what you need.  HR may have wanted the Suburban, but God provided her a truck instead, so that she could make less trips.  And she never dreamed of having assistance to get it up to her apartment, but God gave her that too.  Never be afraid to pray the little prayers, and never doubt that God is listening.