The Real Need

Psalm 66:19-20
19 but God has surely listened
and has heard my prayer.
20 Praise be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or withheld his love from me!

She is, a mother, a wife, a teacher. She came from Ecuador looking for hope for a life better than the one she left behind. She found a place that would pay her more than 100 dollars a month. She could now feed her family and make sure her 17 year old son had an education and an opportunity to make something of his life. Her husband works two jobs carpentry and newspaper delivery. They get up every morning at 2 am and both of them pack and deliver papers. "The newspapers don't close down they are open on holidays and every day of the week" she explained. She said where she came from people who were doctors could not find work they drove a taxi or worked as a janitor. This is the woman I have worked with for the last three days. In these last three days she has touched my heart so deeply. Why does she work with kids when she has a degree in business management? She told me how her mom (who passed away from breast cancer) was a teacher and how she loves working with children. She is working with the children to teach them Spanish and to work on her English now. However, there is more than just the surface of this amazing woman. She gives everything she has for her family. She does everything she can for her job. She lives with a lump in her breast that she will have to have removed. She prays it is not like the cancer that killed her mother.

I believe strongly that God will hear her prayer. Here is a woman who came from nothing to give her son a life he can have opportunity and make something of himself. She explained to me how her son was so fascinated people throw away so many things. Where she came from no one threw away anything. I never knew a more humble and giving person. She has nothing to give but herself and she gives all of herself to her family and to her job. She does ask for a lot. She doesn't even ask for healing in her body. She just has faith that God will take care of her.

I learned something in the last three days. I learned that God loves a heart that is humble and that doesn't beg. I learned that God wants us to try our best and give our all and just know that He will provide for us and take care of us. We need to realize that when the bible says to ask for something in the name of Jesus it doesn't mean "Dear Lord can I please have a Wii or a Xbox360" God wants us to only ask from faith and only believe what we "need" to happen.

So tonight as you say your prayers before hitting your head to the pillow think about my coworker from Ecuador. How much do we really have? What are you believing God for that you "need"? It could be for something like healing in your heart from hurt in the past. For God to bring you to a place where you can allow love to enter in your life again. Whatever you need believe it in Jesus name... have faith and you will not want. :)

John 14:14
Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!