Answered Prayer

The picture you see is of a precious girl from church, Fatima. She was so happy yesterday at church when she told me of the answers to prayer she's been getting. Without going into much detail, Fatima has not had a very easy life. She is 17 and in the last month or so has suddenly needed to move out of her mother's home. She wants to go to college to become a fashion designer. However she doesn't have supportive parents or really any means to accomplish this. But we've been praying and praying and within the last two weeks, the Lord has provided a place for her to live, a job at JoAnn Fabrics (which is the type of store she wanted to work at), and her own phone. The thought of having to grow up all of a sudden and become self-sufficient can be daunting. But as Fatima is seeing first-hand, we truly cannot be self-sufficient...God's grace is what suffices and it is through the power of prayer that He makes His grace evident.

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. - 1 John 5:14

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
-Matthew 5:7-11

Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. - Psalm 37:4

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. -Psalm 84:11