Recently our dryer quit, and as a family of 5; with one spitting up on all my and her clothes, laundry can’t wait in this household.I felt the urgency to fix this problem ASAP because I was soon annoyed at the inconvenience of loading loads of laundry to my parents every other day.One morning I was praying,” do we buy new or used God?” My search on Facebook Marketplace was coming up empty… and I wasn’t wanting to splurge on new. I pressed in, new or used, new or used…. and God gave me a completely different answer.The answer to WAIT.
WAIT, and you’ll be given one. 

Taken back, as it seemed little impossible and crazy, but know how to pray, I held God to His word and began praying that exact specific thing.Friday evening we went out to the stores to shop for a dryer and see what deals we could find on possibly a new set.

When we came home empty handed I looked at Branden and said,

“I think I need to tell you something God shared with me. But I don’t know if I want to tell you.”

I then went on to tell him I’ve been praying a very specific prayer the last several days…. but I didn’t divulge what that was as fear that someone would be in on what God was up to felt like opening my heart in vulnerability only to be misunderstood. If I kept it just between God and I, the let down would be easier to take incase there was a chance I didn’t hear God right.

Later that evening I surrendered and shared with him my specific prayer and he kind of chuckled…. but knowing that’s usually how my prayers unfold he wasn’t surprised.

About an hour later we were in bed and I checked my phone to see a Facebook message… I began scanning, line by line I start smiling, I look up at Branden and say, well you’re not going to believe it, but someone wants to give us a washer and dryer.

The look. I’ll never forget his look as asks me if I’m lying to him an joking around.

It was no joke as I quickly turned my phone over and showed him the message.

Last night I was overcome with emotion, how uniquely intimate and intertwined God is and wants to be in every detail of our lives… even our broken dryers.

This morning I got up early, to be with the Lord and thank him for his crazy provision, but to ask why, why he wanted to work this way when it wasn’t as if we couldn’t afford it.

I don’t know all the answers, I think I’ll be digging into the layers of this story for awhile, but a few pearls came from how he provided.

There was a season we couldn’t afford anything, where buying a few groceries would give me anxiety or I’d lay awake crying how’d we pay rent. And without fail I saw God faithfully and ALWAYS provide. He used His people to tenderly love us.

For this season, where I could rely easily on our own provisions, I believe God wanted to remind me, to pray and seek How he would want to provide for us. That he is the ultimate provider… that I’m not to rely on my own strength, my own abilities even when it’s possible too.

I also find it not coincidental, that this happened the end of our 21 days of prayer. Every morning I prayed James 1:6-7

“ Ask boldly believing without a second thought….“

And in that, God gave me a specific prayer that ONLY HE could answer.

It’s as if He was breathing fresh wind of faith into my sails… this is just the beginning of watching God unfold Bold prayers into answered prayers.

Would I simply surrender yes, obey a silly command to pray for a dryer to fall from Heaven and watch Him provide?

I debated whether to share this story, but I felt led to share, to impart encouragement upon hearts that feel weary or wondering if God would hear pleas from Heaven.

I don’t know How God will use this crazy story— may it be ALL for His Glory.

He’s in the details of my life and of yours, like washing and drying our family’s clothes. He just wants to be invited in, invited into the greatest of hearts cries down to the smallest of cares of the world.

May we have a heart to say yes.