While in Botswana I’ve been asking God to reveal three answers to me. So today when our teams got a chance to walk around a wildlife nature park in the area for prayer time, I was thrilled. Nature tends to clear my head so I can hear better!
Most of team Lego set out as a group but somewhere after walking for an hour some of us decided to venture off the beaten path to find the animals. And soon only two of us were left from our group. After following a family of zebras and spotting a warthog, my teammate and I decided we needed to head back for some quiet time with God.
I picked up my Bible, already knowing what chapter God had wanted me to read. I had the chapter of Acts in my head all morning and was positive that God was going to reveal some answers to me today! But after reading for quite awhile, I found nothing that had anything to do with my questions. As I got frustrated I started flipping through Acts and found the last page. (At the same time, my teammate was done reading what she was reading and was wondering what she should read next.) As I flipped back a page my eyes focused in a couple of sentences.
Here’s what I read:
Acts 27:33-34 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing. Therefore I urge you to take some food. It will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”
That teammate sitting next to me had been fasting and was ending her fast. Although she wanted a clear sign from God about the end of her fast, she was hearing nothing. As I read this, I instinctively hit her on the arm and said, “What day is this of your fast?” (I knew she had been fasting for around two weeks, but wasn’t sure of the days.) She looked at me and said, “Fourteen.” I couldn’t believe it! God was telling me what to read so that I could tell her. Acts wasn’t for my answers today, it was for hers! She had been so diligent about her fast and had wanted a sign from God that this was the final day of her fast and He gave it to her!
Isn’t God awesome?! God had already planned out that the two of us would be alone together reading our Bibles and that I would get frustrated and start flipping through the book. He was the one who made those sentences pop out for me. And honestly, if my teammate wasn’t next to me right then I wouldn’t have thought twice about that verse. God always comes through!
