It may be one of the biggest prayers I have ever prayed.
Emmi greeted us like every other morning, with her big smile and “WonGen Kafe’, sawasdee khah!”
Mandi and I set our things down on the giant gray couch near the back. Emmi was writing an email, and looking serious. After a bit, she turned her MacBook towards me and said, “You can read this.”
It was an update to one of her fellow YWAMers. It boiled down to this:
in the past 7 days, Emmi had heard 3 very unlikely people suggest that she should buy the building that houses her Kafe’. It seemed the logical conclusion to them, that rather than worrying about rent every month, her financial burden would be much less if she owned the building. She was resistant at first, but in timid honesty, Emmi thinks God wants her to buy it.
I sat next to her quietly. Even only knowing Emmi for a few short weeks, I sensed that her serious demeanor in this moment contrasted sharply with her usual wide, spunky grin. She had my full attention.
She asked me to pray about it, so I did. Right there.
And I asked God to provide Emmi with what she needed to make this place, the coffee shop, and the rented rooms upstairs, hers.
10 million baht.
Don’t let the conversion rate downplay that. That’s over $330,000–enough, at least in Kansas, for a very very nice home.
As I prayed, tears streamed down Emmi’s face. She knows this is huge. I know this is huge.
But I also know that God is bigger. He has promised us “exceedingly more than we could ask or imagine.” Or as I’ve taken to saying lately, “God loves to throw surprise parties.” For those of you who know my life especially well, you know that has been true for me!
So pray with me. Right now. I think God wants to throw Emmi one heck of a party, and we, at least, already have a suitable venue.
-Katie
