proof that Jesus can work through coffee…
So recently the prayer on my heart has been to continue to find a deeper intimacy with the Lord. The kind that I had on the race, but that now feels impossible to reach. So I told myself I was gonna go to Starbucks and I was gonna reach that intimacy again. That I was gonna have the best freaking quite time I’ve ever had… hahah jokes on me.
On my way there I passed by the woman who has sat and begged for money at the same stoplight for what seems like my whole life. My heart broke for her as soon as I saw her, but I promised the Lord I was gonna go have the best quiet time ever so I ignored that initial feeling I had. Then as I sat down with my coffee I opened up my bible and was reading, but the only thought in my head was the woman at the light. So I looked up from my bible and there she was walking right in front of me by the window to the 7/11 next door. I immediately knew this was a sign that this time I set apart was not for me, but it was for me to go be with her. So I packed up all my stuff and went and bought her breakfast. We talked a little and laughed a little, I finally got a name to that face that I had seen all these years, but never really known, and I felt closer to the Father than I have in quite a while.
When she left to go back to her spot and I hoped back in my car, I clearly felt the Lord say “you gain intimacy with me by knowing my people.” It’s not about how many verses I read or how many pages of prayers I write down everyday… he wants us to know his creation and to serve it the way he would.
A few weeks later I went back to Starbucks to work on my application for Agape Home (details on that coming soon…) and an older man sat down next to me and began talking with me about my ministry. He asked questions, he encouraged me, and then before he left he wrote his email on a slip of paper and told me to email him when I started to fundraise again. He was a pastor at a church in Staunton but lived in Richmond so he drove 2 hours back and fourth every Sunday and just happened to find me along the way.
After he left, I finished what I was working on and then the girl on the other side of me said she overheard me talking with him and felt like the Lord was telling her to pray for me. She prayed many things over my life, but the one thing she prayed over me that stuck out the most, was that I would find a deeper intimacy with the Lord. I didn’t have to tell her that, that was the prayer on my heart because the holy spirit had already revealed that to her. We talked and laughed and exchanged numbers so we could continue to encourage and support each other on this sweet journey with Jesus.
The Lord fulfilled that prayer I had been desperately grasping for, so quickly, and in the most crazy, unexpected, and beautiful ways he possibly could’ve. We serve an incredibly faithful and kind Father.
(also y’all should probably go to Starbucks in the near future)
