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Answered ISSUE #41
By:Chris Govekar

Meditation

Isaiah 65:24-Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear."



Paul Harvey tells a story of a man named Jack Wurm, who found himself walking on a beach in San Francisco, California one chilly day in March, 1949. Jack was 55, broke and down on his luck. His restaurant business had just gone bankrupt and he was jobless, penniless and totally without hope. He was walking that beach in San Francisco, praying for a miracle, asking God to help him out of his horrible situation when he came across a bottle with a note inside.

When he picked up the bottle and opened it up, the note he found inside read, "To avoid all confusion, I leave my entire estate to the lucky person who finds this bottle and to my attorney, Barry Cohen, share and share alike." The note was signed by Daisy Alexander and dated June 20, 1937. When Jack looked into the writer of the note, he found that she'd died in London in 1939, the eccentric heiress to most of the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Even more amazingly, this "last will and testament" which Daisy had sealed in a bottle and tossed into the Thames River in 1937 held up in court and Jack suddenly found himself the recipient of almost $6 million in inheritance. (Paul Harvey, Destiny)

I'm sure that when he decided to walk on the beach that cold March morning, Jack had faith, however small, that God would answer his prayer, but not only did God have a plan, He had a plan He'd put in motion twelve years earlier to take care of a need Jack could never have known he'd have at just that time. We pray, often thinking that God CAN answer our prayers. Sometimes we pray believing that God WILL answer our prayers. How often, though do we pray believing the answer is already on its way, even before we think to ask?
Next time you feel tempted to give up on God and skip asking him to meet your needs, think of Jack and God's promise to Isaiah to answer our prayer even before we demonstrate the faith to ask. We serve a mighty God - before we ask, He's already answering!


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