Welcome to my new series HIStories & Miracles which GOD had put it on my heart to start posting my testimonies of the miraculous. I decided to kick it off with one of my ALL-TIME favorite witnessing’s of the POWER OF GOD: Let my true testimony inspire and motivate you of the LIVING GOD. My son was young, he and I had to run out for a late lunch at a nearby restaurant and the waitress we had was friendly. She told us she had a son Ethan’s age. I asked her how many kids she had, and she said four. I said, “Wow how do you do it?” “The Lord,” was her immediate reply. And I agreed, “Yeah that is how I do it too.”
She started to tell me that she had just moved from Georgia and that her husband had really hurt her physically and she had to get out with her kids. She said she had been recovering from cancer as well. She said her grandmother and uncle recently passed away and that was the last family she knew in the area. I asked her, “So you are a single parent?” I enquired if she had found a church to go to and she replied, “No, but I am looking for one.” I suggested that she come to my church, and I told her about my church. She said she might want to come to my church. Then I asked her if she needed anything and she said she needed beds because she and her four children were sleeping on a full bed together or on blankets on the floor because they only had one bed among them. I told her I was sure we could help her. I took her name and phone number. She said they also had nothing—they came to the area with nothing.
That very same afternoon I kept thinking—I need beds—where can I get beds? I thought to myself new beds are expensive and used bed mattresses are sometimes not so good, and she has four kids.
I went to a juvenile center ministry meeting that night and afterwards I decided to take a long way home and I was talking to God in the car about this situation with needing the beds. A friend of mine’s son had gone to church camp with my son the year before and I wanted to find out if he wanted to go to camp again. Their phone number had changed, and I did not have the new number. So, I decided to stop by their house while I was near it.
I stopped by my friend’s house, and she came to the door, and we talked a little about camp, and then she said the most extraordinary thing: she asked me if I needed beds? Surprised I said, “What?” She repeated, “Do you need any beds?” I replied, “Are you kidding?” She answered, “No I have a bunch of beds I want to get rid of.”
So, I told my friend about the lady I met earlier that same day and her needs. She and her mom, who was also there, were amazed. She told me that she had a bunk bed with a full-size mattress on the bottom and a twin mattress on top. The second bed she had gotten brand new from someone was a twin bunk bed. I offered to pay her for the beds, but she said she wanted them to go to someone who really needed them. There were exactly enough beds for four kids. Soon after our conversation, I hopped in my car—pretty stunned—and drove back to the restaurant where I met this woman. She saw me come into the restaurant and she remembered me. I told her I had beds for her and told her the story as she was so amazed, and we agreed that this was a miracle from God. She said she was really relying on God to carry her.
I was so stunned by this event, that around 3:30 p.m. this woman I have never met before tells me she desperately needs beds. I then visited a friend randomly by 8 p.m. who has beds to give away on the same day and there are enough beds for four kids—exactly what they needed.
WAIT–THERE’S MORE: when I started telling people this miracle people started to donate all kinds of things like food, clothes, furniture to this family and we filled their empty apartment up…
