"God knows your needs before you even ask Him."





.......EXACTLY what I needed to hear today.


Our chapel service was one of our professors sharing his testimony, and he kept saying that sentence over & over in his message and I thought about how much I needed that today. It really touched my heart and it made me think of an opportunity I had a couple years ago to bring food and water and blankets and a bed to this lady, Anne, in TN. We were on our school's mission trip to Johnson City, TN and one day my leader came up to me because he said that the a lady in the church we were staying in had ran across this lady, Anne, who was formerly homeless but had finally landed an open spot in the government housing project in the town and had some boxes she needed moved to her new "apartment". She had spent all her money to rent out a storage unit (that later I found out she ended up sleeping in for quite some time) to put all her belongings in it to keep them preserved. I told my leader I'd go with this lady and meet Anne, move her boxes, and then come back. Well, I went to meet Anne and honestly, God kept telling me over and over and over that I needed to take all my stuff (now granted, I'm on a school mission trip so I have an air mattress, some pillows, my blankets, clothes, etc. all of this being stuff I brought from home, and the day I met Anne was the 3rd out of 7 days...) and go back to her unit and give it to her. I had no idea how this was going to happen, because this wasn't even a part of the projects we were assigned to do and I just happened to go and help move boxes and it wasn't really something I thought I'd get to go back to.....well the day that I helped Anne move those boxes in there was a 25-30 minute time period where it was only Anne and I at her unit and the lady from the church went to get the rest of her stuff. (She only had 6 boxes in all. no food. no water. 1 cup. 1 plate. no silverware. no bed. no blankets. no pillow. a bookshelf. a box of sewing supplies. a few pairs of socks. 3 shirts. 2 pairs of pants. no shorts or anything for the summer heat.) During those 30 minutes my heart completely broke for this lady. She was in her 50's and had no family because her husband abused her and her 3 children so she left and was homeless with 3 kids, 2 suitcases and no vehicle for several years....later she eventually got a job at a fast food place and did a few other things and eventually ended up leaving her 3 children at a homeless shelter and never seeing or talking to them again....she was an incredibly broken person, but so greatful. All she kept telling me was that I was an angel because I made her smile and she hadn't smiled in years....well I could not get her out of my mind or our conversation--during which she mentioned wanting blue curtains, because she for some reason always liked curtains--and so I ended up going and asking my leader if there was any way I could get back to Anne's for just 10 minutes, because I wanted to bring her my stuff. He said he could arrange that, so I aksed if we could go buy some curtains for her at WalMart...well a couple nights later I got the chance to see Anne again and we talked for a very long time and she took my pillows and blankets and bedding and curtains and a few other things I gave her and was just so overwhelmed because she said in all her life she would want to give up, so she'd pray, and everytime God brought her an angel and I was able to give her a hug when I left and she told me she hadn't hugged ANYONE in 35+ years......and not any of this to say that I did something, but it's to say that when God is probing on our hearts to do something, He knew Anne needed all of those things, and before she even had to ask, He was working and moving me to give, so HE KNOWS OUR NEEDS BEFORE WE EVEN ASK.