Monday, August 5, 2013
The faithfulness Of
God and Tomatoes :o)
When I first met my
husband I remember telling him about the Lord and how important He is to me.
One thing in particular was prayer. I encouraged him to pray often, and that we
didn’t need to be in a church to pray or a closet, though those times are
sweet, but we can pray anywhere and at any time standing, sitting, eyes open or
closed, and that God loves it when we take the time to speak with Him. Just
like a friend, we don’t just speak to them when we are in a complete crisis,
though that is ALWAYS a good time to call upon the Lord, but we can ask God for
small things, like,……..to do well on a test, not let your horse jump when you
are trying to get on, for a cake to come out right, no prayer is too small. I remember
after I told this him, and he came home from work one day and told me about a
prayer he prayed, he was a farm hand, and some big wigs were there to look at
the race horses on the farm, and it was his job to open the gate, and he couldn’t
get the gate unlocked, and he prayed, and sure enough God had the gate open, he
thought it was very “kool”! And when I tell people about the Lord I love
sharing with them about prayer, that it doesn’t have to be long and formal,
though those prayers are precious too and we want to give time in prayer daily,
but we can also pray throughout our day. SOOoooooooooooooo the other day I
prayed for tomatoes, really! It is a long story but for the past two summers I
have not had a tomato garden, so this was my year! On April 22, for my birthday
my husband asked what I wanted and all I wanted was tomato plants! So he bought
me several, and we planted them and then,……………..the late freeze, I thought for
sure they were lost. I prayed over them, really I did. They made it, but they
are just not quite right, perhaps the early planting and the near death freeze.
Oh I have gotten some small tomatoes, but not many and right now there aren’t
even many new ones. I was heartbroken,…………….Ok so you get the idea I enjoy my
tomatoes :o) perhaps heartbroken is a bit drastic, but I was bummed to say the
least. So I was going to post on Friday, that if anyone brought me some tomatoes
I would give them a free dessert, but then I thought, maybe I would get too
many tomatoes and then what. So I just prayed for tomatoes. And that afternoon
I got a private message on facebook from
a friend who I had yet to meet, she said her and her husband were coming to the
restaurant this evening for the first time, and would I like them to bring me
some home grown insecticide-free tomatoes? Now first of all I almost never get
on facebook that late in the day because I am busy with the restaurant, and
never has someone I never met asked if they could bring me tomatoes, I mean
really, how precious is God, how faithful, how good??!!! That He would answer
such a small prayer! That what matters to us, matters to Him! God really is so
good, and He really does love it when we speak to Him. You know I heard a
Preacher once say that often we pray so vague, that we wouldn’t know if God
answered our prayers or not, like bless this one and bless that one, what does
that mean and if he did “bless” them how would we know if we didn’t ask for a specific
blessing? Well it really encouraged me to be specific, God bless their marriage
or their youngest daughter to walk with the Lord, or a house with a stone fire place,
you get the idea, specifics, I think God likes that so you will know without a
doubt, that God answered your prayer. Even for tomatoes. And yes today yet
again, after church we came home to another basket of tomatoes, Thank you God
and thank you Dora and Artie!
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