February 3 - Latoya

Day thirty-four was AMAZING!!

Two things to know before I tell you what happened.

1. Judge me if you must, I buy my plates & bowls at the Dollar Tree. I literally don't even care what you think because when my kids break a dish I feel nothing.

2. Eleven years ago, two different doctors told me that I would never be able to have children without IVF or adoption. I prayed for healing and God healed me. Two weeks after the second doctor's diagnosis, I was pregnant with my oldest daughter.

Today, when I left my house in search of someone to pray for I felt the Lord ask me to go to the Dollar Tree. I thought "I don't need anything at Dollar Tree. Maybe I'll just go to Kroger." God said "DOLLAR TREE!" I thought to myself "I don't need anything at Dollar Tree. Maybe I'll just go to Walgreens." God said "DOLLAR TREE!!" I thought "ok ok, Dollar Tree. I guess I could replace those bowls that the kids have broken." God said "Yes. Go to the bowl isle and pray for whoever is in that isle."

Sidenote: God does not speak to me in an audible voice. I totally credited myself for these thoughts. I thought it was my idea to pray for whoever I found in the bowl isle. lol just keep reading.

I get to the isle with all of the Dollar Tree dishes and they had one single bowl that looked like mine. It was cracked. So out loud I said "Really?? The only one here is cracked!" and a woman leaned over to me and said "If you go to the Dollar Tree down the street, they have more of those." I thanked her and said "Can I ask you a crazy question?" (that's my opener) I told her that I had set a goal to pray for one stranger each day and asked if I could pray for her.

She was so excited, she told me her name was Latoya and that she has been trying to have a baby so she'd like me to pray about that. I began to pray and thank God that he had already made her a mother. I asked him to bless her womb and to fill her quiver. (Psalm 127:3-5) I thanked Him for the legacy of spiritual warriors that she would raise."

When I finished praying I told her my story about my miracle babies and how I believed it was God who healed me through my own prayers.

Here's the crazy part.

She said "I'm a pastor's wife. I came into this store not knowing what I was looking for. I think I came here because you were sent to pray for me!" I said "No way!! I think God sent me here and told me to go to the bowl isle and pray for whoever was in this isle with me!" She put down the plate she was looking at and said "I guess I'm going to leave, I think I got what I came here for."

WHHHAAAAAAATTTTT?!?!?!?!?!? Dead serious y'all, this stuff never happens to me. Highly probable that it never happens to me because I have never previously stepped out and actually been a doer of the word instead of just a hearer. Life changing experience today. Just wow.

"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! Psalm 127:3-5