Day 9

Gabriela Kerr | Re:Hope West End

My husband and I have been praying for family members to know Jesus. This has included praying for a lot of boldness and opportunities, both of which God has provided. 

At the start of the year, I decided to join in to help with Alpha and thought I should use this opportunity to ask one of those family members to come with me. I cannot express enough how much I did not think this person would agree to come – not for any strongly negative reasons, more out of busyness. Much to my surprise, they did agree to come and had a great time joining Alpha. 

They’ve since come to church once and we’ve been able to have a few open conversations and I’m really amazed by how interested and open they are to God. I can completely see God moving in this situation and it’s the start of years of prayer which is so encouraging. So praise be to God that He hears us and He moves in his own time. Take this also as an encouragement to just ask and not be worried about how people will respond because God is involved.

Meta Campbell | Re:Hope West End

A while back I was on a red flag journey for possible cancers. I'd completed all my tests but the MRI. I got a phone call; the hospital had a very late cancellation appointment in 45mins… and so I set off on my way to the hospital for my MRI. I asked my BRT group to pray because buses were very unreliable.

The next two buses came up as cancelled. I got my husband to drive me to a bigger bus hub. I chatted to the bus driver sitting in an out of service bus and he told me no other buses were going anywhere near the hospital. That meant I was going to have to wait another 20 mins and I was running out of time. I decided to go to the Ormeau road to get better options.  

The bus driver I'd been chatting to (I'd told him I was going to a last minute MRI appointment) pumped his horn and called me back. He said, “Hop on and I'll take you over.” I cried the whole way over; amazed at God's miraculous provision.

It gets better! He got me there 30 mins early. When I got to reception they had forms to be filled in. I told them about my bus adventure. While filling in my form a lovely radiologist came out to say that an emergency had come in that would need my appointment slot. But, they had rung over to the cancer hospital and… they had a slot right away that would slip me in before their next appointment! If I'd just been on time for my appointment I'd have missed it!

I'm still buzzing with how awesomely God juggled all of this. This is now known as 'my bus story.’

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God cares about the details!  He’s numbered the stars and the hairs on your head.  Pray today for not just the outcome, but the miraculous ‘how’ of your 40 Days prayer.