Ever feel God has a sense of humor when answering some prayers?

[c_scherer123]

Do you occasionally get the feeling that God has a sense of humor when answering some prayers?

I can recall a few prayers (and their answers) that still bring a grin to my face.

Some background first, I live in a tiny town with 2 traffic lights, the nearest 3rd traffic light is over 2 hours at highway speed. We have at least 8 churches and a very small percentage that actually goes to church. Our church has an average 25-30 attendance rate (3rd highest in the town) and 2-4 children (only 2 families had children).
I had recently been asked if I could do some sunday school crafts while the teacher was away. Crafts for 2-4 kids between the ages of 2-5? Sure, I would give it a shot. I set up the room for painting. 3 minutes before the service started, neither family had shown up. I gave God a short prayer, something along the lines of, "God, please bring me some kids".
I am positive God has a sense of humor in some circumstances - this being one of them. In the next 2 minutes 19 kids walked into church. The last time the church had 19 kids was 8 years ago when several large families had a baptism on the same day.
Luckily I had enough papers, brushes, and plates to go around.

I still laugh and remember the phrase "Be careful what you ask for, you might just get it!"


Another occasion, when I was a much newer member, I was sitting near the back before service started. I remember asking God if there was something I could do to help out (small church, many were elderly). Imagine my surprise in the next 6 seconds to feel a tap on my shoulder, look up, and hear an older lady ask if I could work the music projector because she was helping with the collection. Of course I agreed. I know God usually takes time answering prayers, often letting us see the progress from the point of prayer to the point of it being fully answered. I find it humorous that He wasted no time in giving me a small, easy, and fun task when I asked if I could help.

Anyone else have any stories about receiving answers to prayers that seemed pretty humorous?

 

[Strypes]

Anyone else have any stories about receiving answers to prayers that seemed pretty humorous?

God is totally awesome and yes He can be very funny...

A friend recently went through a trying time financially and I posted my story to her facebook page to encourage her. I am just going to copy and paste it here.

Several years ago, I was on the verge of loosing my home too. (Fall of 2005). Back when my 1990 cougar was on life support, six months or so unemployed from loosing my job at Rich's, and my church, my family, and my friends turned away. I was about to loose my home and have to walk away from every material possession I had.

The Lot rent was three months past due (My home was already paid off so I no longer had a mortgage) and the Sheriff was to post the "vacate premises" warrant any day.

I had been considering my options. I would send Sandy (she was 12 at the time) to live with her father/my ex-husband and I would be homeless on the streets of Atlanta with only the belongings that the cougar could hold.

So my concern was "what to pack?". The only thing I wanted was my china.. but what would a homeless woman need with fancy dishes?

I had not packed a single thing.

I was praying one day and asking for direction when in my spirit God spoke and told me to paint the ceiling in my living room. It was yellow from years of nicotine stains. And yes it did need paint.. But I didn't have any paint. That evening a neighbor came over with a five gallon bucket half full of ceiling paint. He said he didn't know why but maybe I could use it. (Oh we know who sent him!)

So I am standing in my living room with paint but no means to apply it! So I told God, " ok, Jehovah Jirah, I need a paint brush"

A few hours later I was in my kitchen and opened a drawer to get something else out and there it was .. a two inch pastry brush still in its wrapper..

So over the course of the next week or so .. I painted the ceiling in my living room with a two inch brush!!

To the world that would be totally crazy.. you are about to loose your home and you paint the ceiling instead of packing?

The song in my heart during that time was "Blessed be the Name" And the day the sheriff posted the warrant on my door I had been to a Job interview and came home to find it on my front door. When I removed it to be able to read what it said, the lyric "you give and take away ...I will CHOOSE to say, "Lord blessed be your Name!"

Well, the carbon copy of the warrant was hard to read. I could not determine exactly how long I had (it was 24 hours) so I went to the property managers office to get clarification.

While I was there, my Sunday school teacher, Allen Green, came in and my class had raised the money to save my house. (Glory to God).

So I didn't ever need to pack anything.. but My house did need an "extreme makeover mobile home edition" from years of neglect. Painting the ceiling was just the beginning. I think God was helping me make it through by giving me something to do and I had to be obedient to his instructions. Trusting HIS spirit and praising Him!

I hope that my testimony of near homelessness will encourage you to seek God's wisdom and direction and be open to thinking "out of the box" ...