prayer

this is how i know God is good.
when even small prayers are answered.

money can seem so trivial to some, so crucial to others.
coming back from shopping on tuesday i found twenty dollars on the ground in the parking lot.
i felt a continual pulling in my heart about this. maybe i should have left it on the ground, or stuck it under the windshield wipers of the car in the next space over. i honestly felt bad.
i shoved it in my pocket, forgot about it. did laundry that night. last night i realized i didn't know where that bill had gone, checked my pockets. it had gone through the wash, but there it was.
i thought of all the things i needed it for. but God kept bringing me back to this stupid twenty dollar bill. why? i didn't know. what should i do with it?
immediately God put a friend struggling with money on my heart. give, he said.
ok. so i gave it to his roommate. "don't tell him it's from me."
two minutes go by. a text message.
"he is so thankful for the money. he said it was an answer to prayer" "he was praying for 20 dollars to pay for his ride home"
could i have known? no.
to Him be all the glory.
God knew. He heard his prayer and answered.

"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."
mark 11:22-25