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A KITTEN FROM HEAVEN
Whoever said the Creator doesn't have a sense of humor?
Dwight Nelson recently told a story about the pastor of his church.
He had
a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard
and then was afraid to come
down.
The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.
The kitty would not come down.
The tree was not sturdy enough to climb,
so the pastor decided that if he tied a
rope to his car
and drove away so that the tree bent down,
he could then reach
up and get the kitten.
He did all this, checking his progress in the car frequently,
then figured if he
went just a little bit further,
the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to
reach the kitten.
But as he moved a little further forward, the rope broke.
The
tree went "boing!"
and the kitten instantly sailed through the air---out of
sight.
The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood
asking people if
they'd seen a little kitten.
No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten.
So he prayed,
"Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping,"
and went on about his
business.
A few days later he was at the grocery store,
and met one of his
church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart
and was amazed to see
cat food. Now this woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it,
so he asked her,
"Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?"
She replied, "You won't believe this,"
and told him how her little girl had been
begging her for a cat,
but she kept refusing. Then a few days before, the child
had begged again,
so the Mom finally told her little girl, "Well if God gives
you a cat, I'll let you keep it."
She told the pastor, "I watched my child go
out in the yard, get on her knees,
and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor,
you won't believe this,
but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came
flying out of the blue sky,
with its paws outspread, and landed right in front
of her."
This story shows us that God answers prayer,
and that sometimes when it looks like we failed,
doing what we think is right.
God has another plan better than ours.
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Psalm
143:1 A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD,
give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me,
and in thy righteousness.
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always
with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Philipians 4:6 Be careful for
nothing; but in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Have a blessed
day!
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