A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Crack House: Answered Prayer
Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 01:33PM 
I have so many stories of God answering specific prayer, but I'll share a funny one. This happened maybe two and a half years ago, when my husband and I were still living in Nashville. Our car had been stolen and totaled, so we had a rental courtesy of our insurance company. One night, my husband picked up a man that he knew and the man's female friend. They had no transportation and my husband was trying to do a good deed. However, he was supposed to be on his way to meet some friends at a restaurant for fellowship.
He stopped at the restaurant to run in and let his friends know he had to drop off his passengers and that he would be back. He stayed inside a few minutes talking to his friends, and the male passenger came in to get him because the female was getting antsy. My husband panicked when he saw the man come in alone, because he had reason not to trust the woman, believing that both of his passengers were drug users. Well, needless to say, the car and the woman were gone when he exited the restaurant.
My husband spent all night in a borrowed car, with the male passenger, searching Nashville for the woman and our rental. He told me he had to help a friend, but refrained from telling me the car was gone until arriving home early in the morning, exhausted and discouraged. As he fell asleep, I began praying silently but incessantly for God to help us find the rental car. My husband had a trunk full of new suits from his clothing store in that car; also, I was afraid our insurance company would never believe that we had two cars stolen in one week.
My husband had slept for no more than two hours, when his nephew, then a student at Meharry School of Dentistry in Nashville, shows up at our front door after a night of driving back from a trip home to Richmond. His roommate had "company" back at his apartment, and he just wanted to sleep. My husband jumps out of bed, grabs his nephew, and these two sleep deprived men jump in the nephew's car to go look for our rental again. Meanwhile, I have not stopped pleading silently to God since my husband first came home.
Within less than an hour (I'm still praying), my husband and his nephew come home smiling and he tells me to look outside. I already knew what I would see. Yes, there was the shiny red rental car! They had spotted a strange man driving the car just two blocks from our house (nowhere near where it was stolen). They followed him (okay, chased him) until they were able to pull up and tell him to get out of our car. The man got scared, stopped, got out and ran. And that's not even the best part...
Not one thing, not even a penny out of the change we had left in the cup holder, was missing from that car. All the suits were still in the trunk. Now, if that's not God being God all by Himself, I'm a Swiss cheese sandwich. God is so good, and just repeating this one story makes me want to shout His praises again. Excuse me...
(Photograph by Neil Cummins)
(This story was originally posted in a discussion thread of the “Born Again Christians” group on facebook in December 2007.)
Reader Comments (6)
LOL! I l-o-v-e stories like this of God's working in answer to prayer! He is so awesome. Such faith boosters! Thank you for sharing this. Blessings to you...Lynn
Love that story Diane! God is good, actually awesome, all the time!
i love that story! I would be sharing my own funny story about how great is our God..
i will also make the post that I will send you for here next week (monday or wednesday)..
I've been trying my best to learn how to play the keyboard for the whole day and I am really tired now..
I am really excited to work for the book..
goodnight and God bless you more Diane!
Great story Diane! I love the description of your intercession and your analogy to the swiss cheese sandwich, that's funny stuff!
Thanks for sharing this great story, I enjoy reading about hope. He is good- All the Time!
What a wonderful story, nothing is too difficult for our God.
God does answer prayers
Blessings to you!
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