A Divine Appointment

It was a weekday afternoon and the Starbucks I worked at was empty when a woman came in to grab a quick drink. I over heard her talking to one of the other baristas as she was buying a teddy bear. All I heard was the teddy bear was for her daughter and that she was in the hospital. I’m not sure what came over me, but I was irritated. As I watched her walk back out to the car to her husband I knew that I could not let them drive away without praying for their daughter. I quickly came out from behind the counter and ran out to their car as they were driving away waiving them down. They rolled down the window and I said, “I know this seems strange, but I heard you say your daughter is in the hospital and its not right. I’d like to pray for your daughter if that’s okay.” They looked at me surprised. They had a 6 month old in the back seat. They explained to me that that their three year old was in the hospital. I began praying for the daughter then the married couple. As I was praying for them I said, “in two days you are going to have a divine appointment with a woman that you have never met and two or three days after that she will set you up with the first doctor that will be able to fix you daughter.” I blessed them and told them to have a good day. They seemed very thankful. However, I had no idea what I just prayed for and I especially had no idea what I meant when I said that it would be “the first doctor” that would be able to fix the daughter.

Some months went by when on a busy week day as I was cleaning tables a man came stood up from his table to stop me and said, “Hi there. You’re the face of the guy who prays for people right?” I had never heard it put that way, but I said, “ Sure..” He said, “I don’t know how to adequately thank you.” He probably said that phrase ten times over the next few minutes. He went on, “About six months ago my wife came in here to get a teddy bear for our daughter. We don’t even live over here. We just decided to go for a drive out of frustration and some how ended up at this coffee shop. We were going to head over to the hospital. You see our daughter had been on a feeding tube since birth. We had taken her to multiple doctors and specialist and no one could fix her. We didn’t know what to do. We had given up on everything including the Lord and were at our wits end. When you prayed for us and our daughter it so shocked us and blessed us that we gave our hearts back to the Lord right there. Then two days later we had a divine appointment with a woman we had never met, then two days after that we she set us up with the first doctor in three years that was able to fix our daughter.”

Praise the Lord. I don’t have all the answers for why the Lord heals one way one day and another the next. All I know is that the girl couldn’t eat on her own, the prophetic word was spoken, and now she can. Again and again…praise the Lord!