Prayer For a Lost Item

When I was in college, a Christian friend of mine taught me that God cares about us so much that He even answers our prayers to help us locate a misplaced item. Since I frequently misplaced my items, this was one habit I practiced, and I was amazed many times that God would care about helping me with something that seemed so trite. On one occassion, I remember fiddling with my engagement at work when it flew oof my finger, and I spent about 10 minutes looking for my ring. I decided to stop and pray and immediately, I thought to look under a rolling file cabinet, and there was my ring calling out to me.

Since I've had kids who also misplaced things, I have also taught this to my kids, though there were times when I was afraid that God would disappoint us. Instead, God has often delighted our kids that they were able to recover something they have misplaced, and it's been a good teaching point to them of God's grace.

Yesterday, we had another answered prayer. Jacob had discovered his i-Touch missing, and the 4 of us combed the house looking for it. We had all remembered seeing it lying on the shelf before the housecleaners came, so we decided either the housecleaners placed it somewhere for us (which is unusual), or they stole it (which is also unusual). Out of desperation, I called them on Wednesday morning, but they said they didn't know what I was talking about and offerred to swing by our house that afternoon to help us locate it.

Then at 11:00 , I receive an excited phone call from Jacob ( He had been home sick that day). He had found his i-touch. He said after looking for it in futility, he decided to pray, and the instant he finished praying, he looked up and saw it in a bin. The housecleaners had put it there. Since we had looked so many times there for his itouch but couldn't find it, we knew this was the work of God's grace. What a great lesson for our family!