Prayer for Tires

We went on a weekend away, leaving in the early morning hours. On the road our one car burst both its left back tire and the spare tire we replaced it with. We had to find a tire repair shop, so we got into the other car, leaving the rest behind, and drove to eMalahleni (witbank) to try and find a tires place. After following the gps we got to a place that was still closed. So we decided to just keep on driving. While we were driving the one oke said we should pray for help; he prayed a simple little God help us find a place prayer, to which another oke added “and let the place be right around the corner”, not knowing the implications. Twenty meters later we turned left into a petrol station, jokingly jesting that this must be the place, only to find that the very building just before it was a big tires repair shop… literally meters away from where we prayed that simple little prayer, the very next stop we could have made. From where we came, you only saw a brick wall, nothing more… no way we could have known. To top it all off - the place even opened up thirty minutes earlier than we expected.

We started talking to the person whom opened the tires shop; it was still early so he was the only employee at work. He then told us about the biblical principal of sowing and reaping, and how that he sometimes does that. He then gave us discount on the tires, with a free wheel balance, just like that. We were in awe – all of this happened so hap-hazardously, we didn’t know what to think. So we asked him if he was religious, trying not to offend; from there on out we spoke for a while about God, sharing stories.

It would seem that something that started out with a seemingly silly little prayer – God took and turned into something tangible, really tangible. For us it was a little unexpected adventure, with God shaking our idea of living a life with him.