One Smart Donkey

Me: Nice donkey! Prodigal: Thanks, he is pretty smart and he is letting me ride him.

Me: I have a story about another smart donkey.

This comes from the book Voices of the Faithful by Beth Moore

It was harvest time when Mrs. Tendai’s donkey went missing. She searched everywhere and even reported the missing animal to the local police. When it was evident that her donkey and simply disappeared, she began praying that it would return. Due to lack of good seed, fertilizer and sufficient rain, Mrs. Tendai’s harvest that year was small, and she had little money to buy food for her family. Several months later, her prayers were more about God providing “daily bread” than finding the donkey. The family’s maize meal supply was depleted. Would God answer her prayers for food? The next morning, when Mrs. Tendai walked out of her hut, she was amazed to see her donkey standing there with 100-pound bag of maize meal on its back! She was happy to see the donkey but afraid to use the maize meal since it wasn’t hers. Eventually a story was pieced together that a man had stolen her donkey and used it to do his labor. One night after grinding his corn, he went to the beer hall to drink, leaving he donkey burdened down the maize meal outside. The donkey realized that he was not far from home and decided to return to where he would be taken care of and fed. The thief, wishing to remain anonymous, did not claim his maize meal, so Mrs. Tendai was able to use it to feed her family. God had answered both of her prayers in a very unusual manner!

Donna, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him. 1 John 5:14-15

Jennifer Van Allen

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