This may seem insignificant to some, but something amazing happened at our house last night and I had to put it up here as a great example of answered prayer.
Our cat Junior disappeared two days ago. He is one to stay out all night but he is always at the door the next morning dying for something to eat. However, yesterday he wasn't there. He was gone all day yesterday and at bedtime last night Lauren was pretty upset. Lauren always puts the cats up at night (if she can find them) and was hoping Junior would show up.
So Dana said, "Let's pray about it". She gathered the girls in Lauren's room and they said a prayer asking God to help Junior find his way back home.
In the meantime while I was sitting in the living room watching the news (I had no idea what was going on in Lauren's room) I heard the familiar deep "meow" from Junior outside so I opened the front door and let him in. And there was much rejoicing!
What I didn't realize until later was that the "meow" I had heard came at precisely the time (almost to the second) the girls ended their prayer. So, in a mater of a few seconds after the prayer, the girls were able to hear Junior meowing as he came in the front door.
Again, this may not seem like a significant thing to many. However, I'm convinced that we don't often consider God's work in our lives as something significant. In fact I believe most of His work goes completely unnoticed by us because we say a prayer and then go off and shortly forget about it. But this time was different. There wasn't time to forget. What a teaching moment for the girls (and for their parents)!
I have to consider... if we were more diligent in our prayer lives, not just praying once for someone or something but repeatedly and often, and if we were more observant in our daily lives, we would probably be able to see more of God's work in our lives. And if we were able to see more of God's work, how much more faith might we have?
"Pray without ceasing." 1Th 5:17
God help me to be diligent in my prayer life and to be observant in my daily life, looking for and expecting to see Your work done!