He Knows What We Need

“God your Father knows what things you are needing even before you ask him.”

-Matthew 6:8-

When I am distraught and broken, all I need to do is kneel.

God has always been my best friend. I’ve always treated him like my closest bud, my confidant and my comforter. He knows more of the things about me first even before I can shout them out in facebook.

When I was in high school I had this very huge worry. Like any excited incoming college student I wanted to study far away from home and try my luck somewhere. I took all entrance tests and I was very grateful that I passed all of them.

Unfortunately we did not have enough financial resources that time. My sister was taking up medicine, which was also expensive. Added to that my College Assurance Plan declared bankruptcy a year after I started college.

I was so down and broken that all I did was just to pray and wish that God will give me a miracle and that a better school would offer me a scholarship. For every end of semester I would always pray that by next semester I will be in another school. It took me three years in college to finally accept my fate and accept the fact that this was the life God wanted me to live.

Truly, God listens to every prayer. And even before we ask it, God already knows what we are about to ask. But he gives all of us a chance by kneeling down and asking humbly to God the things we fervently pray for. When God answers a prayer, he answers in three ways- yes, no or not now. God hears our prayers but he grants only those, which are best for us.

It took me time to realize that even if I wasn’t able to study faraway, I will still a fortunate individual to have been given the chance of a quality education. In my country where education is more of a privilege than a right I was fortunate that God blessed me with the right people in college who surrounded me and influenced me positively in life.

Sometimes it pays to wait for the answer and the reason why things have to happen because in truth there’s someone up there who sees everything and who makes sure that things are just in the right place. Truly even before I say things to God he already knows my prayer and when I kneel I talk to him more about my needs and I believe he listens to my heart.

Story submitted by:

Mark Grageda

Law Student, Toastmaster