Funny God moment:

Two weekends ago, I went to my church winter retreat to Pennsylvania.

It was a good eight hour drive on big charter buses, but still exhausting. 

So we arrived at about three in the morning, and everyone was trying to go to bed because we had to wake up at about eight the next morning. 

In the midst of trying to fall asleep, I got the hiccups.

Not the normal semi-quiet ones, I had the chest wrenching-hurtful-loud hiccups. Had them for about a good forty minutes, first ten minutes it was funny… Then it just got annoying and painful.

Keep in mind I was in a room with five girls, a very small room. With our two leaders, who also wanted to sleep. So we tried everything from plugging my nose and drinking water to Ashley trying to scare them out of me-neither of those methods work.

Finally, Ashley was like well why don’t we all just pray, so we did. 

I started praying, hiccuped once, and then they were gone.

My first reaction was, “Seriously, God, you waited this long and all I had to do was pray” but a few minutes later I was amazed.

It was a simple thing to pray for but nonetheless, He answered. 

We often pray for things that we won’t be able to realize He has answered them in a few seconds, but rather a few weeks or months, and then once our prayers are answered we forget who answered them. 

That was the first time something like that has happened to me, God answering a prayer that I could see, right there and then.

Suddenly the entire weekend became about prayer for me.

The speaker spoke about the power of prayer, and healing.

God showed me the importance of prayer, and He started it out by giving me the hiccups.

Pretty cool.