"What do you pray for?"

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Lewis went with Bill to pick up a truck Bill had recently bought. Lewis drove behind Bill, just in case something went wrong. And it did. Bill’s newly purchased truck ran out of gas.

So Lewis pulled over behind Bill, got out, and found out from Bill what was wrong. Lewis tells Bill, "Well, I don’t have a gas can. I guess we’ll just have to pray for a gas can." So they did.

And about that time, a friend of Lewis’ sees him on the roadside, and pulls over to see if he can help. Lewis asks him, "Do you have a gas can?"

And his friend says, "Well, yes, and I’ll go you one better—I’ve got a gas can with gas in it!"

Lewis laughs and tells Bill, "We were praying for the wrong thing. We were praying for a gas can when we should have been praying for gas!"

It’s so easy to ask God for what you think you need. But what you think you need isn’t always what you really need. So today, ask God to give you whatever God chooses to share with you as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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