Praise Report! Praise Report!

I have been praying about what I should do with my laptop. It works perfectly fine, but I've been looking at smaller models--if I'm going to be travelling a lot, I need something compact. Then again, I'm not going to be travelling hugely for the next twelve months. On the other hand, it would be nice to not have to carry it through airports and things--on the other hand, that's a pretty sad reason to get rid of a laptop.

Actually, all of the above are, yet somehow, I kept praying about it, and I felt like God was calling me to give it away to someone while I'm here. I was thinking perhaps someone from the townships, but that wasn't sitting right. Then, I remembered a friend from Cornerstone, Bonolo, who always looked tired. She said it was because she worked and volunteered for the school as well as attending classes, and she had to borrow other people's computers at odd hours of the night, because she couldn't always use the computer lab (conflicted with work hours or class hours or also was just plain full of people). I thought she had a job and was saving money from that for a computer, but God kept putting her on my heart, through listening to His voice and the confirmation of a good friend, Charlotte.

Now, when I was praying about this decision, I asked God to specifically to have the person who needed the laptop to be praying for it, and to let me know they had been praying for it. So today I go up to Bonolo and I tell her that I'm giving away my laptop and if she wants it, she can have it by the end of the week. The first thing she does is scream and then, when she caught her breathe, she tells me that she has been praying for a laptop--praying since January, in fact!

See, her desktop computer had gotten stolen or lost in storage or something in January, and she had been scrambling to get her assignments done ever since. She had in fact been praying specifically for a laptop, because she needed it for her fieldwork placement in third term. And she HAD been saving up for a laptop, but God told her to give all the money away to someone who needed it.

God works in such amazing ways! Now, I've just got to clean off the laptop, both in terms of content and physically, and then hand it over by Friday! Zach's going to look it over tomorrow, and I'm going to download the latest version of Norton Antivirus.

God is so good!