Walking into favor

So, I have to quickly interrupt my Advent postings because a wonderful surprise came in the day today and I want to share it with my "readers". HA. The week before Thanksgiving I was asking the Lord for favor and just His hand to be on me. That evening on a date with my husband I got a notification on my phone that I had won a drawing on a facebook page for a sweet package of lotions from Delish Naturals. I was pretty excited! Then the next day which was Friday I went to a soiree at our local cloth diapering store and on the way I told my husband I was going to win if they had any drawings, he smiled at me. He went to get some dinner with our three year old while I took the one year old to walk around the store. When he came to get me and entered the store the owner told him to enter the drawing they were having, he was like "no, thats ok," but then I told him to and he did. WELL, he ended up winning the grand prize drawing of $100 worth of cloth diapering products and I won the third place drawing! I just felt the favor of the Lord on us and that was worth much more than any of the awesome products.

Then to finish off my little story the next day we went thrift store shopping to find my husband a suit jacket and as we were walking in the store I just asked the Lord for favor and to help me find something special. I went to the picture section and right in front of me was this little picture of Jesus on the road to Emmaus, my dad has a big one hanging in his office and I have always loved it. I turned it around and it was only $2. I was going to go look for more things and felt the Holy Spirit say to my heart "you got what you came in here for." I am so happy to have this picture hanging as a reminder of how Jesus longs for my friendship and to have my heart attuned to hear His whisperings throughout the day.