Drita e Botes’ blog

A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend of mine who owns a local business. Times have been tough recently and he has barely been making enough money to pay his rent and taxes let alone to buy food for his wife and children. He works long hours for little money and rarely allows himself any time off.  Our conversation moved onto more spiritual things, to which his response like so many Albanians was to shurg his shoulders, point to the sky and say 'He Know's' meaning 'God knows'.  I decided to take the conversation a step further and went to explain that I believed God does indeed 'know' about all our sitiuation but more importantly God cares about our situations. I told my friend that I pray for him and would like to pray very specifically about some of his problems. He couldn't believe what I was saying, 'You'd pray for me'! he kept repeating.
His major worry was his business and paying his bills so  I told him I would  pray specifically for help with his business and for things to improve finacially for him.

Today I visited my friend again and he greeted me with a warm smile, a big hug and kisses on both cheeks, as we went for coffee he called his friend over and told him - 'pray for him like you prayed for me, he needs you to pray for him, I told him you'd pray for him'. My friend went on to explain that since I had prayed, his business had got better and his finacial problems has eased a little. He was amazed that the prayers had worked.

Next week we have a team from England with us and we'll be visiting my friend and lots of others like him in Shkoze who are depsperate to find something to believe ion, something real, something that can help them in their troubled lives.

We'll eagerly await more answerd prayers as we ask God to help and put ourselves in place to serve him wherever we are.