珊珊一早便列出一長串待辦事項，但一對陷入困境的年輕夫婦打亂了她的計劃。他們急需教會提供的汽油儲值卡，請珊珊幫忙送過去。儘管珊珊有很多事要做，但她知道上帝要她去幫助他們，於是答應前往他們住的旅館（教會提供他們暫住幾週的地方）把儲值卡交給他們。但她查看地址之後，發現路程比想像的還更遠，便向上帝抱怨：要花很多油錢！

忽然，珊珊的心裡浮現一句話：我不是一直供應妳的需要嗎？她回答說：主啊，祢確實一直供應我，請原諒我的態度。當珊珊跟那對夫婦碰面時，她把儲值卡交給他們，還抱了抱他們的小寶寶。回程途中，珊珊感謝上帝給她機會，能夠藉由這微小的服事，可以得到喜樂。

有一天，當以利沙路過書念時，有位婦人熱心接待他，強留「他吃飯」，於是他「每從那裡經過就進去吃飯」（列王紀下4章8節）。婦人和她丈夫甚至為以利沙蓋一間小樓，讓他每次來到這裡就有地方住（9-10節）。後來，慈愛的上帝藉著以利沙的預言賜福給他們，讓他們有了一個兒子（16節）。

不論是服事先知或流離失所的家庭，當我們願順服上帝的計劃，放下自己的「待辦事項」，先做祂要我們做的事，祂樂意使我們的心滿有喜樂。

Up early, Sara wrote her to-do list for the day. But she was interrupted with a request from a young, struggling family. They desperately needed a gas card from church to be delivered to them. Sara was busy but knew God wanted her to do this. So she agreed to drop it off at the hotel where the church was having them stay for a few weeks. She got the card and checked the address—the drive was farther than she’d anticipated, so she complained to God, It’s going to take too much gas to get this to them!

Sara sensed these words in her spirit: Haven’t I provided for you? She replied, Yes, God, You have. Forgive my attitude. When she arrived, she found the couple, gave them the card, and held their baby. Sara thanked God on her drive home for blessing her with this simple, yet joyful opportunity.

In Elisha’s travels to Shunem in Israel, he found a woman who had a servant’s heart toward him. She urged Elisha “to stay for a meal,” so he often “stopped there to eat” (2 Kings 4:8). She and her husband even built him a room so whenever he came to their town, he’d have a place to stay (vv. 9-10). God graciously chose to bless them through Elisha’s prophecy of a child (v. 16).

Whether serving a prophet of God or a homeless family, when we’re open to God’s plan and defer to His to-do list, God delights to bless our hearts with joy.