God wants to speak to us and use us to bless others every day. God told Christian artist Jenn Johnson to buy shoes at a Rite-Aid, and the reason why is amazing. Jenn Johnson is a singer, songwriter, author, and musician. She encountered God as a teenager one summer during camp.
She had prayed for God to show her where he needed her. As she was praying, God gave her a vision of a mom standing in an aisle at a Rite-Aid looking at shoes. Jenn didn’t even know what a Rite-Aid was. But nonetheless, she obeyed. When the group got to town,
Jenn was floored to find the store. But the incredible moment wasn’t the vision of the store but the encounter inside the store. A mom holding a baby was looking at shoes. That’s when Jenn walked up to the struggling mother and blessed her.
Jenn walked up to the mother and started a conversation that would forever change her life. “I walked up to her and said, ‘Ma’am I just had this vision, and I wanted to ask if you need shoes. Can I buy these shoes?” Jenn said the woman looked at her like the world had stopped. The mother responded in tears. “I don’t even know why I’m in here right now. I don’t have money, and he needs shoes.”
Jenn then proceeded to pay for the shoes and told the struggling mom, “God loves you, ma’am.” Jenn sums up the story with the message that God wants to be obedient in the small everyday moments. He wants us to be seeking him in all that we do.
We will never know how he wants to use us to bless others and build our faith in return. May this incredible story be a reminder you need to be faithful to God in all things.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light,” Matthew 11:28-30.