Our farm has 22 laying hens and one rooster. The hens were laying 15 to 20 eggs a day. We don’t have many buyers for our eggs, and our family of four cannot eat that many eggs every day. So our problem was what to do with all the extra eggs. We did give some away, but still we had lots left.
I decided the best thing to do was to pray about it, asking the Lord to send us a buyer that would buy lots of our eggs. I asked my sister, who lives out of town, and also a friend to pray with us too about the problem of our surplus of eggs. I was, of course, quite curious as to how the Lord would answer those prayers. Less than a month later, a neighbor, named Jennifer, asked Mom if we had any extra eggs. She wanted to start buying any extra eggs we had to give to a church that has a “food pantry” once a month. And Jennifer wanted to pay for the eggs!
(Perhaps some of you boys and girls don’t know what a “food pantry” is. It is a place where needy people can come and be given donated food—like our eggs. Jennifer donates the eggs she buys from us to the “food pantry.”)
We were so happy for that wonderful answer to our prayers! We still sell eggs and give eggs away, but once a month Jennifer comes and buys whatever extra we have for the “food pantry.” Now we all thank the Lord for answering our prayers to solve the problem of too many eggs and what to do with them. And we also thank Him that our extra eggs are feeding hungry people who don’t have money to buy food. That makes two answers He gave us for one problem!
“My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).