Do not be fooled by what you see to the left. It probably looks like a Daewoo Nubira, a Korean import marketed in the US between 1999 and 2002. The company was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999 which effectively rendered the Nubira into an orphan. It wasn't a bad car, but because of the challenge of finding parts, if you owned one, it was hard to sell. By the way, Nubira is the Korean word for "to go anywhere." Because this model was going nowhere, it was anything BUT a Nubira.
So what does this have to do with prayer? We were ministering to a single mom, call her Mary, who owned a Nubira she needed to sell. If Daewoo was still in business, Mary could have quickly realized something from the sale to help her with living expenses. But, alas, no one was buying. We parked the car on the church parking lot where it was highly visible to thousands who drove by. It was in great shape. Even with a drastically reduced price, there were no takers. Zero! So our community group started appealing to Father. One night I prayed, "Lord, would you please bring someone to Mary who JUST HAS TO HAVE a Daewoo?" That prayer was about asking God to not just sell the Daewoo, but to do so in a way that left no doubt HE was the one selling it.
Within days, God brought that person. This was THE CAR they wanted. The contrast between the complete ABSENCE of interested parties BEFORE the Daewoo prayer, and the immediate provision of the one buyer who HAD TO HAVE A DAEWOO left NO DOUBT that God answers prayer, even prayer that asks for the seemingly impossible. So now, we sometimes talk about a "Daewoo Prayer." This kind of prayer is the TRUE NUBIRA - the prayer that boldly asks God to take us where only He can, the prayer that sustains us "to go anywhere" with Him.
I thought "Nubira" was Koeran for "lemon."
Posted by: MBV | January 11, 2008 at 12:51 PM
I remember being in that small group,praying for "Mary" and watching God answer in His own remarkable way! ...Good thing He goes with us when we go "anywhere" or we would be shark bait... as my father used to say.
Posted by: JAB | January 13, 2008 at 01:14 PM