Last year my wife and I had just bought a new vehicle, and I was not yet familiar with all the controls. I was pulling into a drive-through window at a fast-food restaurant when I suddenly realized that I didn’t know how to lower the window so that I could place my order. The control wasn’t on the door where I thought it would be. I searched frantically as I inched forward in the line of cars.

Reaching a point of desperation, I called my wife, and urgently explained my situation, asking (demanding?) that she tell me as quickly as possible how to lower the car window. She immediately summed up the situation and directed me to the control, which was in the lower part of the dashboard, nowhere near where I had been looking.

I was able to lower the window just in time to place my order. The disaster had been averted!

Sometimes our prayers take on a sense of urgency. We need God to give us an answer, and we need it right away. Time after time, God supplies the answer to our prayers, and, quite often, it is just in the nick of time.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”—James 1:5.