“Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.” - 1 Chronicles 16:9
In 2012, Kenneth Smith was a homeless man in Fort Worth, Texas. Without having anywhere to go, he sat outside an Outback Steakhouse, and that was when his life started to change.
A woman who left the restaurant spotted Kenneth and approached him. She asked if he was okay, and he answered her honestly that he was not okay. The kind-hearted woman then gave him a $100 gift card for Outback Steakhouse just so he could have a warm meal.
After he had a warm meal, Laura, the managing partner for the restaurant, said to him to come back anytime to have warm meals.
“I said, ‘Hey, I don’t ever want you to want for food or go hungry,'” Laura said.
After five months of coming in for some warm meals, Laura offered him a job at the restaurant. From being a homeless man sitting outside the steakhouse, Kenneth now works as a waiter.
However, the Lord’s blessing for Kenneth didn’t just end there. Wanting to help him find a place to stay, Laura posted on a Facebook group, and generous strangers went the extra mile to help him get back on his feet again.
Many offered to pay for Kenneth’s six-week stay at the nearby Extended Stay hotel. Others also gifted him over $2,200 cash, a bicycle for his transportation, clothes, kitchen items, and groceries.
In the recent interview, Kenneth praised God for his goodness and for giving him a new beginning in life.
“I think it’s so much of a good blessing,” Kenneth said. “And it’s wonderful just to have people these days that’ll do things for you. This is a whole new beginning that God has blessed me with.”
There is no end to God’s goodness. Today, in prayer, praise the Jesus for He is good.
“The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.” — Thomas Merton
God’s Word: “Praise the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.” – Psalm 146:1-2
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