There is a phrase in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan that can stop you in your tracks. "And it was in that little hour, while he had not ceased to speak, that, behold, Rivekah came forth" (Genesis 24:15).
While he had not ceased to speak. The servant's prayer was still in his mouth. The words had not yet landed. The heavenly court had not yet deliberated. And already the answer was walking down the hill with a pitcher on her shoulder.
The Targum stacks the lineage with deliberate care. She was born to Bethuel, son of Milkah, the wife of Nachor, the brother of Abraham. Four names between Rivekah and Abraham, and yet the line is unbroken. The family tree the servant was searching for was producing its fruit at the exact hour he asked.
The sages built a whole theology on this verse. In Isaiah 65:24 God says, "Before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will hear." And here is that verse walking toward a well in Aram, carrying a clay jug.
Two lessons hide here. First, that prayer is not a vending machine; it is a conversation already in progress before you open your mouth. Second, that God's providence often moves faster than our anxiety — the rescue was on the road before the cry was finished.
Rivekah did not know she was an answered prayer. She was just going for water. But that is how most of us arrive in someone else's story.