ASKING FOR HELP IN ORDER TO HELP OTHERS

this morn, i was praying to God specifically about my house that is still, this 29 years into our marriage, not the clean, tidy, welcoming place that i really, really want it to be. 
my cousin brian, bless him had said at one point that the relatives needed to stage an intervention.  thanks, brian, for expressing what needed to be expressed. 
i've been over this with God many times over the years, feeling idiotic and a failure and sinful for not having overcome this problem, sin, situation (whatever you want to call it) before now.  so (i believe) the Holy Spirit reminded me of what specifically God had indicated to me that i still have not implemented.  specifically, i believe that God told me that i needed to ask others for help to overcome this and other things.
so i asked God to show me an instance (or a few) in the Bible where someone asked for help so that he/she could help another.  well, surprise, surprise, immediately Jesus' parable about the man who went a neighbor's house in the middle of the night to borrow some bread so that he could feed visitors who came to his house.  i'll think about this.  (i asked for a scripture not because i doubted that God was really leading me  in that direction, but because i always want that additional confirmation.)

(to be continued)