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God sent me an angel with a hay bale
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Posted by: shalu
Oh man, I had sooooome weekend. My mom came up to help me do some work outside in the yard, clear off our overgrown garden area and stuff like that. Well, Friday night we loaded up all the sacks of our grass clippings (we don't have a truck and have no way to get them out to the place they burn them off here in our little town...) and headed on out to the dump. Well, let me first tell you that we have had quite a bit of rain and the temps for the last couple of days have been in the 70s, not too typical for July in Kansas. Anyway, so we head on out onto the gravel road, it was wet and muddy but not too bad, we turn onto the road heading out to the dump, and well, it didn't LOOK muddy at all, HOWEVER, it was HORRIBLE. We almost got stuck several times, my mom was sliding and dodging hitting the ravine or heading into a ditch or a farmers field. I got out and walked quite a ways too, so I could help push if need be, we reached a point where there was NO turning back whatsoever, we HAD to keep going forward until we reached our destination. Well, we finally made it and unloaded all of the grass clippings and started to head back home, as we creeped out onto the road and up the first hill, we quickly began to discover that we were sliding back and could not control the truck whatsoever. My mom hit something and kept trying to back up, when she looked out, we discovered it was a hay bale. We got past the small disturbance in our way and then got a bright idea. We walked over to the hay bale and started to roll it back to the truck to put in the back to give some weight in the back of the truck, and then I proceeded to take some hay and place it along the road. I walked back to the truck and told me mom to go ahead and get to the top of the hill and I would meet her, I told her to just follow the hay. 
As she drove she said she kept praying and telling the angels to keep pushing.
Yet as I was walking, I just started laughing as I began to see a lesson in all that was going on. The Lord KNEW that we both were going to do EXACTLY what we did that day, inspite of all the rain, we were going to try to take all these grass clippings out anyway. And so, he placed that hay bale there, right even where we would hit it, because we wouldn't have seen it any other way probably. But the lesson even went deeper than that. How many times have we started to take a road that we shouldn't be taking or our life began to echo all the rain and mud going on all around us? (Just because we are going through something bad, doesn't mean it isn't God's will that we dont' travel down the road...) And how first, it was muddy and we could SEE that it was muddy, but when we turned onto the road leading to our destination, we both thought WOW, this road doesn't look muddy AT ALL. Well, it didn't look muddy, because it was more like CLAY than just a plan dirt road....We didn't know that until we already turned onto it. How many would have turned onto a road knowing how much work it was going to be? Also the road was SOOO narrow, how many more people would have turned around? How many would have quit and given up and said, well, I will just come back when this road has dried out? This is just too hard and difficult and dirty. How many would get out of the "truck" and walk, even if that means getting there at a slower pace, but helping someone else by pushing? (prayer is the push) How many, once getting to the destination, would turn around and go right back down the road they started? How many would be LOOKING for the hay bale? No matter where we are or how we got there, by God's plan or by making our own decisions contrary to God's plan, what our circumstance and situation is, the Lord WILL deliver his children. No matter what has transpired to bring us to the place that we are, there is a hay bale right before us, put in a place in which we WILL find it, but it IS THERE. While the hay bale was LITERAL in what happened, the Lord showed me that the hay bale for us in our situations are the people he has placed in our lives, certain circumstances that happen that show us that God is working and moving, but most of all it is His Word, His promises told over and over and over and by taking HIS WORD, by praying scriptures over our lives in accordance with His will, praying scripture over our situation, we are taking a little bit of "hay" and sprinkling it along our path and it allows something for us to grab onto, to hold onto, by proclaiming it and declaring it little by little we are making this path that looks IMPOSSIBLE to travel POSSIBLE. (Well, WE aren't making it possible, the LORD is making the impossible possible.) Just as the hay bale in the back of the truck gave us weight for traction, the Word of God gives us traction as we travel along our own muddy road, so that we don't get stuck in the mire and muck and get sidetracked, but as I told my mom just to keep her physical eyes on the hay on the road (and she kept her spiritual eyes on the Lord praying and asking the angel to push
her spiritual eyes were on the "hay" that the Lord had provided by standing on the Word and God's promises.
This situation was also revealed to me for another reason, because I for some time have felt that I would be traveling down the road that I had once traveled. At first I was scared because I didn't WANT to have to go down that same road again, and due to some things happening I really thought things were going to be the same as they once were as a test, but now I realize that Satan, while he doesn't KNOW the plan and the will of God, He can see the direction I am standing in and has caused some circumstances to transpire to cause me concern and fear and the Lord ridding my husband of things as well. WELL, The Lord is saying, in my situation, that I am traveling down the same road, bit it isn't going to be the same as it once was, it isn't going to be the same situation, even though it is the same road. And there has been confirmation of that to me as well.....So all I am praying now, is God's will alone, not my will, but His and keeping it at that so I don't pray something contrary to His plan for my life and my husband's life.
I pray this speaks to you and gives you encouragement that the Lord Your God is there, He is working and moving, take His word and "sprinkle" it out upon your life and your situation. Continue to stand on His promises! HE WILL DELIVER YOU!!! HE WILL!!!!!
Shalu
Posted by: Debi16
Bless you shalu, God used you at the very moment I needed some encouragement! I am in the middle of that "muddy road" and I think you just showed me my hay bale. Thanks and God bless you!
Debi
Posted by: Mayhewbern
Thanks for the words of encouragement it came just when I needed it. I recieve it as conformation for the Lord.