Posted By Wanda on November 21, 2008

My husband, Dave and I own a custom hay hauling business. This summer, we experienced a miracle of God while Dave was on the job. He has operated our self-loading, unloading round bale truck for the past eight seasons. This business has been in our lives for many reasons. One reason being, to bring us to a place of learning to trust God.

The day this particular situation happened was like any other day. He was near home, hauling for a neighbor who has rough terrain. The ride height valves on the air suspension weren’t working properly that day. Dave was traveling down a bladed trail through hilly pasture land (fully loaded). He stopped and backed up, turning crosswise on a hillside to shift the weight from the driver’s side to the passengers’ side to help the driver’s side ‘air up’. BUT, he had forgotten about the dirt ridge that the grader had left and as he backed up, the rear drivers’ tires came up on the ridge and the load flopped to the downhill side. Dave stopped the truck immediately when he felt the load shift. He got out to survey the situation, realizing that the deck frame was not sitting on the truck frame and the unit was sitting in a twisted position. This was not good! This was a disaster waiting to happen. He went to the passenger side and saw that the weight was almost pulling the tires off the rims and he couldn’t possibly see how the bale deck could be sitting there, not twisting off the truck frame. He got back in the truck, and lowered the picking arm to try to counterbalance the load. He tried to gingerly move the truck ahead and could not get any traction on the driver’s side. Dave could see that this was near an impossible situation without the assistance of a tractor.

Then Dave decided to phone me just to tell me what was happening. (Probably knowing full well that I would pray for him.) He proceeded to try to phone the customer to ask him to come with his tractor to help out. But the phone line was busy. After receiving news of this very dangerous and possible business-ending situation, I prayed in the Spirit for a very short minute or so and then declared that Dave would be delivered from all his troubles.

After trying for several minutes to contact the owner of the bales, Dave decided to get back out of the truck and overlooked the situation again. He felt that if he let the air out of the air ride, it may make things worse. So, he thought that he’d get a wrench to manually adjust the air to lower the driver’s side. As he was walking to the back of the truck, he heard something that sounded like a hammer-blow on iron, and the whole one side of the load and the top row fell off on the down side of the truck. Wow! Just then, the truck righted itself and all was well. The truck had just been sitting there, nothing moving and Dave could hardly believe his eyes. It was as if someone pulled a trip and released one side of the load. We believe it was an angel sent to deliver Dave from all his troubles!!! Dave drove away and reloaded the bales and carried on to the yard.

I prayed just like I’ve prayed many times before. It was simply this: I was obedient to pray when I didn’t even feel like praying. I took the time to lift Dave to the throne room of grace and he found mercy in his time of need. If the deck would’ve twisted off the truck frame, the cost to repair would’ve probably put us out of business. We also would’ve lost business for the season ahead.

The Lord will certainly deliver and draw me to Himself from every assault of evil. He will preserve and bring me safe unto His heavenly kingdom. 2 Timothy 4:18

This situation was an assault of evil on our business and finances. Our Deliverer heard my cry and delivered us from all the troubles of that day. He preserved Dave and the truck and brought them home safely! 

We give God all the praise and glory for seeing us through in this situation and countless others during this season of growth! We do serve a God who hears and answers prayer!

Be encouraged today of the deliverance of God in this situation. Whatever you are going through, God can and will deliver you from every assault of evil! He will preserve you and bring you safe into His heavenly kingdom right here, right now on this earth!

Our testimonies give way to victory! Share your miracles and stories with me so that we can encourage the Body of Christ!

We overcome … him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony! Revelation 12:11

Serving Jesus together,
Wanda

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