Just Twenty Minutes

Something very wonderful happened to a friend of mine not long ago.  This man has a large family and needs a great deal of money to keep everything going week by week.
Sometimes he wonders how he well make ends meet; but always, just when things look the darkest, a light shines thought.  His great faith in Jesus is always rewarded. There came a time when he badly needed sixty dollars for taxes---not very much for a wealthy man, but a huge sum to this poor farmer.
And he had to have it by Monday morning.   Over and over he thought of his problem.  How could he get sixty dollars by Monday morning? It was impossible.  He thought of his cows. Yes. He would be willing to sell one of them to raise the money, but nobody was buying cows at this time. In fact, no cow buyer had been to his farm for months.  There seemed no way out. What could he do?


In his heat he believed that the dear Lord whom he loved would do something for him, but how or when, he could not think. Sunday morning came, the last day before he had to pay the taxes. 
He rose, as usual, at three o'clock and went out to the dairy to milk the cows.
Returning just before six, he decided to take a brief nap to refresh himself for the rest of the day's tasks. Before doing so, however, he reminded the Lord that this was the day he needed that sixty dollars.
At six o'clock he lay down, and in a few moments was fast asleep. But he didn't sleep long.
Bang, Bang, Bang!
Someone was knocking on the window. 
Startled, my farmer friend awoke, jumped from his bed, and demanded to know what was the matter. For the moment he was too dazed to know how long he had slept, but supposed it must now be eight o'clock at least.
"Sorry to disturb you," said his plowman,  "but there's a man here that wants to speak to you."
"About what?"
"wants to buy a cow."
The farmer was at the door in a moment, his heart beating fiercely with excitement which he dared not show.  Would the Lord now prove  His providential care?
Outside he found a man who lived several miles from his farm, and whom he had seen occasionally before.
"Sorry to bother you so early,"  said the man, "but I'm needing one more cow to complete a carload. Spent all yesterday searching for one in vain. Then i thought of you. Do you have one to sell?"  "It so happen that i do," said the farmer. "Come and look at it."
They went to the barn.
"How much do you want for it?" asked the visitor.
"well," said the farmer hesitatingly. "I hardly know what to say. I don't know what the market price is today, but I do know that I badly need sixty dollars for it." With out a word the visitor took out his checkbook, wrote a check for sixty dollars, and prepared to depart with the cow.
"By the way," said the farmer, "when did you think about coming to see me about the cow?"
"This morning," said the visitor. "At six o'clock I was strongly impressed that you would have a cow to sell me, and that I should come see you. So I got into my car and drove straight here."
"What is the time now?" asked the farmer.
"Six-twenty." 
"Only Six-twenty!" exclaimed the farmer. "Amazing! perfectly amazing."
It was. It had taken just twenty minutes for his pray to be answered.
Don't we sever an awesome God!