“So he said to me, ‘This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.’” – Zechariah 4:6
In May 2011, Amy Jacobs was riding her horse Sheik at Salmon Farm, a sprawling 900-acre horse-boarding farm in Kentucky. An hour and a half into their journey, something went terribly wrong.
“We came to an area along Floyd's Fork Creek,” Amy recalled. “As we were walking, all of a sudden I was noticing something under his feet was moving and I thought, ‘This is not normal.’ We were walking on a panel gate that had fallen across the path.”
Sheik got one of his hooves caught. The horse fell over and went down pinning Amy’s left leg under him. As the 1200-pound horse struggled to get back on his feet, Amy was in danger of being completely crushed to death.
“I can remember saying a very short prayer,” she said. “I didn't say it out loud, but I thought to myself, ‘God, it's all up to You now.’ I was in the woods by myself where no one knew where I was, where I couldn't yell to someone to help me, so it was just Sheik and me. I knew God had to help us.”
Although Amy was stranded in the woods, she saw that her cell phone still had a signal, and immediately called for help.
After four calls, she was able to Jamie Sparks, the resident horse trainer at Salmon Farms.
Amy remembers, “She [Jamie] came around behind me and put her arms under my arm, [and] raked me out from under the horse right as he tried to stand up again. The feeling came back into my leg. It had been numb for about 30 minutes.”
“God definitely saved me and Sheik that day,” Amy shares. “Neither one of us limped, neither one of us went to the doctor, neither one of us had any lasting problems.”
“God gave me peace, and God made sure that Sheik didn't panic. God can make a donkey talk. God can make a saddle bred lay still for a few minutes! It shows how much God loves me. He answers prayer, and I'm glad He answered that one that day.”
The Spirit of our Lord is living and active in our world. Today in prayer, give thanks to the Lord for His Holy Spirit and seek to follow Christ in all that you do.
“There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.” – Dwight L. Moody
God’s Word: “For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” – Acts 1:5
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2013, Devotional E-Mail
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