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Originally Posted by slingshot
We consider ourselves very fortunate in all respects. It's been a long hard ride.  |
Dear Slingshot: welcome to Ann Preston AKA "holy Ann".
Ann once hurt her ankle very severely. She had to be in bed and became weak.
At one time fresh eggs were ordered for her with milk. It was not the season when hens in the country would lay eggs. So the servant failed to get her eggs. So she prayed to her Father.
A hen drew nigh to her. Her Father told her that this hen would supply her with fresh eggs.
Every day for three weeks the hen would come, lay an egg and go away.
She began to tell others that her Father supplied her eggs when she wanted them even though it was out of season.
Her other needs also were supplied likewise.
Once she made two barrels of soap, half of it to be given to the poor. The soap did not thicken and so she prayed.
The Lord told her it needed some fresh marrow and that He would send the marrow bone also.
She in her simple way told her inquisitive children that the bone would be sent by her Father by next morning.
Early morning she found a big bone with marrow lying down near the place, and began to break it and mix the marrow in the soap.
"Oh!" the children cried out, "some dog dropped it here."
She answered, "I don’t care if the devil brought it. My Father sent it."
The Salvation Army was stationed near her village. Ann was interested in their work and wanted to give them supplies. She did not have money, and her fowls were not laying eggs then.
She resorted to prayer and asked her Father for eggs. She brought over a dozen eggs from the barn, and others were amazed.
One day she wanted to go to the church two furlongs off and found that there had been a heavy fall of snow.
She prayed, "Father, I cannot go to the meetings tonight. Won’t You send someone to make a path for me?"
There was no servant to help her to shovel the snow. But suddenly five horses appeared and they began to run up and down in a straight line until there was a perfectly beaten track all through the deep snow. Ann attended the meeting and witnessed to them what the Lord had done to her.
The well that supplied them with water used to be dry in summer.
The children had to haul water in barrels from a well about half a mile away. It was hard work, for the supply was not only for the household use but for the livestock as well.
One night as she related to the children in the kitchen the answers of her faithful Father they threw a challenge to her, all in joke.
"Why don’t you pray for water in the well?"
Ann took this seriously and began to plead that night with her Heavenly Father. She prayed until she was assured in her heart that God had heard her prayer.
Next morning she took her buckets and began to lower them into the well. The boys were getting ready with their barrels to go for water, and began to watch her with surprise.
Instead of a bang they heard a splash of water. And Ann brought two pails full of clear sparkling water into the house. Thus those who lived with Ann could see that she lived with a loving Father who lived and made Himself real to her.
One of the girls lost a five dollar bill, and even after much search they could not find it. Ann prayed that night and was led exactly to the spot where it was lying hidden in the snow on a hillside. The girls were amazed how Ann walked with God and got answers for prayer.
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