thoughts about prayer-3

Ever heard the saying "no-one is an atheist in a plane that's going down"?
I guess this refers to the fact that everyone will call out to God in their moments of panic/dispair.
I had one of those moments a little while ago- I drove our car up the hill near where I used to live, but it's 20 years since I lived there and I had forgotten how steep it was. The result was that the car stalled and the handbrake was not strong enough to hold the car from rolling backwards down the hill- infact nothing worked except putting the footbrake full on. My prayer in that moment was "Jesus! Help! NOW" And did he help?

Well, the car rolled until it went up a bank and got stuck leaning precariously towards the drivers side. After some unhelpful phone calls for assistance I got out, and found I only had 3 wheels on the ground. Was I glad the car had not tipped right over!
I then went to find a friendly farmer- and despite all the signs and warnings that I was trespassing on a private drive, the farmer was really friendly. He pulled the car off the bank, and around the corner to flat ground so I could turn around. He even offered to ride down to the village to check the car was OK (though I did not take him up on the offer).
Once back in the village I found the car worked fine, the tyres were not damaged, the paintwork was not scratched, nothing at all wrong as far as I could tell.
So, yes, God did answer my prayer.
I would rather not have got stuck, but it could have been much much more serious and He did get me out!

So what is the moral of the story?(Apart from not driving big cars up steep hills!)
Just that God is faithful to answer us and that His answers are not limited to "spiritual things only"

It also makes me think that if God is so great, I would like to get to know him much better. I could treat Him like an heavenly AA man who will respond in a crisis, but I would much rather have a friend, a father, a husband even.
The AA man will fix my car on the roadside, but the friends I can really rely on are those I have got to know well, those with whom I have gone through the difficult times and come out the other side.
Definitely worth putting in the time in prayer to get to know God really well.