Have you ever tried to make a deal with God?

No. I have learned to trust His plan and the outcome He brings about however He chooses to do it. Funny little story. I was a new born Christian and I was helping Dad take the crop off. One of the highspeed shafts on the combine snapped and I needed a replacement. Getting the replacement would require 6 weeks of waiting. I didn't have 6 weeks to wait so I prayed long and hard for a miracle. I even gave God a deadline. He had to have the combine back in the field by noon the next day. At 8 am the shaft was still broken and the combine was still in the shop. In anger I took the two halves of the shaft and with limited welding skills I stuck them back together. I put it back on the machine and fired it up. The shaft ran straight and so I took the combine back into the field. It worked! The combine finished that day and the day after that and the day after that as well. In fact the shaft never broke again. Later that night I was still angry with God. He had not performed the miracle by noon like I demanded. Then I came to the realization that I had started combining about 11:30 AM. God had performed a miracle. The miracle had come through my own hands and feeble welding skills.