A Sign or an Attack?

Well.. I think this is another one of those topics that isn't really so much a "confession" as it is a topic of interest to me. Something I've experienced and wondered about. Its one of those things that I find no one seems to agree on.

Let me lay it all out for you. Over the last few months I have been preparing to go to England. I was invited by my brother to stay with him and his family for awhile. I really couldn't refuse such an offer... after all, I am going thru a divorce and I have nothing holding me back. When would I have another opportunity like this again?

So I prepared myself to leave...I started getting bills taken care of and applied for my passport. Then, I noticed that once the ball was rolling, bad things started happening. Things started going awry with my passport, random bills started showing up, I was having to scrounge up money for extra things and it was beginning to overwhelm me. I was having other weird things happen to me as well, like I was being asked out by men old enough to be dad. I would talk to my christian friends about it and ask for prayer about my situation and then I was even getting weird advice from them... things that didn't seem to line up at all and that seemed odd to me as well.

Then, what really got me was that I had people tell me that I SHOULDN'T GO TO THE UK! I had people telling me that this should all be a SIGN...I should take this as a message from God. They were telling me if bad things were happening it must be God and they wanted to know why I was so set on leaving. The other side of that spectrum was people telling me that all the bad things happening were definitely a sign that I SHOULD GO! That it was CLEAR God DID want me to go and SATAN was the one that was trying to prevent me from leaving...

I remained flustered for several weeks, but the end result is that I'm now IN ENGLAND! Did I have more problems even on the way here? YES...I but I pressed thru...I made it.. passport and all... but is there a right answer to all of this? I would think in my mind that if GOD really didn't want me here, He would have had the power to COMPLETELY STOP ME! But He didn't. AND, if it's about my free will and God letting me do what I WANT... will I continue to run in to more problems cause I shouldn't be here? OR will I continue to have problems because God DOES want me here and has huge plans for me that Satan wants to ruin???? Do we not have problems in life when we are complacent and right where satan wants us??? I guess I'll find out as time goes on...