Let me tell you what God did today!

We have been having a few problems with the car we have been driving, nothing at all major, we thought. 

Well let me start out by saying being from america and an oil light goes on what do you do? You add oil to the car right, what if the light that comes on says "Oil OK". Being the not so smart american girl, driving a foreign car, on the left side of the road, stick and wheel on the other side that I am use to, I think this is great the car is letting me know that I am fine on oil.

Wrong! Guess again, the car is saying, "You need oil, OK". I said that to show you just how much God did for us today. 

We went to Tesco's (Super K-Mart) tuesday night after our youth outreach. We just needed a couple of things so I ran in and Stephen stayed in the car with it running. I got a little side tracked when I got in there so I ended up taking about 30 min. (Thankfully I am married to a very understanding husband, who also has a palm, so I was safe) After loading the stuff in the boot, he told me he had to shut the car off because it was making a vibrating noise and shaking some. We cranked up the car and it was not sounding well that is for sure. We decided we should go straight to the house, the whole way home it just felt like there was water in the lines, sputtered a bit like the gas was no good. 

Getting home wasn't to bad of a trip. We pulled into the drive and waited till morning so we could take it to the shop here in town. Felcker Auto repair was overflowing with customers when we pulled up, they said it would take a while before they could do anything for us, then the Father of the family owned business decided to take a quick look. He said he was out of the part he needed to fix it, and it was supposed to be here already but hadn't come in yet. So he told us to come back tomorrow afternoon and he would squeeze us in. He also said don't drive the car, cause it could damage the (something expensive). 

So we got ourselves back to the house and John ( a member of the church), he picked us up for the wednesday night service and brought us back. We had a great service, Stephen taught out of the book I John, and prayer meeting.  

Stephen called the auto shop and talked to Darren, who told us 4:30 was the best time to come down. So down we went to get this part put on the car. So we get down there and the son is there not the dad, no problem he says "I got to run to town, be right back 2 min." So we wait.  Now it is a very cold day today some where around 1 or 2 (34 to 36) it had been snowing a couple of hours before, the wind is blowing gust up to 60-75 mph, it is not outside weather. 

Darren gets back and starts working on our problem. He puts the part in and well, it didn't work the way it was supposed too. So he works on it some more, then he gets out the computer, when a mechanic gets out the computer it is not a good sign. So we wait and wait some more. Then he goes inside makes a phone call and comes back out to us. He said "I don't want to ruin your day but I think it is your fuel pump, oh yeah and we can't fix it for two weeks, if you need it fixed faster it will cost 400-600 at another place, it will cost half that to do here. 

He told us to wait about 10 min and see if the computer in the car resets itself after the new part was put in. We just prayed. I prayed that the Lord would fix our car, that it wouldn't cost us a ton, that some how it would be something easy. Darren came out to the car to check it and said that it was still not working and the oil was almost out of the car. He pulled the car into the garage and was going to add some oil, make an appointment in two weeks to put in a fuel pump and send us on our way. 

Then God said hold up. Darren comes in and says "I got it fixed it was ( not an expensive piece) instead of a fuel pump." He explained the details of how he couldn't believe he hadn't noticed it before. Stephen and I rejoiced knowing in was the Lord and saying so. I was just bubbling over with glee.

God not only saved us hundreds of dollars today, in the long run he prevented us from blowing up the car we are using if we had run it out of oil. God is so wonderfully amazing. 

Thank you, God, for all that you are. 

I just had to praise him out loud sort a speak. 

Pride and Honour

I was reading today in Proverbs 29:23 "A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit."

I began to think about the difference's between the two.  

Honour refers to things like, a high respect, a clear sense of what is morally right, a woman's chastity, to fulfil (an obligation) or keep (an agreement) and things like grace, privilege.

Pride is more a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from achievements, qualities, or possessions that one has obtained themselves, consciousness of one's own dignity, or quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself. 

What if I took a look at what I was doing for the Lord with a lot less pride of what I was putting into it, and remembered it is an honour to be able to do anything for him. 

I can recall someone saying how they would rather clean the bathrooms of a church in God's will then be a millionaire out of God's will. In my heart it now has more to do with the honour of serving him than the pride of doing something for myself. 

It is a tremendous honour to be serving God, where ever you do it. From the local church to across the world on a foreign  field. 

Praying for Friends

As I read the blogs, emails and websites I am reminded to pray for my dear friends on the field. All of us want to know how to pray for those who we care about and the work that they are doing.

God knows the hearts of man, may he help me to pray with the heart of my friends and loved ones. I want to hurt when they hurt, to be excited when they are excited, to have a longing to be with them as they serve.  Though I may not be able to leave the position that God has placed me in to go where they are, I am able to intercede for them at the throne of grace. 

What a blessing to be able to pray for millions, to ask God to do something mighty in the lives of other servants working for his glory. I challenge you to ask God to do a work in the life of a missionary, a pastor, layman in the church, a godly saint of the Lord, and not tell anyone except the Lord your prayer, then watch God do a work and give him the glory.  

No one may ever know that you prayed for them, that God heard your prayer and did a work through you. God knows what you have done and he knows your heart our goal here on earth is not to seek honor and glory for ourselves, it is to glorify him. 

Truly it will bless your soul to see God working in ways that marvel man. 

God is in control

Life is full of twist and turns along the way, the thing I like to remember is that God knows what is around the corner, under the bush, and all around me; he is preparing me for what is going to come next. I like many others have grown up over the years with a very colorful past then the Lord stepped in and cleaned me up and set me a prat form the world I once knew so well. 

I went through stages dealing with all the things I had done in my past. I first was ashamed of where I had been and what I had done, then I began to be bitter that I lived with all this knowledge of what the world was really like and no one else seemed to understand, after that I was almost bragging at where God had brought me from, and know I think that I am neither ashamed, bitter, or boastful of what God has allowed me to go through in life. I am thankful that he has given me the opportunity to share my life, and my testimony with others.

To look at where I was and see where God has brought me in a very short amount of time is truly amazing. I often forget all God has done because my life is so different now.  At times thinking back on old friends and places it almost seems as if I were looking at some one else's life form a distance, that it was not really me in the first place, that it was some sort of dream.