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.