I'll bet you are wondering how I am writing you this morning
when I'm supposed to be at work, right?
Well my day is going great! I
have some flex time at work and it's amazing just how God chose to use that
with me this morning. I got in my car to drive to work after exercising a
little of my flex time. I hear a sound like popcorn..it's faint but grows
louder. So I turn off my my phone which was playing a song by Mercy Me called
"When The Hurt and The Healer Collide". How ironic huh? I worshipped to this song over and over this
morning after watching Joyce Meyer's message as well.
So here I sit in my car
for a few moments, turn the key and I hear the same noise and it gets really
loud! So I turn off the car and open the hood. I see a small piece of a chopped
up belt laying on the ground. I fish it out and call my mechanic. Johnny is
absolutely wonderful and will take care of you! So while I have him he's
telling me that the belt on my car is 1.5" wide not just a few cm's wide.
So I go looking around and notice some fraying on the belt on the motor. Then I
see the rest of the strip laying down. Apparently my belt is shot. So now let
me back up and tell you just how blessed I am! Last month I took my car to get
Freon in it when the guy told me that I had a small leak but that he had fixed
it and added 15 oz. of Freon and he charged me $80. This was at another shop,
not Johnny’s. Less than 3 weeks later my air went hot again. So I took it back
and he said that it needed more Freon and that he would fix the leak again. I
took a witness with me when I picked up my car due to the phone conversation
that had me questioning the integrity of this guy and his 2.5 hours of work he
says he put into tracing for the leak and not finding it. During that
conversation he said that I was barely low on Freon and that he only had to add
another 10 oz..of which he charged me another
$70 for and went on to say that he could not find a leak. So now I’ve paid him
$150 and still have the leak somewhere. He wants to charge me another $35 to
trace for the leak again. I am a woman.. not an idiot. I felt he should not
have charged me the 2nd time anyway but figure he will answer to God
for that one some day. So now we get to the good part. Johnny tells me that he
will find the leak and fix it. I left my car with him over night while I went
to OKC for work with my job.
Johnny calls the next day and said that it’s my
compressor and that it has been spraying dye all over the place and even into
the motor. He said that he can’t see how this other guy missed it cause it
didn’t take him but a few minutes and a black-light to find it. So he gets me the best deal on a rebuilt ac
compressor. For my car, the best deal with labor included is $450. Johnny told
me about the warranty and backed up his work by saying that if anything goes
wrong that he will fix it free of charge cause he already knows that I’ve had
it in twice elsewhere. God is good and He
had already provided the funds for me ahead of time. So my car gets fixed and I
picked it up last night.
Now back to the present time at hand.. Johnny drives
to my house and takes a look and says it’s the engine belt and that if I will
pay the $15 for the belt then he will put it on free of charge! God is
awesome!! Now the best part of all of
this.. things started going bad for me a couple of weeks ago and they kept
getting worse through human eyes but I clung to the Lord and continued to pray
and seek Him through His word. I have learned that when things go bad in the
worldly realm that just means that something GREAT is about to happen in the
Spiritual realm!! This is when we must
hold on tight and not lose our hope nor faith in what God not only can do but
in what He WILL do when we are faithful and obedient to Him. So let me
encourage you all not to look at your circumstances in a negative way but to
cleave unto the Lord so that you can see beyond the hard times that come at you
and begin to focus on the positive things that lie in wait for you!
You see..
when God is about to move in a mighty mighty way, satan will throw detours your
ways.l Some detours may be things that look appealing and some may be that of
what I’ve experienced where frustration and doubt was satan’s hopeful outcome
for me. But I serve a VERY big God who loves me so dearly that He sustains me
and provides ALL of my needs ahead of time whether I can see them or not. And I
know that I have the authority to rise above the circumstances in life that
were ordered to cause me to stumble and fall. It is MY choice how I look at
things. Either I can feel sorry for myself and fall into the deep hole of
depression or I can spread my wings of faith, hope and believing and will rise
above everything that satan throws my way. It is OUR choice how we choose to
see and deal with things.
We must make sure that we choose wisely so that we
can reap the full benefits of what the mighty work that God is doing. There are
things at work in this world that we cannot see; some are by God’s hand and
some are not. So choose wisely. Just because it’s in a nice package doesn’t
mean it’s a good gift. And on the other hand.. just because it’s in a cardboard
box for now, doesn’t mean that it’s not the best gift of all! My car could have really gotten me down
because I prayed protection over it when I first bought it. But you know what?
I still have that protection! My car was
sitting in the drive way when the belt broke. Praise God that I wasn’t already
on the road!!
So now I have shared with
you my blessings this morning and it is my prayer that we all learn how to find
the triumphs in the face of adversity. If you open the book instead of reading
the cover, you will find the blessing of the beautiful story that God is
writing just for you!
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