I was working on a donated pickup truck and finally got it started and found the oil leak and it started and was running better than ever and I thought I had it fixed. So I drove it into another field where I feel safer and the motor ran out of oil just as I parked. I'm discouraged after all my hard work that such another major obstacle would happen and wondering what God wants me to do. It's probably the be worst situation of my life. Winter came back, the snow is drifting around my truck and I'm stuck sleeping in the truck because my bank account got hit by creditors overnight when I was trying to have fun in a hotel and find a lady to have lunch with. I ended up walking half the night until I finally got a ride. I was grateful for the ride, but don't understand why this is happening. I looked on the internet and saw that I'm doing the right things to free the motor which lifted my spirits because I was getting depressed after all that hard work. What on earth could the Lord be trying to help me understand?
This is an unforgiving place and I no longer enjoy living here, but the frontier has advantages. Family, friends and neighbors have have been trying to help with rides and loans, but I don't know why I'm suffering like this. I'm someone who doesn't like to give up, so it's important to have success. It's also a matter of survival to have transportation here. Now it's 10PM and too late to catch a ride into town.
So I thought I'd just think of things to be thankful for:
1). I have enough strength and understanding to fix the problem.
2) I have a phone.
3) I'm a Christian with spiritual gifts inspite of feeling discouraged.
4) I'm fairly healthy for my age.
5) I'm helping to free people by caring enough to share truth about the world and the Bible and to go out of my way to help others.
6) I've got $17 in the bank for coffee.
7) I know the storm will be over soon and it's much warmer than a couple weeks ago.
8) God is still winning inspite of a stalled truck.
9) my life may be stalled but the Covenant of Grace is not stalled.
10) the Lord is not stalled out
that's enough for now but
This is an unforgiving place and I no longer enjoy living here, but the frontier has advantages. Family, friends and neighbors have have been trying to help with rides and loans, but I don't know why I'm suffering like this. I'm someone who doesn't like to give up, so it's important to have success. It's also a matter of survival to have transportation here. Now it's 10PM and too late to catch a ride into town.
So I thought I'd just think of things to be thankful for:
1). I have enough strength and understanding to fix the problem.
2) I have a phone.
3) I'm a Christian with spiritual gifts inspite of feeling discouraged.
4) I'm fairly healthy for my age.
5) I'm helping to free people by caring enough to share truth about the world and the Bible and to go out of my way to help others.
6) I've got $17 in the bank for coffee.
7) I know the storm will be over soon and it's much warmer than a couple weeks ago.
8) God is still winning inspite of a stalled truck.
9) my life may be stalled but the Covenant of Grace is not stalled.
10) the Lord is not stalled out
that's enough for now but
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