Thursday, July 14, 2016

Ask the Holy Spirit

Psalm 46:1 (NKJV)
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

Last week during the holidays, I wanted to mend some of the curtains in the house with the sewing machine. I fitted the electric motor, threaded the needle and everything appeared ready for me to begin. However, when I started sewing, the stitches were jagged and the thread was breaking intermittently. I tried everything to fix the issue and eventually gave up. 

Two days later I tried again, this time around I called my mum who is an experienced seamstress. In her usual manner she said “Ask the Holy Spirit”, I didn’t even think of that, I began to wonder, hmm it may take sometime for me to get feedback from Him (lol) and I needed to get this job done. Anyhow I prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to help me fix the issue with the sewing machine.
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Few minutes later, He reminded me about using youtube – Eureka! I got my tablet and googled “thread keeps breaking on sewing machine” and voila I found out that I didn’t thread the machine properly.

So armed with the knowledge I sat down and re-threaded the machine and it worked. The stitches came out fine and I mended the curtains. I was ecstatic. It was also an opportunity to teach my daughter to always ask the Holy Spirit for help, she was happy that the sewing machine worked and we could mend the curtains!

Thank you Lord!



Monday, July 4, 2016

Counting My Blessings

Last week Thursday, I was driving to church in the evening for Choir rehearsals. It was a smooth ride all the way until about 2.5km to my destination. I was held up in traffic which is usually about 10 minutes delay, I switched off the car engine. When the traffic started moving, I turned on the ignition but there was no response I suspected the terminals of my battery was not properly fitted. I came out of the car, opened my bonnet and with the wheel spanner I tried to fit the terminals properly, started the car again same response. 

Frantically I called out to the driver beside me, asking if she had a jump starter, she didn’t have, asked about two other drivers also, none of them had. A passerby suggested that there was a car mechanic nearby and directed me to the place. The mechanic got a battery, fixed it my car and ran the car engine for a while replaced it with mine and the engine stopped running. Apparently, my car battery had completely discharged! The remedy was to get a new battery immediately; it was getting late 6:40pm in the evening. 
I called my husband and told him what was going on, described the location where I was held up and he told me there are battery shops close by, I asked around and got someone who brought a new battery, however we couldn’t fix the new battery because we had no spanner.

The seller went back to his shop to get a spanner. While I was waiting for him to return, another passerby offered to assist in fixing the new battery without a spanner (I wanted to learn something new), he opened the new battery pack and said “Madam, this is a 65 amps battery ask the seller when he returns to get a higher grade 75 amps battery”. When the seller arrived with the spanner, I told him I’ll prefer a 75amps battery, he agreed and went to get it.


At the end of the day, we got the car moving made a quick stop by an atm machine and paid off the seller, arrived choir rehearsals 20 minutes late.

In all these things I give thanks to God for His goodness. Counting my blessings in the space of 1 hour they are:
  1. The car did not stop on the expressway
  2. Someone offered to help move the car away from the main road to the side of the road
  3. The car stopped at a place close to where I could get a new battery
  4. The advice from a passerby on the best battery for the car
  5. The Lord provided the resources to buy a new one
  6. I got to church though late, but I didn’t miss the rehearsals
  7. Safe journey back home
  8. The privilege to share this testimony and many more …