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:
- The car did not stop on the expressway
- Someone offered to help move the car away from the main road to the side of the road
- The car stopped at a place close to where I could get a new battery
- The advice from a passerby on the best battery for the car
- The Lord provided the resources to buy a new one
- I got to church though late, but I didn’t miss the rehearsals
- Safe journey back home
- The privilege to share this testimony and many more …
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