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<\/p>\nToday, I was in more pain than usual due to sickness this week. My head was pounding, feverish & dizzy, it was huge effort just to try & get up to lead the family in devotions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Typically, someone had arranged to come and pick something up that I could don\u2019t put off so I had a few things to do to be ready. He arrived and I had the feeling I needed to tell him about Jesus. I shared a very short testimony, not much, but about all I could muster. I had a thought that I should have done more, given a Bible, explained more – but it was too much and now he had left – too late!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Or was it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
About 30 minutes later, just as I was preparing to go back to bed to try get well, my wife rings:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cthat guy has broken down on Wanneroo Rd\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seriously? He is a mechanic – \u00a0*surely* God doesn\u2019t want me to\u2026 I know the right thing to do so I message him offering help. A short time later we are getting tools, fuel, batteries whatever we can think of (and some cool drink for him of course) and head down to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His battery is flat, the car won\u2019t run and it is clearly a fuel issue. After praying and an hour or so of diagnosis, we figure out the issue is a blown fuel pump which is inside the fuel tank. He takes it out and we put power to it while tapping with a hammer & it comes back to life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Re-install & still not running we finally hunt down a blown fuse in a gas \/ petrol circuit that had been added. And now it\u2019s alive – he\u2019s ready to go. This time I share a bit more with him about Jesus and explain that if I had been obedient the first time, he may not have broken down\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
I give him a Bible & a couple of tracts, elated, he drives away. I head home to rest, kicking myself for my disobedience, but fully aware it won\u2019t be long until I fail God again. Thankfully, He is supreme and works within my (and all of our) weaknesses and failures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What a *big* God we serve!\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What\u2019s important is that God makes the seed grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
1 Corinthians 3:7-8 (NLT)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Lord, thankYou for Your faithfulness. Please open Mike\u2019s (not his real name) eyes and convict Him. May whatever feeble words I spoke be turned to spirit & life by Your power. Bring others around Him to lead Him into Your Truth. Please help me in my weakness to be obedient at all times, I need You.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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