2 days ago I witnessed a miracle. I've had miracles happen in my own life before and I think anything that we can't make happen on our own can be considered a miracle, but when you SEE it happen right in front of your eyes, it's absolutely amazing. There is something wrong with my car; it has to run above 25 miles an hour or it will overheat. don't ask me why - I have no idea. It's been that way for about 3 months now. I haven't had the money to get it fixed so I've learned not to go through fast food drive thru. (their not always that fast you know!) After over heating a couple of times and actually having the car shut off and refuse to start, I've learned to pay attention to the water temp gauge. The strange thing is, even if it has started to heat up, if I can get the car out of traffic and speed up, the temperature will drop in like 30 seconds! Who knows?? I'm just blessed to not have much rush hour traffic on my regular routes.
So anyway! My husband was asked to share his testimony Thursday night at a Worship & Prophecy Conference over in Tampa. (Last meeting tonight @ the Clarion hotel - 6:00, Fowler Ave.) so we head out about an hour early planning to grab dinner on the way. We hit rush hour traffic on the bridge into Tampa and the water gauge begins to rise. I think we're maybe half way across the bridge when the gauge hits red and we have to pull over or blow the engine. so we're parked on the side of the bridge in tons of traffic in the middle of the ocean (OK, the middle of the bay.) I was shocked how many people decide to drive down the side of the bridge to bypass waiting in traffic lanes - they weren't happy with us! My husbands getting concerned for our safety and says we have to make it off the bridge. After about 10 minutes, the temp has gone down half way and he says to go. Of course we've been praying the whole way. I pull back into traffic and the temp starts rising again. I had been asking for God to part the sea - move the cars, clear a path, miraculously make the path open before us. Nothing happens. We haven't gone very far before the temperature gauge is near the red again. I pray silently, "God, Please make this thermostat or whatever it is kick in and cool this car down. The next time I glance down the temperature has dropped slightly! As I continue in slow traffic, the gauge continues to fall. It dropped to below 1/2 way and stayed there the rest of the trip into Tampa! It was a miracle right before my very eyes. We had to skip dinner, but we made it to the conference during the first 5 minutes!
I know without a doubt it was a miracle. Last night we had another event in Tampa and had to pull over 3 times on the way there and ended up being almost an hour late! Yes, I know - it's time to get the car fixed! Isn't God good?!
