Vicki, your thought to lay hands on that non-obedient vehicle was the faith
that God honored in answering your prayer to keep the expense down.  You
didn't have to physically lay hands on it.  God saw it as done, expressed
in your trust in Him.

Loving you, because of Him,
Helen

Earlier, Vicki and The Rors wrote:
>Quick moment of reflection.
>Last Saturday night, as we were on the way to some friend's house for a
>surprise birthday party, our van suddenly decided not to start.  We were
>just leaving Safe Way, as we had forgotten to pick up a card.  So there we
>were in that parking lot.  The motor wouldn't turn over, and things
>intermittently came on, like the lights with the turn of the key in the
>ignition, and those funny little dinging bells that signify one thing and
>another.  It wouldn't have been so bad, except that I had the birthday cake.
>Well, the long and short of it was that we had to tow the car.  Then we had
>visions of how much it might cost to fix the ignition switch, which we
>thought was the expensive problem.  So we went through the weekend,
>borrowing my mom's car, very glad it was available to us.  Then, Monday
>morning, John had an idea to check the electrical current to the battery.
>There was some miniscule amount of current.  So, the real problem was the
>simple dead battery, not the ignition switch.  There were no prior
>indications of a weak battery either.  So with the $40 tow charge and the
>$40 new battery, our van was up and running again with much lower expense
>than we had envisioned.
>While in that Safe Way parking lot, we prayed that the Lord would keep the
>expense down on this little venture.  He did answer our prayer.  Temptation
>was to severely lay hands on this non-obedient vehicle.  Ha.
>
>So, in retrospect, maybe the problems we think are our problems, aren't
>really our problems at all.  By the way, the birthday cake, someone from the
>party came and picked it up.