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'My' truck is a 2000 Dodge Dakota Sport of the color green, and it cranks, and rolls on four wheels, and plays music, and has air conditioning (if you roll down the windows), and yes ... gets me from 'A' to 'B'. THAT - is all I really ask of it.
For a good while it was having trouble with it's primary purpose. When the key was turned, the truck would 'think' for a moment or two, before starting up. Start up actually was akin to a sputtering cough, but as soon as it was fully cranked and in drive - it was fine!
But, I was concerned for the inner workings of that jigsaw puzzle called an engine. I would have tried the 'one wrench and bolt method' that seemed to work so well in Far Cry 2, but the in side of my hood looks so different. You give me a computer, I will take it apart, put it together in twelve differing ways (results vary), but an engine in pretty much anything - I am lost as soon as I pop the hood.
All I am showing in this video is the first 25 seconds for the car fixing.
When I got my new phone (HTC Inspire 4G) I wanted to be able to charge it with the cigarette lighter ... thing. I do not smoke so it was never used anyway, so in getting all the necessary equipment I found that the cigarette lighter did not work. I decided to fix it.
After my above admission of how I could not work on an engine you may be thinking this was foolish of me, but HAVE NO FEAR - I fixed it without issue! Sort of....
There was something that was thought to be of issue - The truck would no longer 'cough' into a start every time it started. Now the truck would ... not ... start ... at ... all. A friend and I tried and tried many differing solutions to have it work properly. We ended up getting it all up and working, and just never put the dashboard plastic parts back on - but the cigarette lighter still did work. (every time the dash was on it did not work... )
The truck liked this setup - and worked just as long you gave it a bit of gas ever so often during the cranking process. The 'cough start' still existed most of the time, the new 'cough' 'gas' 'hold' 'pray' start crept in every once and a while, until (DUN, DUN, DUN) it decided that it would not start at all. The battery seemed to be sending power because all the indicator lights still worked, but the car would not 'turn over'.
I left for work one morning only to end up stuck, still on my street, with a truck that was unwilling to provide me with the simple forward momentum that I require from it. I called a friend (the same friend I mentioned earlier) for a ride to work, but instead he states that he thinks that the battery just needs a jump.
huh... I think - All the indicator lights, power window, dome light, radio, and just about everything electronic is working... how could it be the battery?
It was the battery, with a jump I am up and running again - and even though during that day I needed a Jump pretty much every time I used my truck - I WAS up and running again.
We had the battery checked and it was bad - then bought a replacement. You would think that my truck was like Hammy from 'Over the Hedge' the way it would now just about start even before I turned the key - that battery MUST have been bad!
I get like my truck sometimes and I bet that you do. The lights all still work - everything seems to be working great, so I/you MUST have all the power and energy needed to do what we are suppose to, but the truth is - we are in NO WAY moving forward.
We constantly feel drained and defeated. We may feel that with out 'something' we cannot do anything. We may try a lot of differing things to fill this void, but all we are missing is our power!
Our power can be sometimes "jumped" by those that are around us, though it is never really quite enough. It may only be enough to get us through one event, one struggle, or possibly two. What we need is a new battery! A new connection to the Lord.
In what I would consider 'the worst part of my life' a little while after getting married (not my wife's fault - she was one of the warriors to help pull me from that darkness - one of my 'jumpers') The thing that actually brought me out of it was Psalm 139!
Psalm 139:1-24 AMP
O LORD, you have searched me [thoroughly] and have known
me. You know my downsitting and my uprising; You understand my
thought afar off. You sift and search out my path and my
lying down, and You are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but,
behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. You have beset me and shut me
in--behind and before, and You have laid Your hand upon me. Your [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high
above me, I cannot reach it. Where could I go from Your Spirit? Or where could I flee from
Your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in
Sheol (the place of the dead), behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning or dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, Even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall
hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night
shall be [the only] light about me, Even the darkness hides nothing from You, but the night
shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You. For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in
my mother’s womb. I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of
my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in
secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought [as if
embroidered with various colors] in the depths of the earth [a region of darkness
and mystery]. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the
days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was
none of them. How precious and weighty also are Your
thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I could count them, they would be more in number than the
sand. When I awoke, [could I count to the end] I would still be with You. If You would [only] slay the wicked, O God, and the men of
blood depart from me-- Who speak against You wickedly, Your enemies who take Your
name in vain! Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You? And am I not
grieved and do I not loathe those who rise up against
You? I hate them with perfect hatred; they have become my
enemies. Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart! Try me and
know my thoughts! And see if there is any wicked or
hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
It was advice I was 'given' by a book called 'God's Psychiatry' by Charles L. Allen. I read it every morning for about a month straight (or less) and getting what this verse told me/taught me I became a new person again. I became a blood covered follower of Christ again with the power renewing comparable to the renewing of my truck with it's new battery.
Feeling like my truck did?
Renew yourself in the Lord!
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