For years now I have been wanting to get a mini-van. I always wanted a Toyota Sienna. Well when it came time to get a van, I settled on a Ford Windstar. Big mistake. That van lasted me not even a year. It blew a rod on Christmas Day 2012. I was pregnant with my youngest son Zane. So in the following weeks we were able to find me another van right before the second semester of school started praise God.
I settled on a 2001 Chevy Venture. We had got it through some friends of ours, it was in our budget so we thought we were getting a good deal. NOT. Two months later we started having transmission problems. I took it to the shop (where we were buying it from) and well they didn't want to help us out. I kept driving it the way it was - slipping out of gear and the speedometer fluctuating where I had no idea how fast I was going. Finally when I was not able to hardly drive it anywhere, I took it to another mechanic and they told me I needed to replace the whole transmission. UGH ! Great now I am stuck paying for a van that needs a new transmission. So we bought a transmission and had another mechanic put it in for us. Everything seemed to work great... that day.
So after buying and replacing the transmission it was doing the same thing. Aggravated at the whole situation and not being able to do anything about it, I paid it off and continued to drive it in the condition it was in. Fast forward a year and a half - I am still driving it slipping in and out of gears, speedometer fluctuation, and having to put the heater on in the Texas summer in order to keep it from over heating. Yes I am driving around in 100° summer with my heater on. This whole time I am praying for a new van.
On Friday September 19, 2014 while at Bible Study, I asked for prayer on a new van. Guess what! I was prophesied to: I was told I was going to get a new van soon before this baby would be born and it would be in my budget. That was great to hear, but there was one problem. Budget.. My husband did not want to buy me another van.. We already been through two of them in the past 3 years. I did not know how that was going to come about. The next day (Saturday) we were heading to our friends quinceanera, I was backing out of my driveway when we hear this loud crunch and boom. I backed into a truck that was parked on the side of the street. Oh my we cant afford this and what are we going to do.
We looked at the damage. The truck I hit only had a cracked tail light and a couple of scratches no bigger than an inch long. My van well the back window blew out and the whole back door was dented in. It looked like I got rear-ended by somebody. Monday morning I was looking on Craigslist and found a really good deal on a van (the one I got). My mom told me she would help me out if I found one I liked. After God (and me) convincing my husband that I need a new van, and that one I had was not worth "fixing up" he agreed to buy me a new van. We spent most of that night looking and trying to find a better deal than the one I had found, but with no such luck. On Tuesday September 23,2014 I called the guy up who was selling the van, got the loan from my mom, and met the gentleman. After test driving and looking it over, I paid the gentleman and I drove off with a 2004 Toyota Sienna. This van is awesome. The prophesy came true! I got me a new van in my budget.
Keep believing in God and when he says hes going to do something. He will now matter if you believe it or not. God can do anything. He convinced my husband into buy a new van for me. It took me wrecking it (unintentionally) in order to get the van we prayed for.
Keep believing in God and when he says hes going to do something. He will now matter if you believe it or not. God can do anything. He convinced my husband into buy a new van for me. It took me wrecking it (unintentionally) in order to get the van we prayed for.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
