Removed the Minelab from selling it...

[Pete in MI]

there is no interest in it. Seems Minelab has come out with a newer unit which knocks the value down of all the previous detectors Minelab made. The SE and Xterras lowered the resale value of the Explorer II detectors. And now, in an ironic way, Minelab's new e-Trac detector has dropped the value of my Explorer II even lower...to a point I can't afford to give it away. So am keeping it.

I mention ironic because the new detector incorporates some design ideas I had suggested over a year ago but seemed Minelab was not going to make another detector using those ideas. So now the new machine - one that I had provided input into the development of - has now made it so I can't sell my Explorer. Ironic, eh.

So on the plus side, I get to keep an excellent detector and keep detecting after all...when my back isn't killing me. On the side of 'my ways' of trying to get bills paid off and get ahead or at least try to break even...now the water heater is about to lose the bottom out of it - sheesh - never ends, well my ways aren't working. This is God's reminder to me:

Isa 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

He knows what I need before I even know I have need and He meets all my needs...in His way.

OK Father, I get it. Forgive me for trying to do things my way and hindering You in doing things your way. Lord, you are in control, not me. Thank you for meeting my needs the way you desire to have them met. In Jesus name, thank you and glory to your name. Amen.

(Still selling the water detector though since I am not using it).

 

[Goes4ever]

Matthew 6 : 8

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

 

[mohayes1046]

Pete, hang in there!
Maybe this is the Lords way of keeping you here on this forum. We all need a friend to chat with, some we meet later and some we will never meet but we get support and encouragement from our friends around us. You are still in my prayers Pete!
Mark

 

[Anonymous]

Bro Pete, I am so glad you are going to keep the Minelab and still detect when you are able! God says seek and ye shall find and ask and ye shall receive! Just ask Him and know that He is God and is all powerful......there is nothing impossible for Him to do....but He does it in His own time and in His own way for our Good and for His Purpose!! God gets the glory and not man, by our giving Him our all.....that means everything and to not hold anything back, for He knows it anyway!

May your's and Sherry's hearts rejoice with His wondrous joy and be filled with His Holy Spirit with your trials less and less, unless God knows you need them to grow more Spiritual and closer to Jesus! I just heard this sermon this morning by Pastor Adrian Rogers on TV, channel 372....Direct TV! It was really good and about the disciples being put in the boat while Jesus went upon the mountain to pray! They had to row and work hard all most all night and wondered why the Lord left them instead of being in the boat with them! But He was praying and knew exactly what was going on and they were the ones who deserted Jesus, by worrying in the trial they had to go through! God knows our every need......even the trials we need to go through to draw us nearer to Him and to obey His Holy Word!

God Bless!
Betty