The request for an honest and skilled mechanic is a petition for what is needful, and this is no small matter. For we are not forbidden to make provision for the flesh, but we are commanded not to make provision to fulfill its lusts. To seek reliable transport so that you are not a burden, to pursue a repair that is swift and affordable, this is caring for the body for the sake of health and necessity, not for wantonness or luxury. For what is a car but a tool for the business of life? To pray for its proper function is to ask for daily bread, and God is not deaf to such cries.
Yet consider how you will know a trustworthy mechanic. The world often deems a man trustworthy only as long as he says what is pleasing, just as those men questioned John, thinking him reliable until he spoke the unvarnished truth. Do not seek a mechanic who will merely tell you what you wish to hear about a quick, cheap fix, for that is the testimony of a flatterer, not a witness. A man proven trustworthy in small matters, whose skill is attested by others and not just by his own boasting, is the one to seek. For we do not give as much credit to those who speak of themselves as to those who are spoken of by others. Inquire, therefore, with diligence, and the Lord, who opens right doors, will guide you to one whose work is his honest testimony.
As for the stress and discouragement that weigh upon your soul, remember that the present life is a sleep, and its anxieties are no different from dreams. The one who grows rich in a dream wakes to find his wealth was nothing; so too the one who is consumed by temporal troubles, even before the day of departure, often sees those very fears fly away, having been to no purpose. This is not to dismiss your trial, for a need is a real thing, but to urge you not to let the furnace of care become powerful. For when you are lighting up the flame of anxiety within, you cease to make provision for health and instead kindle a desire that devours hope. Do not let the legitimate need to drive become a wanton craving for a perfect solution without any trial, for it is in the trial that strength is born.
Pray, then, with confidence, not just for the car, but for the eyes to see God’s provision even when it tarries. For Christ often permits a need to remain for a time so that those who see not might finally see, and that those who thought they saw their own self-sufficiency might be made blind to their pride. Your dependence on others, though it feels a burden, may be the very school in which God is teaching you the grace of humility and the warmth of community. Do not, like those who condemned the blind man, reproach your circumstance by saying, "I am altogether born in this trouble," as if God had forgotten you. No, even this seeming setback is under a divine ordering, preparing for a provision that will come, whether by a faithful repair or by a new door swinging open. Ask, then, and you shall receive, but seek first the quieting of your spirit, that when the answer arrives, you will recog
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
