Paying off debt

Financial debt is such a pain.
It can be never-ending, stress-inducing, spiritual-warfare. So how do you get rid of a financial debt that looms in your mind from the time you get up to the time you go to bed?
I brought some consumer debt into our marriage and really wanted to get rid of it. From listening to the late Christian financial counselor Larry Burkett on the radio for years I knew such debt was a sin as stated in the Lord’s Word. Not even a year after we married, I prayed, “Lord, we want this debt gone. Do whatever it takes to absolve the debt.”
Watch what you pray for.
Within several weeks after the prayer, I was driving through an east side intersection in town and WHAM! A big old Lincoln crossed in front of me, and I had nowhere to go but into her armored-tank side. The driver had no insurance, and my precious Volkswagen Golf was totaled.
The blessings began with the assigned city police officer having his son coached elementary intramural basketball by my husband. I was also thankful I was uninjured except for big bruises.
The ultimate blessing was finding out the car payment balance was nearly the exact amount my insurance company paid me for the totaled car. Coincidence? No. I prayed for debt absolution and the Lord surprised me with his version of answered prayer.
Would I have appreciated an easier remedy? Sure.
“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7
Isn’t that just like the Lord to give you a witness to share?
 
With joy,
Susan