Urgent prayer need

[miss-a]

It is 6am here and about zero degrees outsitde. I woke at 5:30 to the sound of my furnace, which ran for a few moments and then stopped. It's turned out that all the electricity in that part of my home has blown out, including the part that starts the furnace. I'm staying calm, but I need some miracles here. I do have a small electric heater that is helping, currently this is a very challenging situation. It's too early in morning to call anyone, and this is a mobile home and with the heating coils not working, I'm also in danger of pipes freezing and none of this is currently in my budget. so if you would keep all this in prayer, and also that I would hold steady in my faith. In the past, I've started out strong in these sorts of situations and then collapsed. I need to not do that this time.

God is much bigger than the mice who ate my wires, or whatever has happened.
Thank you so much.

 

[Bass4Jesus]

You've checked for tripped breakers, yes? If not, do so, looking closely at each one, because a tripped breaker can be easy to miss. If nothing looks obvious, then shut off everything in the affected area, turn the thermostat all the way down, then cycle the breakers one by one. Pay attention to how each one feels. A defective breaker will often feel loose/sloppy and can feel like it doesn't fully engage in its "on" position. After you've cycled the breakers, and assuming they all felt fine, turn the thermostat back up and see if the furnace starts.

Apologies in advance if you've already tried all that.

 

[dayhiker]

ouch .... P ray this is resolved quickly.

The tripped breakers is a good things to check for sure.
You can also turn on your oven. If its electric keep the door closed or it will burn out the heating filament. But a hot oven will put out quite a bit of heat.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

praying for it to be just a tripped breaker or something not so pricey. Also praying it will be fixed soon!

 

[Doctor Strangelove]

Praying that it will be an easy and inexpensive fix. Keep us posted.

 

[miss-a]

Well it was an easy inexpensive fix, and I so grateful for your prayers. I didn't freak out and even resolved that if it was a major thing, it would be an opportunity to trust God more than ever to provide. It also helped me look at my economics differently. I'd been hanging on much too tightly to the prospect of recouping financially. I lost a lot back when I got so sick a few years back. So when this happened, I thought my home might need a complete rewiring, I have no idea what that costs, but I'm pretty sure I don't have it. Not all that long ago, it would have made me very upset to think I'd have to run up a credit card to pay for it. But today, I prayed, asked you all to pray, and got quite quickly to a point of realizing if the credit card had to happen, God could handle it. I really attribute that change to His faithfulness and you all taking care of me in prayer.

I'm a bit tired from getting up too early and having to kick into gear and handle the situation, but other than that I'm in good shape. And my manager at work even agreed to let me do some work on Saturday to make up for work lost today, something they generally don't allow. God is good!

Thanks, Friends

Blessings,
a

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

Great news! I'm still curious though what went wrong or what needed fixing? I'm kinda nosy that way.

I'm with ya on the credit card thing. Sometimes I have to say Praise the Lord I HAVE a credit card in emergencies and YES God can handle it. It's us humans that have the little faith.

Anyway

Praise the Lord!!!

 

[miss-a]

Not nosy, just interested. That's not a bad thing. The problem was at the pole, not in my house. Apparently those cables we see have two wires in them. One was overheating at the pole, and when it did, it would trip a circuit breaker in the box on the pole. My home was only getting part power and picking and choosing what it could power up. So the expense was not mine. It was the landlord's because I only own the home, not the land it sits on. The only thing I had to pay was $25 to the electricion who came out and looked at my home and diagnosed the problem. Yuh. A guy from my church. He only charged me $25. And then I got an email from my manager telling me I'd won the mini contest we were having at work. Do you want to guess how much the mini contest paid. Yip. $25!!!

The Lord definitely telling me He's got me covered!

 

[dayhiker]

That's great news, miss-a.

It costs big bucks to rewire a home. I just had a little wiring done on my home this summer. I helped the electrician and it was $1100.

 

[Bass4Jesus]

Thank you for posting the solution. Interesting that the phases are on breakers outside the dwelling, but I guess that's because any given transformer will feed more than one dwelling and they want some isolation for cases like this -- so other dwelling's aren't affected by load imbalances. Next time you see the electrician, ask him if the breaker tripped because of loose/defective wiring outside. If he says the wiring was fine, then you could have a load imbalance inside your dwelling causing that outside breaker to trip, and the chances are good it'll happen again. It's not dangerous in your case, just a nuisance. The fix would be moving a couple/few wires around (load redistribution) behind your dwelling's breaker box panel. Half hour job max, from the time he walks in the door to the time he walks out. Anyway, thanks again for providing the details.

 

[TheyCallMeDavid]

It is 6am here and about zero degrees outsitde. I woke at 5:30 to the sound of my furnace, which ran for a few moments and then stopped. It's turned out that all the electricity in that part of my home has blown out, including the part that starts the furnace. I'm staying calm, but I need some miracles here. I do have a small electric heater that is helping, currently this is a very challenging situation. It's too early in morning to call anyone, and this is a mobile home and with the heating coils not working, I'm also in danger of pipes freezing and none of this is currently in my budget. so if you would keep all this in prayer, and also that I would hold steady in my faith. In the past, I've started out strong in these sorts of situations and then collapsed. I need to not do that this time.

God is much bigger than the mice who ate my wires, or whatever has happened.
Thank you so much.

Im sure by now you have gotton your furnace going again. Im a semi retired Heating and Cooling Tech/Owner and so Ive been on many many service calls like yours. Hopefully you remembered that your oven is an emergency source of heat available to you . Often, turning it on can be the difference between frozen pipes and getting by . Remember that. Also, if the furnace is acting up .. it is usually best to just shut the whole thing down so you avoid doing further possible damage to it. Lastly, id have at least 2 portable Heaters in your Home in case of a furnace breakdown .