Lately there seems to be a prominent
theme in my study times: prayer and seeking 1st the Kingdom of God.
Kingdom of God and His Righteousness is everywhere! At the women’s conference a
few weeks ago, at the girls retreat a couple weeks ago, in the books I’m reading
and the Chronological Bible I’m most of the way through. Prayer has been an
ongoing theme for years, one that I always seem to be begging God for me because
honestly many prayers bore me. But recently it’s been centering on believing as
you ask for what you are asking about and not doubting. I mean the power that
God says that we will have is just beyond my brain power. Jesus says to His disciples
that they will do greater things than He did. I mean He raised the dead, He was
raised from the dead, He brought immediate and complete healing, cast out
demons, turned water into wine, the list is endless. But we are to do greater
things than Him. MIND BLOWN!
I want to share some things because
if I wait until they have been done to tell the story then it’s not really an
act of faith its just a record of things that happened. We have been living
kind of a transient life for 5 years now. So, the biggest desire for my family is
to have a home. A home where we all have a room and have room to spread out.
But also, a home that will accommodate the call we feel God has put on our
lives, which is a story for another day. Several months ago, before our TN
house sold, when we knew we couldn’t buy yet, but were so desperate for an answer,
we went and looked at a place. I thought it was empty based on the pictures
online. Turns out it wasn’t. J, never having met a stranger and able to
communicate with just about anyone, gets out of the car to meet the homeowner
who was doing a project in the front yard. I told him the kids and I would just
stay put. I felt funny as is often the case when strangers are involved.
Anyway, J had quite the conversation and I was waiting in the car, I felt like
God whispered in my spirit: this is your home. Now, I feel funny mentioning
this. I felt funny telling J and then my Barnabus and haven’t really told many
people until recently. We have officially viewed this property twice now. J was
not all that impressed. He has been going out of his way to draw up plans for a
building project, a way for us to have exactly what we want. And while I have tried
to be supportive and on board with the leader of our family, I keep going back
to that house.
In the last week J and I have
launched a campaign, a faith campaign. We are praying like it is already our
house. We have listed our current property for sale. I am actively thanking the
Lord for working out the details and finding a new home for the current occupants.
I told 5 gals the other night at supper that we are actively believing God to
have the deals done by the end of the year. The house will require work, so it
won’t be livable by the end of the year, but I plan to be remodeling by the
very beginning of 2019.
Today after church I told J that we
needed to go pray at our new house. I am so proud of my man. He drove right over,
and we prayed. But when the kids connected the dots they got whiney, turns out
they aren’t excited. After explaining that they simply couldn’t overlook the mass
of stuff around the house to see the potential that they would just have to get
on board because they don’t get a vote.
Believe with us that we will have a
home by the end of the year and that next year will be all that I feel in my
spirit that it will be as He enlarges not only our territory but our family as
well.
