And so now, while still overwhelmed with the magnitude of selling one home and buying another home that fits your budget, we do have some next steps to follow. As a man of action, I always like that - having some steps to follow; and we do.
However, I still am not quite sure what God is up to. While I'm moving forward in faith, I have those moments of uncertainty where I wonder if I am following the desire of God for us or just assigning some emotion to God and pursuing things on my own. If I am following God, then I don't doubt his provision and know he will take care of us, but if I am doing my own thing, then these actions can really screw things up good!
So in my daily time with God these are things we talk about. I don't talk about them much with my wife, Amy, although we do talk some. And through this process I feel God's spirit confirming what we're doing. A confirmation that you cannot describe but can understand if you have experienced it yourself.
And while God is confirming this to me in undefinable ways, there are some definable ways also.
In March, I'm opening the mail and get the following letter. Someone is interested in purchasing our home. What? How could we get a letter like this? I quickly call our realtor and tell her. She asks me to repeat myself because she can't believe it either. I give her the number and let her contact the gentleman.A day later he is coming by the house to take a look at it. and we take him on a tour. This is so unexpected that we have not spoken to our realtor about a price. We quickly do that before the tour starts so she can handle the negotiations that will probably follow. The prospective buyer likes the house, he even was OK with the $$ figure we were asking for. The only challenge was that he wanted to do some creative financing that would have kept us from being able to finance our next house after we sold. So we parted ways.
While a prospective buyer walked away, I was not sad in the least. In fact, I had a supernatural sense of God's peace. You see the fact that he did not even balk at the price was an encouragement beyond belief for me. If he didn't balk at it, neither would others. And if we could sell our house for this amount of money, it would free us from all debt on the house and allow us to move on to whatever God had for us next.
Along with the peace, I had a true sense of overwhelming joy. God was confirming several things in my spirit. One, that we were on the right track. Yes, we are to sell the house and yes, God is going to make it happen. While we are active and busy, this is his sale, not ours. Two, that we were in the right ballpark in what we were thinking we should list the house for. After completely getting burned by our house sale in Florida in 1999, I am apprehensive about panicking and under-selling the house here. Three, that if God wants it to happen, it will happen. The house was not even on the market and I'm getting letters from prospective buyers. How can I question God through this?
So while some may view this un-solicited letter and prospective buyer walking away as a bad thing, it was exactly what I needed at a time I needed it and I know that I will always be able to look back at this scenario and praise God for his provision and goodness.
To be continued...
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