THE HOUSE THE LORD PROMISED

There's lots of people today that say that it's difficult to hear from God. It's not difficult, you just have to "seek his face" and he will reveal himself to those that believe.

About 9 months ago the Lord told me that we would be in a house. Just so you fully understand the idea, we were not looking and thought we would rent for many years to come. We were paying $800/mo for rent, utilities, water; everything. We were spoiled. The Lord wanted to stretch us and our Faith! He told me we would be in a house in 8 months and told me the amount that was (extremely) low. Through the months to come we realized it was to get us to understand the monthly amount we wanted to pay. The amount was so low we were reserved to thinking condo or preferrably townhouse (at least I was), Katherine was always looking at houses ;-)

We were into 7 months and 2 weeks and we had not heard back from our Mortgage lady about some cleaning that needed done with my credit. We finally met and the credit still looked bad and the monthly rates weren't at all what we were expecting. Then she comes up with the idea of leasing to own. She knew a few people and had us connected within a day or two. Within the 2 week period we viewed 2 "HOUSES". Even though the house prices were out of our range completely, the monthly rates were just right. Within two weeks, we viewed 2 houses, agreed on OUR home, and had papers ready too sign the day after the end of the 8th month. Its twice the amount of house we could have expected on .27 acres of land. Check out the back yard.

We went from 750 sq ft to 1300 and .27 acres. GOD is Good!!!















It snowed on Saturday night.















Entertainment Room.















Tiny kitchen, but we got some big plans for this ;-)

The day we went to sign the lease papers, my bosses took me to lunch and offered me a raise and promotion. We were expected to lease the house for a year before attempting to sign the ownership papers so that my credit could repair and we could attempt to get better interest rates. The raise changed a few things financially that I don't fully understand, but we are now targetted to sign the ownership papers on May 1st. 10 months in advance!!!

Romans 4

20 Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God. 21 He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises. 22 And because of Abraham’s faith, God counted him as righteous. 23 And when God counted him as righteous, it wasn’t just for Abraham’s benefit. It was recorded 24 for our benefit, too, assuring us that God will also count us as righteous if we believe in him, the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.