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God Is My
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"Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed." |
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In The Beginning
Six Hundred Dollars
The Next Step
Blowing In The Wind
Thinking South
Betty Bucket
In The South Island
Selling Our House
God Provides
A Home of Our Own
What Of Our Vision?
Conclusion
How To Know God
For Part One, go here: In The Beginning
A Home of Our Own
Two years from the time the Lord had told u s to get out of debt, we were debt free! What a wonderful feeling! We’d gone from $120,000 in debt to debt free. We didn’t own much - but we didn’t owe anything either!
However, since the vision the Lord had given us was to live somewhere remote, self sufficient etc, we supposed that that meant on land of our own, somehow, somewhere.
And we kept wondering and hoping and expecting God to provide some way of us owning our own property again. After all, we were now debt free, so surely he would do that soon!! But he didn’t.
7 years later, we still were no closer to owning our own home. After all, with 5 children, and low paying jobs, you just cannot save money for a house!
One day, I was lamenting the unfairness of it all to the Lord. I went out onto the paddock of the house we were renting, sat amongst our milking goats, and had myself a real good pity party! It’s just not fair! We’ll never be able to buy our own home! Boo Hoo!
But God is patient and kind, and I got over it. In fact, I got to a place of complete surrender of the issue. After all, we were living in a beautiful 6 bedroom home on 5 acres overlooking water near Nelson. It was a blessing to be there, and I knew I could be content there as long as the Lord wanted. If he decided we were never to own our own home again, I could be content with that too. And I was, truly!
God also has a sense of humour and an amazing sense of timing!
Within two weeks of my surrendering my desire for a home of our own, we had a visit from Rob’s mum, who announced she had decided she would like to buy a property with us, so she could live with us and the kids, and to help us get a start. Only problem was, all her money was tied up in a property she owned with Rob’s brother, who was showing no inclination to buy her out, so she expected it would be a year or three before she could, but would like us to think about it. However, Rob’s aunt and uncle had visited the area only a month or so earlier, and being a former real estate agent, Pat had advised Rob’s mum that if she was thinking of buying in the Nelson area, she should do it sooner rather than later.
Well, to cut a long story short, God just opened doors, and within 3 months we were moving onto a beautiful 17 acre river front property near Motueka with a 4 bedroom house, huge sheds, an acre of native bush and the most lush productive land I’ve ever seen! Us, who didn’t have a bean to our names! We couldn’t even pay the legal fees! Rob’s mum paid for half the property in cash, and we mortgaged the rest.
The intention was to build a small cottage for Rob’s mum, but that never worked out, as none of us could afford it. Eventually, after much prayer, and knowing we all needed our own space, we decided to sell the property and buy less land, but two houses. Meanwhile, as predicted, house and land prices in Motueka and Nelson had skyrocketed, and so when we sold 14 months after buying, the increase in the value of our property was over $200,000!! After paying expenses, and splitting the rest, Rob and I had been blessed with $80,000.
The Lord led us to move to Greymouth, where we brought a house, and then 18 months later to move back to the North Island to be nearer family. Since then, there has been a series of HUGE crises in our families, and it has been such a blessing to be in the same island and able to travel to help and support our loved ones.
With the two moves since buying near Motueka, we now have more equity in our own home than the entire value of the house that we gave up in Auckland, on which we lost everything. God is totally faithful!!
So, What Of Our Vision?
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