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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
Selling our House
We had not long been in Murchison, when we felt it was time to put our Auckland house on the market. Remember, we had paid $102,000 for it, we owed $85,500 in mortgages, plus we were behind in the rates, and the market value was $70,000. We just prayed, Lord, let it sell for enough to pay it off - we don’t want to be paying a mortgage on a house we don’t even own anymore!! We had a number of offers in the first month it was on the market - mostly for rent-to-buy situations, all of which wouldn’t work out financially good for us, so we turned them all down, despite pressure from the agents to accept. God just kept reminding us of Psalm 37:5 “Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this” and v7 “be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him”. At the end of a month, we sold the house for enough to pay the agents, the mortgages, but not the rates. But, then we got back the paperwork, and I suddenly realised that I had forgotten about the mortgage repayment insurance we had paid in a lump sum for 20 years cover when we brought the house. The rebate from that paid the outstanding rates, and all in in all we walked away with $1.32. No house, no deposit - but no debt on it either! God is good.
Jim Elliott, one of 5 missionaries who was killed trying to reach the primitive Auca tribe, said
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
God has asked us to give up
- Rob’s well paying job
- our home
- our “right” to live in Auckland and be near family
- our friends
- all our possessions
- our car
- our “right” to control our future
But ultimately, we couldn’t have kept any of these things anyway. And in return, we’ve had incredible experiences, the knowledge that God loves us and is in control of every aspect of our lives. We’ve seen miracle after miracle happen right before our eyes.
Let me share some of the miracles of provision: God Provides
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