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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
Start thinking South
For a long while I had felt the Lord saying to me that one day he was going to tell us to go somewhere, and we would not be able to take many of our possessions with us, so to be ready to let them all go. I didn’t really understand what that meant, but I had a clean out - gave away some unneeded items, sold a few things, reduced the surplus. Looking back, I can see that God was readying my heart to not be attached to “things”, but to be willing and able to just let go and follow Him.
As part of attempting to make ends meet, we rented out our house - not for enough to cover all the expenses attached to it, but still, it reduced the pressure on us - and we moved into a house provided by a Vet clinic for whom we took on a contract manning the phones for 4 clinics after hours - nights, weekends and holidays.
Rob did well on the Dairy Farming course, and within a few short months it was time to begin looking for employment for when the course was to end. We looked ALL OVER the North Island - eventually we applied for one position just south of Auckland, the city where we lived, and it seemed like one that would be really good for us. We felt we had a chance. We went for the interview, and we PRAYED that the Lord would open this door, and that his will would be done. Well, it turned out His will was to NOT open that door; I got a call one morning from the farm owner, saying that the choice had come down to us and one other couple, and he just couldn’t make up his mind, so eventually he tossed a coin, and he was sorry, but we missed out. Sigh.
As I hung up the phone, I glanced at a calendar from our local Christian Radio Station which was hanging on the wall, and noticed another month had ended, and it was time to rip off the top page, which I did. The very next month had a beautiful photo of a Kiwifruit orchard in Golden Bay, in the South Island, and immediately it came to mind “maybe we SHOULD apply for jobs in the South Island” - we’d seen several possibilities, but neither of us had ever been to the South Island, all our family were in the north, and by now I was pregnant with my third baby, and NO WAY were we moving that far from family! Hmmmm….
I remembered an ad we had read at the same time as the one for which we had just been declined, that had seemed perfect….except that it was in the South Island. So I dug out the ad, phoned up and asked if they had filled the position yet? The sharemilkers wife told me they were just coming to a final decision between three applicants, but when I thanked her, she said “tell me about your husband anyway”. So I did. To cut a long story short, we got the job - despite the fact that all the other applicants were travelling to the farm in Culverden for interviews, and we could not afford to. But God has kept saying, as we prayed for SOME way to go to the interview “don’t worry about it - you’re not to go - I’ve got this under control”. Of course, He did!
Ok, so now it’s March - we’re leaving for the South Island at the end of the month. We can’t afford to hire a truck or transport our furniture, so we have to sell EVERYTHING - it would have cost more for furniture removal than any of that stuff was WORTH!
So we advertised items, had garage sales, gave stuff away. Nearly every penny we got for them went towards (a) buying ferry tickets (b) paying overdue phone/power bills etc or (c) paying off debt. We even sold our car……
Read how God provided us with a car here: Betty Bucket
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