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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
What of Our Vision?
And what of our vision to “live somewhere remote, be self sufficient, and minister to people the Lord would bring across our path”?
A few years ago, before the Lord enabled us to buy our own place again, I was seeking him about that. Why did it seem as if we were no closer than we had been at the beginning? Why wasn’t he opening doors? Why was it all so hard?
And the Lord caused me to look back over the years since we had left Auckland, and opened my eyes. He spoke to my heart, and told me that that vision had not been an end in itself, but had been a mission statement for the journey. That over the 7 years up to that point, we had been living in some of the most remote and beautiful places in the South Island, had been quite self sufficient - keeping our own goats for milk and meat, growing veges, fishing, grinding our own wheat and making our own bread, living with alternative power systems we had built ourselves, cooking on a coal range, chopping wood for our heating and cooking. And everywhere, we had ministered to people the Lord had brought across our paths - whether they had been families we met, folk we worked with, the old lady running a shop in her 80’s but unable to cook for herself, the minister and his family needing friendship, help and encouragement, the single mum living out in the Sounds, needing to know that the Lord was still with her, the sailor who would have been lost at sea if we hadn’t intervened, the Christian Community that had no one to fix all their broken down machinery, and many others.
All along, we had been doing what the Lord had told us - living in remote places, being reasonably self-sufficient and ministering to those the Lord brought us in contact with!
In Conclusion
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Cynthia
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