Take This Land

Well it has been a whirlwind journey of searching for property.  As many of you know, my husband and I have been in search of property for almost a year.  Our search has been a long one but alas has come to an end. 

On January 7, 2012, I wrote a post called So Many "Ache"ers.   It dealt with a piece of property that my husband and I just knew would be ours but unfortunately, it would not come to be.  We have looked for property and the one thing at the top of my husband's list was to have a nice view. 

After all that heartache, God led us to a place that had a for sale sign on it but we refused to call on.  Then, after all else failed, we decided to call.  Of course, on the first call there was no answer and I did not leave a message.  What kind of realtor doesn't have an answering machine?  Our next trip up, I decided to call again....still no answer.  By this time, I wasn't really interested but now it was the principle of the thing.  On our third trip and third call, a man answered because of course, the realtor listed was not there. 

From that day on, the man named Mike helped us.  He took us to the property, showed us around and gave us all the information we needed.  Of course, when he told us the price, it was way out of our league.  So we told him we would have to think about it.  We went home and prayed about it with my our prayer being one we had learned from one of our ministers. 

Father, if this is to be, let this be something nobody can take credit for and something that only you could do. 

Almost two weeks later, we pulled up the MLS listing and discovered that the price had dropped by a huge chunk.  To our surprise, it put the property in our price range but still required a little more that we wanted to pay. 

We continued to pray and discuss the property and price with our "heads of state" our fathers.  Each of them has the wisdom that we lack and they were not thinking with their hearts as we were.  With discussions over, we decided that we would come in with a contract that was half of the original asking price.

Really?  Half price....now that would be something only God could do!  Are you kidding me?  Who in their right mind would submit a contract at half of the original asking price especially with them having already dropped it once? 

Well, we did it and know what?  They accepted the very first offer!  I was completely shocked because we had negotiated amongst ourselves setting up parameters as to how high we would go and how many times we would counter their counter offers.  No need!  God had done what only He could do and only what He could get credit for.  Oh and did I mention all this, the price drop and the accepting of our offer, all took place within three weeks?

So we give God all the glory and praise for what He has done and continues to do in our life.  We had chosen a couple of others where the door was clearly closed.  As much as we wanted those, God wanted us to have this one.  We don't know why but we do know that God has a purpose for this property and we have a vision.  We are estatic about this purchase we got everything we wanted except for one thing....a view!  I had to remind my husband of Isaiah 55:8 because God's ways and thoughts are not ours.  His plan for us did not include a view from our bay window. 

I can not wait to begin making plans for what this is to become.  I pray that we will be able to minister to couples in a way that will change marriages.   Thank you to all who prayed and we hope to some day move in and take this land for what it was intended. 

Go through the camp and tell the people "Get your supplies ready.  Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving your for your own.  Joshua 1:11