I have to tell you, I’ve taken to asking PERSISTENTLY for God to find someone to rent our California home. For us to move to Oklahoma (next week!) we either have to find someone to rent it or we have to buy out the lease, a cost of over $9000.
I have to be honest, for the most part, I’ve just been sick about it. I’ve worried. I’ve been tense. I’ve racked my brain for ideas on how to advertise our property. And since August 1, we’ve tried it all: Craigs List, Classifieds Ads, MLS, sign in the yard, word of mouth…all to no avail.
On Tuesday nite I remembered a passage in the Bible (Luke 11:5-13) that my friend Christi shared recently on her blog. For some reason it popped into my mind, and Wednesday morning I poured over it, trying to figure out what God wanted me to glean from it.
You can read it for yourself here if you like, but for the sake of a short blog post, I’ll sum it up:
God was asking me to ask Him for what I wanted. And not just ask, but ask PERSISTENTLY.
So I’ve been doing just that. God, I want our house to lease. I want someone else to sign a contract so we can be FREE of ours. I want to be able to move to Oklahoma without one more piece of debt weighing on our shoulders. I want there to be a good fit in renters for this home that has been such a blessing to us. God, please. I know your hand is in this move, please be in the details.
I’ve been praying constantly. I’ve been asking my kids to pray with me. I had a friend offer to pray with me…I took her up on it, and we prayed on our knees in her home with our kids playing around us. I sent out an email to friends and family asking them to pray, I asked the team at Scrap Girls to pray. And I’m posting here, asking you, can you pray for us as well?
Just tonite I found out for sure that there is a family that wants to lease our home. They just have some details to work out. They are hoping to have those details worked out by this Saturday. You can bet I’m praying specifically for those details. God, let this family be the ones we’ve been praying for.
I’m learning a valuable lesson in all of this. Actually a couple:
1. God wants to hear the desires of our hearts. He loves us and wants to know what’s burdening us. He wants us to run to Him and ask Him PERSISTENTLY for what we need.
2. There is great comfort and strength in community. I tend to want to be so independent, so strong on my own, and I’m feeling pieces of that fall away, as I reach out to so many at this tight financial time in our life. I want help. I want to be interdependent. I want to better grasp what Christ was talking about when He said His church was to be a body.
Thank you for growing me by letting me share with you.
I look forward to sharing the outcome with everyone of what God does.
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Hey Mandy-
Thanks so much for your post today. I have never been to your blog before tonight. I used your verse in my blog (I gave you props!) Thanks so much for sharing and I will be praying for you and your family!
Blessings and much more!
We are praying for you and your family and the family who wants to rent the house. I know all too well about wanting to be independent and not ask for help. Please keep us informed.
Hi Mandy, yes, I’m praying for you too.. I’m in an almost identical situation. We’re about to move. A move that was definitely God’s plan for us and as it turned out, perfect timing.
We’re moving back to my hometown initially because a Christian couple we know offered their home for us to rent at a very low price so we would be “blessed” and be able to eventually save and have our own home.
Amazing. Not our plan. But amazing and God’s plan, I know so we said yes. No deposit needed and they’re leaving a lot of things for us which we need (they didn’t know that!). But we’re short of money for the last part of our rent, bills here. Believing that it will come though.
And then, I got a call from my mum. My Dad’s very ill with “advanced stage” cancer of the colon. Long story. He doesn’t “look” ill and is still working but is about to undergo necessary surgery and chemo. They’re just waiting for results on his liver as they think it’s spread.
Anyway, the point is… God’s timing… perfect timing. It means I’m going to be back in my hometown at a crucial time. My mum’s going to need me as are my brother and sister…!
I’m sure it’ll be the same for you.. persistent praying and perfect timing! x
Thanks so much for the encouragement and prayers. It means a lot right now!
Ask – that is what he tell us. I am so glad that he answered your prayers. It is a comfort to know that you will be taken care of – God will push us – but never give us more than we can handle.
Ladybug hugs,
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Hey Mandy — I’m praying and wanted you to know that you have ministered to me in your blog so many times. Today was no exception. Our God is good!
Oh Amy! Hi! So good to hear from you. Thanks for the prayers. It’s great to know that what I write here has meant something to you.