My heart is so content with joy when I hear about someone’s testimony of God’s goodness. I want to share my testimony of our move with you. (I was blessed to share it with my MOPS group yesterday.) We have been planning our move to Connecticut for almost a year and it has been a time when we have had to trust God 100% . Although we tend to forget quite often, we soon remember that we can’t rely on ourselves for something this big.
We put our rental house on the market 5 months ago. We were at the point where it was time to possibly start to worry if it would sell or not, we did not have a single offer. That Monday, we went over to the house to pray that it would sell; on Wednesday our realtor called and said we had an offer; on Friday we had negotiated and everything was signed. God is good!
We went to Connecticut to look at houses. The house we close on in two weeks was listed for sale the night before the last day we looked at houses. It was the very last house we looked at and it was perfect for us. God gave us a beautiful snow as we were looking at it. We prayed whether that house was supposed to be the house we were to live in. (There was another house that was nice that was being considered as well that was in another city.) My father-in-law prayed about it later that week and then opened his Bible. This is what he read, 2 Samuel 2: Then it came about afterwards that David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up ” So David said, “Where shall I go up?” And He said, “To Hebron.” My husbands name is David and the house with the snow was in a city named Hebron. God is good!
We put our house for sale. We waited three weeks, then the first buyer came to look at our house. They put a full offer on our house! (I had a dream before hand that the first person who looked at our house made a full offer, and through this dream God game me a total peace about listing it for sale.) God is GOOD!
I could go on telling you about of God’s goodness but now I want to ask you, is there something you need to trust God with? It could be little, it could be huge; the great part is, God is HUGE and He even cares about the little things in your life. He wants you to trust Him with everything.
12 Apr 08
I don’t trust God as much as I need to. I tend to think I can do it all on my own. Thank you for sharing!
12 Apr 08
Preach it, girl!
12 Apr 08
WOW! that first part gave me chills!
wonderful!
12 Apr 08
Yes, I need to trust God this week as I am waiting on biopsy results from my 18 yr old daughter’ mole……I’m so worried…I’m trying to trust but I’lm so scared.. I have about a week to wait and I’m so obsessed thinking about it that it’s hard for me to concentrate on anything else…
12 Apr 08
Thanks for the encouragement. There are lots of areas for us now and it’s awesome to hear such a wonderful testimony!
13 Apr 08
That is awesome. Every once in awhile God reminds me of the verse in (revelation?…can’t remember the reference at the moment) that says “YOU HAVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT…”!!! There are too many times where I just simply forget to pray about things and then God reminds me…HELLO…DID YOU ASK? THAT MAY BE WHY YOU DON”T HAVE…. We serve such an awesome God =)!!
13 Apr 08
I too, was able to share my testimony with my MOPS group this week at our Tea and Testimony. I realized as I was preparing to share my story all that God has been teaching me in the past nine months. The biggest lesson I have learned is that God is good. Yes, I know, very basic and something that all christians should know and believe. I said it, but I didn’t really believe it. Through doing two Bible Studies (He Speaks to Me and Discerning the Voice of God - by Priscilla Shirer) and through hearing Beth Moore speak at a Deeper Still event, I realized that I had to move past my devastation of the Lord because of a tragedy in my life over 12 years ago. I realized that I really did not think God was good and therefore did not trust him completely and believe that he really did want what is best for me. But PRAISE THE LORD God has removed the veil of unbelief and has shown me that he is good and I can trust him all the time in every circumstance - even the worst circumstances. What a difference this has made in my life. Things have not gotten easier, but I have totally changed my outlook - to God be the glory for that! I just love hearing the stories of what he has done (like in the case of your house). He has done exceedingly abundantly more than I could ever ask or imagine in the past nine months. I pray that the ladies that read your blog will know and experience God like you have and like I have!! Thanks for sharing and for giving me a chance to share!!
13 Apr 08
I’m happy to hear you are coming to CT! Can’t wait to see your CT bargains! What part are you moving to?
14 Apr 08
Amen to all of that! Let your praise be heard!
My children are a neverending reminder of God’s glory and mercy in my life. My husband and I suffered through the the passing of our two infant daughters two years apart. A friend of mine helped me to put all of my heart into God’s hands and give him all of my pain. Only months later, we were chosen to become the adoptive parents of a baby girl who was about to be born. She is now almost 3 and amazing and the best big sister of our son whom we also adopted at birth and is about to turn one.
Now tell me, how could you ever doubt a God who is that good and merciful? This is coming from a woman whose heart was shattered and hurt right down to my bones. I truly doubted that I would ever even smile again. God is awesome! Never underestimate miracles.
14 Apr 08
GOD is Good, All the time.
All the time, GOD is Good.
I tore my ACL three weeks ago playing soccer. And even in this I’m re-learning how good God is. I was feeling sorry for myself and read the first chapter of Job in response. And I was once again struck by Job’s initial response to his misfortune:
“At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said:
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will depart. [c]
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away;
may the name of the LORD be praised.” ”
EVERYTHING we have comes from God, and he is always glorified in all that He does.
24 Apr 08
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