Exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask...

"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3:20

We have wanted more land for some time and over the last year the Lord led us to prepare our house to sell though the market wasn’t promising. In September we put our house on the market and it sold in 40 days almost to the day.

Needing to move quickly, our buyers asked for an end of October closing. A friend from church rented us his dad’s house till we could find a house of our own. His father had recently passed away and they planned to sell it. Over the next two months we made an offer on a house that was turned down (the counter was we want the same price but we’ll move when you want us to) and an offer on a second house where the wife signed but the husband refused at the very last minute. A bizarre situation but one that was totally God. According to Anna “the Lord was herding us to the right place”. Cautiously moving ahead, the Lord faithfully prodded us along and gave us the boot when the time was right.

We saw many “nice” houses but as one of the kids said “they weren't exceedingly abundantly above what God could do”. When the house we were renting sold suddenly we knew that the Lord’s plan for us was to make a decision on a house we had already seen. The house we finally bought was one we had liked immediately but weren’t sure about the longer drives to work for John (from 20 to 40min) and church (from 6 to 35min). Since we have been here though we have adjusted to the drive and we think country living makes it worthwhile. We are grateful for God’s leading and care and for the many prayers made on our behalf. --- Jean