Monday, August 13, 2007

If we had not obeyed God

Carol and I are just checking in once again. We just wanted to let you know that the word that our Bishop just recently gave us regarding the Lord creating what is missing is coming to pass in a big way.

Our Bishop indeed, spoke life into the man in the box and our whole world is turning around. Since moving the services to Sunday, we have experienced major spiritual breakthroughs.

On every level, in every area, life has totally changed. Just like our Bishop prophesied, we have moved, we’re in a better home, and our sons are still in the same school district.

The town home is more like home than any place we’ve ever lived. It’s the perfect size for us, especially since our sons are all about to leave home as they mature and prepare for life after high school.

Did I tell you that the real estate company that bought our house had locks on the doors just six days after the sale? Normally they are supposed to give the tenant 30 days to move out. The Lord heavily impressed on us that they would not honor the process (which is normal around here) and that’s why we moved out during the first week of July (1-7). The following week, the home was sold (12th). On July 18, I stopped by the house to make sure our mail was being forwarded and there were locks on the doors.

If we had not moved out, we would have come home from work one day and found ourselves locked out of our house. If we had not obeyed God… This experience has taught us the value of agreement with what God means by what He says and obeying every single little thing that He tells you to do.

We thought that the word He gave my mom when she visited back in August 2004, “I see a legal matter coming against this house, but God is going to deliver you.” that it meant we were going to see some big financial miracle that would save the house. What God meant was that He was going to deliver us, not save the house.
Now here we are, with a major debt removed and preparing a people to follow us as we follow Christ.

Carol and the twins are doing great. I just helped them complete their “Senior Project”. I took a couple of days off to help them write papers that are required by law for all students to graduate from high school. The paper requires that they research a field, log hours of community service and verify job shadowing and mentorship from a professional in a particular field of study.

Well, that’s where dad came into the picture. So we took the time to go back through our entire calendar over the past three years to recount all that they have done in setting up, recording and helping Fruitful Life for three years. Then based upon their experience and training, they wrote “Reflection” papers to talk about what they hope to do to continue in the field of multi-media production.

Once again we broke the stereotype as I walked into the school with them to hand in their projects. This place is awfully frustrating with all of its laws, rules and fees, but it is good training for us and our children.