An awesome God...

Back in February, me and Ross started looking at houses. There is nothing wrong with our current house and it has served us well and we have put it to good use and been able to bless others through this house, but we felt that if we had a bit more space, we would be able to use the house to bless more people. So we started looking for a larger house. We found a great house but it was out of our budget......we put in an offer of what we could afford and then prayed and left it with God. Yes, we wanted to live there, but deep down we just wanted to be where God wanted us to be.....and if we were to have that house we prayed that would accept our offer. They did - our offer was accepted. We were asked if we could be flexible about moving dates until the owner found somewhere else to live, and we agreed. Since then nothing has happened, and just recently I started to wonder if I really did want to move.....it had gone on so long that I forgot why I wanted to move and what I loved about the new house.

On Monday, I prayed again about the house - I have to admit, it had gone off my prayer list over the last 4-6 weeks, but Monday morning, I asked God to show me very clearly this week, why I wanted to move, whether I still wanted to move and if He did want us to move to make something happen. While driving my car on Monday past the end of the road where the house is, I just knew that I wanted to be there, in that house, the feeling was very strong. On Tuesday, God brought something to my door which reminded me of one of the strong reasons why we wanted to move in the first place. On Tuesday evening, during housegroup we all prayed that the situation would resolve itself and so today after I got home from my bible study, I received a phone call from the estate agents........the owner has put an offer in on a house he likes with a view to completing in August (which was when we wanted to move) but if his offer wasn't accepted, he has said that he will move out and rent somewhere so we can complete in August, because he only wants to sell the house to us........how awesome is that????

I know I shouldn't be surprised when God moves like this, but I am delighted to say that God does surprise me......and I'm so glad he does. Giving our lives over to God, following Him and only Him is huge, but the journey is so fulfilling. There is nowhere else I'd like to be. I love my life and I love my God.

Just do it.......

Why is it, that when God shows an area of our life that needs our attention, we try to avoid doing what needs doing??? Why do we think we can outwait God??? Why does it take sooo long to realise that when God wants you to address something - he wants you to address it and he will wait until you have addressed it??? Wouldn't I grow quicker if I just did what needed to be done???

When God shows me something that needs work, can I really think that by procrasting, ignoring, avoiding, debating it will let me off the hook? If God shows me something that needs attention, then it needs attention....and the quicker I get it done the less painful I can make it for myself. I can take years playing at sorting something out, going through lots of heartache, taking steps forward but also taking some steps backwards and not really moving forward at all - OR I can accept that God knows when and what needs to be looked at and 'just do it'.........because God won't let you leave it, God will wait and wait and wait until you realise that He isn't going away and neither is the issue. So I can take years taking a few small steps or I can take a deep breath, be obedient and push on through and be triumphant.

When you see it written down, it is so obvious isn't it??? So I'm going to adopt that as my personal motto.......Just Do It........lets see if I go through less heartache and grow quicker