Good Morning,
As some of you may know, my family and I recently bought a new house, moved into it and then prepared and sold our former house. This was completed in a difficult real estate market and we prayed often.
When we found the new house, we fell in love with it and prayed for what to do. We felt led to purchase it, but as soon as we put in our offer in January, we found the house was going to be a short sale and it could take months to find out if the banks will allow us to buy the house at our offering price.
Throughout the end of January, all of February and part of March we prayed for an answer from God to whether we should continue to pursue this house or let it go.
Then on Friday the 13th of March, in my daily Bible reading I came across a passage which jumped out at me. It was Mark 13:13 which says:
“All people will hate you because you follow me, but those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved.”
My daily Bible reading also included reading another book which I read a chapter a day from. On that Friday, my reading ended on page 313.
That afternoon our realtor, Jenny, called and she told us that we had the house and we could work toward the closing (which happened within 2 weeks of that call). We moved into the new house at the end of April.
I was amazed with how God answered our prayers, but He was not done with our real estate needs. We had to put our other house up on the market and it needed some work. It was then that life blindsided us with many challenges including my Mom getting sick and passing away.
Our goal was to have the old house up for sale in May, but that quickly became June and before we knew it, we were back into July. Each month cost us about $1,000 to carry both houses.
We continued to pray to God to help us sell our house.
In all the mayhem, we were able to get the old house up on the market in July and shortly thereafter we had many showings and then a contract on the house a short time later. It was then, as I thought about the selling of our house that the following jumped out at me.
Our old house went onto the market on Monday, July 13th.
We had an accepted contract on the old house in 13 Days.
This real estate deal zoomed through the banks and the inspections and just this last Friday, August 28th, we closed on the house.
In our lives, 13 is a lucky number. It is the number that shows us the God did what we prayed for, he helped us get a new house that we love and helped us sell our old house fast.
And the Lord was not done there.
The new buyer simply loved all the work Karen and I put into the house. He plans on keeping the flowers as they are and enjoy the fruits of our efforts. The closing ended up like a bunch of old friends and family having a great time visiting. We were sharing information about the house, the homeowner’s association, and the gardens.
Everything on the purchase and sale fell into place. Just what you would expect when God runs the show!
Now how about that for God being a Realtor!
Praise the Lord!!!
Posts
