Our move from Alabama to Texas was far too big of a move for Jared to haul the house himself, so we hired a professional to haul the house. The professional mover wouldn’t be arriving in Texas with the house until Monday.
This would be perfect for us, so that we would have time to check-in to the storage unit without the extra hassle of having the house.
With all that being said, we thought that things were going smoothly and better than expected.
However, upon arriving to Texas, we learned that we had absolutely no place to store the house! Not even a storage unit.
January 25, 2019 — Have you moved yet?
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When going to AL. (in 2018), the same day we are driving, Corn Dog asks if I’m moved yet.
Now going to Texas, the same day I’m moving down to Texas she texts the question, “have you move yet?”
What timing to ask a question! In both instances, my friends knew I was moving, but they have no idea on the dates. For this question to be asked so randomly, is quite peculiar.
January 28, 2019 
The House Arrived
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We arrived in Texas 2 days ago. We have been getting to know Bella and Will. They seem like very nice people. I’m enjoying to get to know them. They have gone over the top with their hospitality. I’m simply amazed. They have provided us not with just a room, but with a wonderful suite that is much nicer then a hotel.
It’s like our own little apartment minus a full kitchen. In addition to giving us a place to stay, Isabella drove me and Jared around to show us the other small towns that surround the area and even helped us unload our truck with all the wood. They also bared with us in some of our burdens with trying to find a place to store our house when it arrives. How nice!!! I don’t know if I have ever been treated by anyone as a guest in their house, so wonderfully. It makes me realize how much I need to step it up if/when we have the opportunity be hospitable to a guest. God has supplied great people for us in Texas thus far!
Other ways that God has provided for us is with the house. As I said before, Bella and Will were helping us with trying to find a place to store our house. The plans J had ended up falling through because we did not realize the storage place was in the City of Austin. The spot there was so small and tight and honestly it did not seem safe at all. When I realized how the house was not going to work here, I was actually amazed that God showed me this ahead of time and I realized that I did not heed his voice on this. Jared ended up calling Life Storage on our drive to Texas. No one picked up, but they did call back at 9:19 AM! I noticed the time, which is the way God tells us to “wait.” I was amazed to see that we really should have waited!
Anyways, we all scrambled around trying to find a plan B for our storage unit failure, but none of our Plan B’s worked! It was a Sunday, so most places did not pick up. However, we did leave voicemails, but no one called back that day. We even went to a tiny house community that is right behind Bella’s house, but the owner was not there…another closed door.
I woke up this morning at 3:00 am, finding myself in prayer to Father; asking Him to provide a place for us to store the house and a place to put it long term. I couldn’t believe how silent God has been with everything to do with the house. I couldn’t help but wonder if we should even be in Austin. We have been seeing God speak to us about other things we have been praying about, but not this! The most I have seen Him speak to us is with Proverbs 16:9 NIV In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. Also, with the story of the Israelites stepping into the Jordan (Joshua 3-4). Although he was speaking to us, I had no idea what the next step was.
I would see 169’s as we drove around trying to scramble to find a storage unit. This was the scripture that I leaned on throughout this experience of stepping out in faith!
Bella tried encouraging us several times with her testimony on God providing for her and Will at the VERY last minute for a job when they first moved out to TX, which is an amazing testimony, but I questioned if he would do the same for us. There was definitely something in the back of my mind that doubted and wondered if we would be left with nothing.
Even though I had this small doubt in my mind, I still mostly had peace through it all. Sure enough, God did provide!
We ended up telling the driver to drop off the house at a Walmart, because we absolutely felt the need to avoid the city. The guy dropped it off to me and Jared with no place to go. Even with no answer from God, we did not worry. We actually decided to go find a place to eat while we waited to see if anyone would call us back.
We found a donut shop, ordered some food and a coffee and then Jared’s phone rang. It was a storage place! The girl said we can come take our house there. It was the last outdoor space left that would fit our house. The weirdest thing was that this girl did not understand why she never got our call. She was saying how she always picks up on the weekends even if it was Sunday, but for some reason she just got our message! (Kristin’s Note: Looking back at this, I believe she didnt get our message because God had it be so! I believe He was testing us and stretching our faith.)
We drove our house to new storage unit far from the city; it was perfect for the house! It is in the middle of no where which means very little traffic! SO PERFECT! The girl who ended up helping us even offered for us to potentially park our house on her property. She was saying that there are people who are currently on her property with an RV. These people even paid for her to get all the hook ups needed for an RV to stay there. She ended up asking us what a tiny house would need in order to be hooked up. J told her, that a tiny house is exactly like an RV. She was surprised to know this information and proceeded to ask us if we needed a place to put our house, because the current people would be gone in a month! How amazing!
This is not a for-sure-thing, but if it is God’s will, I know He will make this happen! Actually, I have faith that this is THE PLACE! There are other crazy details that make me think this is it, such as:
1. God giving us the 9:19 with the storage place in the city
2. All the unreturned phone calls from other place.
3. The ONE place that does call us back has an employee that can potentially give us a place for our house to stay long-term, with ALL the hooks up’s we need!
Also, what was weird was that Bella talked to her neighbor about storing our house with them. The wife said she was fine with it, but needed to talk to her husband. She called her husband, but he did not pick up. She left a message, but she told Bella that she was surprised her husband didn’t pick up because he always picks up. Her husband called back the next day (today) and said it was fine. He too also didn’t understand why he didn’t get her message right away. This is the second person, where our message was delayed, so taking our house to that property didn’t work out because of the delay!
This is all God and his planning. This is God establishing our steps!!
Kristin’s Additional Comments:
I don’t know if you remember, but in “Part 2” of our moving story, taking our home to a Walmart parking lot was what we both feared the most.
But in the midst of our biggest fear, God held our hands and provided for us! He sure did grow us in this experience to learn to trust Him and thank Him no matter how bleak our circumstances looked.
To God be the glory, not just for providing for us, but for helping us to grow in grace.
Jared’s Additional Notes/comments:
I didn’t think the land God for was leading us to was going to be a “good” land. The way it was described to me was not appealing, so I doubted what God told us.
In that being said, what God is calling you to may not seem good at first, so that it will require faith and obedience regardless of what you think about it. Thinking poorly of God’s perfect and pleasing will for your life is evil (Romans 12:2).
January 29, 2019 — Wheel Tracks
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In my bible study today I learned something that I thought was sooo peculiar to me!
The scripture that I read and studied today was Psalm 17:5. When I study a verse, I read several different versions, to understand it the best that I can.
In the AMP version it reads this:
My steps have held closely to Your paths [to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before]; my feet have not slipped.
The Hebrew word for ‘paths’ literally mean, wheel-tracks or wagon-tracks.
I thought that this was so interesting that I learned this today, seeing that we just moved down here by God guiding our every step, or should I say, by guiding our “wheel-tracks” hundreds of miles?!
February 5, 2019 — Where is the Land?
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I so badly want to pick a place for ourselves. I can’t help but feel impatient and just want to throw in the towel when it comes to waiting on God. I feel like we have waited long enough. I start thinking, “can’t we just choose a place for ourselves? Maybe God wants us to choose a place ourselves instead of just waiting for something to come along” I know part of me gets annoyed in waiting and even annoyed with J. I know it’s me just wanting to cave-in though. I know J is stronger than me on waiting, and this is hard for me. But I feel like maybe God is answering me about just picking a place.
God cares about every detail. There is no plan B. But Lord, what is plan A!?
In my devo was this scripture:
Psalm 37:23, reminds us how God enjoys leading us in the details of our lives, and He helps us on the way by leaving a trail of “crumbs”. “The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.”
Kristin’s Additional Notes:
I didn’t mention it in the journal, but I was getting pretty antsy and wanted to take our house to an RV park as a temporary solution, rather then just waiting on God to direct us.
This Is Impossible!! — February 5, 2019
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Kristin’s Additional Notes: My original journal entry is just a screen shot of Jared’s text message to his friend Mike (Not Michael Chriswell) and a picture of the book I was reading, where the author talks about having no plan B!
The pictures say it all! God telling us both at the exact same time “NO PLAN B”. However, I will expand, so that nothing gets missed in the details!
As I’m journaling the above entry (February 5, 2019 — Where is the land?), I was also reading one of my devotionals. What is so amazing and impossible is that, as I’m reading my devotional, Jared is in the other room simultaneously texting his friend Mike, from West Virginia. His friend sends him a text message saying, “There is no plan B”!!!
When Jared was texting his friend, I’m reading my devotional which is talking about Guidance, Planning, and Decision Making. It refers to Proverbs 16:33 and Proverbs 19:21!
Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.Proverbs 19:21
Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
My book also refers to Romans 8:28, which means so much to us because in our marriage we feel God has worked all things out for good! (And on top of that, our anniversary is August 8/28.) When I am lead to this scripture in the midst of struggling though something, I’m reminded that God will work all things for good in whatever is my current struggle too!
After the author gives his commentary in regards to the proverbs scriptures, he concludes what he says with this statement: In a sense, for a Christian, there is no “plan B”!!!
I remember when this happened, I was completely dumbfounded. And in reading this now, I’m still dumbfounded!
But anyways, I also wanted to bring to remembrance the journal entry from Part 2 to be sure no one misses anything, so that God will receive the full glory that He deserves in this little story.
Please remember that in Part 2, the first time we were directed/encouraged by this “no plan B” statement, was in Alabama when we were praying about an RV park.
In the above entry I’m greatly struggling with wanting to form our own plan. However, I’m reminded that forming my own plan apart from how God is specially directing us, is a plan B, which God shuts down.
February 7, 2019 — Let God Write the Story
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Initial expectations when coming to Texas:
I expected that we would have a place to put our house before we left AL. However, as the day to leave for Texas slowly approached, I realized we would not have a place. I realized that God provided us a place to stay with some strangers (who are becoming friends) instead, and that we would have to put our house in storage once again.
Changed expectations:
We got to Texas and I thought that we would have our house in storage, which somewhat went as expected, but I did not think it would be for very long. It has now been 2 weeks and we are still at our friend’s house.
The land that God may have led us to, will not be available until April! If this is the land that God has for us, I was not expecting it to take this long to be in our house.
Also unexpectedly, Jared is thinking about owning land. I did not think we would be led to go down this route, but J feels that God might be leading us to that. Either way, we are still not living in our house after this long and I wasn’t expecting to be in waiting, once again.
I’m trying to give up any expectations that I had a in these ideas about Texas, and to just be ok with waiting if that is what God is calling us to do. I don’t understand what waiting is supposed to look like though. I don’t want to be lazy and do nothing. What are we supposed to do while we wait? I don’t even feel like God has led us in the path of anyone to minister to or encourage in the faith. There has been good fellowship with Bella and William and we offered to help them with some stuff around the house, but I don’t believe that is all we should doing in regards to waiting.
J is working on God’s work and I’m working on the moving Testimony, but I still can’t help but wonder, is there anything else we are here in Texas for?
We are still praying about jobs and what work we should do, but I don’t think J has felt like we should be moving forward with that either.
February 13, 2019 — Lack of Confidence
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I’m feeling tempted to take control and take matters into my own hands.
When I read my devotionals this morning, both of them were about finding confidence in God. With both of them being about the exact same thing, I stopped and asked myself, where am I finding my confidence? I’m realizing that I am not finding my confidence in Him, if I want to take control of our circumstance.
As I ponder on this thought, I’m realizing that I thought my faith was strong before. However, this experience shows me how much lack of faith I have because I’m feeling like I can’t put my confidence in God.
Putting confidence in myself will get me no where good!
One of the devotionals led me to read psalm 71 in MSG today. I find it funny that part of this verse says, “be a guest room where I can retreat” — its funny because we are literally staying in someone’s guest house. Quite peculiar.
Psalm 71:1-3 MSG
1-3 I run for dear life to God,
I’ll never live to regret it.
Do what you do so well:
get me out of this mess and up on my feet.
Put your ear to the ground and listen,
give me space for salvation.
Be a guest room where I can retreat;
you said your door was always open!
You’re my salvation—my vast, granite fortress.
In this guest house, God is with us here.
February 24, 2019 — Tiny House Community
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Went to look at another tiny house community. This car was in the parking lot. This is definitely not the place.
March 16, 2019 — God's Plan
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I listened to Zac Poonen tonight because I couldn’t sleep. He started saying how God has a plan for each one of us. He was teaching about the scripture that talks about how we are each a different part of the body, and God has a plan for each one of us to minister. I couldn’t help but think of doing the YouTube to share testimonies.
He also talked about how God has predestined plans for us. I thought it was interesting that he said this, because I just read of Acts 17:26 before watching this video. In reading and studying this scripture, I know that God has appointed times of where we should live and when we should live. However, Zac was saying how we are predestined also for certain works too. We all have different talents that should be used for God’s glory.
Ephesians 2:10 AMPC
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
Kristin’s Additional Notes:
Please remember, from part one of our moving journey that Acts 17:26 was the scripture which God first led me to, in regards to moving. It has been a very significant scripture to us.
Acts 17:26
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
March 19, 2019 — Wow again!! 
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I put on another random Zac Poonen video and he’s talking about the same thing the last time I put on a sermon of his, which was a few nights ago! He’s talking about God’s very particular plan for your life.
God has a very particular place for us to live and very particular work for us to do. I’m not sure what it all is, but He needs to lead us into it.
March 29, 2019 — Waiting on the open door
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Perfect timing!! This writing speaks to me in more than one way! The tiny house and YouTube work. Both in which I’m praying about.
God has opened the door for us, by giving us an amazing testimony of Him providing throughout this moving journey. I have made a video for my friends and family to share about our journey, as a way to keep in touch with them. I don’t see why God wouldn’t one day have us share this video publicly as well. I will wait for more confirmation on making this video “public”. I’m excited to see that this may very well be used for our YouTube channel.
Although Zac’s writing is in regards to ministry, the wording he uses, such as, “an open door” reminds me of our own moving journey. I feel like we are not just waiting for any open door, but the right open door.
"I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name." - Revelation 3:8 -
March 29, 2019 — Seven days praying in __________ , TX (Our town - The land that God provided)
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Throughout these 7 days we were offered 2 places available for us to take our house:
- RV park – Jared and I were lost and decided to turn around, because we were unsure of the road being a thru-road. Once we turned around a car came approaching with his window down, wondering if we were ok. We asked if this was a thru-road. While still talking in the car through our open windows, the conversation continued. In the midst of the conversation, suddenly and very randomly, the guy ended up telling us he has an RV park, and there are 3 more spots left. I have no idea why he mentioned his RV park, when he knows nothing about our tiny house. However, after he told us this, we then proceeded to tell him that we owned a tiny house. He gave us his card in case we were interested. We checked it out, but it looked sketchy. Jared said he wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving me there alone, once he got a job.
- San Antonio on a ranch – Jared and I took the house to get weighed yesterday. At the weight station, a guy offered J a place to put our house in San Antonio on his ranch.
We knew that this couldn’t be the place for us because San Antonio, Texas is not in the Hill Country.
These two options become available, while unfortunately Christy told us the place in ___________ will be tied up for another month 
. It’s ok though cause I prayed for a date. And although this isn’t a date, it is an update; and I’m thankful for that! I just hope it really is only one more month 
I believe these were open doors from the enemy because none of them fit exactly with what God has told us. Plus, this whole week we have been getting 666 almost everyday this week!
April 11, 2019 — Woke up in some distress about not having a place to live
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I know that we cannot stay here forever, and we will need to leave soon. Father has promised us a place and He will do it. As I was thinking and praying about it, and asking for help to tune my heart and fellowship with Him I thought of the song: “streams of mercy never ceasing”… oh how beautiful that He called this to by mind and I sang it to Him, and confessed my wandering. Return to your rest, oh my soul! Hope in God for I will yet praise Him, my savior and my God!!
Psalm 42:5 NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.
Psalm 43:5 NKJV
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
Psalm 116:5-9 NKJV
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. [6] The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. [7] Return to your rest, O my soul, For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you. [8] For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. [9] I will walk before the LORD In the land of the living.
Lamentations 3:21-26 NKJV
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. [22] Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. [23] They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. [24] “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” [25] The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. [26] It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.
Streams in the Desert today from a few days ago, April 7! But just read it today and it was much needed.
April 23, 2019 — Paying Taxes
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We paid our taxes for the tiny house so that we can get the title in our name. It was more expensive than we expected, and honestly just discouraging because we still don’t have a job and money is getting low, but God sent encouragement. When we were done, J thought of his devo that he read this morning. It was about Peter paying the tax for him and Jesus. What are the chances the devotion was about taxes? Peculiar.
Jesus told Peter to go fishing and the first fish he would catch would have a coin in it to pay for the taxes. J found it interesting that Jesus told him to go fishing (his old job before being a disciple of Jesus).
Perhaps, God’s loving eye is leading Jared back to the corporate world?
April 30, 2019 — Tiny House Community
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Today we went to go check out a tiny house community. When we were driving around the neighborhood afterward, we saw a 1726. I think __________ might still be the place for us for long term, but would God allow us to come here temporarily?
April 30, 2019 — My Father has not told me to do that yet
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We decided not to go to the tiny house community. Neither one of us feels right about it. We both know that this is not the place where God called us to go, so we cant do it. As much as I want to live in our house, I know that my flesh would be very happy to do this, but I know without a doubt that the Holy Spirit in me would not be pleased. Almost as if it might be something the grieves the Holy Spirit.
J had a thought of the prophets, that when they speak to the people they always say: “And the Word of the Lord came to me”. We do not feel that the Word came to us, to tell us to move forward with the plans that WE made.
I honestly can’t believe we didn’t go! I know that I would have jumped at this opportunity if it wasn’t for the Holy Spirit living in me and my desire to want to do what is pleasing to God. This is definitely a different principle we are learning, in this waiting season.
The world can present you so many different options, but that doesn’t mean it is God’s will to take every option that comes your way. Just because the door is open, it doesn’t mean it’s the right door to walk through. It needs to be confirmed and it needs to be discerned. I see how clear it is in my spirit that all those other options that came up, are just not it. It’s not really a feeling that I have, it’s just this FACT that I know deep within, that we need to stay where we are until God says, “GO”.
Kristin’s Additional Comments:
I hope every detail of this story can serve as an example of how we carefully discerned the voice of God. And in addition, how to keep in step with the spirit of God in your life.
Galatians 5:25
Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.
"The world can present you so many different options, but that doesn’t mean it is God’s will to take every option that comes your way."
May 2, 2019 — Connections
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I keep seeing a connection with the land that we believe God has for us, and with some of the places mentioned in the Bible.
So looking at our journey so far, God shows us to go to Texas, then more specifically Austin, then promises us a “good land” (810), and more specifically in the “Hill Country” (1717) of Texas. There’s nowhere to put our tiny house as it was dropped off in Walmart parking lot, and then we get a call from a lady in _________, Texas with a place to store our house.
Joshua 17:17-18
Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, “You are a numerous people and have great power; you shall not have one lot only, [18] but the hill country shall be yours..
Deuteronomy 8:10
10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
The last few days in a row I have been led to verses from Jeremiah about buying a plot of land. May the Lord guide us and provide!
Kristin’s Additional Notes:
It’s amazing how exact God led us…so exact that we can’t disclose all of the details, or else it would give away where we live.
June 2, 2019 — 1 year ago today
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One year ago today we moved out of West Virginia. And now exactly one year later we are going to check out a tiny house community. Perhaps this is significant and this is the place God has or us.
June 3, 2019 — This is not it 
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A place has come to put our house, however I don’t believe this is it. J made a long list of why we don’t believe this is the place God has for us.
Tonight, I decided to read God’s word for a clear answer. I picked up at verse 24 and I knew this was the answer to my prayer. We must wait for the sake of others, so we do not take away from God’s Glory.
Kristin’s Additional Notes:
Some good reasons on the list of why we didn’t go:
1. It will bring God more glory to wait.
2. No plan B.
3. It does not match the description of Deuteronomy 8:7-10.
4. Jared found this place, but God led us to the other one. We didn’t search for it. It found us.
June 5, 2019 — Turned down another option to park our tiny house
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This morning opened my bible and my eyes immediately fell to this verse:
Matthew 27:10 NKJV
…and gave them for the potter’s field, as the LORD directed me.”
I read this yesterday in my other bible and wondered about it; now again, and I could not go past it without thinking and praying; could this have something to do with the land He has for us!
Then I found that my bible app references the field at Anathoth, once again!!
June 20, 2019 — I believe we will have the land soon
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Saw some amazing things in streams referring to Deuteronomy 8:10 and Acts 17:26!
Jared’s writing might be hard to read:
Oh how wonderful! The Good Land! I am poor and needy, and the lord thinks of me! Here we are at Bill and Bella’s in Austin, waiting for the promised “good land” flowing with streams of water, and have had to wait so long! I believe we will have what he has promised.
Steams – January 1, [2019] – Deuteronomy 8:7-10
Kristin’s Additional Notes:
In Jared’s writing, he is referring to the scripture he was led to on January 1, 2019. It was an answer to prayer in regards to moving to Texas.
July 5, 2019 — God has given us the land
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Today I was working all day with William installing cabinets and missed a call from Christy. When I saw it I wondered if she was going to say we could move our tiny house to the land soon, because the other fellow was supposed to leave on the 15th. However I knew there was a chance that we could be delayed again since that has been the theme since January! We have been tested again and again to trust God with the delays.
This time was different! At last, God has fulfilled His promise for the good land and it will be available soon! I started praying recently that it would be available even before July 15th, and that is what will happen. The current renter will vacate on the 12th and we will be able to start moving there on the 13th. Amazing!
I am thinking of ways that I can set up an alter before God for this to thank and bless Him for what He has done. I want to show my thankfulness with my actions in doing something special to bless Him for the good land He has given us. Praise the Lord!
What a process this has been…how trying it was for me to wait and have to keep asking Bella and William if we could stay longer. How humbling and how good it has been for me! All of this has been outside of what I expected, and this is exactly the type of trial that God uses to test our faith; to give a promise and then allow everything to contradict it.
Just to recall, this particular land was promised to us by God, 810, and the second day here in Austin we were offered it by Christy who happened to work at the only storage unit that had called me back and had an available place to store our tiny house.
"I want to show my thankfulness with my actions in doing something special to bless Him for the good land He has given us."
July 15, 2019 — The day we moved into our tiny house
July 16, 2019 — We are living in our house!
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Regard less of the air conditioner not working we decided we would start living in our house! And what do you know, the scripture of the day is this:
July 17, 2019 — The Land of Plenty
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Being so excited about being in the land that God gave us, I decided to read Deuteronomy 8:10 again, but this time I continued to read some of the following verses. What I have found in reading the following verses was SO interesting!! The timing of me reading verse 11 happens to be AFTER we have received everything God has promised us. I believe God led me to read the following scripture and devotional to warn me of what to beware of, now that we He have received what He has promised.
The devotional/small teaching was perfect for our situation in regards to moving in and receiving what He had promised us. The teaching was saying how it easy to get prideful of all the ways God has blessed you. It is easy to start thinking that you achieved this all on our own, but we know that God did all of this because these details were impossible to plan out and we must never forget that.
Tecarta Devotional
“After the years of poverty when they has learned obedience and dependence, they were now being introduced to plenty when they were to respond in praise and thanksgiving. But sometimes plenty provokes pride rather than praise. The people of Israel were forewarned against thinking that It was their “own strength and energy that made them wealthy”.
Deuteronomy 8:11 NIV
Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.
Thanks for letting us share with you!
1 Samuel 7:12 Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
Ebenezer literally means “stone of help.”
All of these details in our moving story have become what we call an Ebenezer stone, because God so evidently helped us in our journey thus far. We always recall what God did through this big move, because God’s past faithfulness to us has become our present hope; in other times of struggles, afflictions, and fears. When we remember all that He has done in our life it helps calm our heart and sets our minds on the power and sovereignty of God in our lives. It reminds us who to put our hope in.
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I thank you again my brother and sister in Christ for sharing these wonderful testimonies about learning to wait on God despite delays and trials that contradict the promises He has given to both of you. I am also currently in a journey of waiting upon God’s will for my life that will bring Him glory.
I am encouraged where I and many brothers and sisters in waiting are not alone with the temptations to doubt God, take matters into our hands, trying to figure out a solution for our problems, etc. And that at the end of the day we continue to put our hope in our Heavenly Father who is our portion and who alone can help us. This is what I am experiencing right now in my life at 21 years old waiting upon Him and trusting Him.
Right now I am unemployed looking for work, I might be going to do a course soon for about 5 months but it is Father’s will to be done for that matter and there are all kinds of things that would hinder me from waiting on Father which has been difficult from time to time. One of the difficulties has been with my family members. Most of them do not know God personally in their lives and often times when I try to share what God has been doing and is doing in my life they fall into deaf ears or they would just dismiss God and urge me to do something that can help the family. Yes, at the moment one of my parents are going through financial difficulty and they had gone into such great debt. Therefore, I felt pressured by this to act and yet I know deep in my spirit God is telling me to trust Him despite the problems even my family is facing.
I want to please God more. I believe that He has a plan for this and He will work out all things for His glory and for the good of those who love Him. Yes, may the difficulties bring forth Father’s faithfulness, mercy and love even to the most hardened and unbelieving hearts and refresh His weary children who put their hope in Him alone.
Thank you again for these testimonies and I will continually be checking for more updates on whatever Father is doing in your lives
From your sister in Christ,
Geraldean
I love following your story, it helps me to trust him on a deeper level ❤️
Thank you
That’s so nice. Thank you! So glad this can encourage you!
♥️ Kristin