It’s impossible to find words to adequately express my awe and wonder as God miraculously and ever so faithfully redirected and changed my life and future this past week! In fact, I was so excited at the beginning of the week that I couldn’t sleep for two nights because I just couldn’t get over what God did on my behalf!

As I’ve shared here over the past seventeen months, God has moved very powerfully to redirect my life and future, using a few speedbumps along the way to keep me in the center of HIS plan and will. There was no way to imagine God’s ultimate outcome in the midst of so many upheavals and challenges, but I never stopped trusting Him and believing He would make a way where there seemed to be no way, which is EXACTLY what He did and then some!!!

As I’ve previously shared, even though several people were interested in buying my house in Tallahassee over the past seventeen months, nothing ever materialized. Meanwhile, my credit cards stopped offering zero interest balance transfers and I was approaching the end of my original promotional zero interest rates. But I refused to “worry” and counted on God to help before I’d have to start paying so much in interest. In the end, I put almost twenty-five thousand dollars on zero interest credit cards to facilitate my move and the repairs/renovations for my new house, so I’d naturally second guess my decision to do that from time to time. But I’d always dismiss such thoughts and give it all back to God as I did my best to manage the credit card payments. In fact, God blessed me tremendously in that regard when a FAM member who’s been part of our FAM family for years started tithing a significant amount to the ministry each month!

Then I discovered in October that a house down the street from my Tallahassee house had sold for quite a bit more than houses had been selling for in the area, so I decided to just list the house. However, believe it or not, two different agencies I contacted and spoke to weren’t the least bit interested in listing the house, which really surprised me! Then my efforts to contact the agent who listed the house down the street went nowhere until I finally asked a FAM member who sells real estate in the Atlanta area if she could get the information for me, which she did! That was ALL God too because she wanted to give up on selling real estate after not passing the test for her license twice, and I told her she couldn’t do that!

Well, that ended up being the ONLY agent who could have helped sell my house for as much as it sold for last Friday since he knew a handyman who was able to make some needed repairs at a VERY reasonable price I could afford! As always with God, the timing was perfect! I was getting so frustrated trying to maintain the property (especially since it was time to start getting the yard mowed again) and paying the mortgage payments that I was ready to give the house back to the mortgage company with a deed in lieu of foreclosure and had made up my mind that I wasn’t going to make another mortgage payment after April 1st!

The short version of my praise and testimony is that once I had someone to make the main repair needed at the house, I was motivated to present it in the best possible condition and ended up sinking about three thousand dollars into the house over a month’s time! Then it was listed on MLS last Friday. I still don’t know where the money to do that came from other than what I charged, so that was ALL GOD too!!!

One of my concerns when listing the house was that some of the work and renovations I made over the years were likely done without permits (even though I always hired licensed contractors); I wasn’t concerned about it at the time since I intended to live there until I died. So the morning the listing went on MLS, I just told God that He knew my concern about that and that I trusted Him to work it all out. I refinanced the house in late 2017 and nothing came up then, so I was hopeful that I’d be able to sell it without a problem, and once I gave it to God, I let it go. Even though my agent got the listing and pictures (shown here) online early Friday morning, he didn’t get the sign and lockbox in place until later in the morning. He told me later that the sign didn’t have time to get hot in the sun before he had a cash offer slightly under list price on his desk! Not only was it a cash offer, the buyer is also paying for all closing costs other than the real estate commission and doc stamps—so he’s even paying some of the costs I’d normally have to pay! I had another full price offer, but it was for an FHA loan and the buyer wanted me to pay my closing costs plus two thousand dollars of her costs, up to a thousand dollars in repairs and for a home warranty. Needless to say, I took the cash offer; especially since the buyer acknowledged that work might have been done without permits and assumes all responsibility for that! WHO could have done that but GOD!!!

In addition to having my house sold and closing by the end of the month, I’ll be able to pay off my credit cards and make some much needed and wanted improvements at my new house! And I won’t be making another payment past the one I made last month! I’ll also be able to pay off the zero-interest balance on one of my credit cards that ends this month! Again, no one could have done all of this but God, so there’s no way to praise and thank Him enough for His love, faithfulness and provision!!! It all still seems surreal!

When I look back and think of how Hurricane Hermine and the corruption it exposed in our local government made me want to leave my home for the first time, the theft of my generator and the ensuing nightmare, how I found and was able to buy my new house and was referred to a man to do the repairs (whose family has now become like family to me), how all of my efforts to sell my home on my own failed, how I finally connected with the ONLY real estate agent who could have helped sell my house for so much more than I was willing to take, the truly great friends who helped me get back and forth to Tallahassee and get my house and yard ready to put on the market and the awesome buyer and offer I received on my house, I can’t help being in TOTAL awe of God’s awesome power and greatness! I love my new home and life and have no doubt this is what God had planned for me all along; He just had to “nudge” me a bit to get me here! So it’s my most sincere hope and prayer that you’ll all learn to see that God really is at work in the midst of your circumstance and only wants to give you something so much better than you already have; just trust and obey Him and HE WILL GET YOU THERE!!!

Posted Friday, April 19th, 2019 at 3:49 pm in Seeds Of Faith.