Thursday, 8 September 2011

God's timing, not our timing

After all my blabbing of the last post, I want to make one thing clear.  We did not just have this dream and decided to make it come true.  We prayed our way through it.  We asked God that if it was His will for us to move to Quesnel, to give JOhn a job that was less physically intensive (he was having a lot of physical troubles before we moved), a job that was Monday-Friday, 40 hrs a week with a hourly rate that we could live off.  When we got all that through this offer from Rona, we knew it was an answer to prayer.  While we waited to here back from Rona after John's interview, we prayed that he would get this job.  Our patience was tried and tested, and we STRESSED, but in the end, GOd's timing worked out as John didn't have to leave until the end of June.  We worried that he wouldn't be home for my or Emmy's birthday, but he was.  We worried that he would be in Quesnel for too long without me.  He wasn't, it only ended up being a couple of weeks.   I learned alot through that process, and has really changed my way of thinking.  One example :
John's wage would be sufficient for us to live off of if we had a mortgage for a house out here.  We could get a 5 acre with house for only $130,000 which would considerably lower our mortgage payment.  RIght now, we still are paying for our house in Chilliwack, which is considerably higher, so money gets stretched FAAARRRR right now.  Well, being stretched out so far already, we don't have a lot of extra cash... and then John's truck breaks down.  He needs a new fuel pump.  Where oh where are we going to get the funds for this?? Well, I get a text from my bookeeper saying that she had finally figured out why our GST/HST money was being witheld by the government and she made it possible for them to be released and sent to us.  We are talking a BIG cheque.  Now, like I said, this money was owed to us from awhile back.  If we would have received it right away, I can probably guarantee you that we wouldn't have spent it all so wisely.  Well, now when we need it, we get it!  I will finish with a verse from the Bible:
Psalm 55:22
"Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let  the righteous be shaken."

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