Let me tell you a little something!

Let me tell you a little something...

God is good! Why would anyone try & live outside HIS plan & HIS will for you & your life??? Things go so much easier & smoother when we have God on our side! And let me tell you, life can get pretty challenging & tough at times, I couldn't imagine trying to do it without HIM! I'm so grateful & thankful for the blessings He has poured on my family & I!
Yes we have plans & ideas & we have our timing, but it's ALL about His timing & His plan! So thankful that He loves me enough to actually have a plan for my life & that He shuts the doors when they need to be shut & He opens them at just the right moment when they need open! It's mind boggling to think about how much work He goes to & the things he has to align & move around to make plans & purposes work out.
When people hear that we are buying a 7 bedroom house or I guess you could say a 6 bedroom with an office, I'm sure they think OH MY GOODNESS! That's crazy, that's way too big, y'all must be rich, y'all are just trying to show off....so many things run through my head as to what people first think! But let me reassure you that this was NOT what we were expecting when we decided to sell our house & move & this is NOT what we were looking for!! This house couldn't be more perfect for us & that's why when you hear how it all has been working out, you will see how Gods hand was in action the entire time & this is HIS plan, His house for us.
Since deciding to sell our house we have been looking at houses all over the place really & mostly 4 bedrooms(like we had). It's a great time to sell, but not really a great time to buy...how is that, not really sure lol At times I was discouraged feeling like we would never find the right house for us. All we wanted was a little more land for kids to be able to play, we didn't want a bigger house. A 4 bedroom was big enough! The kids didn't mind sharing rooms. We finally found this house, 4 bedrooms, 5 acres just down the road from us. It was really nice & we knew we wanted to put an offer on it. So we proceeded. The more we went & visited it, the more unsure I got, but the more excited I got as well. Adam was sold! The process was long because it was a short sale...I told Adam we still needed to look around to check out all our options. Although there wasn't much out there. The closer we got to selling our house the more uneasy I got! After all their bank wasn't coming back accepting our offer yet, so where would we move?? By that time, the first guy who had a contract on our house had to back out...ok now I felt a little better, like maybe that was God giving us more time. Still waiting for that bank to accept our offer & we get another contract on our house 2 wks later. Up till now we had still been looking for more options but there wasn't any. Finally one Thursday night we drove to this house that was foreclosed & the MINUTE Adam & I walked around, we KNEW this was our house! You don't get peace like that from anyone else other than God! It was crazy!! We both just knew...it was perfect for us, way bigger than we had planned, but it was a steal! We weren't going to find a house like that with 2 acres for that price! See its a foreclosure but the people stole everything out of it! So when looking at it, it looks rough, the ac/heating unit is gone, the power has been cut from house, there are no doors, no toilets, no outlets, no plumbing pipes, some cabinets are gone, some carpet is gone, some tile in bathroom needs fixed...nothing major or expensive(minus the ac unit) but still a good 3-4wks of work! With all the damage, we could get a really good deal! House bought, fixed back up we still would be cheaper than the other house we were looking at. We proceeded right away with an offer, low balling it:) to which they said would take 5 days to get back with us, um, no the NEXT day. They came back just a tad higher, we came back a tad lower & they accepted it! When we told our realtor this was the house we wanted, he asked why now & not a month ago when he sent it to us? Adam was like no, never saw it on the emails. He was like yea, you must have passed it up. Yikes! Then to find out in the last month it had like 7 offers put in on it, to which the bank had to turn down cause they weren't ready yet. Our offer was the first offer the bank had on it now that it was officially on the market & able to sell. Wow!! How good is God!! All about His timing! If we had seen it a month ago, it wouldn't have been ready & we would have move on. Or had they taken one of those 7 other offers. Or what about if the first contract on our house went through, or the bank on that 5 acres accepted ours sooner. So many little details, little factors, yet all big in laying out His plan. It shouldn't have been all cake getting this house either. And I don't know if I really would say that it's been a piece of cake, but just God showing us He's working. See because of it being a forecloser & because the people stole everything out of the house, you would need a special loan to buy the house. A loan that is extremely hard to get. Well 7 years ago when we built our house before last we had a great friend from our bank work with us on the loan stuff. Adam called him up asked if he could help us & he said sure. Thank you Jesus! One step down, 5 hundred to go:) Then the process of surveys & appraisals had to be done. Those were the last few things that, (though they accepted our offer), could totally stop the processes & the house wouldn't be ours. In the mean time all this rain delayed getting that done, then remember that house with 5 acres that we put an offer on like 2months ago by now, yea that house...Well they came back accepting our offer & we have 5 days to back out or accept....oh man, what to do, what to do!?!?! I really wasn't feeling it, but if this house doesn't work out & we let that house go, our house now is closing soon, we wouldn't have ANY house! Adam & I both felt after praying about it, that God has really lined this up & we really feel like He is in the works for this house. So we officially let that house go. The next day everything went through with the surveys & this house is officially ours well not until we close & sign papers, but nothing else can stop the process :) We wanted the closing date to be may 6, since we would be closing on ours May 1, but the bank said they needed till June 6. We are all set on our end & with our bank, just waiting on them to get the deed & everything in order. So we sit & we wait....patiently until June6 :) very patiently!! :) I'm so stinking excited I can't help it! One because I'm ready to be settled & back in a house & 2 because God has really shown us how to follow & trust Him & how even when it shouldn't work out, if its His plan, He will make a way! ''Even when everybody else tells you it's impossible, if we step out in faith, He will give us the grace to go forward!'' Joshua 1:6-9 So yes this house is bigger than we were looking for, it's not the most fancy of all fancy of houses & probably not what someone thinks when they think of a 6 bedroom house, but it's perfect for us. 6 bedrooms or 7 if we want. Which means everyone would have their own room, their own space. A huge laundry room that is the size of a bedroom, it's got 2 acres. Plenty of room for my boys to be boys & just for us to have space to play, 3 car garage that my huge van actually will fit in! It's got a half finished basement. Yes it needs some work & some upgrading :) Actually we can't move in until its all fixed up, that's also the banks guidelines with that special loan. So painting needs to be done, plumbing pipes & fixtures, AC/heating unit, power to the house, because the people cut that line, hardwoods & carpet done, kitchen needs some work, need doors, toilets, cabinets in some bathrooms...it all needs done or touched up. It's almost like you have the shell of this house & you get to now pick out & decorate the whole inside:) kind of exciting! It could take about 3-4wks to fix it up before we can move in. So is God good or what?!? Is HIS timing perfect or what?!? I've prayed from the beginning that he would guide us & show us what to do! That he would open doors that needed to be open & He would close the doors that needed to be closed! He has done that & more!! I am blown away by His goodness!! He has blessed us way more than we deserve!! He has good things in store for us!! He's moving us forward to big & better! Thank you Lord!!

Eucharisteo!!!