As mentioned in the previous post - things were moving quickly! After securing a loan, what with all the weirdness with the banks ( they practically asked for my first born - you know then one that wasn't concieved yet?!) but no problems, just a lot of excess paperwork.
Anyway, we were (notice the word WERE) scheduled for an end of October closing. The seller had pushed to get the access road (right of way) in to the property so that we could close and we were under way - last thing to do before we could go to closing was that the seller needed to get the deed approved by the powers that be.
Enter an appearent set back.
Without going into lots of detail lets just say that governmental agencies took their time to approve the division. When faced with a screeching halt to fast moving plans - yikes!
"ummm Lord, what's going on here? I thought this was your blessing, your favor... this situation doesn't look like favor." My husband and I chose to believe that God was still in this. That in the midst of this God would show more favor and we kept confessing that in the end we would see where this turned out for good for us. Because, really, we weren't planning to build right away, so what's the rush. The biggest inconvience was that we were left with loose ends - we were 1/2way land owners. We couldn't call it ours - because it wasn't but in a way it was ours because of the contract and out intent to buy - life, where the land was concerened, was in limbo.
I don't know about you, but I HATE, yep, you read that right - I HATE limbo. And guess what, we were living in limbo. Not that it has been the first time we've been in a peroid of exteneded limbo and I'm sure won't be the last. But maybe we learned something from the last time, because this time around, limbo wasn't so bad. Maybe it was because we chose to REST in God and believe the He was ACTIVELY working on our behalf. We started to choose to look at anything positive concerning the limbo peroid. Things like, we wouldn't have payments until later, we really were not in a hurry, we wanted to extend grace to the seller who was in an even more difficult place. And wouldn't that be nice for the seller not to have paranoid buyers breathing down his neck over a situation that was beyond his control??!! Hmmm... maybe there was opportunity to call down God's favor not on just ourselves, but on the seller as well.
Needless to say, God showed favor. God worked everything out. God brought us to closing. As we left the closing, our realator tells us that this was one of the most complicated and oddest land closings he had seen. And not because of us, not because of the seller - we were all good - just other factors beyond any of our control - but as it turns out NOT beyond the long arm of the Lord.
This whole situation reminds me of something I heard Grahm Cooke say in a message regarding our inheritance. He said " Sometimes you have to fight for it!" I believe that was something great God was teaching us - how to fight for our inheritance. We believed we had heard from God concerning this piece of land - and so we fought for our inhertiance - one way was not by throwing a temper tantrum when things were weird, but by showing grace (a fruit of the Spirit which are mighty weapons of spiritual warfare), resting (rest is a weapon) and believing that we were in the middle of God's favor and confessing that God would cause things to turn out better than before.
So how did God make things turn out better????
We don't start payments until March, we were able to save up extra durring the months we were waiting to close and we ended up with a better interest rate in January than we would have had in October.
So this is part one of a dream - a dream bigger then us. But then God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly beyond what I can ask for or even dream. Lord, I want to dream big -
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