PRAY

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that i think toward you saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In this christian walk you will find out that your life as well as your will has to line up with God. That’s if you are allowing God to order your steps.

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My husband and I left Texas on our way to Palm Springs, Calif. To spend the Christmas Holidays with our family. We arrived Christmas day (December 25, 2011)

It was a Joyous time; it felt wonderful to be able to spend 2 whole weeks with everyone. So Christmas and New Years have come and gone…...It's about time for us to pack up

and get back home. But something didn’t feel right about that. So my husband and I discussed it because he was feeling the same way as well.

We agreed to stay one more week, 1 week turned into 2, 3, 4…… All this time God has not said a word. We would pray and pray nothing (Why?) We were praying to go home, and that wasn’t God’s Will for us at that time and may I remind you we only had 2 weeks’ worth of clothing. So we continued praying not a word…...so here we are away from home no job money running out. But yet in our spirit we knew we couldn’t leave, even though that was our desire. Here we are away from home, our children, grandchildren, our whole way of living has changed.

We had to make many adjustments in our lives. I would find myself complaining about it, upset about it, all I knew I was ready to go home. My husband helped me. He wouldn't complain he would say “now honey, we have to wait and see what God says. Now it’s Summer Time (2012) we was sitting in my parents yard our mortgage past due, both truck payments are past due on top of all that my 1 pair sandal I brought broke, my husband took a piece of wire and fixed them while back home I have many pair ( thinking in my head) that’s when I became frustrated, Immediately I got up my husband ask “where are you going”? To pray was my response, I went into our bedroom fell to my knees and that’s when I surrendered my will to God."Lord if this is your Will for us to be here then Lord you need to bless us with jobs."

Exactly 1 hour later I made two phone calls, one to my sister, she told me who to call I did and was hired on the spot. This sister knew nothing about me but she knew my sister from church, I was very Grateful. A week later my husband got a job. That’s when we knew we were in the Will Of God. Your will must line up with Gods, people begin to question us because we still didn’t know why God had us still there. So they would say.. “Are you sure it’s God if He’s not saying anything and you say you’re praying.” It doesn’t matter what people say, think, or feel you’d better listen and obey God.

We yet didn’t know our Purpose for being there, but what we did know God had a plan for us. It wasn’t until September 2013 we understood the reason why God had us there. My dad was diagnosed with cancer, God allowed me to spend the last 2 years of my dad's life with him. One week after my dad's funeral my mother suffered a stroke. Thanks be to God I was there to help take care of her. It was in the fall (Oct.) 2015 when my husband and I felt God released us to go home. It was bitter sweet. Remember I stated earlier we only came with 2 weeks of clothing….we had to buy a small pull trailer to bring back all the Blessings God had Blessed us with….also our vehicle was so filled with clothes until my husband was unable to use the rear view mirror. We were overjoyed, we were just in Awe of Him, we didn’t lose our home, God blessed us to catch up on our mortgage and Thanks be to God, we’re still in our home.

Was it easy obeying God? At first NO. It only became easy when we Surrendered our wants and desires to what God Wanted and Desired for us.