Testimony 3 (1983)Our Lord Will Find A Way
I got this fantastic job where the computer people were located in the countryside near the mine, instead of in the State capital as was the normal practice. We would move south in a few months time.
We wanted to buy a beautiful country place to raise our kids, that was the whole idea! But first we needed our equity from our two city properties . . .
A couple of years previously we had bought this lovely family house when we were expecting Thomas, our firstborn. Because of the market we couldn't sell our apartment, so had bought the house on a bridging loan. We had to sell an apartment and a house in a slow, depressed market. We were very reluctant to lower our prices because we needed their cash equity . . .
Our real estate agents were discouraged and discouraging . . it looked like we would head south leaving two managed properties and having to rent down there with no roots anywhere. The men at Trish's church were sympathetic to the times and the difficulties; "pray", they said, "when there's nothing else to do, all we can do is pray". "How? I don't know how to pray" I replied. So they made it plain: Father God already knows everything, simply talk to him every day, find a quiet place, tell him what you want, talk detail, which houses, how much money, what conditions, what dates.
As I learned more about our movements I was to pass these details on to Father God in our daily talks. I found this very hard. I did not have a quiet time in my day where I could give that time to our Father and Jesus. In the event I prayed in the shower; we had a shower with a window looking down from our house, over the trees and roofs of two suburbs to our "ocean glimpses". It was one of my favourite places. At first it felt strange praying while naked and soaping up and shampooing but I got over that. I stumbled over the words. God didn't care, He is our Father, after all! Love and intimacy is what He does!
Soon we found a really dynamic real estate agent, Richard Ridge. We called him "Ridgey Didge"; this is an Australian expression which means "a real straight shooter, a keen, hard working person, a person who can cut through to the essence". This was good. Ridgey Didge went to work.
On the day we moved south for my work, the apartment was finalised, money went into our bank. On the Friday of that same week the house finalised, that money also went into our bank. We got excellent prices for both properties so were able to buy our country acres. Miracles! The Lord gave us rainbows over our land; we called our hobby farm "Rainbow Downs".
Soon we found a really dynamic real estate agent, Richard Ridge. We called him "Ridgey Didge"; this is an Australian expression which means "a real straight shooter, a keen, hard working person, a person who can cut through to the essence". This was good. Ridgey Didge went to work.
On the day we moved south for my work, the apartment was finalised, money went into our bank. On the Friday of that same week the house finalised, that money also went into our bank. We got excellent prices for both properties so were able to buy our country acres. Miracles! The Lord gave us rainbows over our land; we called our hobby farm "Rainbow Downs".
Praise Jesus.
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All blessings in Jesus.
