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now seriously in arrears. Our telephone bill was a few days past due, and our electric bill
would be due before another week had passed.
When we come to extremities in our circumstance we can either begin to murmur and
complain, or we can choose to worship God. I felt the Spirit leading me to worship the
Father that morning, so I put on a very worshipful CD, and I quickly entered into a deep
and profound worship. For about thirty minutes I worshiped the Father, and my whole
being was moved. I felt a trembling inside and tears streamed down my face as I worshiped
the Father for His awesome holiness, His faithfulness, His love and mercy. It was a very
moving time and I knew I had been in the presence of the Father and that He had received
my worship which had been offered in the midst of a great trial.
As the CD ended there was a knock at the door and I found that it was my landlord.
I went outside to speak to him, and I could tell that he was a bit nervous about what he had
to say. He began with, “I really hate to tell you what I have to tell you,” and then he
proceeded to tell me that one of his sons who had moved out of state with his wife and child
had found that things were not working out for them as he had anticipated, and they were
going to move back home and would need to live in the home we were now occupying. This
man told me that he had not anticipated having to ask us to move until his next son got
married, but this had come up unexpectedly. He hated to ask me to move out so soon after
we had moved in, and as some compensation they wanted to offer us our last month’s rent
free, if we could be out in two weeks time.
I saw in this that God had ordered our steps to manifest a provision for us in receiving
a free month’s rent, and also giving our landlord’s a way to save face and act graciously in
this unexpected turn of events. Our landlord was being very humble and gracious, and I did
my best to reassure him that I was in no way upset with his request, and we would begin
praying immediately for the Lord to show us where we were to move.
While he was speaking he also mentioned that they did not know that we had dogs
when we moved in, and they had not asked, and we had not told them. He said they would
never have said anything about the dogs once we moved in, but it was really their desire to
not have dogs in the house. These words brought back to remembrance my own omission
of revealing this information, and it brought me understanding of what the Father was
doing.
Over the next days the Father spoke to me through the history of Abram and Sarai,
when on two occasions Abram went into a foreign country (Egypt and Gerar) and he asked
Sarai to say that she was his sister. This was actually a true statement, for they had the same
father, but different mothers. Technically, Abram and Sarai were not lying, but neither were
they disclosing the entire truth. They were withholding the fact that they were married due
to Abram’s fear that the men of the land would kill him in order to have Sarai for
themselves, for she was very beautiful.
Abram, who was later to be called Abraham, is called the father of faith, yet his faith
was something that he had to grow in. He had faith when he was younger, for he followed
God to a land that he knew nothing about simply on a promise from God. Yet his faith
needed perfecting. He stumbled in faith on several occasions, and these were two of them.
Abram should have been able to trust God, and not be concerned about being killed.
Yahweh had promised Abram that he would be a father of many nations, and Abram had
not yet had born to him the child that was promised. He should have been able to trust God
to take care of him in these foreign lands, yet fear was present in his life and he willingly
omitted a key item of truth in order to “help” God preserve his life.