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Understanding Comes

hen I discerned that God would once more have us to move I began meeting regularly
Wwith my family to pray for God’s direction and provision to be made known. We were
specific in those things we asked for. In particular, we desired a house with at least three
bedrooms so Kristin and Josiah might have their own rooms. I considered that a fourth
bedroom would be even better, that I might have an office to set up my computer and have
a place to be able to pray and write. We also asked for a place in a country setting, though
I suspected that this would mean that I would have to go back to a dial-up connection for
Internet access, which is a real detriment when trying to maintain a website and attend to
a large volume of correspondence. I also wanted something that would be close to $500 a
month, though many people who move into this area have found that almost anything
under $600 a month is run down, small, and in bad neighborhoods. As a final specific point
of prayer, I had told my family several weeks earlier that I felt God wanted us to locate in
the area of a small town nearby named Byron, Georgia.
Our family had only been praying for a couple days when my daughter began
corresponding with a young lady who had recently began practicing headcovering. As they
were getting acquainted my daughter told her that we were going to be moving soon, and
when the other young lady asked her where we were going to move, Kristin informed her
that I felt we were to move to Byron. This girl responded by saying that she lived in Byron
and that her dad had rental property in the area. She volunteered to ask her dad if he had
anything available, and a couple days later she got back with my daughter and told her that
her dad had a four bedroom, two bath home that was located on their family farm in a
secluded location. She said I should contact her father if I was interested.
What this young lady described was exactly what we had been praying for, and I
sensed that God was once more going before us in these things. Only once in the past five
years did we have to look for a place to live. We moved approximately ten times in this
period, and in only one move did we actually have to look around to see where God would
have us to live. In all of the other instances God had brought the provision to us. I
determined to call this man the next morning, which was Friday February 13.
On Friday morning I considered that, should the man agree to rent to me that day, I
did not have the money on hand to pay both rent and deposits. I prayed and felt that the
Lord wanted me to check the IRS website to see when my tax refund would be deposited.
When I did I found that $790 was to be deposited into my checking account that very day.
This seemed providential once more, since the means to pay for this house coincided exactly
with the opportunity set before us.
I called the man and he was very interested in showing us the house. They wanted a
quiet (not rowdy) family to go into this home since it was on their family farm and they
lived on the other side of the land, as did some other relatives. We agreed to meet at 3 PM
to view the house, and we prayed again as a family before we went. We asked the Lord that
if this was where He wanted us that He would give us favor.
We met the man's wife, and she turned out to be someone who had formerly worked
at the Houston Healthcare Complex during the same time I was employed there, and she
recognized me. She and my wife hit it off very well, as did their daughter and my daughter
who were meeting each other face to face for the first time. The husband was very busy, as
he is also a home builder, and he only dropped by briefly. I asked him if he wanted me to