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know where I would go. I asked God to reveal to me where we were to go. As I was praying
the phone rang. I did not answer the phone because it was not my house, but I listened as
a lady we knew, who had once attended Living Faith, left a message for Tony and I on the
answering machine. She said that she had a vacant house that she owned in Macon,
Georgia, and that she had felt led of the Lord to offer for us to stay there free for the next
month and a half. She added that if we wanted to stay longer she would charge us rent of
$500 a month.
There was a leaping in my spirit when I heard this message, for I KNEW God had just
answered the cry of my heart. Here was a home in Macon, Georgia, the same city in which
the bankruptcy court was located, and we were being offered six weeks of free rent. We were
to find out shortly that our court date would fall just before the end of this six weeks.
When everyone returned home I told them about the phone call, and Randy agreed
that this was the provision of the Lord for us. Tony, however, did not want to even consider
moving there, for she had heard that the home was in a bad neighborhood. I convinced her
to go with me to take a look at the home. Even though I did not have the money to be
choosy, I had prayed specifically about the place God would take us. I had asked God to
provide us a home that had bedrooms for each of the children, and a fenced yard to let the
dogs out in. This house had both, and it was very tidy and attractive.
When we were looking over the home, Tony asked me to speak to her outside. She told
me that she would not move there because of the neighborhood. I reminded her of how God
had provided it at the moment I asked Him to reveal where we were to move, but she
continued saying she would not move there. I told her that we had no other options, for
there were no other homes being offered to us, and she still said she would not move there.
I tried to console her by telling her that God would not have provided it unless He wanted
us to be there, and that He would take care of us, but her fear was tremendous. Randy also
sought to encourage her.
I was not thrilled about moving to this house either, but I knew it was God’s will, and
this comforted me. One of the reasons for my lack of joy was a sign I saw as we approached
the neighborhood this home was located in. We had to go down a street in Macon called
Vineville, and just before the road we were to turn onto there was a road sign pointing to
the very road we had to go down to get to the house. The sign said “Payne City.” In my spirit
I knew immediately that this was more than just a coincidental road sign, but that we were
about to endure a time of pain. I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, but I knew
we had to follow where the Lord was leading.
When we approached the house for the very first time I noticed the house number was
3456. As I looked at these numbers the Spirit said, “Here I will set your household in order.”
The street the house was located on was called Kingsbury, and as I meditated on this the
Spirit told me that He was going to bury some things here that had been strongholds in our
lives for a long time, and we would never walk in those things again.
I suppose some reading of these things may never have experienced the Spirit
speaking to them through such means, and some may even see these things as silly, or the
fruit of an overactive imagination. The Spirit bore witness to these things, however, and
everything He spoke to me was to come true. It was to be a time of much pain. Our
household would be set in order, and God would bury some things here, such as my
covetous inclinations which led me to incur debt, and we would never walk in these things
again. God is an omnipotent Father, and it did not tax Him in the least to set all of these
signs of His working before me. If Christ could tell Peter to cast a hook into the sea to catch