After a year of looking.......

WE FOUND A HOUSE!!!!

Yes.....you totally read that right! We moved in with my parents on Memorial Day weekend last year and after a year of praying, paying (debt that is...), and planning we have found a new house to call home! Kevin and I feel so blessed to have been given the opportunity to live with my parents and pay off debt. It has been a tremendous blessing to us. However, we are so ready to have our own place to call home. We have been doing a lot of praying and planning and found a house we LOVED back in February. After lots of counter offers, the sellers agreed and we now have a contract!!! YAY! Our tentative close date is at the end of April and I am so excited.

This whole journey of buying a new house has taught Kevin and I many things. We have learned to lean on each other and to have patience. But most of all, we learned that God's timing is PERFECT and nothing will work out if it's not in His grand plan. It's just amazing to sit back and see how God had his hand on this area of our lives.

We have been seriously looking at house for about 2 or 3 months now and the whole ordeal is just exhausting to me. I mean mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting. I tend to be a "control freak" and like to plan things and be in control of situations. I learned during this ordeal that I had to just "let go and let God". I prayed every night for patience to wait for the right house and peace that if something didn't work out the way I wanted, that my God had bigger plans.

Last weekend we put one last offer on the house knowing that the price we offered was our max and trusting that if it was God's will that the sellers would accept, and if not we would have to continue our search. I was worried sick all day Saturday and Sunday because I wanted this house sooooo bad.

Well, turns out we are doing a series at church called "Jesus Is". This past Sunday's message was titled "Jesus is the Miracle Worker". Let me just tell you.....GOD SPOKE TO ME! The message was just for me even if no one else was listening. I left feeling so calm and having a peace about things. The main points of the sermon were:

1. Do what Jesus says to do

2. Focus on what God wants to do in you during situations

3. Believe the unbelievable

4. Expect the best!

Boy did all of those things happen! I prayed and let God take control over the situation. God wanted to teach me patience and that His plans are better than mine. I believed that if this was the house for us, that God would let the sellers accept our offer (after a couple of rejected offers). and I expected the best!

We are just standing amazed now at God's faithfulness through this time in our lives. And because God is soooo good and faithful, I will also be able to decrease my work to 3 days a week starting this summer!!! Hallelujah! I cannot wait to spend more time with my sweet baby girl! God has definately blessed us more than we could imagine!!!

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us."

Ephesians 3:20