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These past weeks, my main prayer and belief has been that we would “hear from God” regarding our move / sale / purchase  of  homes.

I don’t have details to share,  as  this life-chapter is still unfolding.   But I must thank you for your prayers for action.

Buyers, talks, decisions to be made, and final steps to take.   Please continue to pray!

We’ve heard… and I’m so crazy excited that I have to share.

Yesterday morning, the Biggies and I were doing Special Time with Mom at our homeschool table.   We are discussing the character trait and fruit of the Spirit, patience, this month.   At the end of our devotional for Patience at Home, there were two verse references noted.  I assigned them to the boys to look up in their Bibles and we them read them aloud and discussed their application.   As Ving read,  I felt God’s Word penetrate my heart.  I immediately grabbed my sticky note pad and carefully wrote the verse down as he repeated it a few times.

Psalm 37:7  Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act.

Mid-day and again in the evening, I asked Ving where my stickie-note verse went.  We couldn’t find it, so I planned to find it or look it up again later.   Evening passed and I went to bed.

This Tuesday morning during my quiet time,  I wrote in my prayer journal.  It helps me to write my thoughts and emotions out to God, and I was on a roll.  There are occasional scriptures on the pages in the margins, and I was trying to write around one verse.   I was prompted to stop and read it, and to honest this isn’t a normal habit for me.  I tend to just keep writing away.   My heart did a little gallop as the words jumped off the page, and I  read it again and again…

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait paitiently for Him to act.  Psalm 37:7

We’ve been believing we would hear from God, and have been fighting anxiety of decisions with the time passing.

Wow.  I knew I was hearing from God.   I went out to the kitchen to find Irv with the boys.

“Hey, you know what, I think I just heard from God!” I announced.  (That definetly got their attention.)

I shared my double verse revelation, and Irv looked it up in his BIble and read it aloud.

As he was reading, I got this crazy idea….

Sunday night, while desiring to blog with you all, I forced myself to clean up my  inbox with 500 emails dating back to June.  I printed some prayer requests and things to put in my folder to use during my quiet time.   On Monday I discovered that due to a printer issue, I had many blank print-outs reading “data not found”.    I assumed it was a divine act in providing me less papers to keep, and moved on without my printouts.

But, as Irv was reading the verse aloud,  God brought one particular email to my mind.   I couldn’t remember the fine details, but I told Irv we had to go search through my email trash bin and find it an email from J.M.  We headed to the computer room…

We finally found this short, obedient email from December 20th!

“The Lord put this chapter number in my head for you this morning, when I was driving over. I forgot to tell you. I don’t even know what the chapter says but I need to be faithful to relay it to you. Psalm 37″ -J.M.

I told you I am crazy excited.  All day I was singing… we’ve heard from God!  We’ve heard from God!  I mean, come on people, I can’t make this stuff up!  I don’t remember ever reading Psalm 37 before!  Of all the verses in the Bible (31,102), there is no coincidence,  just GOD-INCIDENCE, that without me even looking, all three of them were placed before me, so the Creator of the Universe could speak HOPE, LOVE, and ASSURANCE into our hearts.

I wrote out the scripture and hung it on the fridge.  Praise God.  He cares and hears.  Thank-you for praying.

Three o’clock finally arrived and I made it to quiet hour.   As I laid on the couch,  I told God “I’m being still in Your presence and waiting (and trusting) for You to act.”    I talked to Him about how I knew He was there, thanked Him for revealing Himself to us in a mighty,  exciting way.   I thanked Him for the assurance that He is with us and acting on our behalf with so many details beyond our control.

Then I got to thinking… I prayed and believed that we would “hear from God”.   And yes, I could see that we just had!  But as usual, my prayers aren’t answered in ways I imagine.    I had prayed that we would hear from God, meaning it would be obvious to us what directions to take with decisions.    So what now?   I heard from God, and He told me to be still in His presence and wait patiently for Him to act!   Just.Like.God.    He’s got it all in control and working things out greater than I could ever ask or imagine.

It’s Wednesday night and I’m still crazy excited just typing this out!  I’m encouraged to keep believing God and asking to hear from Him in so many areas of my life.  I know He speaks to us always as we read His Word, and we must be in it.   But, it’s exciting to know He loves fellowshipping with us so much that He reveals Himself to us in so many different ways….

And, I imagine He likes my little, I’ve-heard-from-God-crazy-excited-dance, too.

I’m purposing to be still in His presence,  praying for help to wait patiently, and knowing and believing that HE will act!

What’s He got you dancing, singing, and praising Him about these days?

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