Once again…scroll down and read parts 1 & 2 first.

Women who work often tell me they can’t afford to stay home. I have a hard time with this. I can’t help but wonder if it isn’t really about trusting in the Lord and being willing to sacrifice.

I look at situations like this (see previous posts) and I see God’s blessing. He doesn’t always keep us safe, He doesn’t always deliver us out of the problem, but He cares for us in the midst. He provides when we think there is nothing and no way. I can’t count the times we’ve been dead broke and God has provided. With the birth of each child He has blessed us…given us not just the joy of the child, but the money to provide for the child. It is amazing. It humbles me and floors me.

He calls us to walk in obedience…to trust…to be keepers at home, lovers of our husbands, and our children and when we do we are so blessed.

When I decided to stay home, we had nothing. We were stepping out on faith. I was leaving my job so we went on half an income. M was still in school. We lived in an apartment and had no idea if we could really pare things down and make it work, it certainly didn’t work on paper. It has been nine years now.

We were at a point recently where finances had reached a breaking point…not due to debts so much, but just everything costing too much and honestly not having enough income to make ends meet. And we only use cash – so if it isn’t there, it isn’t there. We had considered selling our house, but we live in an area where a lot of new homes are being built and homes like ours are not selling. We would have had to sell for a loss and we really did not want to do that.

I had been praying about getting a job or taking in a child…but I’d also been praying that God would provide supernaturally. That he would provide a reliable second car that would cost us nothing. (We have had one car for 8 years.) And He did this recently.  Praise God! I was also praying that He would give M a raise…a sizable raise. I wasn’t praying for piddles. And before all this mess with the toilet happened we found out that his raise/position had been grated. (Praise the Lord!) Beyond even what I had prayed for! (Praise the Lord!)We haven’t felt the blessing yet, but it is coming. By mid-November it will be in effect. Once again God has provided supernaturally…Great is the Lord and worthy to be praised. I had to pray a long time…but God is faithful. His timing is not our timing. Don’t tell me this can’t be done…I’ve seen it over, and over, and over again. 

May showers of blessings fall upon all of you who have stepped out in faith and taken the road less traveled – back to the heart of the home.

“If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land,”  says the Lord.  2 Chronicles 7:14

Jesus said, “I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father.  You may ask Me for anything in My name, and I will do it.”  John 14:13-14

“I wait for You, O Lord; You will answer, O Lord my God.”  Psalm 38:15

“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him,” says the Lord.  Psalm 91:15

blessings,

dani

“Abraham did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.”  Romans 4:20-21