I finally sold my house!! After 8 months… But it was amazing how it happened. The house wasn’t sold and we kept dropping the price. We dropped it so much we were the cheapest house for the sq ft. in our neighborhood. It didn’t matter to us that much because we weren’t losing money and it was more important to move. So my prayer was that God would give it to some poor hard working family who otherwise couldn’t afford a house. After all, I only got this house because I sold my house in NJ for a $70K profit… Not by the sweat of my brows but by the boom in the housing market. So I figured, this house was a gift so let it be a gift to someone else.Last Friday a couple came to see the house, their realtor commented to my wife about my library and all my Christian books. She mentioned that I was a pastor and he mentioned that his clients were Bible translators. I thought it was very nice. When the contract came in I googled their names and found out that they were not just Bible translators but they were this guy’s son: http://www.farsinet.com/dibaj/ I was like, holy smokes… God was saving this house for the son of a martyr.Then we go and get ready to put an offer on a house. It was a dream house way WAY out of our budget. 50K more than our max price. But I figured, “hey, what do I have to lose?” So I put in a low lowball offer. My realtor assured us that it would get rejected and the owners would probably get offended. My wife said we shouldn’t offend people like that. I said, “Hey, making an offer is free… What do we have to lose?” Besides, I told our realtor what our maximum budget was for a house. So he did it because he is a friend. He sent it in. Within an hour he calls me back and all I hear is laughing. He laughs and laughs and kept saying “You won’t believe this.” The very first counter offer was exactly the price I had just told him was our maximum. Not a penny more. I said “See how God is good to me?” Man… The hand of God at work. He was holding my house for the Iranian Christians while frustrating the owner of the other house so she would be willing to let it go for so little. If we had sold the house when we wanted to we would have never even had a chance at this house. This new house wasn’t on the market until 3 months ago. And had we sold our house a month ago the owner of our dream home wouldn’t have been that desperate to sell. Everything works for the good of those who love the Lord. Indeed God is good. I always preach about trusting in the goodness of God and I try to exemplify it in my life. And time and time again… the goodness of God always overwhelms me.
March 5, 2008...8:40 pm
God is good…
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