Sharon Sharing God: GOING, GOING, SOLD!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

GOING, GOING, SOLD!

The next installment in The Moving Memoirs:

Everyone has a favorite character in the Bible.

One of my grandfathers' favorite was Gideon.

I remember the first time I read the story of Gideon – I think I know why my grandpa loved Gideon. It's why I love Gideon, too.

Gideon was an underdog – and God showed up for him in a big way.

A way that could only be God's doing.

But, Gideon was also a lot like me. He heard the voice of God, yes – but just to be on the safe side, he asked God for a sign – twice, as a matter of fact!

I was reminded of this two weeks ago…

Way in the beginning of my moving saga, I was really tortured by doubt. I couldn't settle on whether God was really asking us to move or not. I began to read into everything that happened around me…

"Was that a sign that I'm supposed to go?" I'd wonder.

Which was quickly followed up by, "Oh no, something else happened. Was that a sign that I'm supposed to stay?"

It was torture.

Wanting to do God's will, and then not being able to figure it out is really, really tough.

So, I forged ahead – but still wondered.

A good friend of mine advised me to *put a fleece* before God – figuratively speaking. And she thought the sale of my current home might make a good "fleece."

Sounded like good advice to me…

You see, I had asked God to make it VERY PLAIN if moving was NOT what He had in mind – if, for some reason, I had "misheard" His call.

So, the time finally came to list our current home. I told the Lord that this was going to be my *fleece* – if the house sold, I'd take this as His final confirmation to go. If it didn't…well, it would definitely be time to re-evaluate.

Do you know what happened?! Our house was on the market only 24 hours before it sold!

Yes, God answered quickly – graciously, almost miraculously, answered.

So, my friends, "The Hub" and I are launched on our new adventure – we are continuing on our *Abraham Journey* to another land.

I know that God has been with us, every step of the way – but I sure am glad that He showed up with an answer to my fleece. How kind He was to us…

Though stressed and nervous – tired and overwhelmed – I am so very excited.

I can hardly wait to see what God has in store…

…cause He's made it pretty clear that He wants us to go!!

Have you ever had God answer a "Gideon fleece"? Tell us about it!

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5 comments:

A Peculiar PersonMay 23, 2012 at 12:44 PM
Wow, what an incredible answer! When God speaks, He certainly doesn't waste any time, does He? How exciting =)
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bettyMay 23, 2012 at 7:40 PM
That is so cool, Sharon, that your house sold in 24 hours!! That is definitely a fleece indeed! Especially in this market; how neat it all came together although at the time of course it was a step by faith....

betty
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Joan Davis (Jo)May 24, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Sometimes it can be so hard to determine God's will...there are circumstances such as moving, taking a new job, etc. that can be so confusing! The things in themselves aren't bad...burt we want to make sure that the choice we are making is what God wants us to make! I love that you put a "fleece" before the Lord...AND that He answered so quickly! I am excited to keep reading about your adventure! Blessings, Joan
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Anita JohnsonMay 25, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Yipee! God is good!
xo
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Joan HallMay 28, 2012 at 7:52 AM
Excited for you on your new adventure. God does answer our prayers.

Blessings,
Joan
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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

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Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

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"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

GOING, GOING, SOLD!

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