Is God listening

Do you ever find yourself asking God if he is listening to your prayers?  I was starting to think that God had forgotten about us.

We have  been trying for a baby for almost 2 years now, and I was just about to give up on asking God what his plans were for our lives when we came across this house in Pinelands that we actually both liked.  Gareth and I have such different tastes, and we had been to look at a few places and whenever I just LOVED the house he would absolutely HATE the house.  I was starting to wonder if we would ever actually find a place that we both liked.

I was so nervouse to hear what Gareth thouht of this new place.  After we had had a look I turned to him and said,”What do you think?”  He said,”I love it!”  and I was like, “I LOVE IT TOO!!!!!”  I couldn’t believe it.  We decided to think about it.  We knew these houses go like hot cakes so whatever we decided it needed to be a quick decision.  We took the moms to have a look and the house got their stamp of approval  We told the estate agent that we’d like to make an offer.

That evening we went out for my friends birthday and I chatted to her parents about the place.  They were the ones that had told us about the house coming onto the maket.  Her dad is really clued up on property and we didn’t know what to make our opening offer.  Her dad gave us some advice about if we were making an offer with our hearts or with our heads.  Our hearts wanted this house!  Her mom told us to go home and pray for the place together.  I told her that we don’t pray together,we just feel awkward praying together.  She firmly said,” Go home and pray together.”  I wasn’t going to argue anymore.  When we got into bed I said to Gareth, “We have to pray for our house.”   He made one of his “Do I have to?” grunts, and I said, “Yes, Karen said we must.”  That night we prayed that God may open and close doors, and if we were meant to have this place then he would make things go smoothly.  And if it wasn’t part of his plan, then we would be disappointed, but we know that he would have another idea for us.  And we were fine either way.

Wow! What a connection we felt after praying together.  It was amazing. It brings a new meaning to 2 become 1.

We put in our offer and the agent came back to us and said he can’t believe it, the guy just wanted 10 000 more and he would accept.  We were so excited and couldn’t believe it.  We thought we’d be negotiating for ages.  Everything that happened next was just a miracle.  My mom had to get 2 years of my business financial up to date.  Which she did in a weekend.  We found tenants for our flat and moved out within a weekend.  And we got a 90% bond at 0.25% below prime.  And we got to keep our other house.

This answer to prayer has been a saving grace.  Just when I thought God wasn’t listening. I’ve been encouraging all my friends and our community group to pray together.  It is such a wonderful bond. We pray every night together.  God may not have answered our prayer about a baby,but thats ok.  He has a plan and even though we don’t understand why he hasn’t blessed us with children yet, we trust that he has it all sorted out.

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