Tuesday, March 31, 2009

In the past month, we asked many people to pray and keep their eyes open for housing and a vehicle for us to use during our upcoming stays in Canada and in Arizona. We are happy to say that the Lord responded quickly. Soon after asking for help, the Lord provided a house-sitting gig for us during our time in Canada, which includes a car to drive! As exciting as this provision was, we were admittedly less optimistic about the housing options in Phoenix. We were just having a hard time believing that the Lord would provide something. One day Ben even sat down and started looking through online classifieds for furnished housing, and his mood turned more sour by the minute as he saw the high prices. This morning I was listening to a podcast by a popular Christian speaker while I was working in the kitchen. The speaker was talking about how the Israelites who left Egypt never got to enter the promised land because of their lack of faith, and that sometimes we can miss God’s best if we have unbelief in our hearts. I became convicted of our own unbelief in this housing matter. Right there, I quietly prayed a prayer of repentance on our behalf, resolving to trust God more fully in this matter. Finishing up in the kitchen, I sat down at the computer to check e-mail. There in the inbox was an e-mail with the subject heading, “House for Kuwitzkys.” It was from a couple offering us a fully-furnished 3-bedroom house, ten minutes from our church and family, complete with a huge backyard and a pool! And for no charge! All we have to do, they said, is buy groceries. We are, of course, blown away. That he provided so much more than we ever expected in the midst of our unbelief is a perfect example of his grace to us.

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