Lessons Learned?

We’ve been praying for over a year – probably more like a year and a half about getting the condos sold. God did answer with one sale in 2006 and we’re very grateful. At the same time we’re desperately praying for the sale of the others, and of the Gatlinburg cabin (and the local rentals for that matter). We feel that God has done much through real estate to get our attention. We believe that even before we came to church and were baptized as new Christian, that he was laying out some lessons for us. I think that he wanted us to feel blessed in our early walk – and we did. I think he wanted us to place all faith in Him to sell the Auburn property that sat for over a year before we stopped trying to do things to make it happen ourselves. Less than 24 hours after that we had a full price offer. His presence was undeniable. Steph did the same thing and yielded Hazlett to Him and literally 15 minutes later, our tenant called and asked if they could buy it from us. The tenant is a tough case for financing but through God’s intervention alone, it appears that the sale will go through. After cutting our prices at least 3 times, and after negotiating to let the resort take over management, and after sincerely giving away the selling of them, we’re still waiting for our prayer to be answered. Ya know, since become Christian, there have been very few passion filled prayers that have not been fulfilled for us. I mean we’ve watched two young people be healed of cancer, for “unreachable” relatives’ whole families come to Christ. Maybe God wants us to learn some lesson about unanswered prayers this time. I Sooooo, don’t want that to be the case. Deep in my soul I trust Him, and I know that he’s got our best interests in mind, and that I can’t see what He can, but from my perspective at ground zero, It’s really rotten that we haven’t been freed from these yet. I was so sure that we clearly saw His direction for us to eliminate debt so that we wouldn’t be its servants. Maybe we received a message that wasn’t really the one He sent. Maybe we misinterpreted. Maybe there’s something He wants us to learn from the struggle. As I write this I do remember that RiverCity was something that we prayed passionately about for a long time and it didn’t pan out as we prayed. Somehow maybe this is similar. I have no choice but to wait to see how His plan unfolds and pray for it to happen expeditiously. I trust Him and know that He knows best (but I still don’t like waiting…LOL)