Buying a Home the Joshua Way Pt 2

needing some repairs

The bank owning the house we wanted to buy counter-offered, dropping nearly a fifth off the original price! Still too much for us, but our realtor was shocked, never having experienced a counter offer in such a situation, and never having expected this particular house to sell for as little as the bank was now offering. Excited, hopeful, but realizing it was still an impossibility to us, we followed up a week later with a second offer. Meanwhile we continued talking over our situation with each other, with our mortgage loan officer, and with our realtor. We continued to pray and we half-heartedly looked at the descriptions of other houses in the neighborhood which our realtor sent to us. I had seen that the house next door had an open house on a day which was convenient for us, so I felt we should visit. It was a nice house. It had some of the criteria we were looking for and was in FAR better shape than the one we wanted, but it wasn't the one we wanted. I still felt like God was setting the stage for our miracle and looking at the next door home was somehow part of it. I kept packing all the things we weren't regularly using and tossing the items which weren't worth the trouble of moving.
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We had shared everything with our daughters, telling them to pray. They always referred to the house as "ours" and when I reminded them that we hadn't purchased it yet--that it would take a miracle for it to become ours--they corrected themselves and referred to it as "the house we're going to buy". I feared for their first real crisis of faith, if God in fact had other plans. Yet I still had the conviction in my heart that this was the home for us. I dutifully looked at the descriptions of other houses, but didn't really give any of them a chance to win me. I prayed that the Lord would remove the certainty I had if I had misunderstood Him, but the feeling only grew stronger. I prayed that the Lord would bring about the miracle.
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Over and over the story of Joshua defeating the town of Jericho impressed itself upon my mind. If God was leading us to buy this house, then it would require a miracle of that size, yet the Lord who brought down the walls of Jericho was certainly capable of making this home our own. I began reading the book of Joshua.
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