The end of April, William was hired
by Elizabeth to paint her house in Coquille. God had bigger plans all along. Not only did William end up working on her
house, but helped her ‘flip’ another house (which ended up selling in 2 weeks
on the market!), I ended up as caretaker
for 2 elderly people and we also ended up setting up a booth in a festival in
June (among other things); we were there
until the end of August. God led us
there and there is no question about that.
Again, here are excerpts from my journal:
April 27 – we contacted Elizabeth (the lady in Coquille that
called him 2 weeks ago because of a craigslist ad he posted to get a job) and
told her we were on our way to her place.
We got there about noon. We
talked with her briefly and found out that she only wanted 3 days of work this
week (Wed.-Fri) and that she wanted him to come back on the 23rd to
help a guy put in above-ground planters for a garden. We had brought the RV and car over thinking
we would be there for the next 3 or so weeks painting her house! We had very little money and almost empty gas
tanks. William tried to start the RV for
more than a ½ hour and got very upset.
It finally started and we went back to the beach.
When we got back, William took a nap and I walked the beach
– spent some great time talking with God (I feel closer now than I have in
months) and finding treasures in nature.
I picked a Sweet William and as I was enjoying looking at it, God said
that the outer part of the flower was like God the Father, the next was like
Jesus, and the closed part in the middle is where the Holy Spirit cocoons us in
His arms. There were 7 little flowers on
the branch I picked. It meant so much to
me. William has been so weak and tired
the last several days. When he got up
from his nap and I got back from my walk, since he was still very agitated, he
went into town and couldn’t seem to get released. He
came back and told me how Jeremy Camp’s song, “I know you understand it all”
had been ministering to him.
I, in the mean time, took my book and a chair to the beach
to sit in the sun and “escape”, but God wouldn’t let me do that – I started
praying for William, went back and got the bible (read Mark 9 and 10, James 4
and 5 – God has really been working on me about judging others) for God’s will
in what He has for us, etc and etc. I’ve
noticed that by praying in tongues lately, it’s been changing, intensifying. Anyway, while I was sitting there, God said
to tell William to, “take the tent to the beach tonight and sleep in the sand
and I will give you rest”. I immediately
thought 2 things: that it would be a
comfortable physical rest for him and he needed that and that I didn’t want to
tell him because I wanted him with me. I
told God that I would tell him if he gave me a ‘sign’. When he got back a couple hours later, he
told me how he couldn’t shake this agitation and said that he needed rest. The
word ‘rest’ triggered my memory of what God told me and I told him what God
told me. He sat there a minute and
thought about it, then answered that he would do that, thought he really didn’t
want to do that, but he believed that God told me to tell him that. That just broke me down because I’ve been
wanting to hear from God again lately and be sure of his voice because I want
to do what He wants me to do and say.
This past winter had been so hard, I hadn’t heard his voice so clearly
as much as I had in Fountain, so by me saying this (and what I said the day
before) confirmed in me that God is speaking clearly to me again and that I’m
not just ‘imagining’ things.
While we were discussing this, Elizabeth called back and
said she wanted us to come back because her 88-year-old neighbor had fallen and
hurt himself and needed some help (he walked to his barn and while opening the
door, it caught his foot, he fell over and was too weak to get back up. He lay in 87 degree sun for an hour before
Elizabeth found him). William was upset
with himself for not doing what God told him to do (see below) and told her we
would be back tomorrow morning.
William told me the below story and while doing so started
shaking and got this fever (it had to have been over 100) and it began to
become intense with an upset stomach. I
held him for awhile and comforted him while we talked. He told me that while we were at Elizabeth’s,
he was so mad because he had assumed he would be working, that we would get the
car payment $$ in on time (due the 20th, but had 10 days grace
period – they’ve been really mean lately about our payments because we owe less
than $2000 and they are just looking for an excuse to ‘steal’ it from us) and
that we would have $$ to operate with this month, but instead, because of
whatever misunderstanding/miscommunication, we went back to the coast
specifically because of this job. While
he was trying to start the RV that ½ it took of trying again and again (the
worst it had ever done before was 15 min. and that was only once – it usually
takes 5 min. or so to start it), God said to him several times that he was to
go to Elizabeth and tell her that he was supposed to stay here tonight. William kept quenching that voice because he
didn’t want to look the crazy person to go say that to her, so he just got
madder while he kept trying to start the RV.
While he was going through that fever experience, he
realized that God was chastising him for not obeying. He
knew that he had been holding back from God lately. He felt that God kept putting him through the
ringer lately. That him, being a prophet, could not disobey God because people’s
lives were at stake, so he agreed to go to the beach tonight to see what God
wanted from him. The fever then broke
and he quit shaking.
April 28 – William got back to the RV this am around 7 and
told me what happened. No sleeping bag,
only 1 blanket, cold but God met him.
Scripture about David & Saul II Sam. 2:11, chapters 9 and 10 and 22. Saul didn’t listen to God either and he
suffered demonic attacks and that William didn’t want to reject God’s perfect
will. God told him that he would prove
all this (and the story above) by starting the RV up right away with no problem
this am to go back to Coquille. We read
2 Cor 4 this am before leaving.
We had a healing and restorative day and night last
night. On the drive back to Coquille, I
was thinking how slow I am in listening/gaining wisdom from God and I said to
Him, “I’m so slow at times.” He said to
me, “We all are at times.” What caught
my attention was the “We”. I asked,
“what do you mean we?” He told me how
when He was a man on earth, he was like us, while learning to listen the Holy
Spirit, sometimes, He too was slow.
April 29 – William woke up at 3 am with heavy
conviction. God talked to him about meaning
of the sand he was to sleep on: Sand
represented the people, like it did Abraham.
He’s got many people He’s bring home.
Because William didn’t listen the day before, these kinds of things can
cause someone to not gain salvation. So disobedience
to anything that God says has great consequences. William had to lay on the hard, cold sand,
full of symbolism, he is set aside in the tent (tabernacle, belly of the whale)
when someone is willing - living
sacrifice – to do anything God says, then God can bring much to many souls when
someone is willing to sacrifice – it gives birth to those people in the Spirit,
like the sands in the sea, he had to see
that as a visual to be laid out for God ,there is a price, but the consequences
are much fruit and much reward and God can win souls when we just say yes and
not argue with what He is saying, nor be worried about how scared you are in
speaking up. William was thinking that
he didn’t trust God’s word and didn’t want to be embarrassed if it didn’t
happen.
William started prepping/painting Elizabeth’s house. He found that he could only work 5 hours due
to the fact he is weaker than ever before doing this kind of work. God was really faithful to us in this – here
she was thinking for William to do a few handyman works around the property off
and on (not worth our time or $$ to come over here because it wouldn’t even pay
for itself), and William was thinking he was to paint her house (as she said
over the phone originally) – God really changed up the circumstances and made a
way for us to be real servants and still be willing to do anything God says.
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