was filming a movie in Canada when I got a call from Val, raving about a house he’ d found that checked all our boxes. Although I wasn’ t able to travel to see it, I trusted that we were on the same page about what we wanted, and so I encouraged him to put an offer on it.
Three days later we received the news that our offer had not been accepted.( If you’ re keeping track, that’ s eight houses we didn’ t get.)
Quick rewind: did I mention that after we lost the third house I created a prayer wall in my bedroom closet? Maybe you’ ve seen something similar in War Room or Unsung Hero. In a tall column labeled“ Ask God” I had pressed a yellow post-it note petitioning God for the right house for our family.( I won’ t lie: I was pretty specific about what we were hoping for.)
“ Lord,” I prayed,“ I just don’ t get it. You know we want to be faithful stewards of what you’ ve given us, and to use our home to bless others. I don’ t understand, but I trust you.”
Four weeks after our offer on the home was rejected, Val got a phone call about that very house. The buyers decided to go another direction and now the home— the one that check all of our boxes!— was being offered to us. When he called to give me the news I was flooded with an overwhelming awareness that this was finally God’ s provision for us.
In a letter to the believers in Ephesus, the apostle Paul assures them that God is able to do“ infinitely more than we can ask or imagine”( Ephesians 3:20). The Amplified version of the Bible translates this as“ superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think.” Isn’ t that powerful?
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