How I Ended Up In Church IT (part 2)

Here's part 2 of my story from Monday ... and now the rest of the story ...

3 weeks went by before we could coordinate an interview at the church. During this time Kim and I were praying hard and asking others to pray that God were show us clearly where he wanted us. Perhaps we’re supposed to stay here in WI…but we wanted to be open and ready for his calling.
I still very much wanted the CIO job, which during this time I learned that 270 applications had been received and they ended up choosing someone with tons more experience than I had.

So 2 possibilities down…one to go.

The interview at the church went very well…and afterwards both Kim and I felt like this was where God seemed to be leading us. There was still no salary discussion, which gave us a very uneasy feeling, but we prayed that money would not be a stumbling block.

We wrote out a list of the pros and cons about potentially making this move. We prayed specifically for each of the things on the list that made us frankly scared…money was one of the biggest concerns. We did some number crunching and came up with a bottom line salary figure we felt we would need to allow Kim to stay at home and keep us in good shape. We wrote this number down on a piece of paper and prayed.
The night before our second visit to the church we received the church’s offer. Guess what the salary was? The exact number I had written down on the paper!

The second visit to the church really firmed up any doubts I had that this is where God wanted us. We had prayed God would show us …and he did!
I sent my acceptance letter on June 12th with a start date of July 31st. We were still a bit scared about all the unknowns yet to come, but we trusted that God, the creator of the universe, would take care of us.

We quickly prepped our house for sale…we just moved into it last September! We decided to try the FSBO route at the encouragement of a real estate agent friend who also suggested we set the price considerably above what we were thinking. We put our sign in the yard on a Saturday and that Wednesday we had a serious showing and by Saturday it was sold! AND the buyers needed in buy August 1st which is exactly when we needed out!

We were TOTALLY blown away…not only did God give us a fast sale, but he gave us way more money than we were expecting for having not lived there for even a year!
I could picture God smiling and saying, put your trust in me and watch what happens.

That same Saturday we headed for Granger to look at homes for 3 days. We again put our trust in God and prayed that he would reveal the house we should buy. We ended up getting a great house for way under what we should have paid all things considered and it was vacant so closing was not an issue…and we even got their riding lawnmower! Woohoo!

The next day at work my boss calls a meeting to plan out my last days. As we review my contract and past years work, we determine that contractually my last day of work was the last day of school which was May 30th...and everything I had worked up to now was just extra money above my contract salary! Woohoo!

Another total blessing! We gave our financial fears to the Lord and he SOOO blessed us…home sale, home purchase, extra $$!!!

And to put icing on the cake, our 5 year old who previously said many times very firmly that he would not move, last Sunday said he was ready to move and make new friends.

Is God the coolest or what!
Before my God was big…but now he’s HUGE…my God is SOOO big!
How big is your God?
God loves us SOOOO MUCH…all we have to do is put our trust in Him…and then he promises he will rock our world!

So I leave you with this:
Is there any challenge in your life right now that is large enough that you have NO hope of doing it apart from God’s help? If not, consider the possibility that you are seriously underchallenged.

--- Jason Powell ... jasonpowell.net

Comments

[djchuang]

Jason, welcome aboard and thanks for sharing your story! We all need to take those steps of faith, and being under-challenged is one of the indicators that we aren't using all our gifts, talents, abilities, and energies, and probably not much faith either.