Upper Room Updates

I am writing this in August of 2005.  If you have been to our main site and read our testimony, you know that we have been walking with God in a unique and encompassing way for many years.

And we have been waiting to be given our "marching orders" for what has seemed to be a LONG time now.  We have been totally open to anything that God wants from us.  Waiting anxiously, even.

Lately we have been drawn to the Ozarks of Missouri.  We had always liked the Ozarks but had not realized that now it would appear to be where God has wanted us to end up at, all along.

There have been many things that have caused us to come to this conclusion.

The first time that we went down there, we were totally led by God to go there for a sabbatical of sorts.

When we got back, we told a few choice people that we were feeling led to move down there.  One friend in particular told us that there have been several "prophetic words" that have been given over that particular area, over the last 10+ years.  And we had never heard anything about it before.  We just knew that WE were being led there.  Those friends had lived there, back then.  But the timing wasn't right for them, then.

One of the words was that "the eagles are going to land" there!  And "Eagles" have always been a "key word" to us and we always watch for key phrases, when we are discussing these type of things with people, for confirmation.  The Lord has used this method with us, for our entire walk with Him. 

And Eagles are usually considered "prophetic" in our circle of people that God has placed around us.

And then another set of our friends told us that THEY are being led there, as well!  Which was some more confirmation that SOMETHING is going to be going on there and that God is gathering up His people to that area.

Then the next time that we were able to go, was only 2 weeks later and Ernie's boss told him that he would PAY for us to STAY down there for the weekend!

And his boss has NEVER paid for ANYONE at the company, to spend the weekend anywhere, EVER.

So we KNEW that it was God.  And we were right!

THIS time when we went, we saw His Hand clearly.  Many things happened and one of them was that I met a woman (while I was waiting for Ernie to finish up some work that he had to do there) and she and her family had just moved to that area from Chicago!

The Lord told them to move and they did.  They did not have a job or a home there when they first came.  They just packed up and followed God there.

We talked and she confirmed many of the same things (key phrases again) that the Lord has already been showing us.  She told me that at her Church there, had been a prophetic word that God is indeed gathering His people up there, for the last days and plans to do a mighty work there.

She also told me that NOW we know someone down there and how we are family.  If we are born again, then we ARE in the family of God and ARE siblings in Christ.

No matter WHAT our denominational background.  She and I exchanged numbers and it seemed that I had known her for years, even though we had just met, at McDonald's, while our young children played together!

So when Ernie found out about my "providential meeting" with that precious sister in the Lord, he got pretty excited about it.  Yet another confirmation that we are on the right track.  There was a record heat wave going on at the time, too.  In the natural it was miserable there, the entire time that we were there.

The next day we went to another town there in that area.  We just felt led and we went.  The town is almost dead and they are desperate to try to revitalize their town.  And we just stopped and got out of our car, walked down to the lake and met the owners of a marina there.  And they said some key phrases, as well.

She said, "if you go down there on the lake, (however many yards) there is a place where there are a THOUSAND eagles live there.  They land and they live there".....

And there were a few other things that they said that just confirmed, yet again, that we are on the right track.

Then we left there and we drove up the hill and there sat a beautiful home for rent.  Sitting on an acre of land.  More than affordable for us. 

So we are now waiting on the Lord to see if that home is for us or what we are to do. 

We are "waiting on the Lord" and renewing our strength.

Amen?

Oh and Ernie's job will allow him to work from home, in that area.  He can telecommute from ANYWHERE and still keep his present job.  He won't ask them until the Lord opens the door and makes it CLEAR that we are to do that.  But it IS an option for us.  MOST of their Clients are in that area and his company spends quite a bit of money, having Ernie on the road to go down to that area.  So they would be more than happy if Ernie wanted to move down there.

More updates later!  God bless...