Thoughts for Life: Rest

God knows our needs

Ann McCauley shares with us, "What to do? The money is not there, and God tells you to rest.

Rest. Some of the hardest work ever done, entering into faith-rest and doing nothing.

My husband and I were certain God had called us to move back home to Arkansas. We prayed and asked Him to make it clear.

Immediately, my husband received a job and moved. The kids and I followed a month later. Since our hometown was small, we moved in with my husband’s parents and put our things in storage to house hunt.

Eight months later, we found literally the only house for sale in our price range with enough bedrooms for our large family.

God gave me what I dubbed an Ann House, complete with twelve foot ceilings, crown molding, and lovely fireplace mantles. The home was tailored for our family with loads of built-in bookshelves and cabinets for homeschooling and for housing our blind daughter’s large library of Braille books.

God blessed, and the mortgage went through without a hitch. But two days later, when workers arrived to tear out the two existing heat and air units, we received a major blow.

The boss called my husband into his office and told him the business was in decline. He had no choice but to take away our salary. Commission sales became our only income source.

Since our commissions had been few and far between, we knew we needed a miracle. Self doubt plagued. Had we been foolish to buy a house?

God said, 'Rest.'

This word bombarded us from every direction for six weeks. Then, just as the roof of our situation was about to cave in, God delivered.

He not only provides but He fights the battles that keep us in upheaval. But we have to rest in Him.

As it turned out, my husband’s dream job—the one he’d desired for years—opened at the university. He applied, and the day before our first mortgage payment was due, he was hired.

Rescued.

Rest. A small word backed by a powerful God."

"With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves…" 2 Chronicles 32:8 (KJV)

Rest – Ann McCauley

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Senior Editor, Cindy Sproles of www.christiandevotions.us

Ann lives truth and writes fiction. She grew up in Arkadelphia, Arkansas where she met and married her high school sweetheart, Randy, nearly thirty-six years ago.

The McCauley’s have six children, four adopted internationally from South Korea, the Philippines, and Siberia. In 2001 Baker/ Revell published Ann’s first stories in the book, Loved By Choice—True Stories That Celebrate Adoption.

Ann, an ACFW member, has completed three historical novels. Read more about Ann at anncoopermccauley.com.
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