Deuteronomy 2: 24
“Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
The big day was finally here!
We had prayed, packed, planned, shopped and said our good-bye's.
And then, Thursday we got bumped four times with our buddy passes.
Missing all possible flights and connections.
Let's just say I was sobbing more than once in the airport.
We waited and waited for the Lord to pull some last minute magic.
After nine hours at Concourse E in the Atlanta Airport, we returned home with the information that Air France would do nothing for us and not even let us pay change fee's.
They told us we lost our money and that was just the way it was.
Sorry! $2800 worth of sorry left a deep sick feeling in my stomach.
We had hit a brick wall.
Even as we sat out side in the cool night breeze, I said, I still think something is going to happen.
My mom finally drove up and we left with out our suitcase holding our gifts for the children in India.
As we drove home I tried to process, how could we have missed God like that?
I was making a mental list of the things that had to happen for all of this to work.
What about all the extra side jobs Dan got at work, his parents coming to stay with the kids and all people who sent support.
What would I tell everyone. Thinking about that was worse than missing our planes.
After the emotional roller coaster ride, we finally arrived home with no fight left.
We fell into bed asking the Lord to work on our behalf.
Through the night it was like was being jolted wake up thinking of one more thing we should have tried, only to realize that we did try everything while dozing off again.
When morning came I was numb.
So many questions with no answers.
While checking my email and drinking my coffee I watched David Copeland's video email that just happened to be on extreme warfare, bizarre and unusual circumstances and a unique new anointing coming from the Lord.
Well, that fit, we had all of those things happen.
Honestly, His words felt like being thrown a new life line.
It was confirmation to what we had heard before we left - this was a new season.
So didn't we miss God?
So many things fallen into place for us to go there was still hope.
We just had to keep pushing.
Friday morning I said to myself, OK - IF this was going to work it's gonna be CRAZY....and crazy it was.
While I was drinking my coffee trying to figure out just exactly how God was going to show up there was a knock at the front door.
It was the meter man and he was at the house to install a new power source for the new digital meter.
My thought was - for all I care buddy you can take the bricks off the house if you really want to.
I really wasn't in the best mood.
We would leave and go to our favorite breakfast place and talk about what to do next.
While we talked we got a few phone calls and a few text messages.
Things began to shift!
Later in the day, as all of the God things started happening, I could hear the meter man's words, "you will drop power for a few seconds, but, it will come back more accurate with the new digital meter."
Indeed it did!
Who knew the Lord made house calls.
We ended up getting in $2200 on Friday in various ways from our supporters.
We went to the bank to file a "claim for no services rendered" with our credit card.
To our surprise, the bank put the $2800 back in our account for the first tickets that we couldn't use while we dispute this claim.
Plus, the new tickets we booked that evening actually ended up being $800 less than our first tickets.
So, with all of that we will try this again Monday!
Now we just need our bag back from the airline before we leave on Monday!
It seems it went to Paris with out us.
When the Lord said, begin to possess the Land, I had no idea it would begin in the Atlanta Airport with several "open book tests".
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