House For Sale

We faced a deep struggle and temptation last year in wanting to go to Southwestern. But the more we sought after it, the less peace we had. And finally, the Lord told us so clearly to wait.
Over the last months, we have felt the Lord telling us that it’s time to move in that direction. Every word that we receive from the Lord is “go”. This is totally different than last year, when every word was, “wait”. And I think the greatest thing of all is the peace from His Holy Spirit that we did not have before.
So for us right now, “Go” means that we need to sell our house.
It went on the market last Wednesday, May 4th. Thursday the 5th, Misti Peppard received a call from a couple wanting to look at it. They had already driven by and wanted to take a look on the inside. They set up an appointment for yesterday at 5:45pm.
I have asked so many to pray that if they are to get the house, that they would know as soon as they walked through the door. From the way Misti described, it sounds like God answered our prayer and beyond. They already wanted it before they even set foot inside. We are now waiting to see if they will be able to get financing. If they get pre-approved in the next 2 days, Misti will start working on the contract.
We know that the house belongs to the Lord. And He will sell it if that is His will in Heaven!

I am so thankful for Misti Peppard who is showing our house for us. She is such a blessing. We would be pulling our hair out trying to do this on our own.

Southwestern

We are going to tour Southwestern Theological Seminary next Wednesday on spring break. We are praying diligently that the Lord would be clear weather we should go to this school or not. This is what we want to do. We are praying that He will tell us if that's what He wants. We hate where we are. I don't know how much longer we can take. We need a breakthrough! We are begging God that we will be able to start in the fall. We are quite honestly passed depression and consumed in despair. Yes we want out. But I do not want a Hagar! I want to wait for the Lord.

After the tour, we are leaving to go on a much needed camping trip. We have not been able to get away for a while. But we are going if the weather is good. I know this will help refresh us to get away from everything. And I am looking forward to spending time with the Lord away from the distractions of everyday life.

Life At Present

Stephen and I are leading a college Bible study. It has been so much fun! One day, we will be able to do that full time. Lord give me strength as I expectantly wait!

Our church is taking part in the Beth Moore simulcast this weekend! It is going to be so good. The Lord has anointed her to teach and I know He has given her what needs to be spoken this weekend! Lord prepare my heart!

PASSION 2010- Steve and I are taking some of our college group to the Passion conference in January! We are doing a fund raiser this nxt Saturday. A car wash.
Some of the speakers will be Beth Moore, Louie Giglio, and John Piper! And worship bands will be Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, Matt Redman, Charlie Hall, Christy Nockles and more! So good! I can't wait.

Stephen is back to teaching again. The summer didn't stay long. It came to pass.... Oh God, please sustain us! Refresh our souls!

Well, I don't feel like there is anything else to write about. Hopefully I will be able to write some very good news soon for me and Stephen about our future....We're just waiting on an answer from God. :)

Painting

We are getting ready to paint our house. Haven't decided on colors yet. But I do not like the color that it is right now. I think that it clashes with the color of the brick.
This is going to be a big job. Probably will take up 3 or 4 days of spring break. But I'm excited!
I also remodeled my bathroom. I took the shower doors out and hung a curtin. Hung a towle rack and made a few more changes. It feels so much cleaner to me. Those shower doors were so hard to keep clean.
I will have some before and after pics of the house when we paint it.

Update

I thought I would give a little update on my life. Things have been a little crazy over the last few months.
A little over a month ago I passed out in my kitchen and it looked like I had a seizure to Stephen and Shelley (his sister). I went to the ER and I'm now going to be paying them for months for doing absolutely nothing! Literally! They took my blood pressure/sugar, which was fine and sent me home. Ridiculous.
I went to my doctor and she ordered a MRI...(I've also been having severe head aches for more than 2 years and they keep getting worse)....the MRI didn't show anything serious.( thank you GOD!!) Just a severe sinus infection. So I've been on strong meds for a month now and I'm going to be on them one more month. I'm still getting dizzy spells....but my head aches are not as bad and they havent been staying as long! Apparently I have had this infection for a long time. But I don't think that I have had it for two years! I guess I could have. All I know is that I have had head aches for over 2 yrs now. We'll see if that's it.

We sold our Tahoe! It was so sad. :( I hated to see it go. But I was not sad to see the gas tank go. It was bitter sweet. :)
We now have a jeep liberty. I really like it! And it is so much easier on the pocket book. We got an awesome deal on it. God was so good to us! One amazing thing is that we sold that Tahoe in a week! Couldn't believe it!

Stephen and I just celebrated our 1st Anniversary!! July 14th. One whole year! Amazing. It does not feel like a year. That scares me. Time really needs to slow down...or I do?
We went to San Antonio for a few days to celebrate. We had a really good time. We spent a lot of time on the River Walk. We went to Schlitterbahn for a day. It was good to get a way for a little while. We left on Sunday, got back on Thursday, and then left for the lake on Friday with the college ministry at out church. Didn't get back until late Sunday night! We were tired. :) But it was great.

We have a new little puppy now named Sam. He is all basset hound! we got him in May. but we have to keep him inside...which I do not like cuz he sheds really bad and he stinks( he's a hound...it's not his fault ha ha!) ...because our neighbor's dogs attacked him. It was horrible. He had to have surgery and then he lost his sight. The Dr. said that he would probably be blind from then on. But God gave his sight back and healed him. (You should have seen the look on the vet's face when we brought sam in for his check up and told him that we laid hands on the dog and asked God to give his sight back!!!) Now he's good as new. You can't even see any scars.
But To make the situation better....the dogs got him the same night I had to go to the ER. While I was on my way to the ER, Larry (Stephen's dad) had to take Sam to meet the vet for emergency stitches. It was crazy!! Then he had surgery the next morning.
But we are all good now!! haha!!

O.K. I'm going to stop now.
Hope everyone else is doing great?

Natalie J

What's up

So we have been trying to sell our house. It has been a very tiring process! We almost had it sold, but then it fell through. And not we are living in a house full of boxes! ha ha! There are boxes ( boxen lol) everywhere!! It's funny..........but we're not about to unpack that stuff! It took to long to get it in there!! :-) And we don't have any idea when we are going to move. It could be 2 weeks from now or 2 months. But oh well.
I am really excited! This Sunday night Pastor John is going to be preaching at a revival in Dibol. It's Sunday night through Wednesday night. Joel is going to be doing the music and he asked me to sing with him! That's going to be fun. I am really excited! And Stephen is going to be playing the drums. :-) So that is awesome!!

Well, I guess that's all for now!


Natalie Y Hill

Boxes everywhere!

2 Days ago I wrote that the surveyor came early that morning but had left and hadn't come back yet. Well, he never did. It was a big deal! So they are not going to have it done today. And apparently this guy knew about this job 3 weeks ago but just now started working on it. So now it's not going to be done by tomorrow, which is the dead line on the contracts.
But they have extended the closing date! It will now be on the 5th of September. This is not good. This would not be that bad except that it's not just affecting us. It is also affecting us buying the Cottons house, and it's keeping them from buying the house that they want! And so it's affecting THOSE people!!

But the surveyor finally came out today. I think he finished measuring off everything. So now he just has to finish the paper work. But he will definitely be through by Tuesday.

This has been a very tiring process. i will be so glad when it's all over!!!



There are boxes EVERYWHERE!!!! We have most of the house packed up. I will also be glad when we can get these boxes out of the way!!


Natalie Y Hill