Response to prayers!!!!!

Praise the Lord; we believe we have a buyer for our house! A family visited today and made us an offer tonight. They are the first ones to visit with their kids. The wife loves our house and the husband actually called me back a second time after he made the offer to assure me they were serious. He had stepped out of the house to reassure me they were very serious and that they really want the house and want to discuss the price. He’s close to where we need to be so I told him I was sure we would be able to reach an agreeable compromise.
I’m reminded in this whole situation about the Lord’s timing in our lives. We cannot begin to know or understand His ways, yet we benefit from them in so many different manners. For us it was a real step of faith to place our house on the market when real estate has declined 20% in the past 16 months. Several agents told us that houses that are selling right now are mostly two and three bedroom. Buyers looking for a four bedroom home are maybe one or two a month. We posted ours on the internet last week and signed with several agencies this week. The buyers are from the internet ad so they already gain by having no realtor fees. All this to say we didn’t know if we’d sell in one week, one month or one year! We certainly don’t deserve the Lord’s gracious timing in finding a buyer before we head to the US for the summer, but we rejoice and receive it with gratitude. His ways are indeed high above our own and his thoughts not even close to ours. Yet he sees fit to continually allow us to participate with Him in his plan to reach the world.