Deborah,

I know the tremendous stress that not knowing the will of God can have in a
situation.  While I do not pretend to know the mind of the Lord in this
matter, I can share with you a very similiar experience that me and my
husband have been going through, and maybe that will help.

We felt very impressed last year to put our house up for sale, move, pay-off
all debts and buy a new house debt-free.  We worked towards that end, but
then came the stress of not knowing exactly God's will relating to where we
were to relocate to ... How can we be so sure of one part without knowing
the other part we thought......As it turns out, and to make a long story
short, it was His will for it to happen, but not the right time.  Let me
explain ... In January of this year, we actually got a full priced offer on
our house. However, we had absolutely no peace about it and were really
getting confused and upset wondering, "what is going on?  Lord do you not
want us to move?"  Anyway, when that deal fell apart we were extremely
relieved.  We believed that we must have missed it and maybe that was God
telling us we need to stay. So we took our house off the market.  It wasn't
four months later that both of us, at the same time (without discussing the
matter between us), had the overwhelming belief that we were to sell the
house again.  We stayed in prayer asking Him to show us His will.  We did
not want to go through all of that again.  As it turns out, He put in our
hearts the thing He wanted to do a year earlier, but this was NOW the right
time for it to take place.  Let me tell you what a benefit it is to wait
upon the Lord and follow the peace in your heart.... we did indeed put the
house up for sale again, only this time we received $150,000 more for it
than we had listed in January.  The market in our area really went up and
finally peaked when we relisted it.  The house wasn't on sale but a month
when a buyer came in and said that he just knew we had to be religious
people because there was an overwhelming feeling of peace in our house.  The
Lord moved over the person He wanted in this home.

Everything since then has fallen into place including the peace of where we
are going and what we are doing.  We can see the Lord's hand moving mightily
right now in our lives.  However, that year we were "going through it" and
didn't know what we were doing was stressful to say the least.

The litmus test is the peace in your heart, without it, you can be sure it
is not the Lord's will.  That was NOT the right buyer for your house.
Neither was that the right broker.  He has a plan that is for your benefit
... He tells us in His word that He has good plans for us ...  The other
thing I wanted to say is that God hates debt.  The Word tells us to owe no
man nothing but to love him.  So, with that said, I cannot believe that it
would be His will for you to go further into debt -- it would be against His
word.  I would encourage you to pray for the right real estate agent and the
right buyer to come to you for the right price.

I will pray for you as I know what you are experiencing.  I hope that this
helped.

In Him
Tammy Stalnaker