The Move of God

On Monday September 24, 2012 one of my coworkers asked me if I wanted to go to his church revival. I told him that I would think about it and get back to him later. On Wednesday September 26, 2012, which is the day of the revival, I ask the Lord that morning before going to work if I could go to the revival and the Lord told me that I could go. So I packed a change of clothes to stay at my mom’s house the day after the revival because it was to far to drive back home the same night. My sister was staying with me at the time because my place was closer to her job, so she stayed at my place that night by herself and I stayed with my mom. Nonetheless, I attend the revival and stay at my mom’s house that night.

The next morning on September 27^th, 2012 at 6am, I get a call from my sister saying that my apartment is flooded in the kitchen and the water is at least 2-3 inches deep in my kitchen. At this moment I am thinking, what in the world is going on and why is this happening. I tell my sister to go see if she can find a maintenance guy in the apartment to cut the water off until I get there. 

When I get back to my apartment, I see a lot of water from the kitchen ceiling coming down. Then I hear the fire fighters tell me that that I should come upstairs because there is also water in my bedroom as well. So when I get upstairs I see that there is water in my bathroom floor and the water has leaked all the way into my closet and halfway into my bedroom.

The week before in church we had been learning to trust God because he is in control of all things regardless of what the situation look like. At this moment I am thinking, what caused this big leak, but nevertheless I am thinking I am just going to trust the Lord regardless. The maintenance crew comes into the apartment and begins to open holes in the ceiling to find out where the leak is coming from. They call a Plumber to have him come in and find the leak.

In the mean time, the property manager calls me into her office and says, that my apartment is too damaged to return back to it and normally she would wait for the renter’s insurance to take care of everything and put me in a hotel until the apartment is fixed (mind you I didn’t have renters insurance, but I didn’t let them know that). The property manager then goes on to tell me that she has an available apartment right across from mine that is available today for me to move into and she will have her maintenance crew move my furniture over to the new apartment today. All I would have to do is just sign a new lease agreement with the new apartment number on it, but nothing else would change on the lease, just the apartment number. So I agreed with what the property manager offered me and had them move my furniture over to the new apartment.

Mind you, I was still thinking, why did all of this happen and what is the purpose behind this. So later on that night, after everything was moved over to the new apartment; when I was standing in my bathroom looking at the wall and thinking about how I was going to hang my shelf back up on the wall, I heard the Lord tell me, “Don’t hang anything on the wall because you won’t be hear long.”

I was shocked to hear this and I was thinking about what the Lord meant. Then it hit me that my lease was up in only two months. In the other apartment where the flood happen, I had done great damage to the apartment by painting the walls, staining the carpet, hanging up many pictures and if I would have moved out of that apartment with those damages I would have had to pay at least $2,000 to the apartment people and I would not have gotten my back security deposit. THEN THE NEXT DAY, WHEN I TALKED TO THE MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR HE TELLS ME THAT WHEN THE PLUMBER LOOKED IN THE CEILING OF THE APARTMENT WHERE THE FLOOD HAPPEN, THEY DID NOT FIND ANY LEAK AT ALL AND MATTER OF FACT IN BETWEEN THE WALLS WHERE THE PIPES ARE, THE CEILING WAS COMPLETELY DRY AND NOT A DROP OF WATER WAS NEAR THE PIPES. THE MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR EXACT WORDS WERE, "IT'S CRAZY, AND WE CAN'T FIND ANY LEAK."

The Lord caused the flood in my apartment because he wanted me to move from the apartment building back in with my mom. The Lord knew that the property manager would move me into a brand new apartment, to keep me from having to pay for the damages I made in the first apartment. I ended up getting my deposit back and no one ever questioned me about how the flood happened in the other apartment. I went on to move out of the new apartment November 26th, 2012 when my lease was up, just two months after the flood and received majority of my security deposit back. 

Praise the Lord for He is good. 

*Romans 8:28 (NKJV) we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.*