The Lord is moving

Dear Family and Friends,
This day has brought pleasant surprises financially. I started the day praying over and over about the house payment and orders for appraisals. One name came to mind, a local accountant that in the past has sometimes ordered appraisals for date of death values for estate purposes. As I was lying away this morning at 3 am his name came to mind. Having not heard from him in a couple months I wondered if I had done or not done something to meet his needs. As I worked this morning my cell phone rang. Thinking it was another bill collector I checked the number as I answered, it was not an 800 number but a local one. Well it was Dale and he mentioned that he needed an appraisal for a client and that they would pay me on the spot. Well that was certainly a lift so I went to the garage and recycled some old files by dumping their contents in the trash, turning the folder inside out in preparation for its reuse. Then I came in to set up the file. Before many minutes had passed an email came in from a local friend and broker with an order for a FHA purchase in nearby Antioch. The email mentioned that I could pick up the check this evening. Well now I really started to perk up, all week no orders and now 2 in a row. Soon the phone rang again and it was Dale telling me to be ready for a phone call from a new client who needed an appraisal. In a few minutes it rang and the third order of the day was placed and yes I could come by this evening to pick up a check. The total for the three came to $1,100 which goes a long ways toward paying a house payment. I sort of walked on air the rest of the day and this evening instead of attending the ACN meeting as planned I did two of the three appraisal inspections, picked up some fruit for a fruit salad and came home. What a lift to see 3 orders in a 2 hour period of time.
Tomorrow morning I'll pick up the last of the three checks, get them deposited in the bank and hope that more will come in the mail.
I also conducted a tiny fact finding mission. I checked to see where my orders for this year stood in comparison to last year on this date. It was August 13, 2008 when I arrived at order 203 for the year so I'm slightly ahead of last years business. Now if I can find a way to break open the doors to the management companies and begin to access some orders things would seen a lot better.
Thank you for your prayers and thank God once again for His help with the real day by day challenges we all face.

Love to all

tim