Book Excerpt - God Cut Our Rent in Half - from the book "DARE to Beleive God!"

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God Cut Our Rent in Half

Matthew 6:33 says: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Right before this, Jesus was admonishing about searching after their worldly needs. Then here, He tells them to let God provide those things. Our job isn't to meet our physical needs, that's God's job, ours is only to seek God, to draw close to Him, and do as He asks us to.
When God led us into ministry, He showed us his provision in a very practical way.

I had been an engineering manager for a manufacturing company, making over $50,000 per year. We lived in upstate New York, where housing (and everything else) is quite expensive. Rent on the house we were living in was $1,100.00 per month. That was very high by our thinking, but not unusual for that area.
The company I was working for decided to shutdown the New York plant. This left me without a job, and having to go through the job search process. Nobody enjoys having to look for work, but it's something we had to do.
On the same day that I received an offer for an engineering position making more money than my previous job, I was asked to go on staff for our church at a much lower rate. we had known for several years that God was calling us into ministry, so every time we had a potential job change opportunity, we'd ask God if this was his timing. After praying about the two offers we had, we were sure that God wanted us to take the position at the church.
We only one problem with the ministry position. On that salary, there was no way we could afford to stay in the house we had. So, we were going to have to move. We started looking for a cheaper house to rent. Our landlords just happened to drop by, and we told them about the situation, and that we were going to have to move.
When we told them, they asked how much rent we were going to be able to afford. We told them $550.00 per month, thinking that they might know someone else who had a rental property in that price range. Since I was still receiving severance pay from my previous job, we scheduled the move for one month later.
The next night, we had a phone call from our landlords. They said, "We don't know why we're doing this, and we don't understand what you'll be doing in ministry, but we feel that we need to cut your rent in half for the next six months." We actually ended up spending a total of nine more months in that house.
Praise the Lord! Here we were, starting in our first ministry position, and God was already supplying abundantly more than we had hoped or dreamed.

Continued in the book "DARE to Believe God!"