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I decided I simply could NOT live any longer without curtains in the living room. I knew what type I wanted and even though I had priced them at a discount store, I still could not afford the curtains OR the TV OR the VCR.

Then IT came! An envelope addressed to ME telling me I could get a CREDIT CARD!!!!!! Well, gosh and by gora, the eyes of God have smiled upon me, not to mention the "luck of the Irish"!!! If I could just get this credit card, all my problems would be over. I would have money to get the TV, the VCR AND the curtains.

Well, to make a long story short, the coveted credit card came IN MY NAME just a few weeks later. I went straight to the store for the curtains, got the TV and VCR the next week.....and then, of course, there was the time I needed cash and isn’t that WHY they sent me that PIN number????? And of course NOW I could sign up to become a consultant to sell a product that I certainly didn’t have the money to buy, once again justifying putting more money on the card than if I had just bought the product. Then, what do you do when you are driving around and you need cash for gas and treats??

Well, on and on it went, until before I knew it, the small credit limit I had was all used up. In my dissatisfaction, I could see how easy it is to let Satan tell me what I wanted. Sometimes it takes a supernatural act of God to get me back on track with God again.

This little "bump in the road" in my life is just an example of how NOT reading my Bible, NOT having an active prayer life and NOT letting God handle everything in my life, even the little things, can end up. The decisions made LAST YEAR are still affecting our lives THIS year. It was me plucking down my house with my own hands....

During this time period, I received an NSF (overdraft) from my bank regarding my checking account. For some reason, I stuck this little slip of paper in my Bible the next morning, to mark a place I was reading. The NSF stated that I was charged $90.00 due to three (3) checks that had bounced. As I looked at that statement when I opened to that section of my Bible, I saw the front of that statement.....and the amount. I had inadvertently stuck this condemning piece of paper in Proverbs 14......how appropriate. I have written Proverbs 14:1 on the back of that statement and keep it in my Bible as a reminder of how easy it is to "pluck down your own house".

Now I am trying to "build up my house" by praying, talking things over with my husband and WAITING for God’s still small voice. Some mornings, God will literally throw me out of bed early in the morning to pray for a friend or just to read His Word as the sun begins to lighten the sky. I look forward to these times now, and even think of them as a type of prevention in allowing Satan to help me "pluck down my own house". I do not want to "pluck down my house" again.

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