When God makes a way...

Just to give you a little bit of the background of our journey. Phoebe has had it on her heart for a few years now to do the training course at Ellel Pierrepont, just over a year ago we prayed about going then, but I felt it wasn't the right time for us to go, so we put our plans on the shelf for a while. Then a number of months ago we had a time of prayer together and specifically asked God: "do You want us to go to Ellel this year?" After a few moments of silence and listening to God's still small voice we both had received an impression. Phoebe felt that God said: "I see no obstacles.", and I heard Don Moen's song playing in my mind:"God will make a way, where there seems to be no way..." That was the confirmation for us!

One thing we can make up out of what God said then is that at times on our journey it is going to look like there will seem to be no way. Just the over a week ago we had a moment like that. Phoebe and I went to change our plane-ticket for the return flight to Australia, because when the tickets were booked originally we would only stay in Holland for 3 weeks. I rang KLM and found out the tickets could only be changed at the travel-agent where the tickets were originally booked. So we headed out to the travel-agent and they told us we weren't able to change our tickets and we would have to buy new ones to get back to Australia. We asked them if there wasn't a way around the conditions our tickets were under, but they said 'there is no way.' As we left the office Phoebe said to them: "maybe the rules will change between now and the time we leave." They felt sorry for not being able to do anything for us. Later that week I tried KLM again, but got the same message, that it had to be done through the travel-agent. We also found out that the lady who originally booked the tickets had told my mother they really felt sorry for us. My mum replied that the rules might change and that God would be able to change things around. The lady replied that she would start believing in that God if that would happen. Well... you can feel it coming, on Thursday night the day before the tickets would expire I called KLM again, this time to cancel the tickets. The customer service operator who took the call was very helpful, I explained the reason of my call and she replied that she would look to see if there was a way for us to change the date of our return flight... and after being put on hold several times, as she was finding out if there was a possibility, she told me that it was possible, we would have to pay some extra money, but there was a way! So we changed the date on our tickets, and we won't have to pay the additional costs until the day of our departure.

How great is our God, He is the way-maker! He works in ways we cannot see!

PS: The lady of the travel agent rang my mum, because she was surprised to receive notification from KLM that the tickets were changed. She hasn't become a believer yet, but my mum is going to follow her up on what she said and have a chat with her.