God Bless's us with a building!

The blessings are still coming! D'Lane and Myself decided we would need a storage building to bring out to the land, along with our camper. This would be used to keep the washer, dryer, deep freeze and the kids school room. Also we wanted to install a small bathroom and shower as the ones in the camper are very small for a BIG guy! We set out on various journey's looking at different buildings and prices. After looking at the cost of these buildings it didn't take long to realize that with the money we had we would be getting a small building. Something along the lines of a 12'X12'. After spending several days looking at buildings we found the one God wanted us to have! We were talking to one of the old ladies about our vision for our family and the urgency of our plans. So she said she would sell us her 3 year old building which is a 12' X 30' for about the same price as a 12' X 12'. D'Lane and Myself just kinda starred at each other for a minute to see if this was really happening again? We told her we would get back with her today and let her know of our decision.

The difficult thing was we wouldn't have the money for the building until we sold our house. We pondered different ideas about what we would offer them,  to get them to let us have the building before we sold the house. D'Lane told her a few ideas we had and she stated that she would like to speak to us in person with her husband.

Sorry for the poor image quality!  I (Shelby L'Rae)
just snapped these pictures with my phone and thought
Uncle Henry would like them on his post! 

Mr. Vernon stated he didn't want any money up front, as long as we would sign paperwork stating we were going to give them the money upon closing of the house. He opened the building and let us walk into it so we could really see how big it was. After we walked out he hands me the keys and says to give him a couple days and he will clean it out and deliver it  out to our property. Not only will he deliver it, but he will set it up for us, block it up and level it for us. D'Lane and Myself just stared at each other not realizing what just took place, again before our eyes! After we sat down with them and filled out all of the paper work, they were eager to hear more about what we are doing and our Christianity. We went through many topics ranging from our Multi-Generational vision, child training, farming and taking it to the nations. Now we have a storage building that is 1/3rd the size of our OLD house! 

To God be the Glory!

Our season ON Covenant Acres Begins!!!

 After much prayer and hard work our journey to Covenant Acres begins!!


Proverbs 29:18  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

After much studying God's law word on many aspects of our life, we continue to follow the path of obedience to His law! We decided early on that if we were going to shorten our children's learning curve, it would take drastic steps on our part to begin our vision!

This is not for most families........................or is it?


 Our journey would begin with selling our house (1098 sq. ft.) city home and moving into our thirty four foot R.V.  No it will not be an easy task, with three children under seven, most would say it is impossible! But scripture teaches other wise.

Luke 1:37  For with God nothing shall be impossible.

It was through much prayer that we cultivated the vision of taking back farming and bringing reformation to this area of our culture. I will post more on this as we transition to the farm!

Upon sitting down with our realtor and them doing a market analysis of the homes that have sold in our area, everything came back that we would not make very much off of our home. However we sold it way above market value!!! The Lord placed a number on our hearts and that's what we listed it for! In the housing market we are in now, one would think there is no way we would sell our house above market value. Well the house was on the market for eleven days and it sold! After a few minor repairs, we had to wait upon the termite inspection and a home inspection. Neither of the two found and significant problems with the house, which was built in 1962.

  Deuteronomy 28:1-2  And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

God blesses obedience and curses disobedience! Father's must re-evaluate their vision and purpose for their families! Read Deuteronomy for more on this.

Our ceiling should be their footsteps!

Our journey continues.........

Success is Measured by Your Faithfulness

"Success is measured by your faithfulness." - Joel Salatin

I fully agree with this statement. 

You Can Farm - Joel Salatin

A few years ago our family all sat down and came to a conclusion that we wanted to find a common piece of property, that we could all move on and begin our family farm. 

As a young boy I have always wanted to garden, as I love being outdoors! I never really dreamed that I would have wanted to do this on a grand scale.......

This is where Covenant Acres was birthed! 

We went through many different obstacles early on, but we remained steadfast through lots of prayer and the Lord provided. 

One day I was at work and overheard a man talking about a piece of property he wanted to get rid of in Sweeny, TX. So I asked him what he wanted for it? I came home and talked with the men of our family and we all prayed about the future of our families and the direction we wanted to take them. 

The next day I asked the man what he wanted to sell the property for and he told me the price. So I asked him if he would owner finance it and immediately (totally opposed to it) he said no. No matter what we didn't want to finance it through a federal banking system. Just to see what the bank would finance the property for, I called them and due to what we where trying to do, they would not finance it either. 

We had to meet and due a lot more praying because we had convictions about not going through a federal banking system. 

The next day I called to let him know that due to convictions, it isn't going to happen. As I was going to hang up he said wait a minute, lets talk about owner financing!!!! 

After all of the prayer and financing the Lord gave us our hearts desire!!