Hi, my name is Blake. My husband, children and I live on a farm in South Carolina. We consider the sale of any item a real blessing for us coming straight from our Lord Himself.

Here's how we got started...

We had a successful business for 10 years. It began growing a bit too big too quickly. Resulting in my husband becoming a workaholic. As a result he had a nervous breakdown in 2004. One doctor put him on several mental health medications to slow down his brain until it could heal. Meanwhile he developed arthritis in his spine from an injury when he was younger and those meds made that pain worse so a pain doctor put him on pain medications.

It felt like the weight of the world was placed on me when that happened to him. He was basically brain dead from all the meds. They made him not care and not think. He couldn’t drive not just because of the meds but because his eyes both went lazy. And I am speaking of the left eye to the direct left and the right eye went to the direct right. It made his vision double and glasses just didn’t work and we couldn’t afford surgery. By owning our own business he couldn’t receive disability because he had not earned enough credits so we were all on our own except for the Lord. THAT is when GOD can do His best work, when you have no other place to go but to Him, if YOU choose to. I was a housewife and mother, I stopped working when we had our first child.

Anything that could go wrong did and worse and I had to keep all of my stress hidden from my husband and I became good at hiding it from everyone. Hence, I got my first seller's eBay name Job-ette. A pastor told me I was like Job in the bible because I was so strong for so much to go wrong and still keep my faith that God would bring us through it all. Wearing the armor of God with the Lord backing me I could handle anything coming my way! Well nobody could see the mess I was hiding inside. I was showing faith on the outside but it honestly was not on the inside. There was a reason for that and I will explain it later.

EVERY single appliance we owned died (non repairable) within that first year except our oven. Refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, trash compactor, washing machine, dryer, TV, hot water heater, A/C. Our septic tank filled up, our bathtub cracked across the bottom and water leaked into the wall and it rotted. The lights in the kitchen, living room, one child's bedroom and our bedroom stopped working. The electric pole attached to our workshop fell over and since I wasn’t able to replace the pole myself the electric company turned the electricity off out there. The A/C in our minivan stopped working and began leaking water inside on the carpet, both electric windows stopped working and one side back window, the hatch stopped opening, the battery died, all 4 tires treds came off and a belt began to slip off everytime it rained and I could not use the van any longer if it were wet outside. We only had 3 payments left on our minivan and they were coming to repossess it on my birthday. We had all our phone number changed and unpublished, blinds closed, doors locked, battery removed from the doorbell to avoid seeing or hearing bill collectors, though they could pound and yell at the door pretty loudly! The kids got where they would run and hide if they heard someone drive up. There is so much more that I have not mentioned; it’s just uncanny!

I decided to have a yard sale and just sell everything we had that wasn’t a necessity. While sorting through junk, the Lord placed the thought to sell some of our personal belongings on eBay, a place where I was only familiar with buying. I was scared to "pay" to sell something, but I listened to Him. He knew what He was talking about, as always! And in less than a year, giving all of the glory to God, we were paying our bills again and became Power Sellers! Now we weren't caught up and standing on our own feet, that took 3 years until we finally realized God was trying to get our attention.

I thought I had given my life to Jesus back in 1994. All this we experienced I just knew without a shadow of a doubt that God was trying to get my husband’s attention to give his heart as well. The more he denied God’s conviction the more miserable he was and that made me miserable. There wasn’t a thing I could do but pray for him knowing God is in full control and things would end up good at the end whenever that was going to be. We had miracles happening in our church from faithful praying every night. In September 2006 I began going to our church prayer night every night and we all prayed for my husband’s salvation for 2 solid weeks. Boy did it get really bad at home. He was so miserable he couldn’t stand his own self! (neither could I; ha, ha). He woke up the first Monday in October and didn’t understand what was wrong. He didn’t know the church and I had been faithfully praying for him. His eyes were as crooked as can be both looking outward as usual. After a lot of talking with him he finally decided to call our pastor and the pastor came right over. He ended up giving his life to Jesus that day. IMMEDIATELY after he prayed and asked Jesus into his heart he looked up at the pastor and both of his eyes were completely straightened out! He could see 20/20. WOW, we got to see a real genuine miracle right before our eyes! He was completely changed. He smiled and laughed and his personality was so different, so better, so happy, so at peace, and so content.

On a genuine leap of faith he threw ALL of his meds away! He lived 3 days experiencing life as a true Christian. We were never happier! Then DT’s (withdrawals) set in. He had been taking Methadone for 2 years for his back. We didn’t know the importance of tapering off of it. He was extremely ill and went into seizures. I ended up taking him to the hospital for a week to detoxify. He would have never made it through detox if he had not had the peace that God gave him through salvation going into it. It was horrible. The withdrawals lasted about 2 months after that and were difficult to deal with but we’d been through so much more the prior years we could handle it with God by our side. Now he is better than new, dealing with his back pain through prayer and care but no medication! We are advocates against methadone!

Oh, and I mentioned I “thought” I was saved many years ago and all this we went through was to bring my husband to the Lord. WRONG, I realized after seeing the huge change in him that I never had that. I didn’t have the joy and peace that only our Lord can give. Once I realized that I had never genuinely accepted Christ as my personal Savior, I did. And I never ever have been this happy in my entire life. I had a peace and joy that came over me the very time I asked Him into my heart. There is nothing in this world that even comes close to the comparison to the natural continuous high God has given me! I really thought I was saved before and didn’t feel any different because I was already a “good” person.  I now understand why they say there are going to be a lot of good people in hell. I almost was one of them. By God’s sweet wonderful Grace I am no longer on the wrong road.