In January 2022, I recorded myself praying over a decision to pursue buying 63 additional acres adjoining our family's 20-acre property. I asked God to expand our borders — a real Prayer of Jabez, not the bumper sticker version.

Four months later, we sold our duplex in Southern Pines for $775k (bought it for $165k), rolled every dollar into the land through a like-kind exchange, and had nothing left to build with. No house. No cash. Just faith and a vision for something multi-generational.

Five years later, I'm sitting in the home office of the house we're building on that land. This episode is the raw, unedited prayer from 2022 and what happened after. If you're trying to build something bigger than yourself — for your children's children — do it in prayer and without doubting.

Outline:

0:00 — Introduction: Revisiting a prayer from January 2022

1:00 — Why I'm publishing our five-year journey

1:45 — The 63 acres: survey stakes and a text to the landowner

2:45 — Praying the Prayer of Jabez — expanding our borders

3:30 — Trusting God when the math doesn't work

4:15 — "I am a character in a story He is writing"

4:50 — The prayer (raw, unedited)

7:00 — Amen — and what happened next

7:45 — Sold the duplex: $165k → $775k in equity, January to May

8:30 — Rolled 100% into 34 additional acres, zero left to build

9:30 — Years of waiting — the construction business used the land

9:50 — Spoiler: sitting in the house on that land today

10:00 — Do it in prayer and without doubting