PRAYING FOR MIRACLES

It was back in July that we heard the disheartening news...our little guy's paperwork was due out soon. But we haven't been paper ready. We've continued to expect his file to be released any day now for months...but we still aren't quite ready....SOON.

 

This has been one of those situations where an adoption delay is ironically a good thing. Now that our dossier is within days, literally, of being logged in (LID), the anticipation and suspense of whether or not the Lord will match us with this boy we love is building.

 

We need a miracle.

 

"But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea

that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord."

James 1:6-7

 

In fact, we need more than one miracle.

It would take a needle-in-a-haystack type of miracle for us to be matched.

And, it will take some major miracles to fund the rest of this adoption.

 

So, we're praying for miracles.

 

"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Mark 11:24  

 

We're trusting God and leaping by faith into the unknown and seeking FIRST His kingdom and His righteousness as we look to the great Provider, Jehovah Jireh. He can do ANYTHING. He is God. Everything is His.

 

"If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,

how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!"

Matthew 7:11

 

Above ALL, as we run the last leg of this preparatory phase of our adoption journey in China, our greatest desire is that God would be glorified in our story. Of course, we think His doing these things we request of Him would bring Him most glory, but we've been down enough "ashes-turned-beauty" roads in the past to know that God's plans may very well differ from our own. God's story might shine all the more brightly through our heart pangs. God's glory might BEST be displayed through our unanswered prayers.

 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Isaiah 55:8-9

 

Accepting God's will either way, we're still praying for miracles.

 

"Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Luke 22:42

 

We're praying for God-glorifying miracles that show what He CAN do.

Clearly, He is able. But do our plans align with His? We want to live in God's will, not our own.

 

 “If the Lord wills...”

James 4:15

 

We don't know what the future holds for our adoption and our family, for the little one we long to welcome home and love, but God does. There's comfort in the trusting, patience in the waiting, joy in the face of potential trials, and faith-filled hope in the asking as we submit it all to God with thanksgiving no matter what...praying with all we've got for miracles.

 

 "And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him."

1 John 5:14-15

 

 "And without faith it is impossible to please him,

for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

Hebrews 11:6