Darkness to Light

I'm still here, friends.  Still praying for you DAILY.  You are not alone.

One of the many things I love about praying for each of you is how so many of you experience similar things at the same time.  You may not realize it, but somewhere, someone is going through the same things you are with your adopted child(ren)...the same thoughts...the same feelings...the same frustrations...the same joys...the same failures...the same successes...etc.  None of you are alone on this journey.  Remember that.

I am encouraged and most excited to say that God is pulling many of you out of the dark pit and back into the light.  I am rejoicing with you!

And

I am praying for those still in the darkness...the pit.  I am with you in prayer, friends.  Just because I'm out of the pit now doesn't mean I don't vividly remember being there.

I am praying this for you.

He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit,
and my life shall look upon the light.'
"Behold, God does all these things,
twice, three times, with a man,
to bring back his soul from the pit,
that he may be lighted with the light of life."
Job 33:28 - 30

God has so much to say about light and darkness.  I will be praying the following over you this week.

For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness. 2 Samuel 22:29

He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light. Job 12:22

For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness. Psalm 18:28

When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me. Micah 7:8

Because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1:78:79

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his MARVELOUS LIGHT. 1 Peter 2:9

AMEN! There is such hope in these verses. And so much love. He will redeem you from the pit. He will turn your darkness to light.

I'm praying today that you will each be lighted with the Light of LIFE!

Praying also Job 29:3 & 5
By His light, I walked through darkness, when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me.

I know it feels like you're stumbling through darkness right now, but HE is with you, lighting the way! Trust Him! Cling to Him!  Press on through the darkness.  God is with you!

Nothing is Too Hard for God

`Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you. You show steadfast love to thousands, O great and mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man. Jeremiah 32:17 - 19

We've had an...interesting...few days with Happy. The time change does not seem to agree with her.  I love that after much prayer and questioning this morning God gave me these verses to pray for you today. I'm specifically focusing on this...NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM! To those of you who are on my prayer list to pray for you by name, I have your child's name next to yours. Today I am substituting your child's name for the word 'nothing.' Happy is not too difficult for God. Is she too difficult for me? Oh my, hands down YES! She can still be quite the puzzle that we're piecing together. But God, who is great in counsel, has been revealing many things to us the past few days. His eyes are open to all the ways of our children. His timing is perfect.

Your child is not too difficult for God. Just keep reminding yourself of that.  He/she is not too difficult for God. God made the heavens and the earth! His power is GREAT! He knows our child(ren). He knows what they need. Praying for wisdom for each of us and insight into our children's hearts and minds.

Love,

At the End of Your Rope

Weariness and discouragement seem to be running rampant among our community this week.  I'm so sorry, friends.  Although I am not at that place now, I vividly recall being there.  When you're just at the end of your rope.  When you fight back tears every time someone asks you how you're doing.  When it becomes difficult to put a smile on your face.  When you wonder if this (fill in the blank - it's different for each of us) will ever end.  When your child has been demonstrating the same frustrating behavior for months and you've tried everything to no avail.  When you're so frustrated with your child's teacher(s) because they just won't listen to you.  When you're filled with guilt and feeling like you've ruined your family.  The list goes on...

I am praying from Ephesians 3:14 - 21.

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.  Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

If you are coming up empty at the end of a long, exhausting, wearisome, discouraging week, I pray that you would draw upon God's infinite resources.  His strength, His power, His love.  Let Him fill you with all of His person, all of His characteristics, all of His attributes.  I'm praying that we would each be filled with all the fullness of God.  That's quite a lofty thought, isn't it?

He is able, friends.  Able to do more than we can even begin to imagine.

He is able.  And that's enough.