It has been humbling and amazing to me that people around the world have fasted and prayed today for the orphan. If you check back on the comments from yesterday’s post, you will see that Char was finishing up her day fasting from her home in the Middle East. How awesome is God!?!!

Can you feel it in the air? God is moving. He has heard the cries and prayers of His people. He has heard our earnest pleas. He has heard. And He is moving.

People literally around the world united for one common purpose – to see the government red tape, bureaucratic rigmarole, pride of judges and lawmakers who hold far too much power, officials who revel in wheeling their titles and even those in high places who have stubborn hearts that do not want to yield to adoptive families….all those bow to the matchless name of

JESUS CHRIST~~
the true defender, advocate and lover of the orphan.

Thank you to all who have prayed, thank you to all who have fasted. Thank you to all who have spread the word.

God’s name was glorified.
His power was magnified.
His might was exemplified.

As I have went about my day today, I have been remembering. Remembering what He has done in the past. Remembering that He does not disappoint. His plans are not always ours, but if that is the case, then His plans are better than ours. Because He sees the beginning and the end. He watches and He moves. He remains faithful.

One of the stories that I kept thinking about today was something that is a Memorial Box story of ours. It was a powerful display of God’s care for the orphan…

When we were adopting Isaiah we knew nothing about him or where he was. We prayed over and over that God would give him HOPE. Hope. Hope. Lots of hope. Our other prayer was that someone, somewhere in the orphanage would be whispering in Isaiah’s ears about how much God loves him.

One day I was speaking with our agency and the adoption advocate said to me, “Oh, I found some news about your Isaiah that I thought you might be interested in.” My ears perked. She had gotten an email from a young woman who was caring for Isaiah. This young woman had spotted him on the agency’s web site and she had written to our agency to ask if his forever family had found him yet.

Our agency worker was thrilled to write back and say that he did indeed have a forever family that was passionately pursuing him!!!

When I heard this that day, I will never forget. I was speaking to her from our bedroom closet {only quiet place in the house}. The agency worker went on to say, “Yes, he is at a Christian ‘orphanage’ called Hope Foster Home.”

I literally fell to my knees weeping. The thing we were praying for? Hope. Where was he? Not just in a Christian orphanage, but a Christian orphanage named Hope Foster Home.

And then the story gets even better. The young woman who was caring for him? Her name was Lynsay. As in – Bill and Lynsay. The Bill &Lynsay who now serve the orphans in a home they started called Morning Star Family Home. Two of our favorite modern day heroes – Bill & Lynsay. They are precious friends – and to think that they were whispering in Isaiah’s ears about how much God loves him, long before we could whisper it ourselves! Only Almighty God. Moving on behalf of the orphan…answering our requests to minister to our precious little boy…

Oh yes, how God cares for the orphan. How He delights in answering our simple requests…like allow my treasure to know hope until we get there….

How about you? What stories are you remembering today? Please encourage us. Please remember God’s faithfulness!!

And if you have something the Lord showed you while praying today or if you have something that already happened and you are someone that linked….please do tell!!

Please link with a permalink. I did have to delete one entry because it was linked with a page that was a blogger sign in. I’m sorry whoever it was. I was unable to tell otherwise I would have notified you. If you would like to yet add your link back, whoever you are, please do. Many will still pray for your need.

Lastly, I just want you guys to know how proud I am of you all…for caring for the orphan and spending your day in prayer and or prayer and fasting –
oh how much I love you all……xo