Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Maybe good news on Thursday
We haven't posted lately because there hasn't been any finalized news to share. We were hoping we would know by now, but maybe by tomorrow. I had hesitated to write because I still feel like I just get to run to you and beg for prayers, and this one was one that really seemed like it would take care of itself. But tonight at Destiny i felt like I really need to voice this request, and ask for you to do likewise. Our social worker is working with a local child placing agency and their staff to see if they could take over our case or something like that. Many of you may already lift up the work that goes on here in Monroe with this agency, and their director just wants to make sure that what he would be doing with us wouldn't effect their daily mission. Please just ask God to smooth this path. We expect to have an answer soon, and in the best case scenario we will have paperwork headed back to Russia early next week. Thanks again, and keep praying. I can't wait to see what else God is going to be able to reveal to us while we are waiting.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Why we need prayers today
I already feel like we just spout out these near daily requests for prayer as if you had nothing else to do. I don't get a chance to hear from all of you everyday about how to pray for you, or your kids, or your circumstances. We don't even know how to begin thanking you for the prayers you have offered up for us, and the blessings that your support has already given. Today we learned that the officials in Khab will not budge on the homestudy agency issue. As long as our homestudy agency is on the "blacklist" they will not let us proceed.
The good news is that our agency has been very active in trying to clear their name. The bad news is that no one actually knows whether or not that can be done. We are moving on in faith that the Lord can make this happen. Just yesterday we were reminded by what happened when Joshua followed the Lord's words and march around Jericho. If he can tear down those walls 1400 BC, then he can make 1 line of 1 report be changed. I don't know that this is the enemy attacking, but I do know that Leigh and I have placed some stakes in the ground, and claimed some territory that the enemy can't have. So this could just be one of those attacks.
Please pray for our spirits. This has been an especially hard day for Leigh. I was mad two weeks ago, so I was not surprised today. She however was mad. Our church is spending the next 40 days focusing on 40 days of victory. Follow along at http://www.40daysofvictory.blogspot.com/ . I hope that it doesn't take 40 days for our agency's name to come off of the list, but I know what I will be praying everyday until that happens. And it looks like it will take 30 or so of these 40 days for our paperwork to be updated and be back in Russia ready to be registered once our homestudy agency is "re-approved".
It really is not easy to open up to a computer screen, but it is probably easier to do that then to open up to all of you as a group. Thanks for your patience as we come with our seemingly never ending urgent needs for prayer. It is just that when you know your child/ren are laying in an orphanage somewhere, and it seems as if there is nothing that you can do, calling out to God is all you an come up with. And asking our friends to be intercessors for us is the only other answer. You have told us that if there was anything you could do to speed it up, you would. Well the only think that I know that all of you can do is pray. Pray for us to have continued peace knowing that all of this will happen in God's time. That it is part of a wonderful plan that he has for our family. A plan that he has known since the beginning of time. A plan that we may not even fully understand here on this planet.
For some who read this blog, this faith that we place in God's plan may seem odd. You may have never had the opportunity to move in a direction that you were not completely in control of. Or you may have specifically stated that it was of your own doing and that God or any other supreme being could not have any part in your life. I am here today to ask you to reconsider that. To let your heart believe that the stories and the miracles that we share in this blog are not coincidence, or luck but they are the Divine movements of a God that it is indeed a pleasure to serve.
Again, thanks for all of the prayers that have already been lifted up on our baby/ies behalf. And please pray, especially in this next 40 days that we can put this yet another roadblock behind us.
Bryan (and Leigh)
The good news is that our agency has been very active in trying to clear their name. The bad news is that no one actually knows whether or not that can be done. We are moving on in faith that the Lord can make this happen. Just yesterday we were reminded by what happened when Joshua followed the Lord's words and march around Jericho. If he can tear down those walls 1400 BC, then he can make 1 line of 1 report be changed. I don't know that this is the enemy attacking, but I do know that Leigh and I have placed some stakes in the ground, and claimed some territory that the enemy can't have. So this could just be one of those attacks.
Please pray for our spirits. This has been an especially hard day for Leigh. I was mad two weeks ago, so I was not surprised today. She however was mad. Our church is spending the next 40 days focusing on 40 days of victory. Follow along at http://www.40daysofvictory.blogspot.com/ . I hope that it doesn't take 40 days for our agency's name to come off of the list, but I know what I will be praying everyday until that happens. And it looks like it will take 30 or so of these 40 days for our paperwork to be updated and be back in Russia ready to be registered once our homestudy agency is "re-approved".
It really is not easy to open up to a computer screen, but it is probably easier to do that then to open up to all of you as a group. Thanks for your patience as we come with our seemingly never ending urgent needs for prayer. It is just that when you know your child/ren are laying in an orphanage somewhere, and it seems as if there is nothing that you can do, calling out to God is all you an come up with. And asking our friends to be intercessors for us is the only other answer. You have told us that if there was anything you could do to speed it up, you would. Well the only think that I know that all of you can do is pray. Pray for us to have continued peace knowing that all of this will happen in God's time. That it is part of a wonderful plan that he has for our family. A plan that he has known since the beginning of time. A plan that we may not even fully understand here on this planet.
For some who read this blog, this faith that we place in God's plan may seem odd. You may have never had the opportunity to move in a direction that you were not completely in control of. Or you may have specifically stated that it was of your own doing and that God or any other supreme being could not have any part in your life. I am here today to ask you to reconsider that. To let your heart believe that the stories and the miracles that we share in this blog are not coincidence, or luck but they are the Divine movements of a God that it is indeed a pleasure to serve.
Again, thanks for all of the prayers that have already been lifted up on our baby/ies behalf. And please pray, especially in this next 40 days that we can put this yet another roadblock behind us.
Bryan (and Leigh)
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