Welcome to our "Waiting on Wednesdays" prayer emphasis. It seems that the more time passes, the more families we are being connected with who are waiting for their kids to come home too. Our little prayer list is growing, and as we wait we are seeing more and more that this time of prayer is not only for our family but for the many families bearing up under the same pressures. It is for the 5 million Ethiopian orphans still waiting on mommies and daddies, and it is for the governmental authorities over this institution of adoption that we come before God for each week. God hears our prayers. Today’s theme in our prayer time was that of persistence based on the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18. Will you pray for persistence for all of us involved in Ethiopian adoptions today?
“Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Luke 18:1
Lord, we are weary. Please strengthen your children pursing your heart for the orphan. Give us grace to pray, and keep praying, and not give up.
“ He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’” Luke 18:2-3
Like the persistent widow, God give us persistence as we come to you. Grant us eyes of faith to believe with hope that you are working out all of these frustrating delays for our good and the good of these precious children. We plead Lord for justice for these little ones. We ask over, and over again that you would by your strong and mighty hand deliver these children from languishing in orphanages to being brought into stable, loving, godly homes.
“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” Luke 18:4-5
Give persistence to your servants in Ethiopia. From the Ethiopian lawyers advocating for these orphans to the precious nannies who work day in and day out to make sure the needs of these little ones are met. God strengthen THEM in the midst of these delays. There are no doubt far more needs than there are hands to meet them. Strengthen your servants who are pouring their lives out for your beloved children. Give them persistent endurance to work with joy as they seek to love and care for these kids in the intermediary time before they’re brought to their families.
“ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:6-8
God bring about justice for these children. Move every obstacle keeping them from proceeding through the legal process. Please hear us when we cry out for this. We know you despise oppression and delight in justice for these little ones. Please grant it to them quickly. Grow our trust in you as we wait upon you with persistent faith. Thank you Lord that you do hear, you do see, and that you are fully in control of everything. We love you and trust you.
Proclaiming the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Praying for you SO HARD!! It hurts to hear of these babies denied your arms. I can only imagine the pain, but I AM imagining it... and it is awful. I have a really cool version of that parable in a children's book I'll have to show you when you come by; it's called "Mrs. Beaver and the Wolf at the Door," and I love it. Maybe it will encourage you. I'm still on the lookout for sparrow fabric whenever I'm around fabric... can't wait to make little blankets and lovies for our newest neighbors!
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