After my last blog entry I had a kind of 'turn around' in my faith. Before I wrote I kept 'giving it to God' and then 'taking it back again'. The old game, ya know? After I wrote it was like I finally 'got it'. At least I think so!!!
I really believed myself when I said it was the first opportunity I had to stretch my faith. Everything up to now might have been *big* - like trusting God for the money - but it was all stuff I had done before. Yes, trusting for $25,000 is *big*, but we have trusted before and the money has come, so that was a miracle that we had trusted for and had answered. This trusting with the family size restriction proposal is new to me and it is a stretch.
I have now given it, and I am trusting that we are not going to have a problem. Done!
So, at Church on Sunday, when the Pastor continued his series on Faith, it just confirmed what I already was feeling.
"What a comfort that though you may have a measure of unbelief, God will bail you out!"
"Anytime we push forward in faith, the enemy will raise the standard. Meaning - things going wrong, unexpected delays, etc. If God has put a vision in your heart, there will be roadblocks. Run with them! "
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1"
Our pastor talked about the sixth sense as being faith. We are raised to do everything with our five senses. We aren't taught to use our sixth sense: faith. So our instinct when we come across problem is to handle it with those other senses, yet if we activated the sixth sense, faith, we would be able to handle our problems easier!
Satan knows if he sends those sensory perceptions and you 'feel' there is nothing you can do about the situation you will panic, cause you can't do anything. But God says all things are possible. We tend to back off instead of thinking ahead to what God has for us. By faith every provision, prosperity and deliverance is available. Look to Faith instead of what you think you 'see'.
Faith is like a muscle. You have to work it to make it grow. It's time to exercise our faith. Get started!
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Justine,
I'll be praying for you to make it before restrictions go into effect. This really throws a loop on our plans. We were going to keep pursuing an Ethiopian adoption but are nowhere near ready where we should be if we want to miss this imposed restriction on family size. Our family is so frustrated by this because how many children will not be adopted because of this restriction. There are plenty of people with more than four or five children who can give a loving home to children. I read of the millions of orphans just in Africa so there is such a need to let people know family size doesn't need to be an obstacle. How do we change this though? Keep on praying for God to intervene! Well, I'm really pulling for you. Steph
Stephanie,
Thanks! There is absolutely no confirmation that this proposal will even go through. They are just thoughts right now. If you feel compelled to go with Ethiopia you should loook into it. I have heard heartbreaking stories about adoptions through Liberia. This was the other country we were looking at adopting from. A girl from one of my groups said that so many children die in adoption process, because they are in such a poor state before they are put up for adoption, and apparently the visas take over a year to issue. During this year many of these poor children don't make it! That to me is so devastating! Her little boys grew 7 inches and 18lb and the other one 13 lb in the 5 months since they brought them home!!!
So hang in there. I know that for our family Liberia sounds too risky and heartbreaking. I have to trust that Ethiopia is our country and work forward in Trust!
I am praying for your family!
Justine
You have an amazingly gifted and insightful pastor! I need to come visit when I'm a little low on the faith meter! :) Wow! God is using him big time!
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