Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Only He can fix this

(Charles Spurgeon from Morning and Evening):

"Mere formalists may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine suppliants cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will - they must go further, and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and those replies they long to receive at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant. When God seem to close His ear, we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief, He will not deny us a hearing for long. What a dreadful situation we would be in if the Lord should become forever silent to our payers? "For if You remain silent, I will be like those who have gone down to the pit." Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we should be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave, and should soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell. We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for He never can find it in His heart to permit His own elect to perish."

Still praying for the file of our little girl to be locked. And we're not the only ones, many in the adoption community are at a standstill. Many children may age out and never be adopted because of these delays. Many children have medical needs that are not being tended to. Pray not only for us but for all of the families and children affected by these delays and problems. [The Lord] has been the helper of the orphan. (Psalm 10:14) Only He can fix this, please continue asking him to do so.

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