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Week 2 Wait

"But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; 
my God will hear me." Micah 7:7

Verse for the week 2 wait for news for a referral for two precious children in Ethiopia that will some day come home to their forever family!  We pray for them daily and think of them constantly even though we don't know specifically who these children even are yet.  Already, without a name or a face or an age or a history, these children are deeply loved in our hearts and we long to be with them.

After 6 months of paper work and appointments we are relaxed to some extent to have all those boxes checked off the to-do list.  The papers are no longer on our desks or in our hands being processed and sorted but now in the hands of those who will someday match us with the children.  We pray for those workers, directors, office managers, and whom ever comes in contact with our papers and with our children.  We pray for God-speed and care and protection.  That His hand will guide and His ways will be known to us soon.

God is in control and in His timing and in His selection of the children, they will come to us.  This truth we hold to that He who began a good work will be faithful to complete it (Philippians 1:6)! 


I Thess. 5:24 God will make this happen, for He who calls you is faithful. (NLT)


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