"God Makes a Way"

On Wednesday morning, Adam came downstairs during my prayer time and interrupted me to show me an e-mail from one of our adoption agency workers, Debra,  who is currently in Kinshasa.  The e-mail was very exciting news and a long awaited answer to prayer ….I will be able to share a little more soon, I hope J  I praised the Lord for his faithfulness and love for his children and was just overwhelmed with joy! 

Then about thirty minutes later, Adam went outside to get the mail that we had neglected to get the previous day and there was a “Request for Evidence” letter from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services.  This letter detailed that we need ten more documents from the DR Congo regarding our daughter’s adoption and orphan status.  All ten of these documents need to be obtained, translated into English and mailed to USCIS by March 3^rd or the letter states her adoption will be denied.  I immediately began to pray because I felt like this was going to be impossible!  We have learned over the last twenty months that “African time” is much different than “American time” and I just felt like the time frame was going to be impossible to meet.  Well, Adam took the letter to work to scan and send to our adoption agency and I stayed at home with the kids.  I sat down on the couch with them and Eva wanted to pick out her Bible story from her “Jesus Storybook Bible” for the morning so she flipped to a story in the Old Testament and asked me to read it.  I looked down at the Bible and began to smile when I saw she picked the story entitled, “God makes a way.”  This is the story of God parting the Red Sea from Exodus 14-15.  We got to the part in the story where God’s people are on the shore, in front of the sea, and Pharaoh’s army is behind them and they have nowhere to go and the story says…

“…they did the only thing there was left to do – PANIC!

“We’re going to die!” They shrieked. 

“Don’t be afraid!” Moses said. 

“But there’s nothing we can do!” they screamed.

 “God knows you can’t do anything!” Moses said.  “God will do it for you.  Trust him.  And watch!” 

I did the same thing they did and I heard God tell me the same thing Moses told them…trust and watch. 

Adam called a little bit later to tell me that he had e-mailed the letter to Debra in the DR Congo and she said that our attorney was with her and he was going to get started on obtaining the documents today! 

I thank God for many things…first that we received a bit of encouraging news before the bad news J  I am thankful that Debra is in the DR Congo and could get the information to our attorney immediately!  And I am thankful that God gave me his peace through a story I have read many times before but needed to hear again yesterday morning. 

God knows that we need these documents to bring her home and I know that he is the only one who can make this happen.  Please join us in praying that God will provide everything we need to bring her home. 

Lynsey