A Plead for Powerful Prayer

So my life went on a little bit (okay, a lot of bit) of a roller coaster ride the last few months and this blog got completely ignored through that whole ride...I will spare you the details of that and just get to the point of my blog!

It's a new year, and a new chapter of my life in many ways, and I have been searching my heart for purpose, and no matter what possible purpose I come up with in my head, orphan care with the ultimate goal of adoption has always been part of that! Like the banner of my blog states: Psalm 82: 3-4a says: "Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy..."On top of this command, God has placed in my heart a deep love for adoption. When I think of defense and delivering others, I truly believe the first line of that is prayer....and not the God bless soandso prayers that I myself have been guilty of spouting off mindlessly, but the truly deep and fervent prayers you say when you clear your heart, weeping before God alone and truly seek his protection and guidance for someone. May God give us all the burden to pray for orphans everywhere with such a broken spirit for them. Many of us involved in Reece's Rainbow have been chosing a "sweet 16" kids to pray home this year. My goal for this year is to truly pray over these kids as if they were my own, sitting without parents, many of them not having anyone to tuck them in at night, or give them that gigantic hug and tell them "I love you, my dear daughter" or "I'm so proud of you, son!" If you just simply want one child to pray over, I urge you to go to reecesrainbow.org and fall in love with just one little face, and then sign up here at http://reecesrainbow.org/sponsorship/prayerwarriors to commit to praying for them. It is completely free for you to sign up, it's just asked that you would continually pray for that little face until it's being kissed all over by a mommy/daddy/grandparent/brother/sister/etc. Would you please join me in a year of prayer for these little faces and all the orphans in the world?


ALSO AN UPDATE:
 My warrior family, the Matthews, brought home their 2 new little ones, Owen and Tillie, a couple of months ago. Owen underwent some big time surgery stuff almost immediately to help his little heart work better, and I am happy to report that he is now at home. Congratulations to the Matthews Family on their new additions!

Also: on my last blog I did an orphan spotlight, and I am happy to report that little miss "Isabella" is in her new home, and Story and Stacy have also been placed in a loving family! So happy for all of them and wish them the best!