The Power of Prayer

Today Joyce & I received an awesome demonstration, once again, of the power of prayer! The officials we anticipated yesterday never showed, but they did come today...unannounced.

This morning one of our teachers arrived to tell us that our lawyer had called him and told him that INHFA had made up their mind and they were coming to move the children. She told him INHFA reported they'd had many problems with 'extranjeros' (North Americans) and they were just going to move the children. However, this morning Joyce & I never blinked...buoyed by the support of your prayers, by the peace that God had put in our hearts, and by a bible study on Psalm 84 sent to us by Kim, a friend of the ministry from Kansas, we had an uncommon sense of victory in what appeared to be abject defeat! Literally "...the peace that passes all understanding" had fallen upon us and we just didn't see the need to worry about something that God had told us He would handle! So, we headed out to do some errands taking Rosa, Karen, & Cesar with us...Antonio, Angel, Jesus, & Pedro were in school so that left Gershon, Fabiola, & Mauricio with Marvin, one of our teachers. While shopping for school supplies we got a call from Marvin telling us the INHFA officials were at the house...so we said we would return immediately...we still felt no sense of panic.

We left the store and headed home going only about 1/4 of a mile when Marvin called back. He told us the officials asked him to call us and tell us not to bother coming back...everything was fine! In fact they loved everything! Remember they came with the mind set of moving the children to another location, but our God had come before them and had put His spirit upon them so that they saw everything good about this new family. Now they were not going to move the children, they were praising our efforts and in fact asked Marvin to have us consider meeting with them to see if we would take more children! That's about as dramatic a turnaround as you can have; and we weren't even here...had nothing to do with it...it was strictly a result of your prayers !!! There is no way to ever say thank you enough!