Unanswered Prayer.........

Delays are not denials.....

How do we face unanswered prayer?
We deal with it daily...we struggle with it hourly....no matter the cause, no matter where we are, if we pray, we will have unanswered prayer.

In the adoption game its no different in fact maybe more obvious! for days....for weeks.....for months we pray for things with seemingly no end in sight. We are discouraged, we are tired, we just don't even feel like fighting anymore.....but the battle rages on!

There is no time to give up! We are fighting against time! We can't give up! We are fighting for a life....what limits can you put on that?

Time after time we have seen God answer prayers.....

God worked miracles to bring us through our home study approval....

God granted my dad a passport after months of phone calls, tracking down papers and brick walls....

We have seen paperwork go through faster then it is suppose too....

Time after time God has sent us people to encourage us when we need it most!

Time after time God has supplied and given us far more than we could have come up with on our own.

Time after time God has brought sunshine to our tears...

Time after time God has given us for more strength than lies within us...

He has grown a group of supporters who love and pray for my family and our hearts desire...


But we still have spent sleepless nights....hours in prayer....tears...frustrations.... and many times we walk on with unanswered prayers....


How does one go on when all you have is a question mark?

Its called trust, its called faith, its called GOD.
Casting all your cares on Him for He care for you. 1 Peter 5:7 (If I quoted that wrong please don't tell my sunday school class!) Its crying out at His feet....God I can't do this! But honestly I know you can! I know I can trust you! Just last week I was up late praying for an impossible request and the next morning the answer came....but it was an answer that took months to come. Most of the time God doesn't answer our requests how we think He will, but in ways that are far better! That grow our faith and trust. I'm telling you right now With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible! Matthew 19:26.

How do I know? Because I have experienced it! Just as I know there is a God, because I know Him. I know He saves, because I have been redeemed! I know He is faithful because I have felt His faithfulness. I know He does miracles because I have seen them! I know He does all things well because I have seen it come to pass....in His time.

He hath made all things beautiful in His time, also He hath set the world in their heart so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

Right now all I can do it praise God and thank Him for what He has brought us through....but our hearts are still heavy with unanswered prayer.

We need over $30,000 to complete this adoption process....since March we have raised over $15,000.
Its amazing and we are totally humbled and grateful, but it leaves us lacking. We have worked hard and God has blessed us far more than we ever could have imagined a long the way! We have reached the point of placement. So when the Ecuadorian committee places us, we will have about two weeks before we need to be over there. It could be as soon as next month but we cannot be sure when it will be. We have paid all of the adoption expenses on this side of the ocean but that leaves our funds pretty well spent with a huge gap.....I'm beginning to think....God my faith is not that reckless....but when I look behind me I know it is! We are standing here thinking whats next? But God, Hes got this whole thing....so tonight we carry on with unanswered prayer but rejoice in what we have seen God do!