Action and Prayer!

Oh my mind is full of thoughts of this Christmas...and all that God has done to prepare my heart for it....and I want to share those thoughts and blessings from Him...

But for now...some important things to pass along!

Not sure how many have heard... but the Russian Parliament has passed a law that would end inter country adoption with the USA.  In 2 weeks President Putin will decide to either pass this law or veto it.... Please Please Pray for his heart on this!!!

They are doing this in response to a law that the USA passed on dealing with potential violations of human rights by Russians.  I don't know all that has transpired in the past to bring this "stressed" adoption relationship to a head, but I am broken inside to think that governments would use innocent children to play political games and inflict revenge on other countries.  There are way too many children in orphanage care that deserve to have a family! Regardless of what country they live in. 
Below is a link to a letter written by a young man who was adopted at the age of 15 from Russia and came to Dallas to a family who has loved him and given him a chance at life!
Read his letter here and sign the petition !  Please take time to read and sign...and share this with others...and join in the prayer of the faithful body of Christ....the church to pray for this President's heart to be changed....and that God would be glorified through it all!

We are the body...and we are called to action but we are also called to prayer....

Matthew 18:19-20
"I also tell you this:  If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for  you.  For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them."

Unlike Job, (Job16:19-21)we know that our intercessor and friend in Heaven is Jesus! He  himself intercedes for us....and when we are weak and heavy hearted and cannot utter the "right words" the Holy Spirit speaks for us! 

Romans 8:26-27
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God.


In His Embrace,
laurie