Mountain mover

Are any of you waiting to hear from the Lord?

Are any of you waiting for an answer to a specific prayer?

Are any of you just needing mountains moved in your life??/

I remember specifically my prayer request almost immediately after the stillbirth of our Samuel...
Lord please bless us with another child... if that is your will... sooner rather than later...

When you were ready to be a mommy again at any moment and at 40 weeks and 1 day you have nothing but a container of your baby's ashes after growing that sweet precious one for so long... Waiting another day... week... month... seems too long... ( I know this may not really make sense fully if you haven't experienced it for yourself... But 9 months to grow another baby feels like forever... (clearly... I NEVER wanted to have another child to replace Samuel EVER!!!  But my heart and arms were longing for a baby to hold and love!:)

I remember praying that same exact prayer... a WHOLE year later...
Lord please bless us with another... if that is your will... sooner rather than later...

But at that point I knew I was in the later already... but I still wanted the new sooner rather than the new later... Oh it was so hard...  Now I knew that maybe it wasn't in God's plan for us to have more children or to adopt.  And if it wasn't... then I just wanted him to change my heart so that I could accept it if that was His will... but my hearts desire was another child...

About 2 months later... the Lord gave us our Hope with an on going up and down, uncertain adoption case... now that was a tough 7 months of not knowing if we could keep her or not.  And just before we heard that she would indeed become ours forever... we finalized the  adoption of the 7 embryos. And along came our precious miracle  Levi 10 months later...

Sometimes those answers to our prayers come hours, weeks, or months later... sometimes years later.

If you are waiting for God to move some mountains... I want to encourage you today... that our God is IN THE BUSINESS OF WORKING MIRACLES AND MOVING MOUNTAINS... Just like He did to bring us our Hope, our Levi, and our Isaiah... all miracles from His precious hand... (as are our first 5 kids as well:)


Just a few weeks ago, Greg and I were discussing a upcoming future decision for our family... (I can't really share the specific details right now... but trust me, I will when it is the right time... I am not trying to be secretive, but my whole hearts desire on this is to encourage you in how amazing and faithful our God is!!!) Greg and I clearly had 2 VERY DIFFERENT opinions on this issue...It was a pretty BIG area of family life... One with lasting implications for all of us...  The discussion went round and round... We never did agree at all...The conversation pretty much ended with us being at totally different ends of the spectrum with me telling him that I wouldn't bring it up again... (I did not at all want to pester him about it) That if God changed His heart he should let me know...

I TOTALLY wanted the Lord's will for our family in this decision... I know that Greg wanted it too... But let me just say... this is not an area where I normally could keep quiet on... I knew that I would have to be in prayer just to truly keep my word and keep  my mouth shut:) Sometimes, even when I plan on bringing something up,  my timing isn't always the best... but I was determined to not mention it at all...

I also expressed to him... my sincere desire that if God's will wasn't in line with my desires, that I would want  the Lord totally change my heart and make it easier to accept that and change my will and make it in line with what His desires were for us... I meant it 100%... I did not want my way... I TOTALLY WANTED GOD'S WAY FOR US!  AND I WANTED GREG TO  LEAD AND BE IN CHARGE IN THIS DECISION!

This area of life is an area that I knew on my own, I could not surrender easily... I also knew that if I didn't bring it up, it might never come up and I had to be ok with that... I knew that it could take months for God to change His heart or mine...

My heart was really sad... The whole fact that we were so not on the same page, kind of came as a shock and was going to take some getting used to for sure.  I even enlisted the prayers of some close friends that I knew love our family, want God's best for us, and are prayer warriors...

I committed to praying about this issue... everyday it was something that I had to lay at the Lord's feet... It was on my mind A LOT!!   But at the same time,  I really had a peace about it, and wasn't worried... I knew God was in control of it and I knew that he would take care of me no matter the outcome... But in my heart I felt like it would take A LONG TIME to resolve this, especially if I wasn't going to bring it up in conversation...

Well just a couple of weeks later Greg came to me clear out of the blue... actually I was working out... I was overjoyed that he was bringing it up SO MUCH EARLIER THAN I EVER EXPECTED, but  I almost wanted to clobber him because it takes everything in me to not keel over to begin with when I am working out... :):)

In a sort of round about way he started talking and told me his heart had done a total 180...  We were now totally on the same page... I was SO SHOCKED... I honestly said, "Do not joke around about this if you aren't serious!!"   Oh my heart rejoiced... And the Lord had done it in record time... so much more quickly than I ever would have expected... The Lord moved mountains to bring us to a point of being united in this one big area... Huge... Huge... blessings for us to be on the same page....

God is continually teaching me to trust Him... trust that He has control of every single situation we lay at His feet... That He won't disappoint us (even if it had been my heart that was changed... I know He would have given me TOTAL peace about it!!!)

He didn't just answer... He knocked my socks off with how quickly and preciously He answered my prayers... I am in awe... He is so good and faithful...