After we lost the baby in February of last year (you can read about this journey in the "Purpose In Pain" series on the archive section), I began praying Hannah's prayer in 1 Samuel 1:11 which says, " O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your handmaid and [earnestly] remember, and not forget Your handmaid but will give me a son, I will give him to the Lord all his life," In my prayer I vowed that Tim and I would raise our son to love and serve the Lord all the days of his life. (Of course I would have been thrilled with another daughter just as well, but this was the prayer I prayed.)
It did not happen instantly. It took us longer to get pregnant than most after a pregnancy loss but we we kept believing, and we know that God is always faithful!
Are you believing for something in your life? Above all, know that we should seek God's will for our lives because He knows what is best and He desires to bless us and give us an incredible life (even if that means not giving us some of the things we really think we should have). If the Lord has placed a desire in your heart make your request known to Him. Put your trust in Him. Ask and keep on asking, but know that He will take care of it in His way and in His time. Rest in the assurance that God's plans for you are good and amazing and better than anything you could ever plan for yourself! God loves you! You are incredibly precious to Him!
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9
"Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams]--" Ephesians 3:20
