Spirit of adoption

 

For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Romans 8:15-17 ESV

Please continue to be faithful in your petitions. If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

I'll come to you

 

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

John 14:18 ESV

Please continue to be faithful in your petitions. If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

The vulnerable

 

We aren't all called to adopt, but there are ways which we can help vulnerable children in other countries get the necessities of life and learn about Christ. (If you know of a program in the U.S., please share it with me).

These are just a few programs that I and/or my husband have personally been involved with*:

STCH Ministry 

helps care for the orphans in the Dominican Republic. There seems to be an overabundance of orphans there. 

Naomi's Heart Mission

reaches the poorest children in the Philippines and also helps feed the surrounding area residents.

World Vision

has numerous programs to help people all over the world, but also offers a program to sponsor a child.

And the King will answer them, 

‘Truly, I say to you, 

as you did it to one of the 

least of these my brothers and sisters, 

you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:40 ESV

Please continue to be faithful in your petitions. If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

*these are not affiliate links - I do not receive money or compensation for sign-ups or click-throughs.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

Father and Protector

 

Father of the fatherless and protector of widows

    is God in his holy habitation.

Psalms 68:5 ESV

Our prayers are making a difference. Please continue to be faithful in your petitions. If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

He will never abandon us

 

  Hide not your face from me.

Turn not your servant away in anger,

    O you who have been my help.

Cast me not off; forsake me not,

    O God of my salvation!

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,

    but the Lord will take me in.

Psalm 27:9-10 ESV

Our prayers are making a difference! Please continue to be faithful in your petitions. If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

The fatherless

 

Yesterday, while listing the people of the Bible who were adopted, I completely forgot about Esther who was adopted by her cousin Mordecai. Some Bible versions say "uncle", but mine says "his uncle’s daughter" which is a cousin.

And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

Esther 2:7 NKJV

Like Moses, Esther saved God's people, her people.
     I never looked at it that way before, that the four people of the bible who were adopted, were such key people in God's plan. Adoption is obviously important to our Father since it's mentioned or talked about so often in the Bible, and even becomes the terminology associated with our salvation. In the Old Testament, it doesn't say "adoption" specifically, but it often talks about taking care of the fatherless.

He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, 

and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:18 NKJV

We'll talk about spiritual adoption in a day or two.

If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

Pray for the adopted

 

I have to be totally honest with you and say that I know nothing about being adopted or about adopting a child, but I'm hoping someone may have a story or testimony to share. God put on my heart for us to pray for not only the adopted, but also foster children, stepchildren, and the parents who raise them.

     Two of my dearest friends have adopted daughters (late teens to early 30s) and just happen to be going through some struggles with them right now. None of the conflicts are because they're adopted, but between that and the Pastor talking about how we're all adopted into our Father's family, it seemed like a group we should focus our prayers on this week.

     This is obviously a topic dear to our Lord because look at the people in the Bible who fit into this "category"...Moses, Samuel, and Jesus. Moses was adopted by Pharoah's daughter. Hannah surrendered Samuel to Eli. Jesus' true Father is Yahweh, but He was also the step-son of Joseph. 

     And then there's us. We who are God's children are adopted. More on that later.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

Ephesians 1:3-6 NKJV

If there's anyone you would like us to pray for this week, please let me know.

Let's pray for:

E.

R.

H.

and that their relationships with their mothers may strengthen.

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Please join me this week in praying for those who are adopted, who are in foster care, and who are living with a step-parent. May they feel loved and accepted. May their parents also feel loved and accepted by the child. Lord, please work in these relationships, especially during times of struggle, building a foundation of communication, love, and patience.

I'll post daily reminders on:

twitter @7DegreesOfMe

Instagram @archadia27
Pinterest Prayer Group #7thHourPrayerPower

Facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

#7thHourPrayerPower #BibleVerses #bible #adoption #adopted #chosen #love #family

Walk in love

And walk in love, 

as Christ loved us and 

gave Himself up for us,

a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV

I have been crucified with Christ. 

It is no longer I who live, 

but Christ who lives in me. 

And the life I now live in the flesh 

I live by faith in the Son of God, 

who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Galatians 2:20 ESV

A new commandment

A new commandment I give to you, 

that you love one another: 

just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 13:34 ESV

Love and joy perfected

 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another.
John 15:9-17 NKJV

He loved us first

We as Christians are the most blessed people on the planet because we are the only ones who know the love of Jesus.

In this is love, not that we loved God, 

but that He loved us and sent 

His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:10 NKJV

Please join our prayer group as we spend the week celebrating the love of Jesus.

I'll post a daily reminder to pray on:
twitter @7DegreesOfMe
instagram @archadia27
facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

First love

We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John 4:19 NKJV

I know that He loves me

Two years ago I wrote a post about singing "Jesus Loves Me" as a child in Sunday school. It's a very short post followed by a full rendition of the popular children's song. I hope you'll take a moment to listen.  Click here.

So we have come to know and to believe the

love that God has for us. 

God is love, and whoever abides in love 

abides in God, and 

God abides in him.

1 John 4:16 ESV

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Please join our prayer group as we spend the week celebrating the love of Jesus.

I'll post a daily reminder to pray on:
twitter @7DegreesOfMe
instagram @archadia27
facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power

Jesus, thank You for loving me

This week I would like to thank Jesus for His love. Too often I thank the Lord in a general way for His many blessings, but don't always praise Him specifically for His love and grace. It should, at the very least, be a part of my daily prayer. I should be in constant awe that He would even be able to love such a sinner as me. Please join me this week in remembering Jesus' love and sharing that love with everyone we meet.

 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: 

While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:8 NIV

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Please join our prayer group as we spend the week celebrating the love of Jesus.

I'll post a daily reminder to pray on:
twitter @7DegreesOfMe
instagram @archadia27
facebook group 7th Hour Prayer Power