Glory has met my suffering-Part 2

WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW 

  What more can I say WOW!!! 

I will admit a while back when I started my walk with the LORD I didn't understand prayer...If GOD is all knowing why pray?  Why not just trust and worship Him?  The LORD spoke to me in His word and in my heart that HE loves when we come to Him, ask things of Him, spend time with Him and yearn for our hearts desires...So there it was I got my answer as to why I should be praying to my GOD...I always prayed, but now I pray with understanding....Along with all of that, I have seen prayers answered in small ways and just recently over the past 3 months-radically!!! 

As you know today was the trial date for our Little Lovely...The birth mom didn't show up...All of the people involved showed up...I still had that sense of Peace pouring over me, but I will admit I was a bit nervous only because "it's a court room", very intimidating...When I was called into the court room, the birth mom's lawyer said to the judge that she request the birth mom have 30 days to relinquish her rights...Then the lawyer left...Hmmm, what does that mean?? A sweet friend of mine, also a foster mom, showed up to support me, sat behind me,  squeezed my shoulder and whispered,  "this is good"...The DA called the case worker up to the stand, asked questions, stepped down off the stand and the judge proceeded with.................

TERMINATING PARENT RIGHTSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!!!! My stomach sank (in a good way)...The judge stated all that was happening for the record and the termination of parent rights granted!!!!

The case worker comes over to me,  throws her sweet, loving, relief-ing arms around me and starts to sob with tears of joy! I start crying, my sweet friend started to cry, I couldn't breath because I was so overjoyed with the news I cried out, "I keep my baby" ?????? The judge asked who I was and the DA said, the foster mom...He thanked me, I thanked him...I leave the court room still in awe of this news and the case worker hugs me again and we sob, and sob and sob....Thanking and praising GOD!!! 

 

WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW, what a day!!!

We still need to keep on praying though...Birth mom could appeal this, but it's really not likely because she didn't show up today...The court has granted the TPR and birthmom will have 30 days to sign a relinquish form so that she won't have a TPR on her record because she is so young...Please continue to pray for her...I do have compassion and love for her in my heart and I really would love to see her life turn to JESUS!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for your prayers, support, love and everything else you all have showered us with...

Praise the LORD Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens^.  Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness^.   Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord......Psalm 150:1-6

Glory has met my suffering!

As I prepare myself tonight, I'm expecting, nervousness, anxiety, and fear...I feel none of that...I don't know how tomorrow will be, but I know right now all I feel is Peace...It's actually unreal in comparison to the days of brokenness I've had, and so with that, another praise to my Sweet Lord JESUS for giving His people the power and the faith to pray for us!!! Really, thank you all...I can't believe how calm my heart, and stomach is for that matter....Even when I try to think about what could be, I almost feel like I would be forcing the tears to come out because of this amazing calmness I have...

I've been focusing my thoughts on JESUS and have been reflecting on simply who HE is...Any of my tears throughout the day have been the same tears I shed when I think about my Amazing GOD...Just the thought of who HE is when I mediate chokes me up...You know what I''m taking about...JESUS, REDEEMER, HEALER, MIGHTY PHYSICIAN, COMFORTER, FATHER, HOLY, PRINCE OF PEACE and so much more!!! To think this GOD loves wretched me so much, makes a bloody cross look beautiful and has a place for me in Heaven, for eternal life, is what priority needs to be...

Glory has met my suffering and HE has given me the Peace He promises to us in HIS Word...I thank all of you again for keeping me and my family and this situation in your prayers...It's truly a humbling experience...

Love!

Healing from the Healer

Hello Dear Friends…I come to you with a humble heart for a humble friend…She’s quiet, loving, and would probably never send out a prayer request for herself…Not because of pride, but because the humility inside her from the Spirit…So here I am, along with a ton of her friends, supporting me in this request for your prayers…Christine Tonn has Budd-Chiari Syndrome… The link is attached…

 

http://www.chp.edu/CHP/budd+chiari

Christine has suspected something for some time now and finally this was her diagnosis…She is leaving for San Diego next week and probably be admitted for immediate intervention…If you do not know Christine she is married and has 4 beautiful children…I can’t imagine as a mom having to stop your life as a mom to care for yourself…It’s our God given nature to nurturer our children and so Christine will have to set that aside for now…That would be hard for me, for any mom…

Our prayer request is simple…Healing from the Healer, a miracle, a wrong diagnosis!! I want to remind you all of the prayer requests I have sent out in the past for my Little Lovely and for sweet Brooke…God’s people prayed Brooke out of that hospital and on a road to improvement…God’s people prayed for my Little Lovely and family for healing, wisdom, understanding and peace… God’s people can pray Christine to a complete healing….Please add her and her family to your prayer list…Pray without ceasing is what is needed here...

I will send updates as I hear them…Please take this and share on your Facebook, email, blog, twitter, whatever source of social network or prayer chain you use…Prayer requests have been sent out in the past and I know for a fact it has reached beyond our nation…Lets please, please remember our sweet friend Christine and keep her in prayer….

Thanks again…You all make me smile! 

The GOD of Hope!!!!

JESUS, JESUS, JESUS...I fall on my face before you in praise and honor and glory to your Precious Name!!!  Oh how I am not surprised that little angel Brooke made it through the night...Thank you , thank you, thank you!!!

I asked the LORD last night to keep waking me up so that I could pray all night long...As the night progressed I would text Fran encouraging her that I'm still praying...At about 3AM my time, I texted her, "I'm still praying my sweet friend, the LORD is good." Her response, "Yes, HE is.  Haven't seen any doctors yet but she (Brooke) is a fighter. We know she can do this, go to sleep Denise, I love you." I didn't realize it was 6AM her time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As I lay in my bed giving worship & praise to GOD I fell asleep with a smile on my face....Diane calls at 7AM my time...She spoke to Fran (imagine this scene)...Fran says to Diane, we told our family members to go in a say their last goodbye to Brooke...Devastation took over...Fran said they just started sobbing...I can feel their pain as I type...Sobbing, weeping, devastated with all the strength leaving their bodies, crying with no sound from their mouths, from a pain that crushes their hearts....I'm crying right now even though Brooke made it...The pain, the pain, the pain is unimaginable!!! Fran continued and said all of a sudden, thunder and lightening came so loud it shook them, "I knew it was GOD, Diane!"

Yes, it was my sweet friend...Yes, it was....JESUS the GOD of Hope heard your prayers and the petition of all HIS people...HE makes Himself known in a mighty way, yet gentle as a Dove...Remember to praise HIS Name today friends...Remember our Sweet, Glorious GOD only has good things for us, and remember to continue to pray just as passionate to our LORD JESUS as you did yesterday for Brooke! She is still critical and needs continuous prayer!

John 5:14-15

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.  And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

Urgent Prayer Request

To all my prayer warriors and to people that are not prayer warriors, but pray to our LORD JESUS… I need your prayers for a friend of mine, desperately…My friend Fran who I grew up with and known for over 30 years has a beautiful little girl named Brooke, she’s almost 8 yrs old…She was just recently diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), sound horrifying doesn’t it?

Attached is a link you can read for more information...This is a rare brain tumor that is located in an area doctors are not able to remove, it affects children between the ages of 5-10 yrs old, and the chances of survival are less than 3%!! 

http://www.reflectionsofgrace.org/index.php/diffuse-intrinsic-pontine-glioma-dipg.html

Stop and imagine right now one of your children playing around happy as can be, and within a few weeks being hospitalized in the ICU not being able to move anything because they are in a vegetable stage…I say to imagine all of this because I know, that I know, that I know if this was your child you would want everyone in the world to pray…

When I mentioned this tumor is not removable, I meant it cannot be removed by man…But, we all know that our LORD JESUS can remove it! HE is the only one that can remove it…Please pray this beast of a cancer be removed from Brooke’s brain, or this tumor would shrink, and that this child’s miraculous recovery would glorify our LORD JESUS and many would come to know and worship HIM through it…

The LORD always desires us to pray because in HIS Word HE tells us to pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17)…When I told my friend Fran that myself and a few others were already praying, she said she can feel the prayers…I told her when I sent a prayer request out for my Little Lovely a woman in my church told me my prayer request reached the Philippines and Thailand…I told her I would be sending this prayer out to many and that GOD’S people would pray for her sweet Brooke…She was amazed! So please, my family in CHRIST JESUS, please forward this request to all that you know and let’s pray without ceasing…As I hear updates from Fran, I will update you…

I thank you all and I’m in awe just knowing the power that my friend will received from your prayers to JESUS…May our LORD be glorified, glorified, glorified!!!

Project 52-2013 (Week 19)

Not the best picture of me, but I love this picture...We just got done with her bath, I put lotion on her, and then just had to give her a little nakie hug...She was squeezing me back, I just had to take picture...

 I love being her Momma! 

Still praying I can be :/

Project 52-2013 (Week 18)

I love when friends ask me to take their photos...I only wish I new what I was somewhat doing...I think these came out pretty good (for the yearbook & maybe in a frame in your house)with the exception of some grain..  Right now that is the kind of "photographer" I am, and I'm good with that...I don't even like calling myself that, so let me change it to, "right now that is the kind of "picture taker" I am...Ahhh, that sounds better!  

Anyway, I cloned something on the older beauty, can you tell what it is?