A Jon Post

Ok… it’s been 3 months since I blogged about representatives from the hospital visiting our house to see Casa Ahavá and inspect our readiness to give a home and a family to people from far away.

Here’s the blog if you need a reminder of what happened leading up to December 9th. Questions No One Asked.

The visit I mentioned in that blog went very well and we praised God that our visitors praised the location and the heart they saw for what we wanted to do. We thought we were within weeks of hosting friends here who are currently bound to a hospital bed because they have no where else.

We prayed, we thanked, we smiled.

Weeks stretched on, I kept following up with Social Services, nothing happened. The good men and women who came to see our house assured us they passed on a very favorable report to the hospital’s Director’s Office, but it was out of their hands after that.

We prayed, we waited, nothing.

As often as we’ve asked, we’ve heard only that we’re still waiting.

This week as Layne and I were driving to church together Layne brought this up with me. She has felt on her spirit the burden to pray for this process more directly and more fervently. We have spent little specific time praying for this and I’m so glad Layne’s heart was soft enough to hear the Lord correcting us in that.

So will you pray with us in this? We believe that “In the Lord’s hand the king’s heart is a stream of water that he channels toward all who please him” and if the king’s heart is that way, we believe the same of the hospital director’s heart.

Pray that the Lord channels his heart toward us and toward Casa Ahavá.

Pray that we please the Lord.

It matters.

It does.