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I received an email this morning from my friend Lisa. In her email she asked me to do all that I could to encourage people to pray today. Lisa has every reason to ask this. She is one of the 2000 families in limbo while her heart waits in Guatemala to come home. Lisa, like the other 2000, was grandfathered into the old system and is awaiting news that their case has been released.
I called Lisa. She has recently returned from her third trip to Guatemala where she visits with her child and takes every opportunity to love on the other children. “What would you ask people to pray for today specifically?”, I asked her.
Just like a mother who has a full heart and mind she began spitting out thoughts and heartache and hopes a mile a minute.

For Lisa and the other 2000 families, for the birth families in Guatemala, and for the hundreds of thousands of children in Guatemala I ask you to stop now and join us in a day of prayer.

We pray for the children, who have no part in corruption, who are innocent and deserve only to be united with their forever families. We pray that they will be protected and that their bodies and spirits will be kept safe and nurtured as they wait. We pray that God would send his angles to watch over them. We pray that they would know that they are indeed cherished and loved.

We pray for the birth mothers and fathers of the children of Guatemala. For those that surrendered their rights, out of love for their child, and now may find themselves at risk we ask that God would watch over them, that they would find arms to embrace them, and forgiveness from their families and communities.

We pray for those women and men who have been deeply wounded by the corruption that has taken place, for those that may have lost children unfairly or through coercion. We ask that God would sustain them and comfort them. We pray that they would be reunited with their children and that this type of activity would cease to exist.

We pray for the 2000 families who are waiting eagerly for their children to come home. Lord, they have rooms prepared and their hearts are open and vulnerable with love for your children in Guatemala. As they continue to be “in process” we ask that you give them great confidence that their children will come home and the process will indeed end.

Lord you are greater than nations, you are more powerful than governments. The orphans of the world are cherished by you. Lord we ask that you would intervene on behalf of the orphans of Guatemala, for those that have been matched with families and those that have been left behind. Lord you have placed officials in governments for a reason. We pray that their hearts would be softened to the plight of the children in Guatemala and that they would actively work to do what is best for the children.

God, you who deliver us from bondage, you who delivers nations out of slavery, we ask that you deliver the children of Guatemala into the loving arms of their families.

Please take a moment today and participate in praying for the people of Guatemala, for the birth and adoptive families, and for the children. May they not be delayed anymore, may they not be forgotten.

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