I slept good last night because I know this is not my battle to fight.

God is fighting for us.

The battle I must fight is the one within myself.

The one against my flesh.

I must stand strong in the LORD, knowing He will work everything out for my good, even if it doesn’t work out the way I would desire.

Satan is a prowling lion around my heart this morning. He is waiting for an opportunity to attack me, but I will stand strong in the LORD.

Satan cannot get me because my heart already belongs to God.

He is trying. I know the specific ways he tries to “get to me” when there is a battle raging.

One specific way that Satan attacks me during times like this is by reminding me that if I was pregnant with Sweet Pea, none of this would be an issue! Satan is sneaky like this. He takes something that he knows I have dealt with (desire for pregnancy), grieved and moved on from and throws it right back in my face!

That’s okay though because my response to the devil on this is: That’s fine. You can bring this up as many times as you want, but I know God had plans for me that went beyond pregnancy. God has chosen to build my family through adoption and He is walking every step of this journey with me, working everything out for His glory. I may not like every decision He makes, but I have learned that God’s Way is best – always. So back off of me in the name of Jesus Christ!!!!

My role here is not to work out these complications that have come up. My role is to stand strong in the LORD and let HIM do the fighting.

Please pray for our lawyer, Emily, today. Emily’s role is to work out these complications and I am incredibly grateful that God has put her in this role to be an advocate for both us and Melody.

Please pray that God will open the doors for her to be able to figure things out and iron out some of the mess that occurred yesterday. (Which, I will add, Melody is not responsible for.)

Please pray binding Satan from any attacks he would wish to throw at me today.

Please pray for Melody and Sweet Pea.

- Elaine