Last night I heard some of the most amazing stories from the mouths of people like, Tom Davis, and another gentleman of whose last name skips me right now, Dan. Dan and his wife have adopted 11 children and have help in some way or another foster over 60. I was so moved by his story last night about how his 2 daughters watched a program on tv about orphans in Romania in 1990, and it just broke their hearts.
With his 2 daughters wrecked by what they had just seen, their parents laid beside them in their beds trying to get them to calm down, and as Dan laid beside his youngest daughter she asked him, "Dad, what are you going to do about this?" His daughter asked him this. Now it is something that is laid at his feet. Well Dan did do something about it. He made it his passion.
Tom Davis, if you googled his name, you would see that Tom is at the age of 33, author of 3 books, and a father of 7 and 5 of which I believe are adopted. With Tom's wife 5 years older than himself, at the age of 21 they adopted their first child Yanna from Russia who was 11 years old at the time. Yanna is now 23, and will have her first child in the next few months.
Then I watched a video clip of a man by the name of Nicolas Winton. http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGJrHWhLKo Please take about the first 3 minutes to watch what Nicolas Winton did, and how he changed the lives of so many people.
They got all the names of the almost 700 children that Nicolas had rescued, and they went and searched them out to see the offspring of these once rescued children, and they said that out of the almost 700 children he rescued, additional 5000 people were given life through them. Wow! Additional 5000 people. What if Nicolas would have went home that day instead of following his friend? What if Nicolas would have said that it is to much for me?
I write about these things because we can make a difference. We can make a difference.
I was reminded last night about God's heart towards the orphans. As scripture was being quoted reminding me of where is God's heart.
As Tom was talking last night, he began to share about Mother Teresa. He began to share about what Mother Teresa seen in every child's face when she looked upon them. "Every child is a gift from God. They all have a destiny in their lives." When Tom was sharing this, I began to have my own conversation with God about this.
Tom: These children are brought into the world where poverty, and disease over shadow's their lives. Where 5 dollars can cure Malaria. Where pennies a day can take care of starvation.
Me: God, I don't understand how this can happen.
Tom: Mother Teresa said this, "Every child is a gift from God. They all have a destiny in their lives."
Me: God, why would you allow them to come into this world if they have no chance to fulfill that destiny?
God: It is up to you to help them.
Wow! God has just laid His heart before me. Jesus told his disciple's that you will always have the poor with you. Mark 14:7
James 1:27 A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Exodus 22:22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
Deuteronomy 14:29 the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates, may come and eat and be satisfied, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
Psalm 10:14 But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,To repay it by Your hand. The helpless commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:18 To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,That the man of the earth may oppress no more.
Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless
Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend.
Jeremiah 7:6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow
Zechariah 7:10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor.
Please forgive me of the lengthy note, but you see how God's heart is with the orphan. He longs for them. God longs to use those who can do something. Jesus said that they will know you are my disciples by the love that you share with one another. There are places that give the orphans less of a chance to live a good life because they are orphans. They look upon them as less of a human.
There are chances that are being given. They are being given through people who want to make a difference in each life they touch. Because of their love for the orphans some organizations have backed them in their cause.
http://www.orphanstickethome.org/
http://www.5for50.com/
https://www.mochaclub.org/
http://www.africanleadership.org/
All of these sites are credible organizations that want to help. I challenge you all who read this note to take one month. Please just one month of what it would cost to eat out, go to starbucks, going to the movies, or going to the club. See how much that would be and support an orphan. Just one month is all I ask of you.
Matthew 25: 34-40"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Enter, you who are blessed by my Father! Take what's coming to you in this kingdom. It's been ready for you since the world's foundation. And here's why:
I was hungry and you fed me,
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,
I was homeless and you gave me a room,
I was shivering and you gave me clothes,
I was sick and you stopped to visit,
I was in prison and you came to me.'
"Then those 'sheep' are going to say, 'Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you a drink? And when did we ever see you sick or in prison and come to you?' Then the King will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.'
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