Redeeming the Orphan

When We Stop Striving, We Start Seeing

It’s easy to live in survival mode, scanning every corner for the next solution. But when you stop striving and start seeking, your perspective shifts.

Instead of asking, “How will we afford this?”
Ask, “God, how are You going to show Yourself here?”

That simple shift turns worry into worship.

He’s not just providing things—He’s drawing you and your child(ren) closer to Himself. All the things are great, but breakthrough and the breaking off of generational strongholds will only come through recognizing Him.  Sometimes what your child may need most, is going through the very experiences that were extremely scary without God, with God- and you get to walk that with them because of your relationship with God.  Help your child to see that even.... God is there, and you can have peace, and you share that with them.  Keep your focus on Him: keep seeking Him, speak the life and promises He speaks over yourself and your children.

When God gives you children, however He brings them to you, His desire is to unwrap His plan of redemption for them with you. He already planned their care, their needs, and your means to meet them, and He is ultimately more concerned about their soul. The last thing He wants you to get caught up in, is the things and the means.

“The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing.” — Psalm 23:1

When we recognize that we are walking in what delights God (doing His will), we will delight God, and we will see how we are blessed.  Don't let Satan whisper to you, "did God really....?" (Genesis 3:1)  Our doubt in ourselves, and what He said will cause us to crumble, and that's just where Satan wants you, as He has succeeded in many before you.

Remember when He put it on your heart to care for the orphan, and go back through the verses that lead each of us to do our part:

Leviticus 19:34 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

You have taken in the stranger and your intention was to treat them as family, keep asking God for the grace to live out this relationship, and grow with your child.  Realize He has prepared you for this, and He will continue to mold you into both the parent this child needs to be restored, and mold you into the likeness of Himself through this child.

James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Keep at the task before you, realizing His desire is to redeem you and the child you've taken in.  It's a process, just as sanctification is, and He will keep you from entering the same destructive patterns He brought this child out of.  God's definition of "religion" is relationship.  It's all He's ever wanted, and as your creator, knows that it is through repeated investments that it will grow.  That it would come through going through difficult things yourself, that He would then reveal to you the tools to help others through.


2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (Our) God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.  For just as the sufferings of Christ flowed over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 

Yes, God led you to this area of ministry.... And that included suffering and comfort so that you could point others to the provider and comforter through suffering.

He comforts us every time we have trouble, so that we can comfort others when they have trouble. We can comfort them with the same comfort that God gives us. (Easy to read Version)