Please pray tonight

Our son Dominique - such wonderful words to place together - is in need of prayer tonight.

He is in an orphanage. That alone merits prayer, for an orphanage is not a home. He has a home, and it's ours, and he needs to come to it. That's the basic story.

We trust it will be soon, and that this long journey will end so his life with us can begin.

But tonight, there are serious concerns.

Dominique is legally our son. There are a couple more steps, though, until he can come home. But he is in a place that is not safe for him. The plan is for him and another boy (also legally adopted) to be taken out of this place, and put in a safer one, until it's time to come home. The director is blocking access to the two boys. She sometimes says they're not even there, when in fact they are.

I've written it all as nicely as I can. I could have used the words that were told to me by one who was there. Words like "hell," and "suffering," and "starving."

A new friend shared this Scripture with me this morning, as a team of us pray for these two boys and many others:

"But thus says the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children."

Pray for an encounter that is to take place in six hours - that these two boys are released. Pray that God saves our children.