While I will write my thoughts today below for my devotional for Day 6 & 5, in light of the passage being 2 Samuel 22 where David sings a song of deliverance for how God has come for him and rescued him, I wanted to first share how you can be praying for us as in just 5 days we will be entering into a new season with Dasah. While we don’t know how that day will unfold, we know that God will be ever present with us. And just as David declared in 2 Samuel 22: 7;
“In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice and my cry came to his ears.”
so we believe that as we and God’s people cry to the Lord for us, on our behalf as a family, he will hear and intervene in our lives with magnificent and glorious power. We continue to see him provide for us in supernatural ways and this week in particular we are desperate for people to be interceding on our behalf. Here are some specific prayer requests that we’d like to invite you to join with us in praying (along with however else God would lead):
- That God would be glorified and people would be pointed to Jesus through Dasah’s life and our family. His glory, His praise, His honor is what we want people to see MORE THAN ANYTHING else. That has been a journey for me to be able to say, but I say confidently now as God has revealed more of himself to me in the past few months that there is nothing greater then his glory and oh how we want others to see through our little family how great our God is and how worthy he is to follow.
- Pray for Dasah’s full and complete healing, pray that the coming weeks will be categorized by the miraculous works of God. We so desire those miraculous works to include a healing of epic proportions this side of heaven, and yet we also know that should God not heal Dasah the miraculous may be found in bringing us and our family joy to our hearts in the midst of great sorrow, peace in the midst of distress, and hope in the midst of despair. Those responses in the midst of great grief would be nothing short of the miraculous working of the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. So we ask that you would pray for healing and pray that God would reach down and continue to do the miraculous in our hearts in the midst of the heartache we are experiencing.
- Safety and peace for me in my c-section and recovery. Surgeries scare me, I hate needles and the pain I know now comes with a c-section. Pray that the “peace that passes understanding” would transcend my heart in the coming days and as we head to the hospital Thursday morning.
- If God does not heal Dasah, that she would be born alive and doing well enough that we would get to bring her home. Oh this would bring us so much joy to get to welcome her into our home even if its just for a short amount of time.
- God would guide and use our doctors, nurses and technicians throughout the delivery and postpartum. We have an incredible team of medical peeps that we are so thankful for. Pray that God would guide their hands in surgery, decisions afterwards and care for Dasah and myself.
- God would give us the faith, hope, joy and peace we need each day in the coming weeks and that we would not be overwhelmed by the “tomorrows” of what may be coming and rest in today.
Thank you for praying. Thank you for asking others to pray. We are seeing strength rise in us in the midst of our emotions, weariness, tears and sadness. It is obvious that more and more people have begun to pray and lift our weary arms as the body of Christ. Please feel free to share these prayer requests!
I want to close with a few short thoughts on 2 Samuel 22. I love this passage and it’s fitting to be the one I’m reading today as I pray these prayers and ask others to join with me in calling to the Lord. Fitting because here, David found himself in a place of great desperation and we get to see the response of his heart after the Lord has delivered him from his great enemy. As you read this passage you can begin to see a pattern of the Lord’s response to David and then David’s response to the Lord. David begins with praise to the Lord and then quickly expresses his utter desperation, how death itself is encompassing him. As he expresses he calls to the Lord and it is then that the Lord answers him with mighty mighty power. Just reading v 8-20 and imagining the Lord coming for me like that is powerful. And yet this is what the Lord does. As we call… He comes. And he comes in power and in might. He comes to rescue us, just as he rescued David. He deals with David’s heart and then begins to strengthen and equip David. It is only after David has called, after God has parted the heavens and come down, after God rescues Him, after God deals with David’s heart, after God strengthens him, and after God equips David that David confidently steps out in faith and not fear against his enemies and even then David acknowledges that it is the Lord who goes before him, it is the Lord who fights his battles for him as he steps out in faith. It is the Lord who has become his confidence. And so just as he began his song in praise so he ends his song in praise to the great deliverer, the Rock, the one whose steadfast love he has come to know and experience in radical ways. This God, is our God. This is the God who comes for us. We may not see him parting the sky and causing the foundations of heaven to tremble when we call but he is doing just that. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
I wonder if I could see God coming for me like that, strengthening me in the same way David described, if I too would walk with greater confidence, greater hope, greater security in the steadfast love of my God who is the same God that David calls to. And I wonder as I call to the Lord in my weakness, much like David, the ways God is coming for us in our desperate cry. Here’s what I know, he’s not just coming, he’s hear, he’s listening and he’s responding to our crys and even when I can’t see it his response is coming in more powerful ways then I could even imagine. Resting in that reality and thinking of that reality today.
Questions for Reflection:
- One of the things I like to do as I study is write in my bible (gasp), it helps me see and focus on the different things I’m discovering and make sense of things that don’t quite make sense on the first read through. So, if you haven’t done that before (or yet) on this passage… take a colored pencil or pen and mark every time you see what God does and every time you see what David does. What do you notice?
- Here’s a little of what my passage looks like:
- Picture the Lord coming for you like you see him coming for David. How would that affect the way you pray and your confidence in the Lord?
Passage for Tomorrow (Day 4)
Acts 3 – The lame beggar and Peter
- A Time to be Silent and a Time to Speak - October 29, 2020
- Teaching Them to Hope, Birthday After Birthday. - January 15, 2020
- A Taste of Hope Fulfilled – Briella Dawn’s Birth Story - August 3, 2018
Praying with all my heart for you all!
Praying for each and every need as God watches over you and brings Dasah towards delivery. May God’s presence fill your days and surround you in His grace and love…
Matthew 18:20 – “Where two or three shall gather in my name, there I am also”
My family will continue to lift up your family to our Lord, and pray for peace and healing in accordance with His will, that He would show himself and touch every aspect of the journey ahead of you, and that He be glorified through it all.
What a beautiful photo of your precious family! Thank you for sharing 🙂
I sent your prayer requests to my friend Mary Ann who lives with brittle diabetes, an inoperable brain tumor and yet is a strong woman of faith who really has a great network of prayerers and we will be standing with you. love, mary beth
Definitely praying for all these requests this week for you and your dear family and your precious Dasah. God bless,
Toni
Lindsey, I am staff at Cedarville University and I’d like to send out a prayer request for you and your family this week. When are you delivering- Thursday or Friday?
Praying deep in my heart for you. I first found your blog when it was posted by another member of our Detroit staff team when you were pregnant with Sophia. I hope that you can feel the presence of God and the beating heart of His church who is interceding for your family and Dasah! (Beautiful name, by the way!)
Lindsey and Kevin, I sent your prayer request to our prayer team at church. I asked them to share it and feel sure than many will. MORE PRAYER TO MOVE MOUNTAINS. I will be praying like crazy for you all especially on Thursday. You ARE more than conquerors. I cannot imagine what you are going thru. BUT I can WORSHIP and PRAY!!!
Father God, You hear the cries of Your sons and daughters. I come to you Lord…. I believe that You absolutely can COMPLETELY and TOTALLY heal baby girl, Dasah. Lord, I know that it is Your will to do so. We love you, Lord and trust you with everything that we’ve got. And ask for the miracle – the TOTAL HEALING – in Jesus name. We speak the fullness of life, breath, and health over her body, from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. We declare that each and every system in her body would run like a well-oil machine – perfectly, according to Your design. We declare the Dasah WILL have EVERYTHING that she needs – EVERYTHING… the a creative miracle WILL take place IN HER even right now… We speak peace, health, life… the abundant life…. over Your little miracle, Your baby girl, Your creation…. perfection in every way. As you have promised…. we stand on Your promises… we praise you for what you have already brought this dear, faithful, beloved family thru… we praise your for what you have already brought Dasah through. We say YES and AMEN that YOU are the ULTIMATE HEALER!!! We love you Lord and all that you are and all that you’ve done and all that you’re doing to do! We stand in awe…. in the name above all names, Jesus Christ. AMEN!
STANDING on YOUR WORD
John 14:12-14New International Version (NIV)
12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
We love you, Lord!!!
Virg of Cincinnati
Praying for you, Kevin, and Dasah, and that the Lord will do a mighty work tomorrow as she arrives. Thank you for giving us the privilege of interceding for you in prayer before our Father! What a great gift, and even more knowing that you are firmly in His hands.
Praying for you, Kevin and Dasah. I pray God’s powerful mercy and healing on your life.
I came across this post quite by accident, as I did my usual Facebook news feed scroll. It’s become something I do out of habit, and something I have “sworn off of” and picked back up so many times. I know that this instance was NOT an accident, but God’s divine and mighty hand. You see the enemy was in full attack mode on me this morning. So much so that I fought back tears sitting at my desk at work. Doubting my purpose, my relationships, so fearful. Then I cried out to God, much like David does in this passage. I asked him to do a powerful work in my heart. To refocus me and refill me with the spirit. To let go of fleshly desires an crave only Him. Then, slowly, He began to reveal himself to me. First through an email devotional that spoke right to my heart. Then, to some random (but not truly random, I know) bible verses written on the whiteboard in my conference room that seemed to “appear” out of nowhere: John 3:16, Rom 3:23 and Phil 4:13. Then I come across this beautifully written love letter to the Lord, about two people facing a heartache I cannot even begin to fathom. But trusting I’m God’s sovereign hand and relinquishing control. I can promise you this, at least for me, your first prayer had been wholly answered. God used Dasah and you powerfully this morning. He revealed Himself to me yet again and reminded me how much He loves me. I am lifting you all up in prayer today, and I am believing for miracles. God Bless You all. And thank you!