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"The Miracle Of Nathan"

Nathan is our 6th child, our third through the miracle of adoption. Nathan was born  in November,2007. He weighed 4 lbs 6 oz and was 16 3/4 inches long.He was born premature at 32  weeks gestation. Nathan was non reunification status just as Ruthie was. Which means the birth mother does not have a say in whether she gets to keep her child, because of her life style, her drug abuse and prior history of abuse and neglect, any children she has are taken at birth and placed up for adoption We received the phone call on Thursday in November of 2007 that this birth mother had delivered and  we were ask did we want him. We said YES! After Ruthie we had prayed very hard about the decision as to whether we should adopt again or not, We both ( Mike and I ) had prayed " God if it is your will for us to have another child you will send it, if not that is ok too. We are So abundantly blessed, another child would just be the icing on the cake, so we just ask your will be done". Mike had added that he would really like a baby boy. I had prayed DFCS not call unless God wanted us to have another baby.So when they called, we KNEW we had to take him. As the day unfolded, God gave us such peace that this was his will it was just amazing. A couple of hours after the call, I was praying and I ask God " Lord, what do you want us to name this little guy?"God spoke very clearly he said "Nathaniel" My response was oh I like that we could call him "Nathan"I prayed "God, what does Nathaniel mean?" He once again spoke very clearly and said " Nathaniel means"Gift of God". I said done. I told a couple of people at work that I thought we would name him Nathaniel Isaiah, I said I have a feeling Nathaniel means "Gift of God." When I got home that day, I looked up his name on a web site called Biblical baby names.com, and sure enough Nathaniel means "Gift of God," Nathan means "Given by God." (I had no knowledge that his name meant that until God told me it's meaning. If you had ask me the meaning of Nathaniel before this I couldn't have told you.)We had always felt if we had another on we would use the middle name Isaiah, which happens to mean, "God is my salvation"Considering this amazing little guy was born  8 weeks premature, and had NO problems, (it seems he doesn't know he is a preemie), considering once again, his birth mother was using drugs during her pregnancy,the cards were stacked against this little guy, but God had other plans.His birth mother tested positive for cocaine at delivery as did he .( I may add here that Ruthies birth mother had used drugs as well and that Ruthie tested positive for cocaine at birth and never has had ANY problems what so ever.)On Thursday night I was sitting and just feeling so over whelmed by the immense love God has for us and I was praying, I said"God you are so amazing I can't even fathom what you are doing for us " He reminded me of something he had told me two years earlier.See In November 2005 we had a failed adoption placement. it was a situation where the birth mother was going to voluntarily give up her baby, well she changed her mind, she couldn't go through with it. The night we lost Rachel I thought I would die, I cried and prayed so hard that night. God spoke to me that night and said" Greater and more abundantly than you can imagine will I bless you". nine months later Ruthie was born. She is SO amazing that I thought surely that was the abundant blessing God was referring to. However on Thursday night as I sat just feeling so amazed and over whelmed by Gods love he said" I told you greater and more abundantly than you could imagine would I bless you,He said you lost one , but I have given you two"At which point I just began to cry, and felt So much amazing love I can't even begin to describe it. We picked Nathan up Friday morn,November 30,2007. He was SO beautiful and SO sweet and SO amazing. He is a good baby. The day we brought him home he weighed 5 lbs 3.4 oz. God  gave me such peace I can't even explain it. We had to go through the process of termination, just like we did with Ruthie, but I knew it would be fine. God gave us this little baby, we didn't ask him for this, we simply said God if it is your will you will send us another one if not that is ok too.God sent him, he told us to name him, Nathaniel which means "Gift from God"and God told me what he said about loosing one , but given us two. I KNEW this is Gods doing.  As you know from reading the watch Nathan grow page , we have had some battles to fight with Nathan's health, But when God is control, you don't have to go further than your knees to find the help you need. When Nathan was so sick and in the hospital God gave me the scripture Isaiah 46 :3-4 Which says" I am HE who help you sense your conception, I am HE who held you sense your birth, even in your old age and grey hair I am HE who will hold you, I will sustain you and I will rescue you. God has proven there to be no truer statement ever made. God has held Nathan from the moment of his conception and rescued him from being a preemie, being a "crack" baby catching pneumonia, and a serious heart condition.He has healed him, and delivered him, He is truly a miracle baby .I know beyond a shadow of a doubt God has plans for this child.   In June  our adoption case worker and I went in search of Nathan's birth certificate, It had yet to show up and was the only thing needed to complete the termination packet, we drove to the Department of vital records only to be told he didn't have one, so we drove to the hospital where he was born at, it appears the birth mom never named him or filled out a birth certificate, as best we can figure some one a the hospital gave him his " birth name". He has no birth middle name, So we got that taken care of and applied for his social security card, all is going well, until. We turned it in to the Supervisor, It appears that  has taken so long to get the darn thing written, that it was now all on the wrong forms, so we got to re write it all.   Our termination papers were completed the first of August and  turned into the supervisor, where they  sat on her desk for 5 weeks. Needless to say this was a bit frustrating. All that was standing in between us and termination was her reading those papers and sending them on the attorney, the attorney will then submit them to the court, 60 days later we have a hearing and termination would be granted.Birth mom was in jail,  termination was just a formality given the facts that she has had several children none of which are with her, the fact that she is a drug addict, and the fact that she never even tries to get her children back and the birth father is unknown there isn't a question as to whether or not termination would be granted. None the less the fact that the supervisor would not turned in our papers drove me crazy .I have believed with all my heart that God gave us Nathan that the things I felt he told me were direct promises to us concerning this matter, ( one he told us to name him Nathaniel it meant Gift from God and 2 that he had promised greater and more abundantly than we could imagine would he bless us, that we had lost one but he had given us two, as well as the scriptures he has given us including Isaiah 46:3-4 as well as Psalm 37:5-10, as well as Isaiah 46 :10-11 just to name a few)Yet it is so frustrating to feel like we are just sitting here in a holding pattern,So that night I cried out to God, I pray every day that God will intervene and work things out and move this process along, and frequently he speaks to me through his word, yet I just really needed an affirmation to it all, and that night I cried out to God and just told him I didn't understand why we had to wait and why it was taking so long, and that I believed he had made all these promises and that I just needed to hear from him. While cleaning the house  and doing laundry out of know where for some reason I just felt lead to call the 700 club for prayer, I shared with the prayer counselor everything that is going on As I went on she interrupted me and said God had shown her that he was working in this matter And that God told her to tell me that there were things that were trying to hinder us,but that God was taking care of those things that God says for me to just be patient it won't be much longer now, Just be patient that those promises I have believed in are true and that I don't have to fear loosing Nathan that God did give him to us and that his adoption being final is just a matter of paper work.She said What God plans no one can change ( That is one of the scriptures God has shown me concerning this matter Isaiah 46:10-11 I make known the end from the beginning,from ancient times, what is still to come I say My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. 11 From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do.) She said the delay was that God was teaching someone something about him and his power she said perhaps the case worker.Now interestingly enough for weeks I have felt that the delay was because God was ministering to the case worker and teaching her something about faith and prayer and Gods power.So once again God has spoken and given me a word of knowledge and said he will take care of it all.Just when I needed to hear from God the most he speaks up, With all three of our adoptions God has given us words of Knowledge. and every time once he speaks it is done, things just move forward and happen just has he said they would.Well a few days after the conversation I had with the 700 club, I talked to the case worker, the supervisor rejected our termination packet. She decided that there had not been enough diligent search for some relative placement.Anyway, there was a relative that they felt may want Nathan.( I might had hear that we learned after we finalized Nathans adoption that they contacted this very relative at brith about taken him and she DID NOT want him so why they felt they needed to try to pursue them again I don't know other than to say evidence points to it being a case of a supervisor on a power trip the "relative" knew all about him and had turned down taken him once and  in 9 1/2 months  NEVER contacted DFCS not once about him) So they decided to ask this " Relative" if they wanted MY baby! Ok we went here with Ruthie and God took care of it, and I have received countless confirmations that God gave us Nathan you would think  I would have been  like "no problem, God has it covered," and I pretty much was until I learned they said yes they wanted My baby! That is when I went off the deep end. I totally lost it. I spent 2 1/2 days in the pit of Hell. We learned on a Monday  that they had lost there minds and were going to do this, and on Wednesday they called to tell us they said they wanted him.They were going to do a home study and see if they was qualified to take him. I completely went off the deep end, I cannot begin to describe the place I was in. I found it very hard to believe that after all we have been through with Nathan and all the promises God had given me that he would allow this to happen, but hear we were facing the very real possibility that we could loose him. I cried and prayed  and I have to confess I did a little ,ok a good bit of screaming and melting down. This is MY baby, the child I have been through him almost dieing with, the child I taken to countless doctor visits and struggle like crazy to keep him healthy because he was still medically fragile. I was terrified for him.But God is a God of mercy and compassion, and even when our faith crashes and burns he is still faithful. Wednesday, I was a basket case, but by Thursday night I was  more really ticket off at Satan, and starting to find the strength to fight back .A very good friend of  mine called me Thursday night and suggested we go do some prayer walking. I thought it was the best idea I had ever heard.See  birth mom had stated she did not want him to go to this "relative" .  Anyway, the case worker had decided she was going to ask birth mom to sign away her parental rights, because if she would sign then it would not only terminate her rights it would terminate all relative claims too. She was going to be going to the jail on Friday to ask her to sign.So on Thursday night, Me, my friend, my daughter, my mother and my niece, all set out for a prayer walk. We went to DFCS and annointed the building with oil and prayed over it .We then went to the Jail and did the same, then to the court house and drove down the street I had been told this "relative" lived on and prayed and prayed and prayed. We bound Satan and claimed our Territory. See in the bible God told Abraham that where ever is foot touched He would give him that land, so we claimed DCFS the jail and the court house and the "relatives" street as Gods territory that he had given us.So on Friday morning when DFCS workers came in the were now on Gods turf .Well Friday morning came,We were doing our best to hang on and believe for a miracle, I finally decided I couldn't stand it any more I had to know something, so I called the case worker she said she had news, she would call me right back. She called back a few min later, and told me she had good news. She had spoken to the "relative", they had changed her mind and said they DID NOT want him that they wanted him to stay with us, they said they couldn't take him from the family he was with. PRAISE GOD! The walls of Jericho had fallen.. I know God has it covered and that he has given us this child. God gave me the scripture Isaiah 65:23-24 on Thursday, which says " They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.  Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear." I know God did not give us Nathan to let us loose him.    Finally ,We recieved Termination of Nathans birth parents parental rights in January 2009!!! The case went off without a hitch, God intervened at every corner and worked it all out. Nathan was now legally ours to adopt.   Our Case worker called Friday March 13, to schedule our appointment to sign Nathans final adoption papers! So on March 24 we met with the case worker and signed our final papers, We recieved the releases for adoption to take to the attorney. We met with the attorney  March 25th.  On April 15th we recieved a call from the attorney that all the paper work was completed and ready to file with the court. We went by the office and signed all the papers and on April 16 they filed the papers with the court house.On May 14 2009 we went to court  to finalize Nathans adoption.In all of five min Nathan legally became our son. It has been a long journey, but OH so worth it. He truly is a a gift from God. God wasn't kidding when he said Greater and more abundatly than we could imagine would he bless us. We have been blessed 3 times now theough the glorious miracle of adoption and I have living proof that God really does answer prayers.

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