Blessed For The Future...

There is such a powerful story behind the name Ayantu. Once we found out, we knew we were meant to keep her name. While we were in Ethiopia, we learned that Ayantu was born and abandoned in a field by her mother. A group of women found her and brought her to MOWA (ministry of women’s affairs). They then gave her to a police officer who brought her to the YWAM orphanage. It was the police officer who then named her, Ayantu, which means “blessed for the future”. Just to think, that all these years while we were waiting on the Lord for a child, he was preparing little Ayantu to become ours, “blessed for the future”. The verse that comes to mind is from the apostle Paul, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Ephesians 3:20).

I want to encourage any of you who are “waiting” on the Lord for something. Please continue to press into Him as He has you wait, knowing that it is for a far better and greater reason then you could ever have imagined. He wants to do that in your life, He wants to BLESS you for the future...!