Circle Prayers

A long time ago our Pastor taught a lesson in circle prayers. It was based on the book The Circle Maker written by Mark Batterson. At that time, we were praying about whether we were suppose to adopt Fu Quan. I remember Pastor saying write down something that is your circle prayer, circle it, and commit to praying about it. We wrote Fu Quan, first in a heart, then a circle. We committed to praying, continuously, seriously, without ceasing. After a while we knew we should move forward with adopting him. We were very excited and began working at the adoption process. Paperwork...saving....fundraising...paper work.... selling everything we could, and more and more paperwork. This was our circle prayer. A bold prayer. Something that was complete faith. Belief in that which is unseen. I thought our taking this step was the act of faith. It certainly was huge for us. We were more concerned about being obedient to what we felt God wanted us to do than what people thought about us. We have certainly subjected ourselves to much criticism. But also tremendous support from many. Now when I named this blog, the beginning of this journey, circle praying for Fu Quan. , I was thinking that because this was a very bold prayer and act of faith. Now fast forward to now, we were just denied the loan that we needed to complete the adoption. The second attempt. We were devastated at first. But after a lot of prayer we have decided to pray it through. The book goes on to say that circle prayers are when you are backed into a circle where the only way out is through a miracle from God. The focus of the book is not only to pray these bold purposeful prayers, but to pray them through. So whether I brought this on myself by naming this circle prayers, this is where we are right now. Committed to not just praying, but "praying it through". We still have not had to hold anything up due to lack of funds. We are so appreciative of everyone please covering this with prayer. I know there are a lot of awesome intercessors out there. We'd really appreciate the troops backing us up:)  Thanks guys.