A Prayer For My Emma

As I sit here this morning, looking out the window after doing my morning devotional, I can see the slightest glimmer of sunshine peeking out behind the clouds as they part in one small part of the sky. The skies here have been gray for months, and we yearn for blue skies, sun, and beauty to come. We await it with a hopeful anticipation. And, I can't help but think the same thing of my precious baby girl growing in the womb right now. We are anticipating her arrival and the hope and beauty she will bring. This is the prayer of my heart this morning. 

"Jesus, I pray for my baby girl, Emma Grace. That she would be the sunshine in our lives and to everyone she encounters. I pray that her beauty would captivate others and that her joy would radiate Your goodness and Your love. That she would bring with her the hope of things to come and the grace for which you have blessed us with. Oh, your grace, oh God, is marvelous! It is beyond my comprehension. May Emma's life radiate this grace and redemption. May her presence speak of your healing love, and may she bring comfort to those she encounters. Use this baby girl for Your Kingdom. She is yours. In Jesus name, I declare, she will be marvelous, beautiful, captivating, gracious, blessed, inspiring, powerful, bold, adventurous, courageous, joyful, loving, radiant, pure, breathtaking, and a woman of God. I pray she will part the clouds with her rays of sunshine and bring a refreshing breath of beauty to this world! May she be a woman of Your word, Your truth, Your love. May she captivate the world with her beauty. Let her move mountains, Jesus!"

"Blessed is she who has believed the Lord will fulfill His promises to her." Luke 1:45