Day 9 - Stability and Hope

Today brought some hope to us, since Talia has been stable and comfortable now that the doctors have identified the appropriate balance of breathing support and positioning, etc.

Talia was extremely responsive today, and was looking all around her for a large part of the day. She clearly wanted to know who all the people were praying for her and most exciting was that she was able to spend 2 hours or so close to Jan out of the special crib. This was even more special since Talia was looking into Jan's eyes for much of this time, so a very special connection was formed.

The hospital staff are incredible and the love they have for all the babies is so evident. Most of they may struggle with understanding the hope we have, but it doesn't stop them loving our little girl.

During the night, whilst praying for Talia, I felt something strongly from a spiritual perspective. God prompted me with the need to begin to take authority over this situation and I began to pray for this Trisomy 18 to be destroyed in her body. We have been waiting for Talia to become stable and previously (even yesterday) I have not fully understood why this was so important.

Today this has become clear, and I sense that God wants us to be persistant in praying through Talia's healing miracle. It would be so easy to give up and accept what the medical world calls "inevitable", except that our God always has the final word on what will be and nothing is out of His control.

I believe that whilst it has been impossible to focus on this breakthrough in recent days, since we have been fighting for Talia's very life, we are now in a position of "resting" before God and this is the time to begin to take authority and petition God to move powerfully.

We fully intend to pursue God on Talia's behalf and just as Jesus taught in Luke 18:1-8, we believe God will respond since this request is within His will as revealed in His Word.

The sense of direction I felt from God last night was confirmed in a dream I had during the night, and again by others who independently felt the same direction to "take authority". We also had the privilege of two lovely ladies from Christian City Church (C3) coming to annoint Talia and pray for her, which happened whilst she was on Jan's lap - this was special and Talia seemed to respond strongly whilst being prayed for, looking at everyone as they prayed and even moving her head, which isn't ideal with the tubes!

A number of our "miracle team" organised a prayer meeting in the hospital chapel for Talia this evening, which was a time to seek God further for this breakthrough.

We so much look forward to God working in little Talia's life over coming days and what a joy it is to be a part of this journey, no matter how painful and challenging. So many lives changed already due to one little 9 day old girl...