CHILDREN OF PROMISE
Hello, my name is Elizabeth and my husband’s name is Donald. About 5 years ago, we decided to go online. Upon our arrival there, we found so much sin being propagated and we asked God to show us how we might use the internet to let His light shine and share the gospel around the world. It wasn’t long before we started an online prayer ministry and website, "Global Prayer Warriors". The warriors came from around the world and the prayers went up for those in need. Six months later, a request came to us for a 6 year old child in Oklahoma that was in critical condition and not expected to live. The family needed some help financially and were sleeping on the floor of the hospital waiting room. God clearly told us to email our group and ask for funds to help this family. Within just a few days we raised several thousand dollars and the child’s website took an average of 3000 hits a day. It took three of us almost round the clock to keep up with the emails. When we got ready to mail the many prayers and the money raised, God said, "NO"! I want you to deliver it in person and minister to this family. We weren’t prepared to go and we really couldn’t afford to go but the next day we were on our way. I spent the night in the waiting room with the family and I was allowed in to pray for the child. We shared and prayed and cried. Before we left the next day, the child had awakened and was stable. He is alive and doing well today. Praise the Lord! This was our first child and God used Him to show us what He wanted us to do.
I quickly turned my focus to children creating a second prayer ministry for children and our website, "Children of the Promise". The warriors came and the children came and God did great things through prayer. A few months into this ministry, I began to ask God for His vision of what He wanted accomplished through this ministry and what He was going to do with it. God spoke to me in a dream and what he showed me in the dream is this: A small child who couldn’t walk suddenly got up and ran across the room. I looked at her and said, but you can’t walk. She went to a table and picked up a miniature Noah’s Ark, turned around, held it over her head and I heard God say, "If you will believe, the dead will rise, the deaf will hear, the blind will see, and the lame will walk. We believe God means to do all of these things and we have already seen Him do many of them in our children. We believe God’s promises and we believe our children are Children of the Promise.
We are now a tax-exempt, non-profit organization and our outreach has gone beyond the internet into the world. We hope you will visit our website and read of all the things God has done and continues to do for His children. We have been greatly blessed and I know you will blessed also from your visit. We covet your prayers and God’s will in all things.
God bless,
Donald and Elizabeth Ricard