Prayer Requests for My Wife, Our Baby Boy, and I

My wife just recently posted some of our prayer requests on her blog. so I thought I would take the time to repost them below. Please, if you have just a few minutes, pray for us. We covet your prayers in this area of our lives.

• Labor: Misha is excited & equally as nervous about it. She's not sure what to expect and would love the Lord's relaxing touch as she endures. In addition, she would like to take this opportunity of childbirth to reflect on how weighty her sin is since childbirth is one of the effects of the fall (our sin). Yet not only that, but having felt the weight of her sin, she then wants to experience the representation of God's amazing, saving, and sustaining grace!
• That the Lord would comfort, protect, and sustain Misha during labor and give Jonathan wisdom on how to help, comfort, and encourage Misha through it.
  
• That our baby would be kept healthy during the remaining pregnancy and safe during labor/delivery. Misha's pretty sure it will be intense being squeezed through such a small space... Welcome to the world little fella!
  
• That God would set His love on our little one and save him
• That our little boy would grow to be a man of the Word!
  
• That as parents, God would give us the grace to bring him up in the ways of the Lord - and learn from examples set around us.
  
• As parents, that we would be sensitive to God's will for our little boy's life and parent him according to it.

We are so excited to meet our little man... Please pray for him (and us)!