Still needs MUCH prayer. Jackson was born on Tuesday, this Tuesday (24th) that’s how young this precious one is!! The family believes he is getting the best medical care possible … but it is THE GREAT PHYSICIAN that we are looking to for healing for this child.
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Blessings and holy hugs to each of you,
Kat. . .
Friday is such a good day!
Luke 11:13 “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
The chapter is encouraging us to believe that we can ask God and He will hear and He will answer; that He will even give us what we ask. In verses 11 and 12 He paints a contrast for us; a contrast to help us understand His nature and care for us.
An imperfect father, a man with the nature of sin coursing his veins, even he when his child asks, responds. And does he respond with hurtful gifts? Of course not! SO if sinful man can give what is beneficial, what is kind and helpful; how is it that we doubt that the Perfect, Holy God who is LOVE would give less than what is perfectly suited and spilling over with love to His children?
But you know what I noticed when I read verse 13? JESUS only speaks of ONE Gift. He does not use the plural here. And the Gift is not a thing, but a PERSON, The Holy Spirit. Is JESUS saying to us that when the Father gives us the Gift of the HOLY SPIRIT, He has given us HIMSELF and in HIM is the answer to our every request, our every need, our every want? I think that is exactly what He has said to us!
Every soul who has indeed received this GIFT from the Father, already has the answer to every request we have asked or ever will ask. I am reminded in this moment of a much loved evangelistic (and I’m unsure who; was it Vance Havner or Manley Beasley?) who would say (my paraphrase, of course), ‘The bicycle is already in the attic, you just got to pray it down’; or something like that.
The point is there is NOTHING that you and I need that we don’t already have ‘title’ to; but we may need to pray it down from the attic in order to lay our hands on it and ride it around the block.
Why does DADDY GOD do it this way? I think it’s because He loves us and the only way we are going to get to KNOW Him (which is what HE really wants) is to ‘work’ with Him for the things we need and want in the here and now. Anybody with me on this?
Well, DADDY GOD, we are about ready to rest another one for posting. I pray it will bless, encourage and even bring a smile to the faces of those who read it. And I pray as it is read the Reader will hear You speaking to them and that they will experience Your love for them a bit more than before. Holy Spirit, thank You for coming to live within us and for revealing ABBA to us and for applying to us the BLOOD of JESUS that has washed us clean. I pray You will give peace and rest to all our IDOKS. I have some folks on my mind, I don’t like the season they are having to live in right now and I’d very much like for You to heal and relieve their pain and until You do I am asking for grace and strength and peace and comfort and every other good thing that I can’t think to name. And, of course, there’s the IDOK Troops, they are daily with us, daily asking for safety and protection; but more than that I really want those men and women to be just crazy in love with You. I really want all of us to be that way. And there are all those precious people represented by names on our Praying for These list. It’s sobering to ponder all their situations and circumstances; we cannot even comprehend it all; but You know and You are so good and faithful, so we just commend them to You again for their ‘daily bread’. And Jackson. I can’t even get words around that, ABBA. What Ashley and Steve and Melinda and the others must be inhaling and exhaling through. I couldn’t do it without You and I pray they are experiencing You holding and loving and caring for them. And Jackson. I’m just gonna ask You to save him; to heal him and make him whole. And with all these I know the only reason we can bring them to You is because of JESUS and so in Him we offer these prayers and petitions. Amen and amen.
