Praying For Aively Faith

There's a sweet miracle that I have been following in Facebook day by day to see how she is doing. She is a cute little darling born from the amazing couple : Ashlee and Keith Crumpton. Since the day I laid eyes on her FB page : Praying For Aively Faith , I have been always excited for amazing updates about this precious one.

The Little Miracle - I just love to see her beautiful smiles :-)

Knowing how the Lord has brought her and the amazing things God has shown for this baby and her family, it made me praise the Lord for His faithfulness that abounds. Since then , I have been made one of her prayer warriors. Aively Faith is now part of my daily prayer list. I love praying for her and her family. Seeing her photos, which her mom regularly posted for everybody's update, always brings warmth and joy to my heart. Among the thousands prayer warriors, I was with Aively's journey every step of the way. She is such a strong girl battling through different circumstances being born only of 26 weeks and 3 days in gestation and weighed 1 lb 15.6 oz last May 5, 2013. Surely the Lord has brought her this far and will continue to carry her through.

Just few hours ago, this little one has just had a surgery to fix her hip. She has a hip dysplasia- it is a developmental deformation or misalignment of the hip joint. I know the Lord will arrange everything for her hip to be corrected and I am praying for that.  I was praying a lot that the Lord will sanctify the whole procedure, the doctors and the nurses and all will be well. Surely the Lord is an awesome God and the reality of all the positive things in the universe. Few hours after the surgery she was already up and looking great. See her photos below from her FB page. What a little trooper she is . I am really amaze on how strong she is . I am so relieved and happy that she is looking good.

After the hip surgery- How brave she is;-) 

With her pink cast-- Such a cutie.. We love you Aively !~

However, just few minutes ago , I saw an update from her FB page. The update goes like this.

Oh it breaks my heart. How we need extra more prayers for Aively. I hope you guys could join me. We know she is in good hands and the Lord is taking extra care but still she is a little baby and it breaks our heart to know that she is in pain. Pray hard please for the pain to go away and that she will be recovering extra fast.  Be a prayer warrior please for Aively. She needs our prayers. Please like her page here.

Thanks everyone. Please remember that our prayer works and moves the Lord's hands. Keep praying as prayer lead the Lord to work within us. May the Lord strengthen our prayer life. Amen.

Tuesday eManna: The Present God in Our Prayers

I have random posts every Tuesday, posting only what comes into mind. However,
after the reflections on the happenings of our today's environment, I decided
that I would post my reflections on the word of the Lord every Tuesday of the
Week. To make this a double digest, I decided to make this a meme and would call
it , "Tuesday eManna". To know what is Manna , know it here.

eManna for Today:

Mark 11:24 For this reason I say to you, All things that you pray and ask,
believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

Words of Ministry

From man's point of view, prayer and petition are things of the present, and "you will have them" is a thing of the future. There is a gap of time between "pray and ask" and "you will have them." When I pray to God for the healing of a disease, for the salvation of a sinner, or for the accomplishment of a work, I do not know when the disease will be healed, when the person will be saved, or when the work will be accomplished. In man's eyes, answers to prayer belong to the future. But the Lord Jesus' word here is very unusual. He is speaking of genuine faith. "All things that you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and you will have them."

In our mind, we often misread the word "have" in the phrase "believe that you have received them." We often change it to "believe that you will receive them, and you will have them," or we change it to "believe that you can receive them..." or "believe that you are going to receive them..." But once you change it, that is no longer faith. Only one faith is genuine faith -- the faith that believes that "God is." The Lord's Word does not say "going to receive" but "have received them." I believe that I have received them now. I am not waiting for the future. Do we see this?

Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Watchman Nee, Central Messages, pp. 104-105. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.