“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” (Luke 11:13).
The point of the illustration is that God answers prayer perfectly. If it is true that sinful fathers are able to give good things to their children (and it is), then how much truer is it that a holy and righteous Father be that much more faithful to give good gifts to His children? The prerequisite for answered prayer is that of a relationship. The Lord doesn’t guarantee to answer all of the prayers of all men. On the other hand, He does offer “family status” to all men. You have been invited to join in the family of God. God answers prayer not necessarily by the giving of money or material possessions but rather by the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT. He gives Himself, the greatest gift of all!! (http://www.angelfire.com/nt/theology/lk11-01.html)
Yesterday while we prepared for a fundraiser to help fund a project to save Harper from brain damaging seizures experienced multiple times per day, Anaya’s family sat in the Intensive Care Unit praying for her survival. Today, November 13, 2011, as I sat and listened to an open house meeting for Lily’s school next year ,while feeding Harper and documenting the seizure she had soon after, Anaya’s family held there baby girl, only slightly older than Harper, close as she took her last breath at 4:44pm. (www.healinganaya.com) Tonight I hold Harper close as I rock her after giving her the last round of todays medication and feed her a bottle with tears as I pray for peace to Anaya’s family and healing of Harper’s life threatening seizures.
Today by the grace of God Anaya was healed, unfortunately, not in the manner in which we all had hoped. But as we learned from above the Lord does not promise to answer all prayers as we would prefer them to be but rather to answer them to serve His mighty purpose. Anaya touched thousands of hearts of those that never even met her including ours. Her battle has inspired us to continue to do all that we can to heal Harper, God willing!