April 8, 2015

Dear Friends,

Doctors are still puzzled and doing tests and are waiting the results to properly diagnose Josiah, but after six hours in the Hospital, he is back home and doing "fine".

Once again I have much to be thankful to the Lord for his answer to our prayers. Our God keeps welding our hearts together as we care for one another in intercessory prayer. In this kind of prayer the one who prays get nothing but the divine satisfaction at seeing the joy of one who leaps and dances  before the Lord.

That is not to say that God the Father is reluctant to provide on his own and at all times to them that have need of Him. But God in his infinite wisdom has designed "needs, prayer and faith through Jesus" to put us in alignment with his ever prevailing  immutable will and live the fellowship of the saints that is our inheritance on this side of Heaven.

The Canaanite Woman’s Faith (Matthew 15: 21 to 28)
21 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ 23 But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ 24 He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.’ 25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ 26 He answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ 27 She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.’ 28 Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was healed instantly.

The point is to agree with Jesus will and priorities and still keep begging and appealing to his tender mercies. The woman found mercy by Faith in Jesus. Now if a woman outside the household of God can feed from the crumbs that fall from the table; how much more we of the household of God's elect will not have plenty in the table of God's mercies. Then if we do not have it is because we do not ask and if we ask and do not have it is because we do not have faith. We have no one to blame but to our own lack of trust in Jesus.

Some said; "While the world is starving to death, the children are playing with the food". I myself am from foreign lands and have no one Jesus and you my friends. I thank you for standing with me and my children. May you never be counted as those as Jesus' disciples who came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us" rather shout with me all the more.

Weeping and praying "YES LORD." And together we will see the power of God immediately as today bringing back Josiah home. Let the world see how we love our children and that we love them with our tear. "Wet Prayers" my brothers, for our children, Wet prayer and agreeing with Jesus, Yes Lord! 

Your Co-inheritor of the covenant promises in Jesus in whom all things are "Yes".

Gerry Gutierrez

PS - My ulterior motive of keeping you posted is that we may together come to the point to "Make a bold use of God's power in Faith Full Prayer in the name of Jesus.

Josiah, just prior to returning to the Hospital!