"I'M GOING HOME! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT!" - ELI

“Mapalad ang manatili sa piling mo Panginoon Mapalad ang magsasabi kalakasan ko ang Pangalan Mo! Uwi na po kame today with Lance Malachi L. Filio from Philippine Heart Center. Truly this is the day the Lord.has made. May we all rejoice and be glad in Him. Thank you all for the prayers and support.” - LANCE & NIKKI

THANK YOU LORD FOR MY NEW HEART! - LANCE MALACHI, NICKNAMED ELI

Ezek 18:31b "And I will make you a new heart and a new spirit." KJV

THE BIRTH OF LANCE MALACHI, nicknamed Eli (Eee-lay), was a test of FAITH. Eli made sure that EVERYBODY noticed his coming. And we all did. It seems that the world stopped to let him slip in. And disturbed and distracted us all from what we were doing with the question: “How strong is your Faith?” And the next hours and days tested us.

He was a blue baby, born with inverted blue blood and red blood arteries. He turned “kulay talong” a few hours after birth with oxygen level of only 50 when normally it should be 100 or over. We were not prepared for this. We were expecting a normal birth even if by caesarian section.

That day started inauspiciously. There was no hint that his birth would not be normal. His lola gave birth to five, all of them normal, including his father Lance who was born in our house. So why not him? But that is not to be.

EXACTLY FOURTEEN DAYS after birth, November 8th, Eli underwent heart surgery at Philippine Heart Center. Lucy and I struggled to be with him before he goes into the Operating Room. But it conflicted with the schooling schedule of Cayler, the firstborn of our son Ben, who is also under our care. Ben gave way by taking a leave from work. At 7am we were on our way to PHC, arrived past 8am and was able to pray over him. As I said amen his eyes flickered as if in acknowledgement and he did it again when I said to him loudly, “See you later Eli!” before he was wheeled into the operating room.

The surgery took 8 agonizing hours but it was successful. He stayed in the recovery room for 4 days and at Pedia ICU for 3 days. November 18th, 10 days after his heart operation, Eli is wheeled in with his mother Nikki into his own private room where is lolos and lola gushed over him, taking cell photos right and left. OUR FAITH PULLED US THROUGH! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

THE PRINCIPLE OF THE CONTINUING PRAYER!

"LORD, TAKE HOLD OF THE HEART OF ELI!"

1 Thess 5:17 “Pray without ceasing.”

TO CEASE means to stop. Is it therefore the meaning of this verse to spend your whole life praying, not ceasing nor stopping even for a moment to do or give attention to other things? If so, then nobody can do this because realistically other things in life grab our attention. How then? Permit me to explain.

When you pray without ceasing for something it means the prayer must be continuing from the moment it began. It does not mean spending your whole life praying but CONTINUING to pray for that something. Same difference? No!

PRAYER begins with an address to God, say, “Lord God Almighty, please….” and ends with an AMEN! But when one focuses on only one request and addresses it to God without saying amen, then that prayer does not cease and therefore continues. Until God answers and one accepts by saying Amen.

This is the principle of THE CONTINUING PRAYER that I learned when Lance Malachi, nicknamed Eli, was born. And my continuing prayer for him is focused in only TEN words: “Lord, take hold of the heart of Eli.” I address it to God and utter them no matter when and wherever I am and I will only say Amen when I hold Eli in my arms and his smile tells me: “Lolo, I am Here.” See you later Eli, in this world and in this life.

There are personal prayers and there are congregational prayers. In the latter the one leading the prayer ends with an Amen and the congregation affirms and confirms by responding Amen!

But in a continuing personal prayer, the Amen is uttered by the person when God answers. Here the Amen means a person’s ACCEPTANCE of the answer whether negative or positive. Job 1:21 “The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”

When you pray for something plead for it with out ending the prayer and continue uttering that single request whenever and wherever you are. A continuing prayer until God answers. Pray without ceasing.


NEWS BULLETIN: November 12 in the afternoon Eli was transferred from the Recovery Room back to PICU-II where we pray he will only stay for three days before he is assigned his own room. Praise be to God!

NEWS BULLETIN: Today November 15 Eli is in PICU-II and they plan to wean him away from the respirator. May God heal him completely.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS! PLEASE CONTINUE PRAYING!

ELI AT THE RECOVERY ROOM OF PHILIPPINE HEART CENTER

"Heart-wrenching – how could this two-week old baby endure what many of us would not even pass through in our lifetime?
Eli is special or should I say very special. His heart is a heart that comes from God, strong, resilient. And we are witnesses to that. While we can only worry. . . he does the surviving.
Today, as I start, I think of Malachi and I say a prayer, one more day closer to healing, one more day Lord of Your strength and grace. Amen" - Pastor Boji

Here’s the latest on Malachi, nicknamed Eli. Yesterday, November 8th, they operated on him at Philippine Heart Center for eight hours – from 9am to 5pm. The surgeon said it took longer because of some pulmonary bleeding which they were able to contain. Also the organs etc were smaller since Malachi is a baby. Now he stays in the recovery room for three days and then three days in ICU before he is transferred to a private room. Malachi’s change of skin color was dramatic. He is not dark but maputi pala, hindi Moreno. No longer a blue baby.

In three days, we will know if the operation is completely successful. We are praying for complete healing. Continue to pray with us.

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PLEASE, LET US ALL PRAY FOR MALACHI

CORRECTIVE Heart Surgery will be performed on LANCE MALACHI, firstborn of Lance & Nikki and our fourth grandson, on NOVEMBER 7, 2007. Please join us in prayer on that day and pray that God guides the hand and mind of the SURGERY TEAM.

Nevertheless, we are also praying that God Himself operate on Malachi and heal him completely before that day.

WE ARE STARTING A PRAYER CHAIN STARTING 8PM TONIGHT. PLEASE CHOOSE YOUR TIME AND PRAY FOR THE COMPLETE HEALING OF MALACHI. POST YOUR PRAYER BY CLICKING COMMENTS BELOW. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. - Pastor Galying