Your prayer for healing has been heard and it is a tender and right thing to bring this loved one before the throne of grace. We will join you in asking the Lord to lay His healing hand upon him and to work within him that which is well pleasing in His sight.
There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. The Scripture tells us that the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations, and even the least thing about Christ is healing. His common mercies, His daily grace, His smallest touches upon the soul are full of virtue to change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. We may therefore come with confidence that whatever his sickness or weariness may be, Christ is the heavenly Physician whose fruit is sweet and nourishing and whose leaves never wither.
You ask also that he may be filled with hope. Apart from God all strength is but derived strength and must soon fail, and pools which are not self supplied are soon exhausted. When a man finds there is no hope in himself he is apt to conclude there is no hope for him in God, but this is to be wrestled against. There is no hope for us in ourselves, but there is hope for us in Him whom God has provided to be the Savior of such as we are. High thoughts of God beget hope in the soul, and hope leads to confidence. May the Lord turn the ray of possible hope into an actual and good hope of eternal life through believing in Jesus Christ, so that even in his low estate he may hear the promise and live.
You ask for strength and for desire and motivation to care for himself daily. This too the Lord delights to give. He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. It is not to a Christian's credit that he should remain weak, for the glory of a man is his strength and especially his spiritual strength is his honor. When there remains no strength in us, then we may fling ourselves upon the Divine strength and lay hold upon it, for the Lord Himself has said, I will strengthen them in the Lord. And we remember the word of the beloved, they made me keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. It is a danger to neglect the vineyard of our own body and soul which God has entrusted to us. To care for oneself daily, to eat and drink and rest and walk in sobriety and diligence, is not vanity but stewardship. May the blessed Spirit awaken him to renewed consecration, renewed zeal, renewed delight in holy service and renewed hope of victory, that he may plunge into the Godhead's deepest sea and find his strength borne up by grace, even as one breathes his native air and is revived.
Let us pray together.
O Lord our God, who heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds, look in mercy upon this dear one for whom prayer is made. Forgive his sins and heal his diseases, for with You is pardon and with You is power to make whole. Lay Your hand upon his body and his spirit, and let the healing virtue of Christ, yea even the leaves of that blessed tree, restore him to freshness and health. When all his own strength fails him, be You his arm every morning and his salvation in the time of trouble. Renew his strength as they that wait upon You, lift him up from weariness and give him to mount up with wings as eagles. Fill him with a good hope through grace, that despair may be driven away and confidence in Your mercy may take its place. Grant him desire and a willing mind to keep the vineyard You have given him, to care for himself with diligence and thankfulness each day, not from self reliance but from love to You who has made him. Bring him into the presence of Jesus, that believing he may be brought into contact with Omnipotence and find life and healing there. Hear us for Jesus sake, in whose mighty name we ask it. Amen.