Your prayer has been heard and we have brought this burden before the Lord with you, asking that He will show mercy to this man in his affliction.
We do not cease to pray for those who suffer in body and in spirit, for we know that our Lord Jesus Christ is that true tree of life whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the least thing about Christ is healing. The very leaves, the little things as it were about Him, are full of healing virtue. These healing leaves change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. And when the Lord comes and dwells with men, the Sun of Righteousness rises with healing beneath His wings. Pardon and healing are one in His hand, for when Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. We pray that this same healing virtue which His grace infuses would work in this man health and cure, for the body and for the soul, according to the will of our gracious God.
Above all we join you in praying for his salvation and his deliverance from false beliefs. Man in his sin has set up false gods and bowed before them, but there is only one way of salvation for all. The Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. The way of salvation is to believe on Christ, whom God has laid in Zion for a foundation. What is believing on Him? It is trusting in Him, to leave the whole matter of salvation with Him in unquestioning confidence, to depend upon Him without fear as to present and eternal salvation. This faith is believing on a Person, not on a notion or a system, but on Him who is the ransom. God has not only invented a way of deliverance, but He has found a ransom, so that it is a gift of Divine Love. Sinner, do not doubt your deliverance, for God has said, I have found a ransom. We pray that this man may hear that word, Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, and that he may turn from every false refuge to look unto Jesus alone and live. How simple is that way of salvation and how instantaneous, for a look does not require a moment.
Let us pray together. O Lord, our God, whose arm alone can work deliverance from cruel captivity, look in mercy upon this man who is brought low with serious health issues. Lay Your hand upon him for healing as it pleases You, and in Your great compassion heal also his spirit and his soul. Forgive his sins and let him know that when all his own strength fails, his strength shall be to sit still while You arise and become his salvation in the time of trouble. Deliver him from the pit, from every false belief that would hold him captive, and show him the ransom which You have provided in the blood of Your Son. Grant him faith to look unto Jesus and to trust in Him alone, that believing on Him he may not be ashamed but may receive eternal life. Work in him a true and thorough healing, and make his deliverance effectual by Your free grace. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, our inexhaustible well of salvation, from whom abundant streams of healing flow down to men below. Amen.