We join you in prayer before the throne of grace for you and your household, asking the Lord to show Himself strong on your behalf in Jesus Name.
We pray first for salvation, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Salvation is of the Lord alone, by Divine Grace through faith in Christ Jesus. The Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him shall not be ashamed. It is not believing about Him, but believing on Him, trusting Him, looking unto Him. As the Lord has said, Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. How simple and how instantaneous is that way, for a look does not require a moment. We pray that you and each one of your family may look unto Jesus and live, that you may take Him to be your King and your Saviour, and depend upon Him without fear as to your present and eternal salvation. This is the common salvation, common to all believers, yet precious beyond all price, for it delivers from the power of sin and brings us to perfection and Heaven. We ask that your house may know that household salvation of which the Scripture speaks, where the Lord calls one and uses him to bring the rest of the family into the gospel net, so that you may be a rejoicing family because you are a renewed family, united in Christ and united at last in Heaven.
We pray also for healing, for the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and that tree is our Lord Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the least thing about Christ is healing. His leaves, the little things as it were about Him, are full of healing virtue. When the Sun of Righteousness rises upon His people with healing in His wings, pardon and healing are one. We ask the great Physician to lay His pardoning hand upon you and your loved ones, to purge every evil, to change the life blood and make the nature new, and to let abundant streams of healing flow down from Him to you. When all your own strength fails, may your strength be to sit still while God arises and becomes your arm every morning, your salvation in the time of trouble.
We pray also for protection, that the Lord Himself would be your light and your salvation, your keeper day and night. He who has begun to heal you will keep you, and the healing virtue which His Grace has infused will work in you till you shall be without spot or wrinkle. May He cover your dwelling, keep you from evil, and cause you to dwell in safety under His wings.
May the grace of God work with you to make you seek, for you shall find, to make you knock, for the door shall be opened, to make you ask, for he that asketh shall receive. We leave the whole matter of your salvation and the salvation of your house with Christ in unquestioning confidence, trusting that He who is salvation Himself will manifest His power to save, to heal, and to keep. In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord we pray, Amen.