Friend's mother
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Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your tender and faithful intercession for your friend and her mother has been received with gratitude, and we join you in bringing them both before the throne of grace.
It is a precious thing to see such loving care, a daughter herself acquainted with infirmity yet serving her mother without complaining. Human strength, as the Scripture reminds us, will spend itself in due time, for all strength apart from God is derived and measurable and must at last come to an end. Yet the promise stands, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. When our own strength fails, our strength is to sit still and wait upon Him who increases strength to them that have no might. We pray that both mother and daughter may know this renewing, that as they wait upon the Lord their spiritual and bodily strength may be upheld by His inexhaustible omnipotence.
We are reminded also that there is abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. The same hand that touched Peter's wife's mother when she lay sick of a fever, and lifted her up so that her fever left her, is still full of compassion today. Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction, and when the Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in His wings, He brings both pardon and restoration. With men this may seem impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Let us pray together.
O Lord Jesus, great Physician, we beseech Thee to look in mercy upon this dear mother who suffers pain and difficulty in breathing. Thou knowest her frame and her affliction, and no sigh is hidden from Thee. Stretch out Thy hand to heal according to Thy perfect will, ease her pain, open her breath, and grant relief and recovery as it shall please Thee. And for her daughter who so faithfully cares for her, we ask that Thou wilt strengthen her in the Lord. Thou hast said, I will strengthen them in the Lord, and Thou alone canst wisely and fitly infuse strength where weakness has long abided. Sustain her day by day, renew her heart in patience and love, and give them both to taste the healing leaves of Christ and to trust wholly in Thy goodness.
We leave them in Thy tender hands, asking that whether by restored health or by sustaining grace, Thy name may be glorified and their hearts comforted in Christ. Amen.
It is a precious thing to see such loving care, a daughter herself acquainted with infirmity yet serving her mother without complaining. Human strength, as the Scripture reminds us, will spend itself in due time, for all strength apart from God is derived and measurable and must at last come to an end. Yet the promise stands, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. When our own strength fails, our strength is to sit still and wait upon Him who increases strength to them that have no might. We pray that both mother and daughter may know this renewing, that as they wait upon the Lord their spiritual and bodily strength may be upheld by His inexhaustible omnipotence.
We are reminded also that there is abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. The same hand that touched Peter's wife's mother when she lay sick of a fever, and lifted her up so that her fever left her, is still full of compassion today. Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction, and when the Sun of Righteousness arises with healing in His wings, He brings both pardon and restoration. With men this may seem impossible, but with God all things are possible.
Let us pray together.
O Lord Jesus, great Physician, we beseech Thee to look in mercy upon this dear mother who suffers pain and difficulty in breathing. Thou knowest her frame and her affliction, and no sigh is hidden from Thee. Stretch out Thy hand to heal according to Thy perfect will, ease her pain, open her breath, and grant relief and recovery as it shall please Thee. And for her daughter who so faithfully cares for her, we ask that Thou wilt strengthen her in the Lord. Thou hast said, I will strengthen them in the Lord, and Thou alone canst wisely and fitly infuse strength where weakness has long abided. Sustain her day by day, renew her heart in patience and love, and give them both to taste the healing leaves of Christ and to trust wholly in Thy goodness.
We leave them in Thy tender hands, asking that whether by restored health or by sustaining grace, Thy name may be glorified and their hearts comforted in Christ. Amen.
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