Your prayer has been heard, and we bring it before the Lord with you, asking Him to have compassion upon you in this time of concern for your health.
We understand the weariness that comes when the body is afflicted, for bodily diseases are too painful to let us slumber in silence and they soon urge us to seek a physician. Yet we are reminded that there is one great Physician who lays His hands on men and they are restored, there is but one, and there is one sacred Fountain to wash therein is health, there is but one, it was opened on Calvary. That Physician is Jesus Christ Himself, who is the Tree of Life, and the leaves of that Tree are for the healing of the nations. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the little things about Christ are full of healing virtue.
We pray that you will look to Him now with a simple trust. Do not say, Lord, I cannot trust You unless I feel this or that, for that is to make a god out of your feelings. When a man with a disease goes to an eminent physician, he does not say, Doctor, I will trust you when I have reached a certain stage, but he trusts the physician for the cure itself. So we are to trust Christ for healing and for pardon. They that trust in Him shall not be ashamed nor confounded. They must start on their walk before they feel the healing, but as they are going they shall feel it. Trust Him as you sink and you shall swim. Trust Him as you feel yourself dying and you shall live.
The Lord has promised to His people, Fear not, for I will help thee. This is not the word of a preacher only, but the whisper of Jesus Himself to His poor servant, Fear not. We labor to get rid of fear, for fear is weakening and fear dishonors God. Doubt the Eternal, distrust the Omnipotent, shall the arm which piled the heavens and sustains the pillars of the earth ever be palsied. Therefore take this command to your heart, Fear not at all, be not dismayed at all, for He is with you.
We also remember that the Lord links forgiveness and healing together. The people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity, and the Lord has begun to heal us and the healing virtue which His grace has infused into us will work health and cure till we shall be without spot or wrinkle. We are on our way to eternal health, for we have the life within us which is to be perfect forever and ever. Until the glory life begins, the abiding power of the healing leaves keeps the soul of the believer in perpetual health.
Let us pray together for you.
O Lord our God, our great Physician, we come to You through Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. Look with mercy upon this dear soul who cries for health. Lay Your healing hand upon the body, according to Your perfect will and wisdom. Grant relief from affliction, strengthen what is weak, and give peace to a troubled heart. Forgive iniquity, heal disease, and let Your healing virtue be felt. Help this one to trust You fully, not in feelings or in outward signs, but in Christ Your appointed Savior. Cast out fear, and speak Your own word, Fear not, I am with you. Sustain day by day, provide daily bread and spiritual food, and keep this life in Your care until that day when You shall perfectly heal both soul and body and we shall be in health forever. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus, who bore our sicknesses and carried our sorrows. Amen.