Your cry concerning these strange headaches and this pressing need for help from the legal office has been carried before the throne of grace, and we join you in seeking the Lord who both pardons and heals.
We very speedily care for bodily diseases, for they are painful and press us to seek a physician, and it is right to do so while we also look higher. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves, the little things as it were about Christ, are full of healing virtue. The Scripture says the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and we gather from this that the least thing about Christ is healing. These healing leaves change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. When the Lord comes and dwells with His people, the Sun of Righteousness has risen upon them with healing in His wings. Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction and both are bestowed on the Lord's people. When Jesus healed the man taken with the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, and pardon and healing were one.
So we pray that you would know first the forgiveness that is in Christ alone, for there is salvation in no other, and then the healing that flows from His wounds. May the great Physician, who binds up the broken hearted and heals all our diseases, lay His hand upon you. We ask the Lord to ease these headaches, to give wisdom to any physician you consult, and to work in you that health and cure which shall at last be perfect when He shall present His people without spot or wrinkle.
We also bring before Him your urgent case. We pray that He who inclines the hearts of men as rivers of water would give favor in the eyes of those in that office, that they would take up your cause with diligence and integrity and that justice would be done. And if He thought that he had a claim, he was never to use any legal means or threats to obtain what was due except as the Lord allowed, but was to regard it as committed unto God. So we ask that whether by lawful help or by His own providence, the Lord Himself would be your defender and would provide what is needful in His perfect time.
For your fear of retaliation, we plead the precious blood of Jesus Christ which covers and protects His own. That blood is your shelter and your plea. We ask the Lord to restrain the hand of every adversary, to set a hedge about you, to keep you from evil, and to give you peace that no threat can take away. May He who comes with His soul most heartily and richly to display His favor toward the objects of His choice keep you under the shadow of His wings.
O you who are now afflicted, ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand. Look to Calvary, where the healing balm is found, and trust Him who is able to heal and who says, Return, return. May the Lord grant you pardon, healing, protection and a quiet confidence in His will, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.