Your weariness and heaviness of eyes and the burden of these many afflictions have been laid before the Lord, and we join our prayers with yours for His merciful touch upon you.
We very speedily care for bodily diseases for they are too painful to let us slumber in silence, and they soon urge us to seek a physician for our healing, and so we pray you will continue to seek needful help from those skilled to care for the body while you look above all to the great Physician of soul and body. Our Lord Jesus is that Physician, and there is an abundance of healing power in Him and His salvation. The Scripture says the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. His fruit is sweet and nourishing, and even the leaves, the little things as it were about Him, are full of healing virtue. When He comes and dwells with His people, the Sun of Righteousness rises upon them with healing in His wings, and pardon and healing are found in happy conjunction.
You speak of cold and cough, of COPD and diabetes, of a fear of what may yet be cancer, and of a tiredness that makes even daily things difficult to do. He knows what it is to be weary, and He knows how to lift up those who are lying prostrated by infirmity. As He took Peter's wife's mother by the hand and lifted her up, so there is healing in His touch and in His incarnation, in that blessed contact established between the Saviour and the sinner. Calvary is the place for the healing balm, and His power to heal is present still when His Word is taught and trusted.
Let us pray for you now.
O Lord our God, look in compassion upon this suffering one who is tired and heavy eyed and pressed down with sickness. Thou art He who heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds, and who forgives all our iniquities and heals all our diseases. We ask Thee to lay Thy pardoning and healing hand upon this dear soul. Forgive sin through the blood of Jesus Christ and let healing flow from that same fountain. Ease the cough and cold, give breath more freely, regulate the body in its weakness, and if it be Thy will, turn aside what is feared and restore strength. Give rest in sleep, clearness to the eyes, and strength for each needful task day by day. Guide the hands of those who give medical care, and grant wisdom in all that is to be done. Above all, let this affliction draw the heart nearer to Christ, that whether Thou art pleased to grant full recovery here or to sustain through continued weakness, Thy grace may be found sufficient and Thy presence very near. Lift up by Thy hand, and make this one to know that virtue has gone out of Jesus to heal.
We commend you to Him who is able to heal and who is not slow to show mercy to those who seek Him. May His healing leaves be applied to you, changing the life blood and making the nature to rejoice in His goodness, till in His perfect time He shall perfectly heal both soul and body without spot or wrinkle. May the Lord bless you and keep you and give you peace in Christ Jesus. Amen.