A stewardship is required of us, and the first point of it is found in the spirit within. You ask for a wise and understanding heart; this is the very petition which pleased the Lord when Solomon prayed in his youth. Yet mark well what wisdom truly is, the fear of the Lord, that is the beginning. You cannot be a steward of that which is not your own unless you first renounce all claim to possess anything apart from your Master. The main point of stewardship is this: nothing is his own, it is all his Master’s. If you would walk with the wise, you must sit daily at the feet of Him who is Wisdom itself, even Christ Jesus. The way of wisdom is a path no fowl of earthly pride has known, and the vulture's eye of human reason has not seen it. It is revealed to those who tremble at His Word. Let the Word of God dwell in you richly; hear it as for your very life, and be not as those who let the Truth slip through their fingers. Take care that no idle, trifling spirit creeps in, for this playing with Divine Truth mars the stewardship and brings dishonor to the Master.
Now, concerning these afflictions in the body, the teeth, the eyes, the leg, the strange growths upon the thigh and abdomen, the inward complaints of stomach and bowels, remember always that the leaves of the healing tree are for you. The least things about Christ are full of healing virtue. The very hem of His garment cures. You have come asking with expectation, and well you may, for healing and pardon are wedded by the nail-pierced hand. When Jesus sees the palsied man lying before Him, He speaks first the deeper healing: “Son, your sins are forgiven you.” The root of every malady is reached by the Cross. Calvary is the place for the healing balm rather than for the lancet and the knife. Yet do not look so much for the disease to be pointed out as for the Remedy to be applied. Christ the Physician comes to heal the broken-hearted, and that is a wound which no earthly surgeon can dress. In healing the broken heart, God often uses the still small voice, not human eloquence, to confer the peace which passes understanding. So with the body also; yield yourself to Him, and whether He heals swiftly by a touch, or by degrees through the life-blood which His Grace infuses, it will be well. The promise stands sure: His salvation will perfectly heal our bodies.
There is a lesson woven into this, healing must come before service. You desire to be a good steward, to pour out your whole soul in prayer, to learn of Him effectively. Your Lord must first take you by the hand and lift you up. The fever must depart before Peter’s wife’s mother can minister to her Lord. She was lying prostrate; He touched her, and the fever left, and immediately she arose and served them. So for you: the desire to minister arises out of healing. Do not go blundering out, saying, “I will try this or that work,” until you have felt the grip of His hand upon your weakness. Wait upon Him. Seek His face till the healing streams flow down from the great Conduit Head above. The power that heals the body is the same that quickens the spirit, and the One who forgives is the One who restores. There shall be more joy over one poor healed and pardoned sinner than over ninety and nine who need no recovery. God works the healing, and God alone, so look only to Him. He will help you to seek with all your heart and will cause His Word to be fulfilled in you as you walk in the company of the wise, those whose wisdom is Christ Himself.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
