You ask for a wise and understanding heart, for healing of your teeth, your eyes, your leg, your inward parts. I join my prayer to yours, yet I must also speak plainly, for the physician of souls desires to cure not only the body but the inner man. You have remembered that the Heavenly Father gives wisdom to those who seek Him with all their heart, and you have recalled the proverb that he who walks with the wise becomes wise. But who are the wise? Not those whose talk is of silver and gold, but those who pour out their soul in prayer, as Paul did night and day with exceeding earnestness for the Thessalonians. Such prayer is a sign of joy and love, and it brings a harvest far greater than any earthly field. When you cry out for mercy like the blind men by the roadside, do not merely utter words but let your whole soul be in the cry. They had their eyes struck out, yet by hearing alone they received faith; and the Lord, laying His hand upon them, said, “According to your faith be it unto you.” He did this to confirm their faith and to show that the healing of the soul precedes the healing of the body. So I say to you: seek first the health of your faith, and your outward frame will receive its due portion.
You pray for your teeth, and I have taught that there are teeth fiercer than any in the jaw, the teeth of covetousness, darts that wound the soul more deeply than any bodily pain. Examine yourself, therefore, lest while you ask for relief from a tooth, your heart be bitten by the love of money or the lust of the eyes. For I have seen men so enslaved to gold that the very sight of a coin seemed to do them good, yet it destroyed them utterly, as it did Judas. That love first tortured him, then hanged him, and finally cast him into hell. Far better to die than to beg in spirit, hungering for what moth and rust destroy. So while you seek healing for the ball in your thigh and the lump on your abdomen, seek also the healing of your will, that you may use your body as a steward of God, not as a slave of corruption.
Do not misunderstand me. The Lord cares for our flesh, for He took it upon Himself. But He also taught that the flesh profits nothing if we hear His words carnally, looking only to what is before our eyes without imagining anything beyond. If you receive the gift of health only to return to the same careless ways, your healing will be like a lamp without oil. Remember the virgins: they had lamps, but no oil of mercy and good works, and they were shut out of the bridechamber, hearing that terrible voice, “I know you not.” So I exhort you: while your body is under the physician’s care, let your soul be anointed with the oil of almsgiving and prayer. Then, whether your leg be made whole or remain weak, you will enter into the spiritual bridechamber and enjoy good things innumerable.
Do not lose heart if the healing tarries. How many have heard the word ten times and seemed insensible, yet afterward one more hearing brought forth abundant fruit? The tree does not fall with the first stroke, but by the many that preceded the final blow. I am fully persuaded that such eager desire for prayer as you show will not fail of its effect. Only continue seeking the Lord with your whole soul. Let your teeth be cured, yes, but let them never become weapons of malice. Let your eyes be opened, but look first upon the wounds of Christ, and then upon your neighbor in need. Let your legs walk in the way of the commandments, and your inward parts be filled with the Word of God, which is spirit and life.
I will pray with you, that the Word may be fulfilled in you: “Walk with the wise and you will become wise.” And who is wiser than the Lord Jesus, who for your sake became poor and suffered, that you might be rich in faith and an heir of the kingdom? To Him be glory, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever. Amen.
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. 
