Your longing for a wise and understanding heart is itself a token of grace at work within you, and it is a prayer which God delights to answer. For wisdom is not found by the vulture's eye nor gotten by human striving alone, but the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. You have asked well, for you desire not wisdom for your own honour, but that you may be a faithful steward of all that He has entrusted to you.
Remember this main point of stewardship, that nothing is your own, it is all your Master's. All that you have, your time, your substance, your mind, your body, is put into your hands to be used for Him and for the good of all your brothers and sisters in Christ. Such a stewardship is not to be trifled with or left to careless idling, nor is the heart to be left out of the work. To trifle with divine truth and to play with God's Word will mar any stewardship. But to keep before you that the Master will come, and to labour faithfully until He appears, this is good stewardship. Therefore pray as Solomon prayed, for an understanding heart to discern between good and evil, and the Lord who gives wisdom liberally will not withhold it.
You also desire to seek Him with all your heart, to pour out your whole soul before Him in prayer, and to learn effectively in His Word. This is the way of blessing. There is not much likelihood of a benediction in words thrown out without attention, but there is blessing where there is an attentive ear and an understanding heart. Nor can the Word become a sanctifying word except as it is received into the understanding. Take heed therefore what you hear and how you hear. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, and our Lord has linked healing with teaching. Come to the Word not as one who hears with one ear and lets it go out the other, but consider what you read, meditate upon it, and the Lord will give you understanding in all things. That understanding to know Him is itself a free grace gift from His hand. Walk with the wise as you have quoted, and you will become wise, for he that walks with wise men shall be wise. Seek the company of those who fear the Lord, sit under faithful teaching, and give yourself to prayer wherein you pour out your soul as water before the Lord. Tell the case to Jesus just as you would tell a case to a physician. He is ready to hear it all.
Concerning your bodily afflictions, your teeth and that wisdom tooth on the right, your eyes, the entire left leg and the left side of the pelvis, the ball in the upper part of the left leg, the ball upon the abdomen, your stomach and intestines and the whole gastrointestinal tract, we bring all these before the great Physician. We very speedily care for bodily diseases, for they urge us to seek a physician, and you have done well to seek the heavenly Physician who is above all. In Christ there is an abundance of healing power. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the very leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, the least thing about Christ is healing. These healing leaves change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. Calvary is the place for the healing balm. There the Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings.
And note this happy conjunction, that healing and forgiveness are placed together in the gospel. When Jesus healed the man taken with palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. Pardon and healing were one. The Lord has begun to heal us by His grace, and that healing virtue will work in us till we shall be without spot or wrinkle. While we pray earnestly for the healing of the body, we pray first and most that you may know pardon through the blood of Christ, for salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, and where sin is pardoned the whole man is in the hand of Him who will at last perfectly heal both soul and body.
Let us pray together.
Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ Your Son, we ask that You would give to Your servant a wise and understanding heart, that he may steward faithfully all that You have entrusted to him. Teach him the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, and grant him grace to depart from evil. Help him to seek You with his whole heart, to pour out his soul before You in prayer, and to receive Your Word with a clear understanding, that it may not be snatched away but may take root and bring forth fruit. Fulfil in him the promise that he who walks with the wise shall become wise, and set his feet among those who love Your truth.
We also bring before You his body in all its infirmity. You know the pain of the teeth and the wisdom tooth, the trouble of the eyes, the affliction of the left leg and pelvis, the growths upon the thigh and upon the abdomen, and every disorder of stomach and intestines. Lay Your healing hand upon him according to Your perfect will. If it be Your will, restore him to complete health, that he may serve You with strength. Above all, assure him of pardon through the precious blood of Christ, and let the peace which passes all understanding guard his heart and mind. We ask this not for any merit in us, but only through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is our wisdom, our righteousness, and our healing. Amen.