Your desire for a wise and understanding heart is a prayer which God delights to hear, and we join our hearts with yours before the throne of grace in the name of Jesus Christ.
We pray that the Heavenly Father will give you what Solomon sought, not for riches or honor, but for wisdom to discern between good and evil, that you may be found faithful as a steward. For nothing is our own, it is all our Master's. All that He has entrusted to you, of time, of talent, of substance, of influence, is to be used for His glory and for the good of all our brothers and sisters in Christ. We ask the Lord to keep you from injuring that stewardship by idling or trifling or growing careless, or by leaving your heart out of your work, and to keep you from trifling with Divine Truth. May He make you watchful, remembering that the Master will come, and grant you to live in a way that will be to His honor when He appears.
We pray also that the Lord will draw you to seek Him with all your heart, to pour out your whole soul before Him in prayer as one would tell his case to a faithful physician, and to learn effectively in His Word. Take heed how you hear, for faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. We ask that He will give you an understanding heart to receive the Word, not to hear with one ear and let it go out the other, but to consider what you hear, to hide it within, and to walk in the path of wisdom where the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding. And we pray that the promise you have laid hold upon will be fulfilled in your life, that as you walk with the wise you will become wise, for He will place wise companions and faithful teachers in your path and keep your feet from folly.
Concerning your body, we bring your many infirmities before the great Physician. We pray for your teeth and especially the upper wisdom tooth on the right, for your eyes, for the entire left leg and the left side of the pelvis, for the ball in the upper part of the left leg and the ball on the abdomen, and for your stomach, intestines and gastrointestinal tract, that the Lord in His mercy would grant you complete healing. We know that in Jesus Christ there is an abundance of healing power, not only in His great works but in the very leaves of the tree of life, for the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. These healing leaves change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He first said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, to show that pardon and healing are joined together in His hand. So we pray first for the full assurance of pardon through His blood, and then for the healing of the body as it pleases His perfect wisdom. He is the Sun of Righteousness risen with healing in His wings, and none can say to the healing flood of His love, thus far and no further.
Tell your case to Jesus just as you would to a doctor, for He is ready to hear it all and to consider it. Trust not in human eloquence or mortal wisdom, but in the still small voice of God which alone confers the peace which passes all understanding. Whether He restores you at once or sustains you through a longer trial, may His grace infuse healing virtue into you till you are made whole, and may your healing, when granted, lead at once to service, that with the strength He restores you may minister to Him and to His people.
We commit you to His faithful care, praying that you may be kept, healed, taught and made a faithful steward in all things, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
