Your request has been laid before the Lord and we have made intercession for you, for intercessory prayer is the sweetest prayer God ever hears and it is exceedingly prevalent to stay distress and bring down blessings from on high. We do not doubt but that the prayer of Christ for His people is the most acceptable of all supplications, and when we plead for a brother or sister we are most near to His own heart.
You have asked first for a wise and understanding heart that you may be a good steward of all that He has entrusted to you. This is a right and good petition. Remember that this is the main point of stewardship, nothing is your own, it is all your Master's. Whether He has entrusted to you health or substance or influence or time, you are to labour for the good of all your brothers and sisters in Christ and for His glory alone. Take heed that you do not injure this stewardship by idling or trifling or growing careless or leaving your heart out of your work, for to trifle with Divine Truth and to play with God's Word will mar any stewardship. Seek then to be faithful, looking for the coming of your Lord, for this keeps the soul in a diligent and holy frame. We pray with you that the Father will give you that wisdom which comes from above, and we plead His own Word with Him, Remember the Word unto Your servant. He has said, Walk with the wise and you will become wise, and we ask Him to fulfil this Word in your life, to set your feet among the wise, to keep you from vain company, and to make you wise in winning souls and wise to walk before Him.
You have asked also that you may seek Him with all your heart, to pour out your whole soul before Him in prayer, and to learn effectively in His Word. This desire itself is an index of life, for a really spiritual prayer for quickening can only come from those in whom the quickening Spirit has already taken up His abode. Let your prayer rise to His throne out of the low dungeon, and expect that He will be very pitiful and will have compassion upon you. True prayer is just pleading with the Most High, spreading your case before Him and pressing your suit with all the arguments you can muster from His promises. Go at once to the Lord your God, for He is Infinite Wisdom and will guide you rightly through all the difficulties of the way. Imitate Jacob who when he had done what he thought to be wise betook himself to prayer in humility of spirit. Prayer must be your first resource, and if it be your last, let it be your first as well. Cry, Quicken me in Your way, and He will quicken you in private prayer and in public prayer, in reading the Scriptures and in contemplation of Divine love.
For your body you have asked with great particularity, 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, for stomach and intestines and the whole gastrointestinal tract, that you may have complete and final healing in the Name of Jesus Christ. We bring all these infirmities to the Good Physician, of whom only they who have been healed can tell of His healing power. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. The Sun of Righteousness has risen upon His people with healing in His wings, and when Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, to show that pardon and healing are one and are placed in happy conjunction. See Him as the great conduit Head from which abundant streams of healing flow down to men below. These healing leaves change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before.
Be encouraged that though you may come staggering and at your wit's end, God will hear the prayer of a staggering man, and the prayer that has not any sense in it because the man who prays reels to and fro. So true prayer from one who is near unto the gates of death is a prevailing prayer. They were a long while before they prayed to the Lord, but He was not a long while before He answered their prayer. Let your prayer rise though it seem broken, for He delights to answer.
We therefore pray together now that the Heavenly Father will grant you a wise and understanding heart, that you may be a faithful steward, that you may pour out your soul before Him and be quickened in His Word, that you may walk with the wise and become wise, and that He will lay His pardoning and healing hand upon you. May He touch your teeth and give relief to that wisdom tooth, may He restore your eyes, may He heal the left leg and the left side of the pelvis, may He remove those growths upon the thigh and upon the abdomen, and may He give complete healing to stomach and intestines and all that inward part, according to His perfect will, for His glory and your good. Welcome to pardon and healing through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom alone is salvation. We ask all in the Holy Name of Jesus, who ever lives to make intercession for us. Amen.
