The frame of man is a frail tent, easily shaken by every wind, and the heat of summer threatens to dry up the moisture of our life. It is no small mercy that you turn your eyes above the dust, seeking from the Lord what no physician’s skill can grant. Yet mark this: the very infirmities that afflict the flesh are opportunities for the Great Physician to display His power. The leaves of the Tree of Life are not for the nations alone in some far-off age, but for our present sicknesses, even the least things about Christ being full of healing virtue. Your cry for the removal of inflammation and the cleansing of infection is a cry for those leaves to be applied, and know that the same hand which once lifted Peter’s wife’s mother from her burning fever is stretched out still.
But fix this truth in your heart: the Lord’s healing and His pardon are joined in holy wedlock. When Jesus dealt with the palsied man, He first declared forgiveness, for the root of all malady lies in the soil of sin, and the sweetest medicine is the word of grace. Do not seek the lesser gift without the greater. Pray that your son’s body be restored, yes, but urge him with all tenderness to look to Christ for the healing of his soul, for it is written, “the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.” The blood that reconciles also restores, and a sight of Calvary cools the fevered brow better than any earthly balm.
Remember too that the healing power is most manifest when Jesus is teaching. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. It is a blessed hour when the sick man is laid at the Master’s feet and His doctrine drops as the rain, distilling health upon the spirit. Therefore, as you plead for ease in this scorching heat, let your son be brought into the presence of Christ through the Scriptures, for there is a shadow from the Sun of Righteousness that refreshes more than the shade of a great rock in a weary land. The very breath of the Spirit in the promises can make breathing easy when the atmosphere itself seems heavy and oppressive.
And let this aim be before you: the healing sought should issue in holy service. The mother of Peter’s wife, no sooner was lifted from her bed, than she ministered unto Christ. The desire to serve the Lord is the best proof of a cure received from His hand. Pray that the immune system be strengthened, yes, but pray more that the soul be quickened and the will subdued, so that your son might rise from this affliction to minister with gladness, his every breath a testimony to the mercy that has visited him. The heat, the illness, the closed-up lungs, these are but the stage upon which the Saviour’s compassion will be seen. Wait upon the Lord, trust in His time, and rest in the sufficiency of His wounds, for they are the fountains from which all healing flows.
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. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. 
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