Your prayer for your son has been brought before the throne of grace, and we count it a privilege to join our faith with yours in asking the Lord to touch him and keep him.
Healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction in the gospel, and both are bestowed upon the Lord's people. The prophet tells us that when the Lord comes and dwells with His people, the Sun of Righteousness has risen upon them with healing in His wings. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee, and so pardon and healing were one. We pray that the Lord will manifest this same gracious power toward your son, that He would heal him physically, mentally and spiritually, and that the healing virtue which His grace infuses would work in him health and cure till he is made whole. For it is written, He sent His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions. That Word is Christ Himself, and it is the Word of God applied by the Holy Spirit that is the means of healing sin sick souls. May your son know that touch of the Saviour who took her by the hand and lifted her up, for there is healing in that contact, in the very fact that He took our flesh and became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh to redeem us.
We also join you in praying for his protection and peace. In this dark world of sin, the blood of Jesus whispers peace within. Perfect peace is the portion of those whose minds are stayed upon Him, because they trust in Him. To know the will of Jesus and to do it is to abide in the peace of God, a peace which keeps the heart and mind and wards off all sorts of evils. Though duties press and sorrows surge round, though loved ones may be parted for a season, in Jesus keeping we are safe, and they are safe. He has vanquished death and all its powers, and He will call His people to Heaven's perfect peace. The least things that have to do with Christ, like the very leaves of the Tree of Life, have a healing virtue in them, and a word from Him coming home to the heart brings healing to head and heart, conscience and imagination.
Let us pray together. Heavenly Father, we thank Thee for all Thou hast done for us, and we bring this dear son before Thee in the name of Jesus Christ Thy Son, through whom alone is salvation. Touch him, we beseech Thee, and heal him in body, in mind, and in spirit. Forgive his sins for the sake of Him who died, the Just for the unjust, and let pardon and healing come together from Thy gracious hand. Protect him from harm and danger, both seen and unseen, and surround him with Thy presence. Fill him with joy and peace in believing, that abiding peace which the world cannot give and cannot take away. Keep him in Thy perfect peace, and let him know that Thou art near. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus, Amen.