The prayer for your mother and father rises amidst the very groans that are common to our frail humanity, yet there is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves, the little things, as it were, about Christ, are full of healing virtue. There is one great Physician who lays His hands on men and they are restored, there is but one. For your mother, wrestling with diabetes and a fungal infection in the lungs, and for your father, whose frame is assailed by failing eyesight, headaches, urinary trouble, swelling, and blood pressure gone awry, the remedy is not scattered among many herbs, but found in the one plant of renown.
It is a blessed thing, this little faith, not its littleness, but its faith. If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can do wonders. The least faith in Jesus is the gift of God and it is "like precious faith," though it is not like strong faith. And when He saw their faith, He said to the one sick of the palsy, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." This was going to the very root of his disease. Pardon and healing were one. The Lord has begun to heal us and the healing virtue which His Grace has infused into us will work us health and cure till we shall be without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing. His salvation will also perfectly heal our bodies. For your father, those many symptoms, the headache, the swelling, the pressure, are not beyond the reach of Him before whom the utmost length of human sickness must yield. For your mother, the fungal intrusion into the very lungs cannot withstand the Sun of Righteousness, who rises upon His people with healing in His wings.
Come with the maimed hand of your faith. Come just as you are, for He who is God can certainly heal you. Faith does the most effectual thing for the soul when it takes what God gives. All the rest may be or may not be, faith is the main thing. It is that touch of personal faith which brings peace to the soul and opens the door for the healing flood of His love. We are on our way to eternal health. We have the life within us which is to be perfect forever and ever. Why should we, then, say, "I am sick"? If a man could be quite sure that he would be in perfect health tomorrow, he would say little about the sickness of an hour. Lay hold upon the great Physician, for there is one sacred Fountain, to wash therein is health, there is but one, it was opened on Calvary. The healing power is conspicuously present where Christ is, and He links the healing with the teaching of His Word, for faith comes by hearing. God grant that its healing influences drop upon your father and mother, till that golden age shall dawn in which their bodies shall be the abode of perfect health, to the praise of His glory.