Silas
Beloved of All
Thank you for sharing your heart and your desire for healing and restoration for yourself, for the man in your life, and for your family. It is good to bring physical needs to the Lord, because He cares about our bodies as well as our souls. The ministry of Jesus on earth was marked by preaching and teaching and also by healing every kind of sickness and disease among the people, restoring bodies that had been broken by illness and lives that had been broken by sin.
Scripture shows that physical healing is part of what Jesus provided. When Matthew describes Jesus healing many who were brought to Him in the evening, he connects it to the prophecy of Isaiah that He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. That prophecy is often understood only as spiritual healing from sin, but Matthew applies it to physical healing as well. When we remember the bread of communion as His body broken for us, we are reminded that His suffering touches both soul and body.
At the same time the Bible teaches us to trust God's wisdom and sovereignty in how and when He heals. The apostle Paul prayed three times for the Lord to remove what he called a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him, and the Lord did not remove it in the way Paul asked. This shows that we cannot presume healing in every case exactly as and when we demand it. There is much about healing we do not fully understand, why some are healed quickly and others are not.
The Gospels record one healing that was gradual, when Jesus laid His hands on a blind man and his sight returned only in part at first and then fully after a second touch. That reminds us that God does heal in different ways. Sometimes healing is immediate and complete, sometimes it is a process over time, and all true healing, even what we might call natural recovery, is still from God. He also brings healing to our minds and emotions, healing scars and wounds inside us, and there is a real connection between the health of the soul and the health of the body. One of the apostles wrote to a friend that he wished him to prosper and be in good health even as his soul prospered, not as a guarantee that faith always brings perfect health, but as a recognition that a heart at peace before God does good like a medicine.
Your longing to breathe freely and to have your family close and whole again is understandable. God created the family and gives us responsibility to care for one another. Scripture teaches that we are to provide for our own household, and that to neglect that care is a serious matter. It also teaches that when we come to Christ we enter a larger family, the family of God, where we are brothers and sisters together. Whether with our blood family or with our spiritual family, God desires relationships marked by purity, commitment, and love that honors Him.
That is also why it is important to speak clearly about the relationship with the man in your life. True favor with God does not come from speaking a favored life into existence or using the blood of Jesus as a formula to claim what we want. The blood of Jesus was shed first for the forgiveness of sins and to bring us into a right relationship with God. That is the greatest healing, the healing of spiritual death, which is far more serious than physical sickness. From that restored relationship, we learn to pray not for our own demands to be fulfilled immediately, but for God's will to be done. And God's design for the relationship between a man and a woman is a lifelong covenant of marriage, where physical intimacy and living together belong within that covenant. If you are living together outside of that covenant, the loving step is to seek to honor God by pursuing purity and, if it is His will for you to be together, pursuing marriage as He intended. God will not bless what goes against His word, but He will give grace and strength to walk in His way.
So I encourage you to keep seeking the Lord for your health and for your family, asking for His healing and restoration while submitting to His perfect will and timing. Pray for daily bread, for breath, for strength, and above all for a prospering soul that walks closely with Jesus. Trust Him whether healing comes instantly, gradually, or ultimately in the full restoration He will bring.
I pray that the Lord will have mercy on you and your family, that He will forgive sin through the blood of Christ, that He will bring peace to your hearts and, according to His wisdom and love, bring healing to your bodies. May He draw each of you closer to Himself, help you to walk in holiness and truth, and give you confidence that whether in health or in hardship, you are held in His hands.
Scripture shows that physical healing is part of what Jesus provided. When Matthew describes Jesus healing many who were brought to Him in the evening, he connects it to the prophecy of Isaiah that He took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses. That prophecy is often understood only as spiritual healing from sin, but Matthew applies it to physical healing as well. When we remember the bread of communion as His body broken for us, we are reminded that His suffering touches both soul and body.
At the same time the Bible teaches us to trust God's wisdom and sovereignty in how and when He heals. The apostle Paul prayed three times for the Lord to remove what he called a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him, and the Lord did not remove it in the way Paul asked. This shows that we cannot presume healing in every case exactly as and when we demand it. There is much about healing we do not fully understand, why some are healed quickly and others are not.
The Gospels record one healing that was gradual, when Jesus laid His hands on a blind man and his sight returned only in part at first and then fully after a second touch. That reminds us that God does heal in different ways. Sometimes healing is immediate and complete, sometimes it is a process over time, and all true healing, even what we might call natural recovery, is still from God. He also brings healing to our minds and emotions, healing scars and wounds inside us, and there is a real connection between the health of the soul and the health of the body. One of the apostles wrote to a friend that he wished him to prosper and be in good health even as his soul prospered, not as a guarantee that faith always brings perfect health, but as a recognition that a heart at peace before God does good like a medicine.
Your longing to breathe freely and to have your family close and whole again is understandable. God created the family and gives us responsibility to care for one another. Scripture teaches that we are to provide for our own household, and that to neglect that care is a serious matter. It also teaches that when we come to Christ we enter a larger family, the family of God, where we are brothers and sisters together. Whether with our blood family or with our spiritual family, God desires relationships marked by purity, commitment, and love that honors Him.
That is also why it is important to speak clearly about the relationship with the man in your life. True favor with God does not come from speaking a favored life into existence or using the blood of Jesus as a formula to claim what we want. The blood of Jesus was shed first for the forgiveness of sins and to bring us into a right relationship with God. That is the greatest healing, the healing of spiritual death, which is far more serious than physical sickness. From that restored relationship, we learn to pray not for our own demands to be fulfilled immediately, but for God's will to be done. And God's design for the relationship between a man and a woman is a lifelong covenant of marriage, where physical intimacy and living together belong within that covenant. If you are living together outside of that covenant, the loving step is to seek to honor God by pursuing purity and, if it is His will for you to be together, pursuing marriage as He intended. God will not bless what goes against His word, but He will give grace and strength to walk in His way.
So I encourage you to keep seeking the Lord for your health and for your family, asking for His healing and restoration while submitting to His perfect will and timing. Pray for daily bread, for breath, for strength, and above all for a prospering soul that walks closely with Jesus. Trust Him whether healing comes instantly, gradually, or ultimately in the full restoration He will bring.
I pray that the Lord will have mercy on you and your family, that He will forgive sin through the blood of Christ, that He will bring peace to your hearts and, according to His wisdom and love, bring healing to your bodies. May He draw each of you closer to Himself, help you to walk in holiness and truth, and give you confidence that whether in health or in hardship, you are held in His hands.
