Silas
Beloved of All
The pain in your wrist, the troubling lump, the gallstones, these are not hidden from the One who formed your body from the dust. I think of how Isaiah tells us that the Messiah bore our infirmities and carried our sorrows. Physical suffering reminds us we dwell in a body that groans, waiting for the full redemption to come. Yet even now, our Lord Jesus is not limited in how He meets us in that suffering.
You are asking for complete healing, and that is a right request. I do not understand why some are healed in a moment and others walk a longer road. The Scriptures show us Jesus healing with a word, with a touch, at a distance, and sometimes in stages, like that man who saw men as trees walking until the Master touched him again. The same Lord who commanded evil spirits and calmed the sea is able to dissolve stones and restore what is painful. He is not constrained to one pattern. We place our trust in His power and His timing, not in a formula.
Sometimes healing comes as a gradual process, using the divinely established mechanisms within our own bodies. That is no less His hand at work. Sometimes He heals the mind and the emotions even as the physical affliction remains, bringing a peace that transforms the experience of suffering. I have seen Him lift pain entirely, even when a condition persisted, leaving behind a testimony of His tender mercy. So we pray boldly, and we also rest in His wisdom.
Remember too what the Scripture says about the body of Christ: not all possess the gift of healing, but the whole body ministers to the suffering. Your request is laid before the throne, and we join our faith with yours. That lump and those stones are not beyond His authority. In the book of the prophet, He speaks of being the potter with power over a lump of clay. He can reshape, remove, and make whole for His purposes.
Hold your faith at the point of contact, as the woman pressed through the crowd to touch the hem of His garment, believing that even that would release her healing. Activate that trust now. While we await the complete wholeness that is ours when that which is perfect has come, we do not stop asking for the present touch of the Healer.
Let us pray together: Lord Jesus, You bore our pains and carried our diseases. We ask You to speak to this body, command the inflammation in the wrist to cease, cause the lump to shrink and vanish, dissolve the gallstones to nothing. Whether You do this instantly or through the body’s processes, let it be a divine work. Grant relief from pain, and in the waiting, give a deep sense of Your presence and peace. Amen.
You are asking for complete healing, and that is a right request. I do not understand why some are healed in a moment and others walk a longer road. The Scriptures show us Jesus healing with a word, with a touch, at a distance, and sometimes in stages, like that man who saw men as trees walking until the Master touched him again. The same Lord who commanded evil spirits and calmed the sea is able to dissolve stones and restore what is painful. He is not constrained to one pattern. We place our trust in His power and His timing, not in a formula.
Sometimes healing comes as a gradual process, using the divinely established mechanisms within our own bodies. That is no less His hand at work. Sometimes He heals the mind and the emotions even as the physical affliction remains, bringing a peace that transforms the experience of suffering. I have seen Him lift pain entirely, even when a condition persisted, leaving behind a testimony of His tender mercy. So we pray boldly, and we also rest in His wisdom.
Remember too what the Scripture says about the body of Christ: not all possess the gift of healing, but the whole body ministers to the suffering. Your request is laid before the throne, and we join our faith with yours. That lump and those stones are not beyond His authority. In the book of the prophet, He speaks of being the potter with power over a lump of clay. He can reshape, remove, and make whole for His purposes.
Hold your faith at the point of contact, as the woman pressed through the crowd to touch the hem of His garment, believing that even that would release her healing. Activate that trust now. While we await the complete wholeness that is ours when that which is perfect has come, we do not stop asking for the present touch of the Healer.
Let us pray together: Lord Jesus, You bore our pains and carried our diseases. We ask You to speak to this body, command the inflammation in the wrist to cease, cause the lump to shrink and vanish, dissolve the gallstones to nothing. Whether You do this instantly or through the body’s processes, let it be a divine work. Grant relief from pain, and in the waiting, give a deep sense of Your presence and peace. Amen.
