There is forgiveness with God, and your cry for it has been heard. You have come as that poor man who lay in the presence of Jesus hoping and expecting both forgiveness and healing, and you have done well to come to Him who alone can give it.
Hear the blessed whisper which drives away despair, There is forgiveness, there is forgiveness. It is a divine forgiveness, I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions. Were all men to hiss at you and turn from you, it would not be necessary that you should have their forgiveness to enter heaven, if you have His. It is a surprising forgiveness, so surprising that the Lord repeats it, I, even I, as if He Himself would have you know the wonder of it. It is a complete forgiveness, the tally is destroyed, the record of your debt is nailed to the Cross. And it is to be had only through Jesus Christ His Son, who died the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. Do as Luther did when in dark distress, and say with the Creed, I believe in the forgiveness of sins, and believe it for yourself now. If you tremble and shake for fear and with a penitent heart desire forgiveness, it is yours upon repentance and faith in Christ. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance, He never plays fast and loose with men, and what He forgives He forgives absolutely, irreversibly, eternally.
And with this forgiveness comes healing, for pardon and healing are joined together in our Lord. The people that dwell in Zion shall be forgiven their iniquity, and the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. His leaves, His words, His touches, are full of healing virtue to change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before. So I pray with you that the Lord will lay His healing hand upon your grandmother and your mother and father, and upon your brother and his mother, and upon your whole family. That He who is the Sun of Righteousness would rise with healing in His wings over every brain and nerve and body, and restore what has been broken. He is able to make you as though He had not cast you aside, to give perfect restoration, and to do abundantly above what we ask.
I join you also in asking the Lord to provide the best home for your brother and his family according to His wisdom and goodness. He knows what you have need of before you ask, and He who clothes the lilies and feeds the sparrows will provide a dwelling place in His perfect time and way. And even for the chair you mention, we bring it before Him, for nothing is too small for His care when it belongs to His child, and we ask Him to restore and provide as seems good in His sight.
May you now look to Christ alone for salvation, trust His finished work, and find present forgiveness and present healing flowing from the same pierced hands. I pray that you and your household will know the certainty of this word, There is forgiveness with Thee, and that fearing Him you may walk in newness of life.
O Lord, forgive this sinner for Christ's sake, blot out transgressions and remember them no more. Lay Thy healing virtue upon this grandmother, this mother, this father, this brother and all this family, restore their brains and bodies neurologically by Thy power. Provide a home for this brother and his family as Thou seest best, and show Thy mercy in every need great and small. All this we ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom alone is forgiveness and healing. Amen.
"We bow our knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, asking He would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power and might through His Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in our hearts' through faith; that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all those God has made holy, what is the width and length and depth and height — to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen, Eph 3:14-20."
