Your brief and earnest cry, Lord help us, Lord protect us, has been carried before the throne of grace, and we join our hearts with yours in the name of Jesus.
There is no help but in the Lord, for as the king said of old, If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you. Vain is the help of man, and vain are all other refuges, but the Lord is the unfailing help of His people. When you ask for help, He does not mock you by giving what only seems to be grace, but He gives truly and abundantly, for the Father gives the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him, and the poor sinner who says Lord help me to repent shall not be denied.
You have asked also for protection and for those silent requests which you have not uttered with lips but have poured out before Him who knows the heart. Be assured that He hears the silent cry as well as the spoken prayer. He knows how to help the poor and to bring up the righteous from deep distress, and His divine interpositions come in the way of deliverance from floods of trouble. What remarkable preservations has He wrought for His people, not miraculous perhaps, yet full of wonder, and His gentleness has made many great when all hands were against them.
We pray now that the Lord will keep you under the shadow of His wing, that His divine grace will foster you and cause you to flourish, that His right hand will uphold you, and that His Spirit will work all your works in you. May He cast out every evil that assails you, and may the Divine Physician, who suffers with His people and yet rejoices to bless them, speak peace to your silent burdens. Whatever has kept you back, may it be removed, and may this be the set time of His favor to your soul.
We leave you and all your unspoken petitions in the hands of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us, trusting that Emmanuel, God with us, will be very precious to you, and that you shall yet say, He has delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. In the precious name of Jesus Christ our only Savior we ask it, amen.