Thank you for sharing your heart and trusting us to pray with you for your mother. I am praying for her now in her hospital stay with pneumonia and the urinary infection, and for you as you wait and care and trust the Lord through this difficult time.
Your desire for strength to have faith is itself precious to God. Scripture teaches that we are saved by grace through faith and that faith itself is a gift from God, not something we earn. There is a kind of general belief that God is able to heal, and that is true, but there is also a moment when that belief becomes active trust that God will meet us now as we come to Jesus. In the Gospels many people came and touched the hem of His garment, and that touch became the point where they released their faith and received from Him. In the same way I encourage you to come to Jesus directly and persistently for your mother, bringing her needs to Him and releasing your trust to Him now, not just believing He can, but trusting Him to act according to His perfect will and love.
True faith will show itself in how we continue to seek Him. Faith without a living response is not living faith. As James teaches, genuine faith produces a changed life and obedient action, not because our actions earn anything, but because faith that is real naturally moves us to pray, to cling to His promises, to love and serve. Your continued prayer, your care for your mother, and your choice to keep looking to Christ are expressions of that living faith.
You can rest that faith ultimately on the faithfulness of God Himself. Sarah in her old age, past ninety and without a child, received strength to conceive because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Our faith may waver, but He does not. The just shall live by faith, and that means day by day trusting the character of the One who has promised never to leave us. Even the great men and women listed in Hebrews chapter eleven, who believed that what is seen was made from what is unseen, did not all see immediate deliverance. Some were healed and some suffered, some saw great victories and some died still trusting God. Having faith does not guarantee that we will never be sick or never face hardship, and even strong believers have lapses and discouragements, yet God graciously remembers the triumphs of faith and covers our failures. Do not be moved from your confidence by this affliction. Let your faith be tested and proved genuine as you keep hearing His Word and looking to Him.
So I pray with you now. Father, in the name of Jesus I lift up this dear mother to You. You know her age, her body, the infection in her lungs and urinary tract, the weakness and discomfort she feels. I ask You to lay Your healing hand upon her, to clear the infection, to give strength to her lungs and body, and if it is Your will, to restore her so she can return home soon. Give wisdom and skill to the doctors and nurses caring for her. And Father, I pray for her child who is watching and waiting. Grant strength, peace, and a steady faith that rests on Your faithfulness. Help that faith to grow through fellowship with You and through Your Word, and let it be shown in continued prayer and trust. We thank You that You hear us when we come to Jesus and that You account us righteous through faith in Him alone. We trust Your goodness and Your perfect timing. Amen.