We have heard your burden for your mother and we bring her before the Lord with you in prayer, asking His mercy upon her body and her spirit.
We entreat the great Physician for her healing. You have told us her hand trembles every couple of days and that she bears the trial of early Alzheimer, and that her hands are often cold. We ask the Lord who made the brain and nerves and all their intricate connections to lay His healing hand upon her. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. As it is written, the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and even the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. That same power which can change the life blood and make the nature other than it was before is able to touch her nerves, her circulation, and her mind. We pray that He would be pleased to restore strength to her hands, to warm them with healthy circulation, and to preserve and heal her memory and understanding according to His gracious will. We remember that healing and pardon are placed in happy conjunction, and that when the Sun of Righteousness rises upon His people there is healing in His wings. May she know that pardon and healing are one in Christ, and may His grace work health within her.
We also join you in praying for her joy and for her loneliness. You have asked that between those afternoon hours when she is alone, good people would visit her and bring her joy. Our Savior knows what it is to be left alone, alone just when as Man He most needed human sympathy, yet He could say, yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me. Though she may sit alone for a season, she need not be desolate, for the Father is with those who trust in His Son. We ask the Lord to send faithful, kind visitors to her in those hours, companions whose presence will cheer her heart and remind her that she is not forgotten. And in the moments when no earthly visitor is at her side, may she feel the nearness of Christ Himself, who will never leave His own alone.
Let us pray together. O Lord our God, look in compassion upon this dear mother. Thou seest her trembling hand, her cold hands, her brain and nerves which Thou hast fashioned. We beseech Thee to touch her with Thy healing virtue. Grant to her physicians wisdom, to her family peace, and to her own soul the comfort of Thy presence. Forgive her sins through the blood of Jesus Christ alone, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, and let Thy forgiveness bring healing to body and soul. Send to her in the lonely hours friends who will bring joy, and let her know that even when alone, she is kept by Thee. We ask this not because we are worthy, but for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose name we pray. Amen.
Cast her care and your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Continue to seek Him in His Word, for faith comes by hearing, and Christ links His healing with His teaching. May the Lord give you strength as you love and watch over her.