Your burden has been laid before the mercy seat and we have carried your father and yourself to our gracious God in prayer.
We sorrow with you in this trial, for to see the heart of a beloved parent falter is a deep wound, and to feel that he is the only parent left to you on earth makes the fear the heavier. Yet hear what the Word declares for such as you, In You the fatherless finds mercy, and again, I will be a Father unto you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. When the Divine Father is viewed aright He becomes the object of our gratitude, not of our dread, for He is our Father, our God, our Savior's Father and our Savior's God. He who said, He that has seen Me has seen the Father, has shown us that the love of the Father is in all respects equal to the love of the Son. You may therefore come with boldness and say, Abba, Father, for there is Heaven in the depth of that word, and plead that He will look upon your father in tender compassion.
We are told that the very leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, and that the least thing about Christ is healing. A word of His, coming home to the heart as His, brings healing to head and heart, and the Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds, and none shall say unto the healing flood of His love, Up to here can you go and no further. The utmost length of human sickness can be reached by this great Physician.
We have prayed that the Lord, who numbers our days and holds our hearts in His hand, would preside over the appointment tomorrow. We have asked that He would give wisdom to the physicians, that He would guide every counsel and every hand, and that if surgery be required, He would protect your father and restore him. We have prayed that whether by means or by His own immediate touch, He would be pleased to heal his heart and prolong his life for your comfort and for His glory. And we have prayed that you both may be enabled to say with our Lord, Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight, knowing that He gives liberally and upbraids not, and that our heavenly Father will give good gifts to them that ask Him.
Cast your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Trust your father's heart, and your own wounded heart, to the bleeding heart of Jesus, for that heart alone can stanch its wound. May the Lord grant you peace in waiting, strength in praying, and a joyful experience of His healing virtue, whether it come by quiet restoration or by His blessing upon the means He has provided.