Your request concerning pain and swelling, and the inflammation and irritation that trouble your left knee, your left elbow and the flesh of your teeth and gums, has been brought before the Lord with sincere prayer.
We very speedily care for bodily diseases for they are painful and press us to seek relief, and we are right to bring such afflictions to the great Physician. Scripture tells us that the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and that the least thing about Christ is healing. His fruit is sweet and nourishing, but even His leaves are full of healing virtue. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation to change the life blood and to make the nature whole.
We are reminded also that healing and pardon are placed in happy conjunction. When Jesus healed the man sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, and pardon and healing were one. The Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings, and when the Lord comes and dwells with His people they have no need to say, I am sick. His salvation will at last perfectly heal our bodies, and even now His grace infuses a healing virtue which works health and cure till we shall be without spot or wrinkle.
We therefore pray for you that the Lord in His mercy would be pleased to remove all pain, swelling, unease, inflammation and irritation from your body, and especially from the left knee and left elbow and from your teeth and gums. We ask that He would cool what is inflamed, calm what is irritated, and give rest to what is uneasy, according to His wise and loving will. We pray also that you would be helped to use all lawful means with thankfulness, as we would seek a physician for the body, while looking above all to Christ who alone can heal both soul and body.
Tell the case to Jesus just as you would mention a physical case to a doctor. He is ready to hear it all and to consider it. Make a confidant of Jesus. If you have not already done so, look to Him for the healing of the soul first, for the forgiveness of sins through His blood shed at Calvary, where the true healing balm is found. It is there that the wounded heart is bound up, for He heals the broken in heart, and where sin is pardoned, healing begins.
May the Lord grant you faith to rest in Christ, patience under trial, and in His good time, relief and restoration to your body. We commend you to His tender care, praying that whether by immediate touch or by gradual recovery, you may experience His healing hand and give Him all the praise through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.