Your prayer concerning worry and the return of disease has been heard and we join you in bringing it before the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom alone we have access to the Father and in whose name alone there is salvation.
The Savior says to us, do not be so affected by external things as to get into a state of worry, fretfulness, care, anxiety and distress. He would have us not be anxious about our temporal affairs. Be prudent and do what duty requires with what the Lord has given you, and when you have done your best with your little, do not wring your hands as though you could add to it by worrying. Have you not found that the very anxiety which arises through being in a difficulty unfits you to meet that difficulty. Instead we are to cast our care upon Him, for He cares for us, and to let our requests be made known unto God with thanksgiving. Then the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep our hearts and minds.
You also pray for healing and that disease will not return, and you do well to pray in the name of Jesus. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but even the leaves, the little things about Christ, are full of healing virtue. The least thing about Christ is healing. As it is written, the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and those leaves prevent the recurrence of disease by changing the life blood and making the nature other than it was before. Calvary is the place for the healing balm. The work of Jesus our heavenly Physician is not so much to point out disease as to apply the remedy.
Remember also that healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you. Pardon and healing were one. All spiritual disease receives its deathblow when sin is forgiven, for sin is crucified by the same Cross which brings atonement. The great ill of a broken heart, whether wounded by fear or by affliction, is healed by God alone, and He heals such as truly come to Him. It is His sole prerogative to heal spiritual disease, and even natural disease is healed as He gives virtue to means and power to the frame to cast off disease. We very speedily care for bodily diseases and rightly seek the physician, yet the honor is to be given to God who heals.
Therefore we pray for you now, that the Lord would lift this burden of worry from you and give you a quiet trust in His providence, that you would hear Christ teaching in His Word, for faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, and that healing power which was present when Christ taught would be present to you. We ask our gracious God and Father that, if it be His will, He would keep this disease from returning and restore you to health, and above all that He would give you the deeper healing of pardon and peace in Christ, so that whether in sickness or in health you may not need to say, I am sick, because your sin is forgiven and your heart is kept in Him.
We commend you to the Sun of Righteousness who has risen with healing in His wings. May you find good in all that comes to you through His hand, and may you be kept from fretting about yourself, but instead tell your trouble to Jesus and leave it there.
Father, in the name of Jesus we ask for this dear one, grant freedom from tormenting anxiety, grant healing according to Your perfect wisdom and mercy, forgive sin through the blood of Christ, and let Your healing leaves be applied to soul and body. Let this soul rest in You and be made whole. Amen.