There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the leaves, the little things about Christ, are full of healing virtue. These healing leaves change the life blood, affect the spirits and make the nature other than it was before. What you describe, this weakness, the trouble in the throat, the emptiness in the chest, are tokens of a deeper malady, and the remedy is not found in battling the air or the man, but in bringing the sick soul and body to the Tree of Life whose leaves are for the healing of the nations. The Sun of Righteousness rises with healing in His wings, and where He comes, the inhabitant shall not say, “I am sick,” for pardon and healing are one gift from the pardoning hand.
Spiritual disease receives its deathblow when sin is forgiven. Sin is crucified by the same Cross which brings Atonement. Yet many are spiritually dead and know it not until the Holy Spirit quickens them. You speak of “bad air” and a man who troubles you through black magic. This is your perception of a spiritual assault, but the true bondage is the deadness of the soul apart from Christ. When a man is far gone into such entanglement, Christ does this for him, he breaks off his evil habits. The Lord can take the black lumps of ebony and make them alabaster. He works moral and spiritual transformations. The man who troubles you, whatever his name or his religion, is but a creature; the power you fear is a shadow before the Cross. Learn but to pronounce the name of Jesus from your heart as all your confidence and you have learned a magic word which will scatter troops of opposing foes and will open the two-leaved gates and cut the bars of iron in sunder if they stand between your soul and Heaven. This is not the magic of the sorcerer, but the might of the Saviour.
Bring your mother and yourself where Christ is working spiritual miracles. The healing power is conspicuously present where He is teaching, for faith comes by hearing. The least thing about Christ is healing. Strive to bring dying sinners, yes, and that troubled man, to the place of the Word, for the teaching of Christ is the conduit Head from which streams of healing flow down. You ask that the black magic be destroyed and that he trouble you no more. Pray rather that his own soul be snatched from the pit. He is as one dead in trespasses, and only the quickening of God’s Spirit can change him. May that transformation come, so that the abominable practices fall away as dead leaves from a quickened tree. The text stands sure: “The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” That word “nations” sweeps wide enough to include your household and even this man, should the Lord grant repentance.
Rest not in any form of your flesh, nor in any act of your flesh, to fight this battle. All spiritual strength comes by the Spirit’s work. The promise is comprehensive, it includes the thorough restoration of the entire spiritual constitution. When the Lord gives the appetite, He will find the meat. Come with that hungry mouth for Christ, and be filled to the full. Let your soul be wrapt in the assurance that your Beloved is yours, and then the black and frightful thoughts are banished. Thy stream, O Jordan, cannot drown it, black and deep though thy depths may be; in the midst of thy tremendous billows our soul is confident, and resteth still on Him that loved us and gave Himself for us. Get you to the Cross, where the healing balm flows instead of the lancet and knife. There is where the captive gets deliverance, where the sick obtain strength, and where every malignant power is dissolved. God bless you, even so, in Jesus’ name.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
