Your prayer is heard and it is our joy to join our hearts with yours before the throne of grace.
We pray with you, Father God, heal and protect us today, help us to love and obey You more, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. How sweet is such a prayer, for it asks for the very things which God delights to give.
You ask to love Him more, and remember this truth, we love Him because He first loved us. The only way to love God more is to let the love of God to you dwell in your soul till it transforms your soul into itself. Let your soul swim as in a sea of His love, and think much upon His great love to you in Christ, and your own love to Him shall be nourished and shall abound. Perfect love to God leads to the perfect life with God, and love to God will strengthen you for service and for endurance.
You ask also to obey Him more, and towards God a blind obedience is the truest wisdom. To follow the path that God marks out from day to day, believing God and taking firm hold upon His promise, this is to endure as seeing Him that is invisible. The exactness of obedience is the very essence of obedience. May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ, that your obedience may be wholehearted and complete, not going thus far and no further, but yielding all to Him who gave all for you.
So we commend you to His healing hand and His keeping power this day. May He lay His hand upon you for healing according to His wise and gracious will, and may He cover you under the shadow of His wings and keep you from all evil. May He grant you grace to walk by faith, to love Him with all your heart, and to obey His commands with joy, knowing that to them that love God all things work together for good.
We thank the Lord for your simple faith, and we pray that He will answer you with abounding love and cause you to feel the warmth of His marvelous love in Christ Jesus, in whose name we pray, Amen.