So your mother suffers from a fatty liver, and you cry out for her healing. You do well to bring this need before the Lord, but consider what the Scripture shows us about Christ’s healings. When He touched Peter’s mother-in-law, the fever left her not gradually, not with a lingering weakness afterward, but at once she was restored to perfect health, strong enough to serve. The physicians of this world cannot do this; they treat a disease and then the body must recover its strength over many days. But Christ’s touch delivers a wholeness that surpasses natural means. Pray, then, with this confidence. Ask not merely for a managed illness or a slowed decay, but for the complete health which the Lord alone can bestow, a health that defies the expected course of the body’s recovery.
But you must also listen carefully to the word He spoke to the paralytic after He made him whole: “Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” Do not recoil from this. Sin is a fearful thing. It is a disease of the soul, and when the soul is sick, we often feel no pain. We neglect it. Therefore God in His mercy sometimes scourges the body so that by healing the inferior part, the better part might also receive healing. He stands in no need of us, yet in His goodness He uses even these afflictions to draw us back to Himself. Do not, then, seek a cure for the body alone while leaving the soul untended, for that is to block up the way of true healing. The real distress is not the liver’s infirmity but the soul’s disposition toward sin, and the worst thing is to rejoice in the very things that cause the disease to grow. Use this trial to sever from your lives any superfluous and mortified attachment, any evil disposition that impairs you. Let the body’s trouble become the knife that cuts out the soul’s corruption.
As for your financial credit, your debts, your lack of a job, you pray for God to make you stable. Yet examine this anxiety. You say you need that sum every month. What is the root of this need? Why so many things? The apostle Paul showed us that a servant’s life should follow need alone, in table, in apparel, in all things. If a man with his many stomachs to fill might have something to say about his necessity, still the excuse often springs not from true need but from pride. The traitor Judas did not fall because he loved great talents of gold. He fell for thirty pieces of silver. Grievous covetousness is not wanting much; it is loving money at all, desiring more than is needful. It wounds the soul and makes us ignorant of God after we have received ten thousand benefits from His hands. Your prayer for financial stability must be accompanied by a ruthless pruning of every expense that serves not necessity but display, every anxiety that flows from the love of money rather than the love of God.
Now you are a family where your father is already in heaven. This ought to make you look all the more intently for the appearing of Christ, who comes without sin unto salvation for those who wait for Him. A dead father in the Lord is not a permanent loss but a herald of the true reunion. Let that hope steady you. The Father who foreordained our redemption did not spare His own Son’s blood to accomplish it; will He not also supply what your bodies and lives require, as He sees fit? Your task is not to dictate the form of His help but to receive His righteousness by faith, to walk in deeds that reflect your healing, to use the Law as your schoolmaster no longer when the reality has come.
Therefore I will pray for your mother’s health and long life, but I pray first that this sickness may be the cautery that heals her soul, that she may rise from it not merely with a restored liver but with a renewed mind, serving the Lord in strength. I will pray for your financial burden, but I pray first that the Holy Spirit would amputate from your life every love of money that makes the burden seem unbearable, so that you may learn to fill others with spiritual gifts rather than being filled with anxiety over earthly debts. And I will pray that the God who made you without needing you, the God who in punishing shows His goodness, will guide you and your mother according to His will, keep you safe, and let you prosper in His arms, a prosperity not of credits and coins but of the soul’s health, which no circumstance can take away. Watch, then, and be grateful. The road laid before you is a severe mercy, but His grace is sufficient for the body and the soul together.
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. 
