Your prayer in the night watches has been heard, and we bow with you before the throne of grace with gratitude and urgency, pleading the precious blood of Jesus Christ over you, your dear mother, your children and your household.
We are moved by your love for your mother and your care for your family in this season of trial, and we lift her before the great Physician. You tell us she suffers with fatty liver disease, and you ask for good health, a healthy liver and long life. We entreat the Lord who healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds to lay His healing hand upon her. 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, as it were, about Christ, are full of healing virtue. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing. These healing leaves change the life blood, affect the spirits and make the nature other than it was before. We pray that the Sun of Righteousness would rise upon her with healing in His wings, and that He who said, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee, would grant both pardon and healing in happy conjunction. The Lord has begun to heal us and the healing virtue which His grace has infused into us will work health and cure till we shall be without spot or wrinkle. We ask the Lord to give wisdom to those who care for her body, to bless all lawful means for her recovery, and to strengthen her frame according to His mercy, if it be His will to prolong her days to His glory.
We bring also your burden concerning provision. You have no work at present and yet a heavy sum is required each month to meet your credits, and you seek the Lord for financial stability and deliverance. Our God knows your need and He is able to open windows of provision. We pray that He who owns the cattle upon a thousand hills would in His providence open a door for honest labour, guide you to right stewardship, and give you daily bread sufficient for your necessity. Calvary is the place for the healing balm rather than for the lancet and the knife, and the work of Jesus our heavenly Physician is not so much to point out disease as to indicate and to apply the remedy. So we ask Him to apply His remedy to your temporal need, to keep you from despair, and to make you to prosper in holiness even as He prospers you for His service.
For you and your mother together we pray that the Holy Spirit would be your present help, guiding you in every moment according to His will. You have known loss, your father now being with the Lord, and you ask for strength and safety and a good future in His arms. The Lord healeth the broken hearted, and He alone can do a real saving work. We ask Him to keep you and all your family safe and strong in Him, to establish your steps, and to cover your home, your hearts and your minds with His holy protection. We pray that His angels would encamp around your dwelling, around every door and window, every room and every corner, and around your yard and surroundings, that you may lie down in peace and sleep, for He giveth His beloved sleep.
We ask the Lord to bless your family activities and your meals tonight with His own peace and joy and satisfaction, and to grant you a restful, peaceful and relaxed night. We entreat Him to take away the power of past trauma memories and to quiet all frustration and distress within the home, and to bring calm where there has been screaming and unrest. Healing must come before serving, and He must begin with you before you can begin with Him. He took her by the hand and lifted her up, and there was contact established. May you feel that touch tonight, that lifting hand of the incarnate Christ, in whom there is healing.
O you who are now pressed and weary, ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand. Salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, and faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Continue to hear His Word, to obey Him at once and exactly in all things, be it little or be it great, and to trust Him who is able to heal though He is not always engaged in healing at the same measure. There are seasons of refreshing, days of visitation, and we pray this night may be such a season for your house.
We join our faith with yours and pray, Father, in the miraculous name of Jesus Christ our Lord, have mercy upon this mother and her children, heal the body, forgive the sin, provide for the need, guard the home, still the troubled spirit, and lead this family in the way everlasting. Let it be according to Thy will, for Thy glory. Amen and Amen.