We have brought your burden before the Lord and have remembered you in prayer, asking our gracious Father to look upon you in your pain and weariness.
You speak of pain and fatigue throughout your entire body, in spine and neck and back and sides, and of weakness and heaviness that takes away strength and joy. Human strength, even at its best, will spend itself and fail, for apart from God it is not strength at all and must come to an end. But the promise stands sure, They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. When all your own strength fails you, your strength shall be to sit still while God arises and becomes your arm every morning, your salvation in the time of trouble. We pray that as you wait upon Him continually, He will renew your strength for each day, and lift you up by slow degrees or by His sovereign touch, as it pleases His wisdom.
We pray also for your healing. Our Lord Jesus is the heavenly Physician, and there is an abundance of healing power in Him and His salvation. Not only is His fruit sweet and nourishing, but the very leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. He is the Sun of Righteousness risen with healing in His wings, and when He healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, showing that pardon and healing are joined together in His hand. We ask the Lord to lay His healing hand upon your body, upon every place of pain, upon spine and neck and back, upon those inward parts that trouble you, upon your voice and vocal chords, and to grant you relief and restoration according to His perfect will. We pray that He would ease your fatigue, restore vigor to your frame, and give you rest where there has been unrest.
We have asked the Lord for those other mercies you seek, for motivation and purpose and happiness, for creativity and for strength to serve Him. Strength to minister comes with healing, for when Christ takes us by the hand and lifts us up, we are raised to serve. May the gratitude for His mercy impel you to activity, and may He show you that your purpose is found in glorifying Him and enjoying His fellowship. We pray that He would make your heart glad in Him, and that you may feel His love shed abroad throughout the day, not as a fleeting feeling only, but as a settled confidence that you are upheld in Christ.
Cast yourself upon Him as a guilty, weak and helpless soul falling upon Christ's kind arms, for He is your strength and righteousness, your Jesus and your all. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds, and He will not despise the cry of those who trust Him.
May the Lord grant you to know pardoning mercy, for many a child of God when weary has renewed his strength at the remembrance of it, and may that mercy bring healing in its wings. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, and in whom is all our hope. Amen.
