Your request concerning your son has been laid before the Lord and we join you in carrying this burden to the throne of grace. We very speedily care for bodily diseases, for they are painful and press us to seek a physician, but how gracious it is that we have a Good Physician above all earthly physicians, whose very leaves are for the healing of the nations.
We are told in the Word that the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and from this we learn that the least thing about Christ is healing. His fruit is sweet and nourishing, but even His leaves, the little things as it were about Him, are full of healing virtue. See in Him the great conduit Head from which abundant streams of healing flow down to men below. When Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He said, Son, be of good cheer, your sins are forgiven you, and thus He showed that pardon and healing were one, and that healing and forgiveness are placed in happy conjunction.
Be encouraged that intercessory prayer is the sweetest prayer God ever hears, for the prayer of Christ Himself is of this character, and there is not a single grain of incense in His censer that is for Himself. What wonders intercessory prayer has wrought, and how earnestly we may plead as we remember how He pleaded, Father, keep them, keep them from the evil. Though you may feel at your wits end and your prayer may seem to reel to and fro, God will hear the prayer of a staggering man, and the prayer that has not any sense in it because the man who prays is at his wits end. They were a long while before they prayed to the Lord, but He was not a long while before He answered their prayer, so that a true prayer from one who is near unto the gates of distress is a prevailing prayer.
Let us pray together for your son.
O Lord, our God, who art pitiful and full of compassion, we bring this dear son before Thee in his affliction. Thou hast seen his sickness and Thou knowest the counsel of the physicians that surgery is appointed for Saturday. We ask Thee to lay Thy healing hand upon him. Guide the hands and minds of those who shall attend him, and grant skill and wisdom to the surgeon. If it be Thy will, restore him to health without complication, ease his pain, and raise him up again to praise Thee. Above all, we pray that he may know that the Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings, and that he may kiss the Son and put his trust in Him, for when we are forgiven we are healed indeed. Let him and his family hear the word, Son, thy sins are forgiven thee, and know the healing that flows from pardoning grace. Let your prayer rise to His throne out of this low place, expecting that He will be very pitiful. May this trial draw his heart nearer to Christ, who took our sicknesses and infirmities upon Himself, that we might be healed.
We will continue to plead with the Most High for him, spreading this case before Him and pressing our suit with all the arguments of His mercy and His promises in Christ. May the Lord hear and answer according to His perfect wisdom and love, and may you be kept in peace as you wait upon Him.