Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your request has been heard and we join you in prayer before the throne of grace for this great affliction. As surely as God's will is the axle of the universe and the great heart of providence, so we rest assured that He is King, willing to do as He pleases, having mercy on whom He will have mercy, and that nothing happens but what He permits or ordains. You have prayed well to say, if it be God's will, for all things are under regulation and have an appointed place in His plan, and knowing that we will not always say, If the Lord wills, yet we will always feel it.
We pray that the Lord in His sovereign mercy would lay His healing hand upon this dear woman who lies so very ill in the hospital, and if it be His revealed and perfect will, that He would raise her up again and restore her. We pray also that He who says not, I will send an angel to comfort you, but I will comfort you, would Himself draw near to comfort your friend and to comfort her. For often we who preach are but broken cisterns that hold no water, but when God undertakes the work, then even poor earthen vessels become conduit pipes full to bursting with the drink the soul requires. May He comfort His people in the very place of their trouble, and speak sweet words of comfort into the ear in this wilderness of sorrow.
This is our comfort in affliction, that it is God's own Word which quickens and sustains. Fly to that comfort with speed in every time of trouble, and be much in prayer, for it was little prayer that brought many down and it is great prayer that will lift them up. And remember that whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely, for whosoever cometh unto Christ He will in no wise cast out. There is salvation in no other, and there is no true and lasting comfort apart from Him.
So we commend both your friend and this afflicted one to the care of our gracious Father, asking that He would do what is best according to His infinite wisdom and love, that He would grant healing if it be His will, and in all things grant His own comfort, His sustaining grace, and faith to rest in Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose name we pray. Amen.
We pray that the Lord in His sovereign mercy would lay His healing hand upon this dear woman who lies so very ill in the hospital, and if it be His revealed and perfect will, that He would raise her up again and restore her. We pray also that He who says not, I will send an angel to comfort you, but I will comfort you, would Himself draw near to comfort your friend and to comfort her. For often we who preach are but broken cisterns that hold no water, but when God undertakes the work, then even poor earthen vessels become conduit pipes full to bursting with the drink the soul requires. May He comfort His people in the very place of their trouble, and speak sweet words of comfort into the ear in this wilderness of sorrow.
This is our comfort in affliction, that it is God's own Word which quickens and sustains. Fly to that comfort with speed in every time of trouble, and be much in prayer, for it was little prayer that brought many down and it is great prayer that will lift them up. And remember that whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely, for whosoever cometh unto Christ He will in no wise cast out. There is salvation in no other, and there is no true and lasting comfort apart from Him.
So we commend both your friend and this afflicted one to the care of our gracious Father, asking that He would do what is best according to His infinite wisdom and love, that He would grant healing if it be His will, and in all things grant His own comfort, His sustaining grace, and faith to rest in Jesus Christ our Lord, in whose name we pray. Amen.
