Your urgent burden for your missionary brother and dear friend has been heard, and we have brought him before the Lord in prayer with you.
We join you in asking our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, the Good Physician, to lay His healing hand upon him. As it is written, the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations, and even the least thing about Christ is full of healing virtue. There is an abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation, and the utmost length of human sickness can be reached by this great Physician. None shall say to the healing flood of His love, up to here you can go and no further.
We have prayed that the Lord in His mercy and sovereignty would be pleased to restrain this cancer which has spread to groin, leg, hip and lungs, to bring relief from pain, to grant wisdom to those who care for him, and if it be His will, to restore him to health and extend his days for many years as a testimony to the greatness of God and His power over sickness and death. We have asked that he would know the nearness of Christ, for when the Sun of Righteousness rises upon His people with healing in His wings, pardon and healing are found together in Him.
Be encouraged that God hears the prayer of those who are near unto the gates of death. A true prayer from one who is at his wit's end is a prevailing prayer, for He is not slow to answer those who cry to Him out of the low dungeon. He was not long in answering when His people at last prayed, and He is still very pitiful and full of compassion in our misery. Continue to pour out your heart before His throne, for the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, and the Church must pray if she would see His healing power.
We are praying also for you and for all who love him, that the Lord would sustain you with Divine grace, keep you near to Christ, and give you peace in trusting His perfect will. We have shared this burden with our church family that many may join in earnest prayer for him.
O you who are sick unto death, ask to be forgiven and healing will come from the pardoning hand. May our Lord grant to your brother, if he has not already, full assurance that his sins are forgiven through faith in Jesus Christ alone, for that is the first and greatest healing. And may you both prove that only those who have been healed can tell of the Good Physician's healing power.
We commit him into the hands of the Lord Jesus, asking all these mercies in His mighty and holy name, Amen.