Your urgent and heartfelt cry has come before us and we have carried it to the throne of grace, where Jesus our great High Priest ever lives to intercede for His people.
We hear in your words the weight of many sorrows, loneliness and singleness, the pain of waiting, criticism and disappointment, rejection and poverty, sadness and long suffering. The Lord knows the heaviness of such a broken heart. He does not despise the cry of the afflicted, and He has provided healing for the wounded. As it is written, He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
Take comfort that our Savior Himself knew loneliness in its deepest form. He was left alone just when as Man He most needed human sympathy, and yet He could say, I am not alone, because the Father is with me. If you are His, you too are never truly alone, even in the lonely watch. The Father is with you, and that presence can sustain you when all other comforts fail. In seasons of deep soul conflict, when faith itself must fight for very existence, Christ remains near to keep and restore His own.
We have prayed that the Lord would grant you first and above all the healing that begins with pardon. Scripture joins these two together, for when Jesus healed the sick of the palsy He first said, your sins are forgiven you. Pardon and healing are one in His hand. The leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations, and even the least thing about Christ is full of healing virtue to change the life and make the nature new. We have asked that He would wash you in His blood, give you peace with God through Jesus Christ alone, and then work health and cure in every part of your life according to His perfect will.
We have also prayed for your restoration. As Peter fell and was restored by a look from the Lord, so the Lord is able to lift up those who have been sifted and sorely tried, and to turn them again to their first love and hope. His grace does not merely repair, it makes all things new in its time, and it will at last perfectly heal both soul and body for those who trust Him.
Concerning marriage and the desire for companionship, we have prayed that the Lord in His wisdom and mercy would direct your path and provide what is best for you. We ask Him to keep you in purity and patience, to prepare you for a lifelong covenant of one man and one woman as He has ordained marriage, where love and faithfulness dwell together within that holy bond, and to guard you from seeking comfort outside His good design. If it be His will to grant marriage, we pray He would do so in His own fitting time and with one who loves Christ. If He calls you to wait, we pray He would fill your waiting with His presence and purpose, and make your heart content in Him.
We do not ask God to grant every desire at once or without delay, for we know not what is best, but we ask Him to do what is best, to give you what will most glorify Him and most truly heal you. He who gave His Son will with Him also freely give you all things needful, in the measure and season that His love appoints.
May the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you with healing in His wings. May He forgive your sins, heal your sorrows, and give you quiet confidence that He who has begun a good work will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
We continue to pray for you, that you may know pardon, healing, and restoration in Christ, and that your loneliness may be turned into fellowship with Him who will never leave you.
In the name of Jesus Christ our only Savior we pray, Amen.
