Prayer for Healing for the Body (A Brother)

Today morning I received a surprise call from a brother who has been on the process of recovery from being bedridden for the past couple of weeks. Today morning he could get up by himself and he had the spiritual hunger and thirst to call me and pray with me. So we prayed together over the phone for a couple of minutes. In his prayer, he expressed thanks and gratitude to God for being so merciful to him and gave God all the glory. He also confessed his need for the Body and be in fellowship with the members of the Body, that's why he called me to pray with him. He also expressed his thanks to God for I could be his brother praying for him and with him. He even termed me as an "honest and mature and understanding brother" though I personally do not feel comfortable with all these words. In my understanding of myself, I am no way near to all these descriptions. Anyhow, I listened toa ll that he has to pray and I also prayed after him.

A few days ago I received a text from a sister that I could call him though he was still in ICU. To this sister, I told her to inform me when I could speak to the brother over the phone when she informed me of him being hospitalized for weeks then. On being informed, I called the brother immediately and prayed with him. He was so happy that I could call and pray with him and for him.  

Since the time I heard of him being hospitalized, I and my family have been praying in our daily family prayer meeting and in the group meetings. In my prayer, I am very clear about what to pray for. By the Lord's mercy, I have known this brother to some extent since the first time I met him in Shillong. Whatever happens to him is allowed by the Lord in His loving care for His testimony. This brother is very instrumental in the Lord's move and testimony in his state. Though there has been some misunderstanding in terms of truth and practices of the church life, my brother truly loves the Lord. He has also been very influential among the saints and the local churches there. If the Lord so will, he probably could be the one to bring all the saints and the churches in his state into the fellowship, oneness, and blending with the Body of Christ in the nearby states and also in this country. My specific pray for his full recovery in the body is for the full recovery of the oneness and fellowship of the Body of Christ. I am very clear about this point and for this point only I prayed and still have been praying for his recovery, in body, in soul, and in spirit.

The Lord needs proper vessels for His move on the earth. He does things the way He does to achieve His goal. Once we know what God's desire is, we must pray only according to the Lord's heart's desire. That was my heart's desire in my prayer for the brother so that God can fulfill His will in his state Meghalaya and in his locality Shillong. For this purpose, I have been praying for the healing of my brother's mortal body for the recovery of the Lord's mystical Body in that part of the earth. And I have the faith that the Lord will gain His heart's desire and recover His testimony all over Meghalaya.

All that I do or pray for, must be in oneness with God and His desire. That is doing the will of God after knowing the will of God. Yes for this purpose, I pray and I will continue to pray. Even for the healing of my brother for the sake of God's economy, for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

Lord, heal my brother!