Prayer for Healing for the Body (A Family)

A brother in my locality, Gurugram, called me up yesterday to express his feeling and consideration concerning his marital issue with his wife. The Lord graced me the patience of hearing his heart out. He has confided in me some of his deeper feelings and I could feel the pain and pressure he has been going through all these years. Especially the past few weeks have been too much for him to bear. He needs an outlet to flow out his thoughts and feelings. I offer myself as a brother to console and pray with him during these hard times. Listening to all that he said, I could discern what he actually needs. I disagreed with some of his proposals and advised him as a brother to drop some of his cherished thoughts. For I knew they were not biblical and were not of the Lord, it was purely out of the undealt mind. He obliged to listen.

After all his discourse on his life, past and present, and his plan for the future, I fellowshipped with him as a brother, not as a friend, to consider some basic Christian principles of living. I discovered that despite all his biblical knowledge in doctrine, there has been little growth in life; both he and his wife. Despite all the outward show of miraculous experiences and biblical knowledge, they very much lack behind in the fundamental elements of the Christian life. I have told him that the strength of a tree is not in the thickness or tallness of the trunk that is seen and openly displayed wonderfully. But it is in the depth and width of the root beneath unseen and hidden mysteriously. Our hidden life with Christ and in Christ is the secret and basic element in our Christian life. Without this, the Christian life is as hypocritical as the religious people of the Bible and of today.

Therefore, I fellowshipped with him that the problem he has been facing now is the Lord's chastening hand to lead them to rectify all the wrongs committed or neglected since they first believed into the Lord. I advised him strongly to humble himself, and start afresh from ground zero, discarding all vain knowledge however scriptural that may be. His inner life has to be set right, as well as his wifie's. His time with the Lord has to be made right daily. A total and a fresh new beginning are what they both need. Without which their marriage will be shipwreck as it has already been cracking.

I gave my word to stand with him and pray with him and also pray for him and his family. Besides the marital issues, financial and health issues are already too much to bear. His wife has just been diagnosed with breast cancer though in the early stage. To me, that is still not the real issue. The real issue is in their basic beliefs and practices of their Christian life. For this, I strongly recommended him to exercise his spirit to call on the Lord's name, pray, and fellowship with the Lord intimately as much as possible. After all, only the Lord is the solution to all his problems.

For his wife and him, we have been praying too, in our family prayer and also in the group meeting and even in the church prayer meeting. Our prayer for their physical and spiritual healing is so that the Lord can gain both of them for His testimony wherever they are. Our prayer for their healing is for the Body of Christ. 

I have been fellowshipping and praying with this brother weekly. The Lord will fully recover him and his wife, physically, psychologically, and spiritually. 

Lord, heal my brother and sister for the sake of Your Body and Your testimony.