Supplication: Heal Us, Immanuel!

Heal Us, Immanuel!

O Christ Jesus our Lord, Thou art still mighty to heal, and we are a company who have come together full of sicknesses and sores and sorrows of all kinds. We would not waste a moment while blessings are so rife, and power to heal is so remarkably present in Thee; but we would each one strive to touch Thee, if we may, and ask that this day virtue would come out of Thee, O blessed risen Christ, to heal us of whatsoever disease we have.

There are some that are Thy children, beloved Lord, but they are afflicted with the palsy of a weak and trembling faith. Lord, strengthen our faith. Lift us up beyond all question. Let there be no doubts in our mind about the fundamental principles of the everlasting Gospel. Let us have no distrust of Thy power to save even us, though we be the least of all saints and a very chief of sinners. Let us have no distrust of Thy Providence, no doubt of Thy faithful love; but may we just trust Thee as a child trusts its father, without the shadow of distrust, resting in the Lord and waiting patiently for Him. Heal us, Immanuel, of our unbelief and make us strong in faith, giving glory to God. Peradventure some of Thy children here are sorely tempted; they have had many trials during the week; they scarcely know how they have lived during the week, but here they are, and Thy lovingkindness has kept them alive.

"As thy days so shall thy strength be": that is the promise. "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us": that is the experience. "I will trust and not be afraid": that is the practical inference from the promise and the experience. May each child of Thine say that through the power of the touch of the Master. Amen.