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Chapter 16—Prayer for the Sick
The Scripture says that “men always ought to pray and not lose
heart”
Luke 18:1
. If ever there is a time when people feel their
need of prayer, it is when strength fails and life itself seems slipping
from their grasp. Often those who are in health forget the wonderful
mercies extended to them day by day, year after year, and they render
no tribute of praise to God for His benefits. But when sickness
comes, God is remembered. When human strength fails, people feel
their need of divine help. And never does our merciful God turn
from the soul that in sincerity seeks Him for help. He is our refuge
in sickness as in health.
“As a father pities his children,
So the Lord pities those who fear Him.
For He knows our frame;
He remembers that we are dust.”
Psalm 103:13, 14.
“Because of their transgression,
And because of their iniquities, [people] were afflicted.
Their soul abhorred all manner of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them out of their distresses.
He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions.”
Psalm 107:17-20.
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God is just as willing to restore the sick to health now as when
the Holy Spirit spoke these words through the psalmist. And Christ
is the same compassionate Physician now that He was during His
earthly ministry. In Him there is healing balm for every disease,
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