Finding Hope in Illness With Amy CarmichaelPrøve

## Prayer for healing Prayer for perfect healing goes to my heart. God knows how I long to be well and able to do more. But yesterday as I read Psalm 84:11, “No good thing will He withhold from them that live a godly life,” I wondered if He would not rather the emphasis were laid on this: “Draw us so into accord with Thyself that no good thing shall be withheld,” instead of: “Health is a good thing. Lord, give it.” More than three times I have prayed Paul’s prayer, but so far always the answer has been the one that came to him: “My grace is sufficient for thee” (2 Cor. 12:9). Any day that might change. What is an illness to Him? One touch and it would be gone. But I wonder if the Lord is saying not only to me but also to you , “See to it that you are in perfect accord with Me and then trust Me to with­hold no good thing.” If health is that good thing, oh, how joyful it will be! Every morning I awaken with the hope, “Perhaps today.” But I want first to want His will, be that will mine or not. It is there that prayer can help most.