Covid-19 I Pray That You May Enjoy Good Health

Covid-19

I Pray That You May Enjoy Good Health

As we walk through this pandemic season lets show others we care

Pray for good health and that all will go well with our friends and others

Let people know you are praying for them

When you are saying your “good byes” think of saying “be healthy” 

Remember to pray, it is the greatest gift you can give

Jesus went about healing the sick as He proclaimed the message of truth

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life

He is the one who answers our prayers so  

“You may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you,

even as your soul is getting along well.” 

I Pray That You May Enjoy Good Health

I love the words of 3^rd John 2-4.

John is writing strictly a

personal letter not a doctrine.

This greeting is so warm and compassionate.

You see John deeply cares for Gaius.

  

To my dear friend Gaius,

whom I love in the truth.

3 John 1

You can feel the connection as John

doesn’t address Gaius by name,

 but as a friend…

“Dear friend”

  

John wants his dear friend to know

how he cares for him when he says…

“I pray that you”

John let his friend know he

takes time to pray for him.

Prayer should always be meaningful.

When we pray we should take

that time with God very serious.

When others pray for us,

 we should consider that as a great gift.

It is like your friend went to the most

extravagant store and the farthest distance

to get something from God for you.

What John asked for can really be appreciated

in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

As I get older I find more of my

friends appreciating this greeting…

“I pray that you may enjoy good health.”

Praying for good health.

They say if you don’t have

your health nothing else matters.

Paul says…

Therefore we do not lose heart.

Though outwardly we are wasting away,

yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 4:16

It is a fact these bodies with age

lose their immune system and strength.

When we are unhealthy, we realize

how wonderful health really is.

So this prayer to enjoy good health is powerful.

John also prays…

“and that all may go well with you”

This is the Shalom Prayer,

the Hebrew prayer for peace.

Peace for things to be in order, to be full.

John finishes verse 2 with…

  

“even as your soul is getting along well.”

John is not making this a conditional prayer.

It might better be said this way…

“even as [I know] your soul

keeps well and prospers.”

3 John 2 AMP

There is still the connection between the

inward soul and the outward body.

 And John recognized the healthy

soul of his friend, Gaius.

 

The evidence of a healthy soul is truth.

When truth is in the soul, the

heart and mind of a person…

There is health.

Truth is honesty, integrity.

Truth gives the quality of the state of being.

The only way to have a quality of life

is to have truth and walk in it.

 That is why John says…

 I have no greater joy than to hear that

my children are walking in the truth.

Verse 4

As we walk through this pandemic

season lets show others we care.

Pray for good health and that all will

go well with our friends and others.

Let people know you are praying for them.

When you are saying your “good byes”…

 Think of saying “be healthy”.

 

Remember to pray, it is the

greatest gift you can give.

Jesus went about healing the sick

as He proclaimed a message of truth.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

He is the one who answers our prayers so…

   

“You may enjoy good health and

that all may go well with you,

 even as your soul is getting along well.”  

Scripture Reading

3 John 2-4 NIV

2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

3 John 2-4 TLB

2 Dear friend, I am praying that all is well with you and that your body is as healthy as I know your soul is. 3 Some of the brothers traveling by have made me very happy by telling me that your life stays clean and true and that you are living by the standards of the Gospel. 4 I could have no greater joy than to hear such things about my children.