Nothing feels as good as lips without cold sores.
A cold sore is an infection, generally on the lip, that begins as a hot itchy tingling, until it becomes swollen from the inside, showing up like a puffy blister on the outside of the affected area. It has the ability to make the victim feel very miserable, lethargic, depressed, irritated, and upset. It’s like an entire head cold condensed into one tiny spot. And if you touch it at all, it will spread double across the lips.
They are very painful and take more than a week for the wound to fade, if it’s picked at during the healing process, the cold sore will scar the lip, leaving traces of uneven pink dots on the lip that show up when in different temperatures.
Generally you either get them or you don’t. I’m the former. I have always managed to get these when I am either very tired, had too much sugar, change of season, touching my lips too much, being upset too often, stress, or instead of a cold.
Often as soon as I would feel the tingle I knew what would be coming and no pill or remedy has been quick enough to stop it once the hot tingle is felt.
I’ve tried pressing onion halves against the lip until it burns like mad, lipsyne pills, cold sore pills, bepanthem cream, carmex, lip balms, scratching them to speed up the process, different poultices, drinking a lot of water, etc etc the list goes on, and none of those manage to reduce the infection quickly and effectively.
Knowing that there is no quick fix, over the past years I have simply let them be when they come, try not to touch my face, and lastly, pray for my lips.
And from years of experience I know for sure and certain when I’m about to get a cold sore and not just a pimple etc, but I’ve found the more I’ve prayed over my lips and rebuked the cold sores from coming upon them, the outcome of my prayers have become more obvious, as I find the faith to choose to believe that no, I don’t have to put up with this any longer.
A prayer that I’ve prayed and memorised a lot has been from various scriptures speaking into my current issue:
Lord, thank you that you love me, thank you for your healing power that resides within me by your Holy Spirit. Cold sore, I speak to you in the name of Jesus, you have no right to remain in my body for I am a child of the most high God. He himself in his body on the tree bore my sin, sickness and disease that by his stripes I would be healed and made whole.
I speak to any infection trying to come upon me, be healed in Jesus name, you have no rights for I am a temple of the Holy Spirit. I speak to my lips to function as they were created to function, to the skin cells to be normal in Jesus name, I speak to the tingling and itch to be gone in the name of Jesus. Thank you Father for your provision of healing and the power that you have given me through your son Jesus, thank you Lord.
In Jesus Name, amen.
Literally just last night driving home from work I could feel a cold sore coming up and I felt my heart sink, that’s the last thing I need or want! But after I got home I looked at myself in the mirror remembering who God has called me to be. It’s not about works so no one can boast, but His victory is in my identity now and He does not withhold good from those He loves. I need to remember these things when the devil comes at me saying that I shouldn’t bother praying because I don’t deserve it. So I prayed anyway. I woke up this morning to a smooth lip. I said to God, I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astounded by His goodness, not that I doubt He can be so good, but because of the fact that He still is, despite all that I am.
God hears our prayers. He doesn’t desire our demise, He is but a breath away, and is urging us to take up our true identity of authority over darkness, confidence in the righteousness won for us, trust in the power of the name of Jesus, honest faith in the face of adversity by believing what He says, glorifying our Saviour with how we live our lives.
1 John 4:4
Isaiah 53:4-5
1 Peter 2:24
Luke 10:19
Matthew 10:8
Matthew 28:18-20
