A prayer of healing for sick family and friends by Wendy Van Dyke.

Heal me Lord and I will be healed.

Save me and I will be saved.

For you are the one I praise,

Jeremiah 1714.

Some time ago I sat in an office where an oncologist told my husband after three battles with

cancer that sometimes you just have to have faith.

I sat there and thought about how the burden of healing sickness is never on the patient,

how it is never even on a doctor, but how it is always, always on God.

The burden of healing rests on the shoulders of my big gracious God, who turns when I touch

the hem of his garment.

The burden of healing falls on my God who knows the plans he has for me even

when my own hopes collapse around me. The burden of healing doesn't lie in saying just the right words or praying something that sounds beautiful.

I don't know about you, but that frees me up to pray a little more boldly for God to heal. I don't know if you need

healing from a sickness or if you know a family member or friend who does, but if

you're searching for words, you're welcome to borrow some of mine let's pray.

Lord Jesus thank you that you love the one who needs healing. I know that you hate what illness is doing to them, to me. I ask that you would

heal this disease, that you would have compassion and bring healing from all sickness.

Your word says in Psalm 107 19 through 20 that when we call out to you, the

eternal one, you will give the order, heal and rescue us from certain death.

In the Bible, I have read of miraculous healing,

and I believe that you still heal the same way today.

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