Prayers on the theme of Healing and Forgiveness [ 1
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Father, we are so hesitant
in asking for healing
real physical healing
So hesitant in asking
your Spirit to touch our lives.
It is almost as if we are afraid
that in hoping for a trickle
we unleash a torrent.
Forgive our timidity, Father.
our lack of faith
in the Creator of this universe.
Forgive our unbelief
as we take your Word
apply it to our hearts
open the floodgates
and anticipate a deluge.
Sometimes, Heavenly Father
The answer has to be 'I don't know'
'I don't know why
there is so much suffering in the world'
'I don't know why
that child was not restored to full health'
'I don't know why
people can be so cruel, uncaring, selfish'
Platitudes cannot console a grieving parent
a starving child
a battered wife.
Sometimes, Heavenly Father
our faith is challenged by this world
a world that is less concerned with others
than with self.
Sometimes, in being honest
we open ourselves to ridicule
The world would prefer certainty
but the only certainty is you
who created humankind with the capacity
for good and ill
and gave the world your Son
whom we crucified.
'I don't know'
might seem a lame excuse to some
uncertainty
But we trust in your eternal love
for a mankind which has fallen
We thank you that we are not robots
but have freedom of choice
Help us to make right choices
choices that affect lives
Help us to play our part in changing this world
rather than merely sitting back as spectators
and criticising
Help us to see this world
through your eyes of love
I prayed
"Please Lord,
my life is a mess
let your love flow through me
and bring healing"
And like a river
cool refreshing water
you flowed through me.
Not as a gentle stream
a rivulet of hope
but a torrent
sweeping debris away.
All those broken branches
rust-encrusted items
and accumulated debris
which were holding back the flow
swept aside in a torrent of love
flooding through my veins
pouring into my heart
filling my life.
This is healing.
Thank you, Lord
When I pray for healing, Lord
I sometimes feel so inadequate
ill-equipped for the task.
There are so many I could name
who are in need of healing.
There are those who hurt physically
and others whose hurts go deeper
whose scars cannot be seen to the naked eye.
Yet all need healing
all need making whole again.
There are broken bones
and broken hearts, Lord.
You had a way
a gentle and loving way
of dealing with hurts
physical and spiritual.
You healed the whole person
something medicine can never do.
You reached the very cause
not just the symptoms.
When I pray for healing, Lord
I sometimes feel so inadequate
ill-equipped for the task.
All I can do
is bring their names to your feet
holding them tightly in my prayers
then hand them over
for you to touch
in the way that only you
can touch
God of love,
God of peace
God of Freedom
bring release
to the hungry
and oppressed
refugees and
dispossessed
God of hope
God of Grace
God of mercy
show your face
to the fearful
and the broken
prisoner, jailer
politician
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