Prayers for Healing

O God, you who I know to be the greatest of doctors, come and lay your hand upon me. Renew my strength and restore me to health. Give me, I pray, at a time when my body seems the weakest, the renewal of your Spirit. Hold me up with your love. Help me to see through my problem, to a point beyond which I can grow strong in you and in your love; for Jesus sake. Amen.

O God, you who art the only source of health and healing, grant to me such an awareness of your indwelling and surrounding presence that I may allow you to give me health and strength and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Before an Operation

Loving Father, I place myself into your care this day. Guide and direct with wisdom and skill the minds and hands of the ones who will minister to me this day. Lord, grant that every cause of illness might be removed, that my health might be restored and I might accept with patience and determination that which lies ahead. Help me to live in a more perfect harmony with you and my fellow man; through Jesus Christ. Amen.

After an Operation

O gracious loving God, thank you for the operation that isnow past. Help me now to rest in your continuing presence, relaxing every tension, releasing every care and worry, permitting more and more of your healing life into every part of my being. Lord, in moments of pain, I turn toward you for strength, in times of loneliness, I feel your loving nearness; and now in times of thanks I turn to you with my praise. Grant, O Lord, that your life and love and joy may flow through me for the healing of others; in Christ's name. Amen.

In the Morning (Ps. 103)

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the Pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good as long as you live, so that your youth is renewed like an eagle's.

In the Evening (Ps. 4 & 23)

Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still . . . and put your trust in the Lord . . . I will lay me down in peace and sleep. for thou, Lord, only, makest me dwell in safety

The Lord is my sheperd, I shall not want . . . I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.