ASKING OTHERS TO PRAY FOR YOU: If you are scheduled for a procedure and think you might benefit from prayers, let everyone important to you know when you are having the procedure. Tell them the exact date and time of the procedure and ask them to send you loving and positive thoughts and prayers at the very moment you will be having your procedure. Do not be afraid to ask your doctor to say a prayer with you or at least to be in the room while you recite such a prayer. Be sure to pray for your doctor to be skillful and for a positive outcome! If you don’t have an appropriate prayer to recite, find one that touches your heart and spirit from the prayers included in this section.
Give Me Strength
Heal me, 0 Lord. My limbs tremble. I know not what the future will bring. Weary am I with groaning and weeping. The coming days may hold danger for me. I need that strength which has its source in You. While I pray with an anxious heart, I need guidance. Let difficulties not dishearten me, nor those who attend me. Give me strength so that I may master life, and not be mastered by it. Through Your light show me answers to my questions, some assurances for my doubts, some hope for renewal-soon
Amen.
Author Unknown
Peace At Night
Keep us this night, eternal God, from the anxieties and tensions of darkness. Whether awake or asleep, let our thoughts reflect Your holy will. Preserve us from all terrors of the night, from restlessness and sorrowful thoughts, from fretfulness and imaginary fears. Let us awake tomorrow renewed with strength, and cheerful in spirit. May we arise with worthwhile thoughts, living lives that reflect Your glory, the spirit of service to others, and the comfort and joy of our families.
Amen.
Author Unknown
Visions Of Love
O God of peace, we seek rest for Our spirits, and light for Our thoughts. We bring our work to be sanctified, our wounds to be healed, our sins to be forgiven, our hopes to be renewed. 0 Eternal, Master of harmony, draw us close to You; resolve the discords of our lives. You in whom all are one, lift us from the loneliness of self, and fill us with the fullness of Your love. Your greatness is beyond our praise. Raise us beyond the limits of our daily imperfections. Send us visions of the love that is in You, and of the good that may be in us.
Amen.
Author Unknown
The Lord is My Shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in pleasant green pastures, He leads me beside the peaceful waters. He restores my soul, He guides me in good paths for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through a valley overshadowed by death, I will fear no evil, For You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.You prepare a table before me in the presence of my oppressors. Once You anointed my head with oil; my cup has been full ever since. Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And then I shall live in the house of the Lord forever.
Amen.
Psalm 23
Sustain Me
When we view our lives against the background of the universe and God’s eternity, we are truly humbled. Yet this view also is a source of stability and inner peace, of serenity and calm. Lord, You have been our refuge from generation to generation. Before the mountains were born, before the earth was fashioned, from age to age, everlastingly You are God. A thousand years are in Your sight as a passing day, an hour of night. O Lord, my God, I thank You for the many blessings which I have enjoyed, and for my family and friends. At this moment I need courage and an ever stronger faith. Sustain me with a fresh confidence; so that I can face the coming days and weeks constantly aware of Your love.
Amen.
Author Unknown
Faith
I need fear nothing this day, for I have declared my My faith in God’s providence. Whether tried or spared, I accept His will as good. “I am always aware of the Lord’s presence, He is at my right hand. I shall never be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my spirit rejoices; my body, also rests in hope. You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is the fullness of joy.”
Amen.
From Psalm 16