Prayers for

Healing

“Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.”

Jeremiah 17:14

Bring your body, your heart, and the ones you love to the God who heals, gently, thoroughly, in His own good time.

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Healing

Heal What Hurts

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“He himself bore our sins… by his wounds you have been healed.”1 Peter 2:24

Lord, You are the God who heals, and I come to You just as I am.

I bring You this body, this heart, this tiredness, and I ask for Your gentle mending. Where there is pain, bring relief. Where there is fear, bring peace. Where there is brokenness, bring wholeness.

I trust myself to Your loving and capable hands. Amen.

The same hands that made you are more than able to mend you.

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