Prayer For Broken Families
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
For all agents of healing we thank you.
For the truly miraculous, for doctors and nurses.
For friends who pray with actions as well as words.
For the peace that comes from knowing your presence
throughout our suffering.
For the knowledge that you bring wholeness,
in this world and throughout eternity.
For all agents of healing we thank you.
For the truly miraculous, for doctors and nurses.
For friends who pray with actions as well as words.
For the peace that comes from knowing your presence
throughout our suffering.
For the knowledge that you bring wholeness,
in this world and throughout eternity.
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.
Lord,
I come to you to lift up (name(s) and ask for your healing hand to be upon their hearts.
Soften the hardness of their hearts and help them to be open to one another to repair what's been broken.
Help them to forgive and to love the other as you love them.
Help them to see the other through your eyes and to love through your heart.
You are the healer of all brokenness, and I trust in you Lord.
For I lift these things up to you and pray in your most heavenly name Amen.