{"id":1342,"date":"2020-04-03T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?page_id=1342"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:42:37","slug":"first-sunday-healing-prayers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?page_id=1342","title":{"rendered":"First Sunday Healing Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong>Opening (<em>said by all together<\/em>)<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong><strong>God of mercy and tenderness, we need your healing touch today.\u00a0 Heal us of all sicknesses of body, mind, spirit and relationships; heal us of those illnesses that prevent us from becoming the people you want us to become. Remove from our lives the barriers that hinder our progress.\u00a0 We admit, gracious God, that we are often afraid.\u00a0 We fear the unknown.\u00a0 We fear change.\u00a0 We fear sickness.\u00a0 Release us from the fears that paralyze us.\u00a0 Reach down deep inside us, and gently heal those painful wounds that cause us so much distress.\u00a0 Heal those memories and scars that confuse our thinking and distort our personalities.\u00a0 We worship you and pray in the name and the power of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Blessed and Compassionate Jesus, we bring for your loving care and protection, on the stretchers of our prayers, and the wings of our faith all those who are sick in mind, body, or soul; for ourselves and for all whom we pray this day&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Take from us all fears and help us put our trust in you.<strong><em>Thank you Lord, for helping and healing.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Cleanse us of all resentment, jealousy, self-pity, pride, or anything else that might block your healing power. <strong><em>Thank you Lord, for helping and healing.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Fill us with the sense of your loving presence, that we may experience your kingdom of love in our hearts. <strong><em>Thank you Lord, for helping and healing.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Touch us with your divine, transforming mercy, that we may be healed and live to glorify you, this day and forevermore. <strong><em>In thankfulness to you Lord Jesus we pray. Amen.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>Let us pray together:\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>God of all compassion and tenderness, we humbly confess our impatience when our lives do not work out in the manner we ourselves have prescribed.\u00a0 We confess that we tend to demand instant results from you.\u00a0 In so doing, we miss the miracles of your step-by-step process of healing and wholeness.\u00a0 Forgive our lack of trust in your mercy.\u00a0 Help us recognize the healing ministry of your Holy Spirit as we encounter you in every area of our daily lives, even in this moment of worship.\u00a0 In the name and compassion of your son, Jesus Christ, forgive and renew each of us. Amen.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <em>Healing Services<\/em> by James K. Wagner copyright 2007 by Abingdon Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening (said by all together)\u00a0\u00a0 God of mercy and tenderness, we need your healing touch today.\u00a0 Heal us of all sicknesses of body, mind, spirit and relationships; heal us of those illnesses that prevent us from becoming the people you want us to become. Remove from our lives the barriers that hinder our progress.\u00a0 We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?page_id=1342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Sunday Healing Prayers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1342\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}