by Gail Rodgers
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“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 iniquities; who heals all your diseases;
Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving- kindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfies your mouth with good things; so that your youth is renewed like the eagles.” Psalm 103: 1-5
Heavenly Father,
This morning I am so grateful that You are my healer. You are the one who puts Your salve of comfort on my heart when I need it. You help me to forgive so that the disease of bitter un-forgiveness cannot take over my mind and body.
You redeem that which I have messed up and you pardon, purify and cleanse me. Oh Lord, there is no need for any of us to walk limping for Your grace brings healing to our minds and hearts. Inward healing is our first need, Lord. Thank you for Your provision.
Thank you that you also care about my physical state and are able to bring healing to my body and my bones. Where there are those of us who are seeing doctors, grant them divine wisdom in providing treatment; Grant us understanding in maintaining our own wellness and lead us.
You are our Hope, the Lamp who guides our lives by Your Spirit and through Your word. Counsel us today. Be our helper, our keeper. Thank you that You are our shade, our joy and our strength.
Today I put my life, my health and all that is me into Your loving hands with faith and trust that You will walk every step with me today.
When I am bedridden may your presence surround me and comfort me.
O Lord, my healer, I praise Your name today and ask this in Your powerful name, amen.
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Dear Lord Jesus I come on behalf of JudyD’s mother who lost her husband. Lord I pray that when Judy’s mom lies down that she will be at peace. Lord you have promised rest when we call out to you. Lord I pray for Judy’s fingers. I pray that you will touch her fingers. May she have a reprieve in her hands. Thank you for the encouragement and ministry she gives to each of us! Comfort JudyD and may she know that the Joy of the Lord is her Strength. In Jesus Name Amen.
Thanks JudyD for your ministry to me last week!
Thank you, Margaret, for your sweet prayers and Christian love. It refreshes me and encourages me. God bless you, my sister in Christ. I praise the Lord He was able to use me last week. That is a blessing to me.
It’s me again – I am faced with some decision about my health and don’t know what to do. I ask God but never feel like I am getting a clear answer. I am working with a doctor on my digestive issues and had a PA in another state who was regulating my hormones. She wants me to find someone locally to handle my hormones and my doctor does, but I don’t like the lab he uses. It’s often inaccurate. He also recommended cortisone which I would rather not be on while my PA in TX was using natural hormones. My options are letting this doctor handle the hormones anyhow along with the digestive issues, letting him handle the digestive issues only and using the lab itself to handle my hormones, or finding a completely new doctor. Most holistic MDs charge $300 to $500 for a new patient appointment and I just paid that much for this doc I have now. I am so confused. He seems like a good doctor in many ways (and he is a Christian) but in other ways he doesn’t get it like how severly my eating disorder affects me. He actually told my therapist that he felt my main issues is gluten intolerance. I am so very confused. I need some clarity from God about all this and about why I have been retaining mega amounts of fluid for 29 days 24/7. I am so scared and don’t know where to go or what to do. Please pray for healing, clarity, and for God to lead me to the right decision/person/treatment.
Thank you all for being here. You are in my prayers.
Kristina
could you use only my first name
Dear Jehovah-Rapha, Praises to you tonight. You are so worthy. Love and Honor to your Great and Mighty name.
All of the posts here are so wonderful and full of love for all of the sisters who have a need to be lifted up to The Great Healer. And I add my prayers for everyone who has a need.
I haven’t posted for a couple of days and I have missed all of you. This site really links us all together and we care about esch other. I am so glad I started posting. I have been getting the Devotionals for a long time and just not posted and I regret not being on here with all of you. when I think of all of the blessings I have missed, it makes me want to cry. But I am thankful that now I am with all of you in prayer.
I thank all of you for the prayers for me. You are so special.
My heart almost leaped when I read about the miracle for MJ’s unborn baby. Thank you Great God. You are truly a God of miracles.
I lift up each concern and know that we will all be given what God thinks we need because we believe with faith , believing when we pray.
I usually tell something about our little grandson Joshua who is 4 years old. Two nights ago, our daughter was reading him a book titled ” If Jesus Came to My House.” when she finished, he gave her a big kiss on her cheek and she asked him what was that special kiss for? He said, ” If Jesus comes after I go to bed, give Him that kiss from me.” Becky almost cried right in front of him. I called my brother Steve and told him ,and he said,” Joshua has the most beautiful heart I have ever seen in a child.”
Our family prays that he will stay that way , and my husband and I started praying before he was born for the peers he would have and for God to be preparing his heart and the heart of the young lady that God had for him to marry one day, that they would be Godly people.
Since I mentioned my brother, Steve, he really needs a lot of prayer. He is over weight, has diabetes, and has had stents put in 3 arteries. He just found out yesterday that he has a herneated disc in his back. He is single and a wonderful Christian. I ask God to lead him to a Godly woman even if it was just for someone to go out to dinner with, and be good friends.
I am truly touched by all of the heartfelt prayers you all put on here for all of the requests that were given. May God Bless all of you. Hannah
Donna, Patti and others – thank you for your prayers! MJ – I celebrate your miracle, what wonderful news! Thank You, Father God!!
I NEED TO HAND OVER MY THOUGHTS ABOUT SOME FAMILY ISSUES AND NOT TO JUDGE TO HARSHLY. I NEED TO GIVE MY HEALTH PROBLEMS OVER TO HIM WITCH THERE ARE MANY MOSTLY ABOUT PAIN AND IF I SHOULD HAVE BACK SURGERY.GOD WILL I KNOW TELL ME WHAT TO DO WHEN IT IS THE RIGHTTIME I PRAISE HIMFOR ALL THAT HE HAS ALREADY DONE FOR ME.
SHARON B
Shawn,
I will be in agreement prayer with you regarding the healing of your family. In the meantime, can your husband be called dad instead of step-dad? Not to take away from your ex at all but I wonder if it would make a difference in the relationship between the children and your husband.
Also, I would like to solicit prayers for my physical healing. I truly believe God can do anything but for some reason, there is doubt when it comes to this area of my life. I think it’s because I don’t want to have to say that God failed me if He chooses not to heal my body.
Hi Audrey I have many times when I have been annointed. Each time the Lord touched me. Sometimes it was in my spiritual life and emotional life. I have been touched in my body many times and I am beginning to realize the reprieve gives me each time I have been prayed for. I have been disappointed when my legs give out once more. It is disheartening. What I am realizing I am not falling as often ! This last time I had a thankful heart for able to go out once more. I could go on mbout my problem but want to focus on what Jesus has done for me. He has healed me spiritually. He has healed me emotinally! I still struggle with outburst of anger but I have drawn closer to Jesus. He took the crying inside and Jesus has reached down and comforted me. I wonder if I hadn’t fallen off my bike 10 years ago whether I would be where I am today Spiritually! I still look for healing from the master and someday I will fall at his feet and worship and bow down and say that you are my God!
I have an appointment to be prayed for so that I will be able to do what the Lord has set on my heart to do start a business.
Audrey you are special run to Jesus and trust him, He won’t let you down. The Lord is in control, He is trustworthy and you can reassured he is trustworthy!
thank you for this message. Wow, 59 responses! How many of us need healing! Please also lift me up in prayer, some of you know me – I am healing from a lot of hurt, a lot of hurt, and broken situations and past relationship(s) in my life. I pray God would do the impossible in my life, and restore – me, my life, the relationships in my life, and prepare me to support myself joyfully, as my family and parents age… I pray God would surround me with His peace during this trying time. Please pray for protection.
Please also pray for my friend, EJ. She has struggled with a severe depression for over 4 years, and even as a friend, have been tried to be patient.. I pray God would help, and also help me not to get discouraged.
Lord, I lift up my sisters to you. Although I am also weak and inadequate, Lord, I just lift them up to you simply as that is all I can do. You know us, our needs. Lord, we cry out to You. Have mercy on us, O God, help us today in our time of weakness. You remind of Your Power in 2 Cor. 12:9… be our strength during our weakness. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Dear Anonymous first I want to mention your friend EJ who is struggling with severe depression for over 4 yrs and you want pray to be patient and not get discouraged with her. I just want to tell you that I have been in EJ’s shoes. I have Bipolar Depression and struggled many years until finally getting the right combination of medications but during that time I was hospitalized several times, some due to suicidal attempts and others just because I could not function or be left alone. I went through hell and put my family through it too. I still have times when I will slip into a depression and I need prayer. The reason I am telling you all this is because I know it is extremely hard on you to really understand your friend and to be patient with her as I lost friendships due to my depression also. All you can do for your friend is be a friend, pray for her and pray that she gets on the right medications to help her deal with her depression. I am sure you just feel at times like just telling her to snap out of it but unfortunately that doesn’t work. Lets pray ok.
Dear Heavenly Father I just bring anonymous to You right now, Lord You see her friend EJ and how she struggles with depression, I just pray that You would help the doctors to find the right combination of medications to put her on to get her depression under control. Also help anonymous to be patient and understanding with EJ, give her a compassionate heart towards her and just be an encouragement to her. Jesus I also pray that You would do a mighty work in anonymous’s heart, heal all the hurts that she has suffered, do what to man seems impossible but to You all thing are possible and I just pray for her to be free from all hurts and be restored and renewed in You. Lord also prepare her for when she has to be on her own and support herself just let her rest in You knowing that You will take care of her and be with her each step of the way. I just commit all these things to You In Your Name I Pray. Amen & Amen! anonymous I am going to put you and your friend EJ on my prayer list so I will remember to pray for you both every day. Hugs, Linda!!!
Dear Heavenly Father as I read over all the Prayer requests here today it is almost overwhelming yet I know to You it is nothing. So Dear Lord I just bring each request that is here on this page to You. You see each and everyone one of them and what they are. Lord I just ask that You would meet these ladies needs whether they be big or small, spiritual, financial or physical I just commit each and everyone to You and Pray In Your Holy Name In Faith Believing, Amen! Hugs, Linda !!!
I want to thank all of you for your prayers and want to give a praise report. Last night I once again prayed and asked God to give me some relief and this morning I feel a little better. I have been dealing with a lot of fluid retention in my abdomen and lower body for 30 days and was becoming concerned. But this morning it is reduced – thank you God for continuing to heal me.
Praise the Lord Kristina God is so good! It is exciting to see how the Lord intercedes for us and our prayers are answered. I am excited for you! I want to jump and down The has answered prayer Praise his Holy name! God is so gracious!When is the little one expected?
Our Heavenly Father thankyou for Kristina. Thank you for this answer to prayer for her and her little one. We bless your Holy name. Lord we pray that you continue to keep your hand upon this special child and help Kristina as she seeks to raise her and teach her or him your ways.
What a community of love and friendship we have here as we join one another in our prayers for healing and pray in the name of God our Healer!
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Blessings dear ones.
Warmly,
Gail Rodgers
Linda R, Thank you so much for those prayers.. Thank you also for sharing your testimony.. I am sure God is doing a great work in your life as well..hang in there!
I hope I didn’t come off the wrong way at all – I know what it is like to be in a depression, but I was just simply sharing as a friend. Of course, I know what it is like to have people tell you ’snap out of it!’ when that is not how it works. Those are some of the hurts I am healing from actually! Anyway, my friend EJ in the meantime sometimes has come off inconsiderate, rude, and would say negative thigns to us, pointing out our faults, when we have tried to be very patient. By God’s grace, I have a heart to see her healed, but of course, am going through things also. Truthfully, as a person also recovering, it can be difficult & discouraging, and I definitely need the Lord to continue His work in my heart & life as well. I pray EJ finds, and finally goes to the right church. I also am praying for God to send me to the right church, so may He also answer that soon.. God bless you again for sharing your heart & reaching out.
anonymous you didn’t come across the wrong way at all but I didn’t realize that you deal with depression too and my heart just aches for you too. If you feel you ever want to email me a talk please feel free my email address is lrohne@shaw.ca.
Dear Heavenly Father I want to ask You to Continue to be with anonymous, Lord she is searching for the right church to attend as well is EJ and I just pray that You would direct both their paths to the churches You would have them attend. Also please continue to help anonymous with the hurts in her life. The ones that have come from someone close that she has tried to encourage and then has been criticized for. Help her to not be discouraged but find within herself and by Your help to have a forgiving heart. Just use anonymous for Your Glory in ways she never thought possible. I just commit her to You and pray Your hand upon her each and everyday, in Jesus Name I pray, Amen! Hugs, Linda!!!
Linda R, thank you so much for that prayer… I cried a bit when I read it. I am dealing with a long time of feeling misunderstood, and you know how the enemy shoves those emotions down deeper, until we forget the main reason how we got there.. Anyway, I am looking to God to pull me out. Because of all the stresses, I am battling a cold, and yes, just trying to stay strong. Thank you for your compassion, and especially reaching out to my friend EJ. Thanks for your offer, if I ever have another prayer request, I will be sure to write if that’s ok. God Bless you all.
anonymous you are more than welcome to write me anytime even if you just want someone to talk too & I guess especially someone who has & is still to a certain point where you are in your life with all the times of feeling misunderstood. Just remember You’re Something Special, You’re the Only One of Your Kind & that is how “God Made You” and Don’t Ever Forget That, Ever!!! Hugs, Linda!!!
at 56, i am healthy, with no specific ailment to worry about. however, i have this lump at the left side of my throat. it has been with me since my younger days and it never bothered me. until in one of my reunions with my sorority sisters, a doctor sister noticed it and advised that i better have a test for goiter. so i had it examined by a specialist and that part of the throat aerated. there was nothing but liquid (not pus or anything which could have been worrisome). the sample liquid was examined and it was negative. however, lately, i notice that there’s a slight pain sometimes and i easily get a stiff neck. may i ask for your prayers that this thing in my throat does not worsen. lastly, may i ask that you pray also for my almost 2 years old grandson who has a liver ailment diagnosed when he was only 6 months old. doctors in LA where he and my daughter and son in law lives recommended liver transplant but my daughter and son in law are not up to it because they are afraid of the risk. they sought a second opinion and this doctor said, if he does not show improvement, eventually he will need a liver transplant. we are consoled by the fact that his body is very young and it is possible that his body systems might still change for good. we can only entrust him to God’s healing hands. please pray that as we await his healing, my daughter and son in law be strengthened in faith and have a spirit of patience.
Dear Heavenly Father I just come to You this morning asking that You would be with Celia Lord Jesus just touch her neck where she has had a Lump removed and now it seems to be giving her pain and a stiff neck once in awhile. I just ask that You would touch her neck and remove anything that seems to be causing this pain just heal her completely and let her have no more problems whatsoever with her neck I pray in Your Name. Also Dear Lord I bring her precious grandson to you who has this liver ailment and if You do not heal him he is going to need a liver transplant. Lord we just ask right now in Your Holy Name that You would Heal this Little Boy touch his body and make Him completely whole, Lord whether you choose to do that instantaneously or through a transplant and surgeons hands we just commit him to you and pray for complete Healing. Lord also be with his Parents strengthen them in their faith, help then to know that You are in Complete Control and to be patient and just put their faith & trust in You & You alone. I just pray all these things In Your Name In Faith Believing, Amen!!! Hugs, Linda!!!
Celia, I come along side Linda R and pray for you and your dear grandson. May our Lord hear our prayer request and touch his precious life and heal your neck.
Our Gracious Heavenly Father,Our Jehova-Rapha, we all come to you today and ask for healing for Celia’s neck and also for her precious grendson’s liver. Wrap your loving arms around the entire family and give them peace. Let them leave the healing in your hands. Give their Doctors your Divine Instructions for them. Thank you for all of the prayers that are lifting them up to you and we thank you Father for the priviledge of prayer and that you want to communicate with us and do all of the wonderful things you do for us everyday. Sometimes we may not even be aware of it as you are doing it. Love and Blessings and Thanks to you Abba Father, and Love and Blessings on all of the ones on this community of friends in Christ, Hannah
CELEIA I AM PRAYING FOR YOUR LITTLE GRAND SON AND YOU TOO MY GOD BLESS YOU BOTH AND HEAL YOU BOTH
SHARONB