Dear God, I praise and thank You for Your never-failing love towards me and many of my family, friends and connections of good people through social networks. When I was lost in sin and without hope in the world You looked down and gently called me to be Your child – even though I was young rebellious and restless.
Lord You know that partly due to not caring for myself and partly for no other reason that we live in a fallen world I am suffer from a chronic debilitating sickness and ask that You would graciously look down on me and those who are in the same condition-pick us up again and heal our body as well as our spirit, as You did once before.
Thank You for dying for us to pay the price for our sins and thank You that You were wounded for our transgression and bruised for our iniquities – and that by Your stripes we are healed. Lord, I know that this body of mine is only going to deteriorate more and more as I get older, but I do pray that in Your grace and mercy You would set me free from the unpleasant sickness and pain that I am going through at the moment, and give me relief and healing.
Lord, I do pray for others in a unselfish act of love that You would set those free from this their debilitating sickness that they are going through – nevertheless I also thank You that in all things Your grace is sufficient for You have proved this to be the case time and time again in the past. Thank You that You are a faithful God in all things and I ask that my life, in sickness and in health - be a life that glorifies You.
Keep me I pray from grumbling when I have received such an overabundance of Your mercies, which are new every morning - knowing that our life here is but for a fleeting moment, in the economy of eternity… knowing that You have given me eternal life, for which I praise and thank You in Jesus name, Amen. James Cruse
