Heavenly Father,
I come to you today and place myself in your loving hands.
I surrender my mind,
My heart,
My will,
My life to you and put myself entirely at your disposal.
Do with me what you want.
Use me to make you known,
Honoured and loved by all mankind.
Let my actions speak of your immense love.
My tongue ever sing your praise and my thoughts be inspired by you alone.
My loving Father,
I praise you,
I worship you,
I adore you,
I love you.
Amen.
God,
For whom everything grows and by whom everything that grows is made steadfast,
Extend your hand to this little sick child of yours.
Let them grow up to be able to serve you forever with fidelity and gratitude.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
You who miraculously healed so many,
Look lovingly upon all the sick in the world.
Let us present them to you just as the needy did when they asked for your help while you lived on earth.
Here are those who for a long time have been tested by sickness and who have lost hope to be healed.
Here are those who suddenly became paralysed by infirmity and had to stop all activity and work.
Here are those who have family responsibilities but cannot correspond to them because of their fallen health.
Here are those who suffer some illness in body and soul that leaves them utterly disconsolate.
Here are those who are profoundly discouraged by their ravaged health and who do not have the spirit needed to get back on their feet.
Here are those without hope of cure and feel the lack of your strength.
Here are the sick that you love,
All those who need your help to get better.
Here are those whose debilitated bodies resemble your body immolated on the cross.
Lord,
Comfort with your grace all the sick.
Do not deny them your visit,
Help and word of comfort.
Lord,
When we are tested by sickness,
May we know how to unite our pains to your cross.
Lord,
Make us fight for the end of suffering caused by injustice and the malice of men.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Heavenly Father,
I call on you right now in a special way.
It is through your power that I was created.
Every breath I take,
Every morning I wake up,
Every moment and every hour I live under your power.
Father,
I ask you now to touch me with that same power.
For if you created me from nothing,
You can recreate me,
Fill me with the healing power of your spirit.
Cast out anything that should not be in me.
Mend what is broken and root out any unproductive cells.
Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild any damaged areas.
Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection.
Let the warmth of your healing love pass through my body to make new any unhealthy areas so that my body will function the way you created it to function.
Father,
Restore me to full health in mind and body so that I may serve you the rest of my life.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Lord,
Help me reach out and touch you.
Fix my eyes on you and not on my problems.
I thank you,
Lord,
Because you guide me to the valley's gate.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside the still waters.
He restores my soul.
He guides me through the right paths for his name's sake.
Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil.
For you are beside me.
Your rod and your staff comfort me.
You spread the table before me.
In the presence of my foes,
You anoint my head with oil.
My cup is overflowing.
Goodness and kindness will follow me all the days of my life.
I shall dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.
Beloved Lord,
Sometimes I feel so depressed that I cannot pray.
Please free me from this prison.
I thank you,
Lord,
For your liberating power.
And in the powerful name of Jesus,
I expel from me the evil spirit of depression,
Hatred,
Fear,
Self-pity,
Oppression,
Guilt,
Lack of forgiveness,
And any negative force that has conspired against me.
I bundle all this up and throw it away in the name of Jesus.
Lord,
Break the chains that bind me.
Jesus,
Go back with me to the moment that this depression attacked me and free me from the roots of this evil.
Heal all my painful memories.
Fill me with your love,
Peace,
And joy.
Restore in me the joy of my salvation.
Lord Jesus,
Make joy flow out of the deep of my being like a river.
I love you,
Jesus.
I praise you.
Help me remember all the things I ought to thank you for.
Lord,
Help me reach out and touch you.
Fix my eyes on you and not on my problems.
I thank you,
Lord,
Because you guide me to the valley's gate.
I ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
My Lord,
I believe and I know and I feel that you are the supreme good.
I believe that beautiful as is your creation,
It is of no account compared with you.
And therefore,
Since I perceive you to be so beautiful,
I love you and desire to love you more and more.
My God,
You know how little I love you.
I should not love you at all except for your grace.
Keep my whole being fixed on you.
Let me never lose sight of you.
And let my love for you grow more and more every day.
Lord,
Make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love.
Where there is injury,
Let me sow pardon.
Where there is doubt,
Let me sow faith.
Where there is despair,
Let me give hope.
Where there is darkness,
Let me give light.
Where there is sadness,
Let me give joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may try.
Not to be comforted,
But to comfort.
Not to be understood,
But to understand.
Not to be loved,
But to love.
Because it is in giving that we receive.
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
