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For an end to the violence perpetrated by harsh words, deadly weapons, or cold indifference. May our homes, our
nation, and countries around the world become havens of peace, let us pray to the Lord.
For the grace to see every human being as a child of God, regardless of race, language or culture, let us pray to
the Lord.
For the wisdom to receive the stories and experiences of those different from ourselves and to respond with
respect, let us pray to the Lord.
For the strength to teach our children how to resolve differences non-violently and respectfully, and the courage to
model it in our own behavior, let us pray to the Lord.
For our faith community, that we may celebrate and welcome the diverse faces of Christ in our worship, our
ministries, and our leaders, let us pray to the Lord.
For our faith community, that we may respond boldly to the Holy Spirit's call to act together to end violence and
racism, let us pray to the Lord.
For healing and justice for all those who have experienced violence and racism, let us pray to the Lord.
For the protection of all police and first responders who risk their lives daily to ensure our safety; for fair and just
policing that will promote peace and wellbeing in all our neighborhoods, let us pray to the Lord.
For our public officials, that they will strive to work for fair education, adequate housing, and equal opportunities
for employment for all, let us pray to the Lord.
For our parish, that we may cultivate welcome, extend hospitality, and encourage the participation of people of all
cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds, let us pray to the Lord.
For the courage to have difficult conversations about racism, and for a better appreciation of how our words and
actions – or even our silence – can impact our communities, let us pray to the Lord.
For solidarity in our global human family, that we may work together to protect those who are most vulnerable and
most in need, let us pray to the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 1,323 helpful votes
Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are
my praise.
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen
you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live
to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to
them abundance of prosperity and security.
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are
healed.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your
iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who
crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him
up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health,
as it goes well with your soul.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you
may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them
pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD,
because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not
escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those
who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate
you.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received
without paying; give without pay.
Philippians 4:19 ESV / 407 helpful votes
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your
iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that
which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his
statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am
the LORD, your healer.”
While you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed
through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones
are troubled.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not
wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to
your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to
God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 319 helpful votes
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall confute
every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the
servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD.”
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the
body.
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good
news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him
and his mourners, creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the
near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal him.
And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming
the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among
the people.
Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek
my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will
forgive their sin and heal their land.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in
weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that
the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your
iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who
crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that
your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him
and his mourners,
As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against
you!”
And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their
synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease
and every affliction.
“‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make
alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the LORD will do before
your eyes.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them
pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of
faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has
committed sins, he will be forgiven.
When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed
from your disability.”
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you
an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither
was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return;
when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him
who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might
die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to
you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your
mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and
acceptable and perfect.
On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were
sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from
Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
Of David. 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 iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who
crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that
your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be
healed of your disease.”
You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water,
and I will take sickness away from among you.
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in
its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a
root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and
no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a
man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their
faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our
iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his
stripes we are healed. ...
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the poor!
In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; the LORD protects him and keeps him
alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his
enemies. The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to
full health.
And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.”
And immediately he rose.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is
being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us
an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things
that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are
transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the
discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his
hands heal.
When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and
spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.
To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
Creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says
the LORD, “and I will heal him.
And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she
glorified God.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a
time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is
planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to
build up;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and
God of all comfort,
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of
the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the
Lord is compassionate and merciful.
For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with
their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his
troubles.
The LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up
his countenance upon you and give you peace. “So shall they put my name upon
the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.
Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up
speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be
your rear guard.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him
stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our
transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement
that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to
the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and
healed their sick.
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there
but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower
and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall
not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall
succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from
them.
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Psalm 119:107 ESV / 95 helpful votes
Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say
evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with
their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all
the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice
in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written
in heaven.”
“Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the
God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold,
I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,
Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be
healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant
be healed.
And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed
them all.