Healing and Employment:
- Special prayer for healing:
Physical, Emotional, Healing of Relationships - Special prayer for the workplace:
Stress at work, need work, or need a different workplace
Matthew 14
- When Jesus heard about the beheading of John the Baptist, he withdrew from there by boat to a place to be alone.
When the crowds heard this, they followed him on foot from the towns. - When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd, had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
1 Kings 17 CSB
- But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.”
So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upstairs room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed. - Then he cried out to the Lord and said,
“Lord my God, have you also brought tragedy on the widow I am staying with by killing her son? ” - Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times.
He cried out to the Lord and said,
“Lord my God, please let this boy’s life come into him again! ” - So the Lord listened to Elijah,
and the boy’s life came into him again, and he lived. - Then Elijah took the boy,
brought him down from the upstairs room into the house,
and gave him to his mother.
Elijah said, “Look, your son is alive.”
Acts 28 CSB
- Now in the area around that place was an estate belonging to the leading man of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days.
- Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery.
Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him. - After this, the rest of those on the island who had diseases also came and were healed.
James 5 CSB
- Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
- Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Jeremiah 17 CSB
- Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;
save me, and I will be saved,
for you are my praise.
Psalm 6 CSB
- Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking; - my whole being is shaken with terror.
And you, Lord — how long? - Turn, Lord! Rescue me;
save me because of your faithful love. - For there is no remembrance of you in death;
who can thank you in the grave? - I am weary from my groaning;
with my tears I dampen my bed
and drench my couch every night. - My eyes are swollen from grief;
they grow old because of all my enemies. - Depart from me, all evildoers,
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. - The Lord has heard my plea for help;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
Genesis 33:1–4 CSB
- Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men.
So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two servant women. - He put the servants and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
- He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.
- But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
Proverbs 3 NET
- Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own understanding. - Acknowledge him in all your ways,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 16 NET
- Commit your works to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
Colossians 4:2–3 CSB
- Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.
- At the same time, pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the word,
C. H. Spurgeon on Prayer
The very act of prayer is a blessing. To pray is, as it were, to bathe in a cool, swirling stream and so to escape from the heat of earth’s summer sun. To pray is to mount on eagle’s wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwells. To pray is to enter the treasure-house of God and to gather riches out of an inexhaustible storehouse. To pray is to grasp heaven in one’s arms, to embrace the Deity within one’s soul, and to feel one’s body made a temple of the Holy Spirit.
