You have prayed for healing and protection for yourself and your family, and you have asked to be surrounded by peace. That is good, but understand what peace you are asking for. The peace of God is not merely the absence of sickness or trouble. It is reconciliation with God through Christ, and it must become peace with one another. Scripture says, "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord." Therefore if you want God to surround your family with peace, drive out every contention, grudge, and quarrel from your own heart. For what gain is there if you have peace with one person and war with another? In the body, health cannot remain when some members are at rest and others are fighting. So in a household, unless all are in harmony, peace will not stand.
When the Church says again and again, "Peace to all," do not let it become a mere form of words. If you say, "And with your spirit," and then speak evil of your brother, you make the sacred greeting a lie. When you are minded to war against your brother, remember that you war against the members of Christ. The peacemakers are called sons of God, and those who make disturbance are sons of the devil. So before you ask God to surround your family with peace, be at peace within your family and with all men, as far as it depends on you.
Christ said, "My peace I give to you." His peace is not the world's peace. The world's peace often leaves sin undisturbed. But the peace of Christ sometimes requires a sword, not to fight against people, but to cut off the diseased part that destroys the soul. If you ask for deliverance from evil, ask also to be delivered from your own sins. God made peace with you by His own will, not because you first gave Him anything. Let that peace be umpire in your heart. When two thoughts wrestle, one urging revenge and one urging endurance, do not let anger award the prize. Let the peace of God award the prize to endurance. Human peace built on revenge falls quickly. Peace built on God never falls.
So pray as you have prayed, and add this request: Lord, heal our bodies, and heal our souls. Protect us, and make us sober, remembering that each believer has an angel before the face of the Father. Deliver us from evil, and first deliver us from sin, bitterness, and every disturbance we bring into our own home. Let your family be a place where the dove of peace finds rest, not with an olive branch for one only, but pointing to the Deliverer who leads the whole household to heaven. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men. Let this be both your prayer and your practice, and God will not withhold His healing hand.