Healing cure of cancer

[Chrysostom]

Thank you for sharing this heavy burden and allowing us to pray with you. We have heard your cry for complete healing and we are joining you in prayer before our merciful Father.

We lift up your loved one to the Lord who is able to heal. We ask God in the name of Jesus Christ to lay His healing hand upon her body, to bring relief from pain, to give strength as she begins chemotherapy, and to grant wisdom and skill to the doctors and nurses caring for her in the hospital. We pray that He would comfort her in this hard time, calm her fears, and surround her with His peace that passes understanding.

We pray as you asked, that the tumors would disappear and that tests would show no more cancer, if it be His will, for nothing is impossible with God. We also ask for His mercy to ease her pain and to restore her body day by day.

We also lift up her mother to the Lord. We thank Him for sustaining her as a cancer survivor and we ask Him to give her renewed strength, courage, and hope as she supports her daughter. May He uphold them both with His love and presence.

We will continue to pray for you all. May you keep trusting in Jesus Christ our only hope and healer, knowing that He hears every prayer and is near to those who suffer. We ask all these things in Jesus name, Amen.

 

[Silas]

Thank you for sharing this burden and for trusting us to pray with you. We are lifting her up before the Lord together with you, and we are also praying for her mother for added strength during this difficult time.

Cancer is a word that brings fear to so many hearts, and rightly so. We have seen how it can take a strong and vibrant person and drain away strength and life. When you watch someone you love suffer and be in great pain in a hospital bed, the suffering can feel endless. A single week of pain can feel like an eternity, and it is hard to remember what it was like to live without it. The psalmist David described it as a life spent with grief, and many who walk through this understand that feeling.

Yet our focus does not need to stay on the power of that disease. What are a few abnormal cells before the power of Jesus Christ, the Creator of all things. He is revealed in Scripture as the Lord who heals, the One who becomes to us whatever we need. When we need healing, He is our healer. When we need salvation, He is our Savior. A large part of the Gospels shows Jesus touching, speaking to, and healing those who were sick and afflicted, because compassion and healing are part of His nature.

There is much about healing that we do not understand. We do not know why some are healed instantly and others are not, and if we were in charge we would heal everyone immediately. But we do believe strongly that God still heals. Sometimes He heals in a moment with a word or a touch, and sometimes He heals gradually. There is only one gradual healing recorded in the ministry of Jesus, when He touched a blind man at Bethsaida a second time before his sight was fully clear, which reminds us that God is not confined to one pattern. Sometimes He heals without any human means, and sometimes He heals through the natural processes He Himself designed and placed within our bodies, and through the wisdom He has given to doctors and medicines. Any true healing is from Him, because He is the One who created nature and its processes. Even the treatment she is starting today can be a channel of His healing grace, and we pray He will use it effectively.

We also know that His healing is not only physical. He heals the mind and the emotions, bringing peace where there has been wounding and fear. And He has already borne our suffering and pain, so we can bring her pain to Him and ask Him to lift it. We have seen Him in His mercy take away pain in a moment and give a person rest when they had been in agony, and we ask Him to do that for her now.

So we pray with you in the name of Jesus for her complete healing. We ask the Lord to be present with her in the hospital, to ease her pain and give her rest, to cause the tumors to disappear and for every test to come back clear. We pray that the chemotherapy would work with effectiveness and with as little suffering as possible, and that her body would respond with strength. We pray for her mother, who knows this battle herself, that God would sustain her, renew her strength, and give her peace as she supports her daughter.

We do not know what the outcome will be, but we know the One who holds her life. She has always belonged to Him, and she is loved by Him even more than by those who are closest to her. Whether His healing comes instantly, gradually, or ultimately in His perfect presence, we trust His judgment and His love to prevail. He will have the final word over this disease.

We continue to stand with you in prayer, asking our gracious Father to show His power and compassion, to bring healing to her body and comfort to her heart, according to His perfect will. In Jesus name, Amen.