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"Lord, Help Me": A Prayer for Healing
LORD, HELP ME: A PRAYER FOR HEALING My Father, there is so much I would have different--and which I believe you would have different too. I want to make a start. I think it must begin in me. But where? Lord, help me. And there are others--like this poor woman's daughter-- whom I would bring to you as she brought this great, this overwhelming need. There are friends and neighbors I feel so powerless to help. People I love, dangerously near the rocks, far from their true home, possessed by many demons of our modern world. How can I help them? How can I serve them better? Lord, help me. My own deep places--the unremembered scars which limit me today; the unhealed wounds that make me less than whole-- Lord, help me. My faith is not great, Lord. Indeed I do not always want true healing. There are attractions in a certain undemanding invalidism. But I want what you want. I trust you where I do not trust myself. So be my bread of life, Lord Jesus. Nourish, sustain, and heal. Help me according to your will. May my dumb spirit testify, my weakness mend, my blind eyes see, my heart rejoice. Lord, help me. Amen. — Timothy Dudley-Smith's SOMEONE WHO BEACKONS: READINGS AND PRAYERS FOR 60 DAYS. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1978, pp. 88-89. ISBN 0-87784-7312-2. [I found this out-of-print volume on e-bay for 25 cents. I had to pay $4 postage, though. If you can find a copy, even at full price, grab it.] Have a great week! Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky www.wqotw.org www.sbts.edu/icw =========================== WORSHIP QUOTE OF THE WEEK: To subscribe, unsubscribe, or view a complete index of worship quotes, please visit http://www.wqotw.org =========================== |