Prayer for a sick child

Dear Father-Healer,

Pour out your mercy, grace, comfort, and
miraculous healing over this child
who is sick.
Death and harm are horrible thoughts and horrible possibilities.
Except for you.
Except for your power and your perfect will.

Help me to believe in your goodness and love.

Why must bad things happen to good people?
Why is the world so full of heartache and grief?
Why do you seem to withdraw when grief overwhelms us like an angry ocean?
And most of all–why must terrible things happen to the most innocent of all–
to the unborn, the children, the young, the sweet and kind ones among us?

Illness is heart-wrenching for families of children who suffer–
it’s unfair,
tramatizing,
terrifying,
heart-breaking.

You can heal anyone and anything,
so why don’t you always do it?
Could you do it here?
Could you please heal this child?
Would you please perform a miracle?

More importantly–
Show us your glory.
Change us and help us feel you close
instead of feeling the pain of your absence and the lack of your loving care for us.
Those things are not true.

You are love.
Help us not to fear.
In the powerful name of Jesus,
Amen.

“Is anyone among you suffering? Then he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing praises. Is anyone among you sick? Then he must call for the elders of the church and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.” (James 5:13-15)