8.17 | For those who are Sick and Weak

Lord, thou hast appointed those that are sick to be prayed for, and prayed with, and hast promised that the prayer of faith shall save the sick; Lord, help us to pray in faith for the sick, James 5:14-15(KJV) and as being ourselves also in the body. Hebrews 13:3(KJV)

When our Lord Jesus was here upon earth, we find that they brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and he healed all manner of sicknesses and all manner of diseases among the people; Matthew 4:23-24(KJV) and he hath still the same power over bodily diseases that ever he had: He saith to them, Go, and they go; Come, and they come; Do this, and they do it; and can speak the word, and they shall be healed. Matthew 8:8-9(KJV) He is still touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Hebrews 4:15(KJV) In the belief of this, we do by prayer bring our friends that are sick and lay them before him. Luke 5:18(KJV)

Lord, grant that those who are sick may neither despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when they are rebuked of him; Hebrews 12:5(KJV) but that they may both hear the rod and him that hath appointed it, Micah 6:9(KJV) and may kiss the rod and accept of the punishment of their iniquity. Leviticus 26:41(KJV)

Give them to see that affliction cometh not forth out of the dust, nor springs out of the ground; Job 5:6(KJV) that they may therefore seek unto God, to the Lord more than to the physicians, 2 Chronicles 16:12(KJV) because unto God the Lord belong the issues of life and death. Psalm 68:20(KJV)

Lord, shew them wherefore thou contendest with them, Job 10:2(KJV) and give them in their affliction to humble themselves greatly before the God of their fathers, 2 Chronicles 33:12(KJV) and to repent and turn from every evil way, and make their ways and their doings good, Jeremiah 18:11(KJV) and being judged and being chastened of the Lord, they may not be condemned with the world. 1 Corinthians 11:32(KJV) By the sickness of the body and the sadness of the countenance, let the heart be made better. Ecclesiastes 7:3(KJV)

O Lord, rebuke them not in thine anger, neither chasten in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon them, O Lord, for they are weak. Lord, heal them, for their bones are vexed, their souls also are sore vexed. Return, O Lord, and deliver their souls, save them for thy mercy’s sake; Psalm 6:1-4(KJV) and lay no more upon them than thou wilt enable them to bear, and enable them to bear what thou dost lay upon them. 1 Corinthians 10:13(KJV)

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. But remove thy stroke, we pray thee, from those that are even consumed by the blow of thine hand: Psalm 39:10-11(KJV) O spare a little, that they may recover strength before they go hence and be no more. Psalm 39:13(KJV)

Those that are chastened with pain upon their bed, and the multitude of their bones with strong pain, so that their life abhorreth bread and their soul dainty meat, Job 33:19-20(KJV) shew them thine uprightness, be gracious to them. Deliver them from going down to the pit, for thou hast found a ransom. Job 33:23-24(KJV)

Let the eternal God be their refuge, and underneath them be the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy 33:27(KJV) Consider their frame, remember that they are but dust. Psalm 103:14(KJV)

O deliver those that are thine in the time of trouble, preserve them and keep them alive: O strengthen them upon their bed of languishing, and make their bed in their sickness. Be merciful to them and heal their souls, for they have sinned. Psalm 41:1-4(KJV)

O turn to them and have mercy upon them, bring them out of their distresses, look upon their affliction and their pain, but especially forgive all their sin. Psalm 25:16-18(KJV)

Make thy face to shine upon them, save them for thy mercy’s sake. Psalm 31:16(KJV) The God that comforteth them that are cast down, comfort them; 2 Corinthians 7:6(KJV) and let the soul dwell at ease in thee, Psalm 25:13(KJV) when the body lies in pain.