Jesus, you alone can heal us

🛐 Daily Prayer: "We are the sort of beings that you are seeking, for the healthy have no need of a physician but the sick."

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May 26, 2025

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This week, our prayers and Scripture readings each day will focus on sickness. Invite a friend to pray with you by sending them this link.

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

Great Physician, we bring you our wounds and bruises and putrefying sores, and the more diseased we are and the more conscious we are today of the depravity of our nature, of the deep-seated corruption of our hearts, the more we feel that we are the sort of beings that you are seeking, for the healthy have no need of a physician but the sick.

Oh Christ Jesus our Lord, you are still mighty to heal, and we are a group who have come together full of sicknesses and sores and sorrows of all kinds. We would not waste a moment while blessings are so abundant and the power to heal is so remarkably present in you; but we would each strive to touch you, if we may, and ask that this day virtue would come out of you, oh blessed risen Christ, to heal us of whatever disease we have.

Take care of all sick ones very graciously, and those who are appointed to death feel a sweet agreement with the appointment and find heaven begun in their hearts while yet they linger here below.Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed; you will heal him on the bed where he lies.” (Psalm 41:3)

The everlasting arms shall hold up his soul as friendly hands and downy pillows hold up the body of the sick. How tender and sympathizing is this image; it brings our God so close to our infirmities and sicknesses. Only our God chooses to become a nurse and attendant upon good men. If he smites with one hand he sustains with the other. Oh, it is blessed to faint when one falls upon the Lord’s own bosom and is held up by it! Grace is the best of restoratives; divine love is the noblest stimulant for a languishing patient; it makes the soul strong as a giant, even when the aching bones are breaking through the skin. No physician like the Lord, no tonic like his promise, no wine like his love.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Rind of Pakistan.

The Rind are a tribe of 1.4 million people. They have never heard the gospel.

Pray that God would send missionaries to share the good news of Jesus with the Rind.

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LAST WORD FROM SPURGEON

“If you feel that you are spiritually sick, the Physician has come into the world for you.” — Charles Spurgeon