I am going through a health crisis right now and I need prayer. I have leaned into the serenity prayer and try to remember the tenets of serenity, courage and wisdom. The words resonate while the day to day emotions of my challenges present personal challenges daily. I need the strength of God’s words and the forgiveness given through Jesus Christ dying for our (my) sins. I am weak and I know it..I am (without the love of Jesus) a sinner and a flawed human…God’s forgiveness is given, but he requires we strive to sin no more…and I know that I fall short even knowing that. I pray for the collective strength of prayer to help me be stronger to be able to truly live the serenity prayer. I am fearful. I am worried..I am a sinner…I strive to be a better person…I pray for God’s ongoing grace to cover me…I need a healing prayer…but also a prayer for my wife as she has suffered with me through this time…and she needs a prayer to help her through. Please pray for me…in God’s name I ask for your prayers…my serenity prayer: …accept the things in this life that I cannot change…the real courage to change what God allows…and the wisdom rooted in faith that I have the wisdom to know the difference…please pray for me…
I am SO sorry and sad to hear what you and your wife are going through. You are in my prayers. May Jesus Christ bless you both with comfort, strength, healing, and anything else you need.
Jn 6:28 Then they [the disciples] asked Him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent.”
Thank you so much for your kind words…I know God sends his angels in various forms..for me…you are God’s messenger…thanks again
No thanks necessary. It just sounds like you and your wife are going through so much and feeling completely overwhelmed. It’s an absolutely awful feeling, I know. We tell ourselves to be strong, courageous, and not anxious, but as you say we fall way short. It feels impossible to overcome our human tendency towards fear and anxiety.
The good news is that you completely recognize your need for Him, and Him alone. That is the best place to be in a time of crisis. He truly is our strength.
Isa 41:10 'Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be afraid, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, I will also help you,
I will also uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
Luke 12:6 Are five sparrows not sold for two assaria? And yet not one of them has gone unnoticed in the sight of God. 7 But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
He knows you.