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Prayers for Loved Ones: Protection, Health, Faith and Those Far Away

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Summary

  • Short prayers name a loved one and a need: protection, sickness, a hard season, a decision, daily needs, faith, distance, a spouse or partner, a quarrel and thanks.
  • The blessing of Numbers 6:24–26, “The LORD bless thee, and keep thee,” can be said over any loved one.
  • Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“For Those We Love” and “For the Absent”) and the Orthodox Liturgy of St. Basil in Hapgood’s 1906 translation, which prays for “those also who love us, and those who hate us.”
  • Job, Samuel, Paul and Jesus all prayed for particular people by name and need (Job 1:5; 1 Samuel 12:23; Romans 1:9; John 17:15).
  • Prayer for a sick loved one goes alongside medical care and never replaces it.

Praying for someone you love can be as simple as saying the person’s name and the need: “Lord, I bring you [name]. Keep [him or her] safe, meet today’s need, and draw [him or her] closer to you. You love [name] more than I do. Amen.” Prayers for a loved one’s needs Put the person’s name where [name] appears. Each prayer works for a husband or wife, a parent, a child, a brother or sister, or a friend. For protection…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Numbers 6:24–26; 1 Samuel 12:23; Job 1:5; Psalm 121:7–8; Luke 6:28; 22:32; John 11:3; 17:15; Romans 1:9; 1 Corinthians 13:7; Ephesians 3:19; Philippians 1:3; 4:19; Colossians 1:9, 11). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Family Prayer, “For the Absent,” pp. 596–597, and “For Those We Love,” p. 597. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Divine Liturgy, intercessions of the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, p. 109. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf

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