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Prayers for Your Son’s Health and Healing

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Summary

  • Short prayers cover a son’s fever, a quick recovery, a hospital stay, surgery, an accident, seizures, a long illness and a grown son who is ill far from home.
  • Prayers for his mind cover anxiety, depression and old hurts; prayers for everyday health ask that he stay well, keep good habits and prosper “in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 1:2).
  • The NHS advises calling an ambulance for a first seizure, one lasting over five minutes when the usual length is unknown, or repeated seizures without recovery.
  • John 4 tells of a nobleman whose dying son recovered at the hour Jesus said, “Go thy way; thy son liveth”; in Luke 7 Jesus raised a widow’s only son at Nain.
  • Traditional prayers come from the 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers (“For our Friends,” asking health “both of body and soul”) and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer’s thanksgiving for a child’s recovery.

For a sick son, pray for his body, his doctors and your calm: “Lord, [name] is sick. Touch his body and heal him, guide the doctors who treat him, and give him strength while he recovers. Keep him in your care, and keep me calm for his sake. Amen.” Prayers for his mind and daily health follow. If your son is seriously ill, has had an accident or has a seizure that lasts more than five minutes, call an ambulance…

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Bibliography (Click to show)
  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 4:8; 29:11; 34:18; 103:3; 121:7; Proverbs 13:20; Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 11:28; Luke 7:12–15; John 4:46–53; 2 Timothy 1:7; 1 Peter 5:7; 3 John 1:2). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, “For our Friends,” p. 170. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Thanksgivings, “For a Child’s Recovery from Sickness,” p. 53. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • NHS. “Epilepsy.” https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/epilepsy/
  • 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
  • Samaritans. “Contact a Samaritan.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/

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