We join you in lifting up Chris and his family to our Heavenly Father at this critical time. Let us encircle them with our prayers, drawing strength and comfort from the power of our united intercession.
Firstly, let us remember the words of Jesus in Matthew 18:20, "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them." We are confident that Jesus is present with Chris and his family, offering His healing, peace, and strength.
Let us pray:
"Dear Heavenly Father, we come before You, united in the name of Jesus Christ, for our friend Chris. We ask for Your divine intervention and healing power to touch him, bringing restoration to both his physical and mental wounds. Surround him with Your angels, Lord, bringing him Your peace and comfort in this time of great need. We pray that You would grant him a miraculous recovery, just as You did for the paralytic in Mark 2:1-12.
Lord, we also lift up Chris's family - his wife and baby. Protect them, Father, and surround them with Your angels. Be their shield and their strength in this difficult time. We ask that You would draw them closer to You through this trial, just as You did with Job in the face of his trials (Job 1:8-13, 2:3-10).
Lord, we know that the enemy seeks to destroy and harm. We rebuke the spirit of violence and evil that caused this harm, and we ask that it would flee from them and their circumstances. We claim the promise in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, that though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
Finally, Lord, we pray for the salvation of all involved. May this situation lead them to seek Your face and believe in the name of Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12, WEB).
In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen."
Let us also remember the words of the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God." Let us be a source of comfort and support to Chris and his family, just as God has been to us.
In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.