ASKING OTHERS TO PRAY FOR YOU: If you are scheduled for a procedure and think you might benefit from prayers, let everyone important to you know when you are having the procedure. Tell them the exact date and time of the procedure and ask them to send you loving and positive thoughts and prayers at the very moment you will be having your procedure. Do not be afraid to ask your doctor to say a prayer with you or at least to be in the room while you recite such a prayer. Be sure to pray for your doctor to be skillful and for a positive outcome! If you don’t have an appropriate prayer to recite, find one that touches your heart and spirit from the prayers included in this section.
A Prayer For a Couple Hoping to Conceive
Our love is strong. We both want, more than anything, to bring a new life into this world. Bless us with a child, God. Help our love bear fruit. When our bodies and souls unite in love, let the seed of life take root. Make us fertile, God. Be with us, God; watch over us, hear our prayer.
Amen.
Rabbi Naomi Levy
The Lord is My Shepherd
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in pleasant green pastures, He leads me beside the peaceful waters. He restores my soul, He guides me in good paths for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through a valley overshadowed by death, I will fear no evil, For You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.You prepare a table before me in the presence of my oppressors. Once You anointed my head with oil; my cup has been full ever since. Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And then I shall live in the house of the Lord forever.
Amen.
Psalm 23
A Prayer During Pregnancy
Bless me, God. Let me carry this child in health and ease. Let no harm or misfortune come to me or to the precious life growing within me. Let labor begin in its proper time. Let me bear my child without too much pain. Let my child be born in health into a world filled with peace. May my child grow to bring goodness and blessing into this world. For the miracle of creation that is taking place inside me, I thank You, God, Creator of all.
Amen.
Rabbi Naomi Levy
Show Us Compassion
Teach us to use all of our days, That we may attain a heart of wisdom. Relent, 0 Lord! How long must we suffer? Have compassion upon Your servants. Grant us of Your love in the morning, That we may joyously sing all of our days. Match days of sorrow with days of joy, Equal to the years we have suffered. Then Your servants will see Your power, Then their children will know Your glory. May the Lord our God show us compassion, And may He firmly establish the work of our hands.
Amen.
Psalms
Prayer For Healing
My soul I give to you
My spirit in your care
Draw me near
I shall not fear
Hold me in your hands
Draw me near
I shall not fear
Safely in your hands God is with me, I do not fear!
Amen.
Author Unknown
This is Your Day
This is your day, so make a good thing of it. When you begin a new day, let your spirit be stirred with renewed hope. “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of God is risen upon you.”
Amen.
Isaiah 60:1