Prayers for those who are infected with Coronavirus

The numbers of those who have been diagnosed with COVID 19 continue to rise.  More and more those numbers in the news become people we know, people we love, members of our congregations, neighbors and friends. Let us pray for those who are sick.

By your power, great God, our Lord Jesus healed the sick and gave new hope to the hopeless. We could use some of that hope right now. We pray for those who are infected with the coronavirus worldwide and in our neighborhoods and perhaps our own homes.

We pray for healing. Soothe their fevered brows. Calm their coughs. Grant them strength. Make them whole again.  Help us to welcome every healing as a sign that, though death is against us, you are for us, and promised renewed and risen life. A life made whole through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.