Prayers for health and wholeness

Last night I went to our 'deeper prayer' meeting at church. What a blessing. A group of us met to pray and believe for God to work miracles in our hurting world.  We claimed supernatural healings for ourselves, for afflicted family and friends and for our wider communities. I think of it like the 'butterfly' effect. We sitting praying last night - cannot know what exact impact our prayers will have - but we know they are already answered in a way that only God knows.

You don't need me to tell you we live in a hurting world in desperate need of healing. Countless physical issues and so many lives blighted by cancer. Others of course facing the horrendous and widespread torment of mental health problems. I praise God for the transformation He has worked in my life since the days of all too frequent stays in psychiatric units.

I am vulnerable to getting over excited,  and prompted by something (for example my beautiful niece's wedding a couple of weeks ago) I can easily start with a very disrupted sleep pattern, and that can, if I am not careful, progress into the start of a manic episode. I am experiencing disrupted sleep at the moment but I am praying against that progression and believing for a speedy return to good, long sleeps.

Thank you to all who prayed for me last night. I was given a verse from Mark chapter 4. The disciples got themselves into a state of panic in a boat when a storm blew up. Jesus was in the stern sleeping on a cushion when the disciples woke him, saying, don't you care if we drown. In Mark 4:39 Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves 'Quiet!Be still!' Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.

I often talk of Psalm 46:10, Be still and know that I am God.

God is love. He is our joy and our peace. He is beyond what we can conceive - a wonderful, compassionate, loving, Father God, and a huge unfathomable mystery. As believers we walk by faith not by sight. We know what we have experienced, we know the transforming power of God's love and mercy.  He tells us to Be Still but He can equally tell the wind and waves to Be Still.

After a life of trying to 'do it all', 'control everything' and play god in my own life, it's been an awesome, amazing journey and a huge weight lifted since I surrendered to God and let Him take the reins. He's my rock and my foundation, my peace. If you give Him a chance, He so wants to be yours. We need all the help we can get, right?
Blessings for a wonderful week.