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A Prayer for the Cancer Patient
A Prayer for the Person with Emotional Pain
A Prayer for the Aids Patient
A Prayer for Fear
A Prayer for a Patient Facing the Birth of a Child
A Prayer for Patients Facing Imminent Death
A Prayer for Loneliness
A Prayer for Patient Facing Surgery
A Prayer for Strength
A Prayer for the Heart
A Prayer for Sleep
A Prayer Upon Receiving Bad News
A Prayer Before Going Home
A Prayer for One by the Bedside
A Prayer During Recuperation at Home
A Prayer for Patience
A Prayer for Forgiveness
A Prayer for Courage

  
PRAYER FOR A PATIENT FACING
THE BIRTH OF A CHILD

Heavenly Father,
I thank You that the God powerful enough to create heaven and earth cared enough to create this new life within me. Thank You for this special gift of love. Please keep my baby and me healthy and strong as the time for delivery draws near. Give strength to my body so that I can bring up my child in this busy world. Give strength to my soul so that I may teach my child to know what is right or wrong. Give strength to my spirit so that I may lead my child to know Your love for himself or herself. I pray all of these things in Jesus’ name.
Amen.


I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by myself spread out the earth. For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Isaiah 44:24b
Psalm 139:13, 14a (NRSV)

Dr. Robert H. Guinter
Pediatrics