Day 21: Health Care
(Doctors, Nurses, and Medical Professionals)
Pray today for those who do not have adequate medical care and for those who have a heart to help meet this need in our nation. Ask God to use Christian doctors and nurses not only to minister to the physical needs of their patients but to spiritual needs as well. Especially pray for those involved in medical missionary enterprises as they often risk contracting the very diseases they seek to treat. Pray “by name” for doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals you may know. Pray that those Americans who are followers of Christ will make themselves available as frequently as possible to go on short-term mission trips to use their unique gifts to help the sick and suffering in less-developed nations of the world. In this way they will help fulfill God’s promise of Psalm 72:12: “For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.”
Today’s Passage:
Jeremiah 33:6-8
“Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security. I will bring Judah and Israel back from captivity and will rebuild them as they were before. I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me.”
