Prayer for a Sick Child: The Fever Left at the Seventh Hour

Read Time:8 Minute, 8 Second You Are Not Overreacting The thermometer is on the nightstand where you can reach it without standing up. You have read it more times than you would admit to the doctor in the morning. The video above opens with a sentence most prayers for a sick child never think to include: you are not overreacting. Then it says why. “This is just what love does when it cannot fix something.” A prayer for a sick child is not a parent losing perspective. It is a parent who has run out of things to do, still doing the one thing left. The Bible holds several of those parents. One prayed in seven words, and the fever broke a day’s walk away. A Prayer for a Sick Child, Seven Words Long John’s Gospel gives the story in eight verses. A nobleman, a royal official in the Greek, has a son sick with fever at Capernaum. He hears that Jesus has come to Cana, and he goes.

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