In working with Prayers for Healing Series: Day 7, you are at the forefront of a time of keener awareness about your emotional, physical and spiritual life. That is a valuable process, yet normally difficult to handle alone.

To be successful at such a task, you need to control and conquer your fear. Today’s prayer helps you do that. The emotion of fear is most likely the emotion that you experience when dealing with a thorny personal problem. Even worse, fear drags you down, slows you up, stifles your creativity and determination and, at the worst, halts your forward progress. It keeps you wallowing in worry, fretting over every action and inaction, awash in feelings that you ought to be fearful and thus should react negatively. Generally, fear can keep you stymied and unable to accomplish your goals.

Why do you suppose that you, as a human being, are so vulnerable and have such an inability to conquer your fear?

Once we realize what a hindrance fear is and recognize it as a negative, get-nothing-done emotion, we are in a better position to do something positive about it. Here are the first three steps in the process: 1) Realize it, 2) Analyze it, 3) Get control of it by being honest with yourself and with God.

See if the Day 7 prayer doesn’t work for you in this way. You’ve gone this far with your illness. You want to leave it behind and begin to feel better. Be brave and take up the mantle of talking with God daily to help you in this process. Results may come quickly or take awhile. Only you can experience your own healing. Only you have the miraculous relationship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Make good use of it. Ask Him to help you begin to know yourself intimately and then ask Him to provide you with exactly what you need for real healing to occur.

I thank you for joining the Health Matters Show today. I’m your host, Cinda Crawford.

Prayers for Healing Series: Day 7Day #7) Dear God, today is the day that I ask You to help me more completely, as You reveal three additional things to me: the capability a) of being 100% open and honest with nothing held back, b) of not letting shame or fear control me ever again, and importantly, c) of not allowing disgust, fear or negative emotions make me doubt that my healing is possible.

May I instead feel a distinct move towards you alone, Father. May You and I walk this “healing and health” journey together, successfully, trampling down and stomping out negative emotions or thoughts that arise. May I be able to get rid of and overcome every dominion over me that does not augment my belief in You, Father God. Through the power of Your will, I have faith that I can do all this. I know I can and that I will be healed, being changed into a healthier child of God.

Humbly I ask all this in Your holy name,

Amen.