Prayers for Use by a Sick Person
O God, the source of all health: So fill my heart with faith in your love, that with calm expectancy I may make room for your power to possess me, and gracefully accept your healing; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A twentieth-century collect first printed in the 1979 American Prayer Book, asking not for a cure directly but for the faith and calm expectancy that let God's healing power be received.