Prayer for Help in Severe Illness

O my Lord and God! Thou seest how pain and suffering have taken hold upon me, and how every morning I continue to be in misery. My disease does not yield, and I know not but that this shall be my bed of death. I entrust it all to Thee; I will live or die, as Thou wilt. Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before Thee: verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Long before I was born Thou didst record in Thy book the number of my days. Yet I do not lose courage, but lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. I know that Thou art an almighty God, and that life and death are in Thy hands; that in Thine omnipotence Thou canst wake the dead, restore from the most dangerous sickness, and alleviate and remove the greatest misery and pain. Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, the Helper in Israel can deliver out of every trouble; yea, He is able to do abundantly above all that we ask or think and to deliver all who call upon Him. Therefore, as I lie here upon my bed, I look not around me to weak human beings, nor to myself, for I am sick and wretched, but above me to Thee, my God and Lord. I also say, with the believing centurion, Lord, speak the word only, and Thy servant shall be healed; speak the word only, and I shall live, and be freed from all my sufferings. I know that nothing is impossible with God. Thy power, O Lord, is boundless, and there is no God beside Thee. O God, who didst heal the sick Hezekiah, restore the diseased woman, cure the man with the palsy, and raise the young man at Nain: look in mercy upon me also. Thou gracious Deliverer of Thy faithful ones! help me, have mercy on me, show me a token for good. Thou art my Helper and Saviour, my God; O, delay not. Nevertheless do all things according to Thy will. I know that in Thine omnipotence Thou canst restore me, and that in Thy goodness Thou wilt do so, if it be salutary for my soul. Amen.