Healing Prayer
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Healing Prayer
Speak Truth, Show Love
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Have you ever struggled with how to be honest without being hurtful? This powerful prayer session tackles one of Christianity's most challenging practices: speaking truth in love.
Drawing from Ephesians 4:15-16, we explore how truthful, loving communication forms the foundation of spiritual maturity. When we speak the truth wrapped in genuine love, we contribute to building up Christ's body rather than tearing it down. This isn't about softening hard truths—it's about delivering them with the right heart and motivation.
The prayer moves through several dimensions of this principle. We ask for divine courage to stand firm on truth even when it contradicts popular opinion, while simultaneously seeking the grace to speak without condemnation or judgment. We confront the jealousy and comparison that often poison our words, praying instead for security in our unique callings and gifts within the body of Christ.
Particularly powerful is the reminder that speaking like Jesus helps us grow like Jesus. When we study how Christ communicated difficult truths—with authority yet profound compassion—we find our model for mature Christian communication. The prayer also addresses our need for discernment in recognizing authentic leadership and distinguishing God's voice from counterfeits.
If you've been wounded by harsh words delivered in the name of "truth" or if you struggle to speak up when truth needs to be voiced, this prayer session offers healing and guidance. Join us in seeking God's help to communicate in ways that honor Him and build His kingdom. Download our daily devotional on social media @HealingWordCOGIC and join us tomorrow for more prayer and reflection.
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Welcome to Morning Prayer
Speaker 1Good morning, welcome to Morning Prayer. Today is September 25th, 2025, and our scripture for today is Ephesians, the fourth chapter, verses 15 and 16, in the New International Version of the Bible it reads in the New International Version of the Bible, it reads Instead speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him, who is the head that is Christ. From Him, the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work, amen. And so today we are praying that God will give us grace in our words, that we may speak the truth, but speak it lovingly, amen. And so we're going to go in prayer.
Speaker 1Father, your name is to be praised and we exalt you. Father, your name is awesome and we thank you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, lord, we praise you, lord, we praise you, lord, we praise you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, have your way, have your way, have your way, holy Spirit, have your way. Thank you for grace, thank you for guiding us even as we pray. Thank you, holy Spirit. Hallelujah, we thank you for strength this morning. Hallelujah, we thank you for strength. Oh, lord, have your way in this prayer time. In the name of Jesus. Oh Father, we're thanking you. We're thanking you for how patient you are with us, for how good you've been to us. We thank you for the way, lord, that you are mindful of us. Oh God, you take your time with us, god, and we thank you, lord. We thank you for how intentional you are in building us up and in making us who you have designed us to be. Oh God, even in times, oh God, of chastening, lord, you are so mindful, lord, you are so gracious to us. Oh God, I pray today that you'll help us, lord, to share the same type of intentionality when we are speaking with our brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, help us, help us to be able, lord, to speak the truth. Give us the courage, lord, to say what is true, oh God, give us the courage, lord, oh God, even if it is against popular opinion, give us to say what is true, to speak it from our mouths. In the name of Jesus, give us the strength to go against the tide when you are calling in a different direction. Oh God, we need your strength, lord, your strength to stand, lord, to stand on your word, to stand on your statutes. God, we need your strength, lord, and I'm praying, lord, strength for every believer this morning, in the name of Jesus. Oh God, hallelujah, as you have given us, lord, oh God, the truth, lord, as you're giving us discernment, leading us into all truth, and we're speaking it from our mouths, oh God, help us to not come from a place of condemnation, help us to not come from a place of judgment, oh God, help us to come, oh God, with the right spirit. Oh God, and lovingly, oh God, and lovingly, lovingly, speak words of correction. Lovingly, lord, speak what the word says about a situation. In the name of Jesus, oh God. You told us, lord, that we must be wise to win souls. Lord, help us, lord, to change our approach where needed.
Prayer for Healing and Strength
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, if we're too harsh, god, soften us out, lord. Oh God, if we're too timid, lord, oh God, give us boldness. Lord, In the name of Jesus, oh God, we need you, we need you. You're the example that's in front of us and we need you, oh God, we need your power, oh God, your power to witness, lord, oh God, your power, lord, hallelujah, to get out there and do what you're calling us to do. Oh God, I thank you this morning for seasoning our words with grace In the name of Jesus, oh God, let us speak wisely, lord, let us not speak rashly, lord, or quickly, lord, oh God, give us to be quick, to listen and slow to speak.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, help us, lord, oh God, to play our role in the body of Christ. Help us, lord, to do what you've designed us to do, to do. In the name of Jesus, oh God, we bind, oh God, jealousy and comparison. In the name of Jesus, god, I thank you that each one of us is precious in your sight, god, I thank you that each and every one of us is loved by you, is cherished by you, lord. Help us, lord, to be secure, secure in our gifting and secure in our calling, oh God, help us, lord, to accept the assignment that you placed over our lives, oh God, to accept it, father, and to not compare the gifting to that of others.
Speaker 1But, god, help us to be thankful. Help us to be thankful that we're even being used at all, oh God, even in all of our righteousness, oh God, it is as filthy rags in your holy presence. So, god, we count being used by you as a privilege. We count being used by you, lord, as something that is important. Oh God, I pray, lord, that you can send your Lord to bless your people. Oh, we thank you for the spirit of discernment resting strongly on your people.
Speaker 1Oh God, in the name of Jesus, oh God, in the name of Jesus, oh God, not only do we need to determine what is right and what is wrong, oh God, but we need to understand and discern the voices Of leadership. In this hour and in this day, oh God, we need to discern, lord, oh God, what is sent from you and in this day, oh God, we need to discern, lord, oh God, what is sent from you, lord, and what is sent from the enemy. In the name of Jesus, oh Lord, help us, oh Lord, help us. Holy Spirit, lead us, holy Spirit, if you lead us, we won't fall. Holy Spirit, lead us and we will not fail. In the mighty name of Jesus. Oh, the crown of their heads, god, to the soles of their feet, lord, we declare healing in the name of Jesus, oh God, whatever it may be that they're dealing with in their bodies.
Victory Over the Enemy's Plans
Speaker 1Oh Lord, we thank you. We thank you for being the great healer. Oh God, touch every ache and every pain. Oh God, balance every unbalanced thing In the name of Jesus. Oh God, we watched in your word, where you healed all manner of disease, where you healed all sickness that you came into contact with. Oh God, we thank you and we're looking for an appointment with Dr Jesus today, with Dr Jesus today, in the name of Jesus. Oh, come see about us, lord, in the name of Jesus. Come see about us, god, In the name of Jesus. Oh God, touch our bodies, oh God, touch our minds, oh God, touch us today In the name of Jesus. Oh God, give strength where there is weakness. Oh God, give strength where there is weakness. Oh God, in your strength, we are perfected, even when we're weak. God, oh God, we thank you For divine strength. Lord, oh God, to go through the day Victoriously. Lord, in the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you. I thank you, lord, for your people prospering. I thank you, lord, for your people prospering. I thank you, lord, for your people being in good health. I thank you, lord, for your people. Lord, oh God, obtaining every promise, oh God, every promise that you've given to them. In the name of Jesus, oh God, we thank you for giving us Lord to walk, lord, oh God, fearing you and respecting you, obeying you, lord, and doing what thus saith the Lord In the name of Jesus, lord, help us, lord, to respect that you are God. Oh God, we thank you. We thank you, lord, because, oh God, such an intimate relationship forms with us. But, god, I pray that you'll help us, lord, to never get slack, lord, in remembering that you are the holy, almighty God. Oh God, give us to not become slack in reverencing that which is holy. Oh, you are holy, you are the anointed one. We acknowledge that you're yet high and lifted up. We yet acknowledge that you are the king of all kings. We yet acknowledge that you are the lion of Judah. Oh God, we thank you today. We thank you for who you are. We thank you for who you are to us. Oh God, I thank you for fighting the battles of your people. Oh God, I thank you, lord, that we don't have to lift a finger, that we don't have to say a word. Oh God, when you tell us to stand still, god, and to see the salvation of the Lord, and when you tell us to stand still, god, oh God, we understand that there's nothing that we have to say nothing that we have to do. Oh God, that you'll come in, lord, and you'll fix the situation and you'll grant us victory over it. Oh God, we thank you. Oh God, we thank you. Oh God, we thank you for today. Oh God, the victory of today. Oh God giving us strength to get up today. Oh God, giving us the strength to thrive today.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, we cancel the assignment of the enemy that comes against the people of God. In the name of Jesus, so, oh, we cancel the assignment of the enemy over our loved ones. In the name of Jesus, oh, the blood of Jesus prevail now. In the name of Jesus, oh, the blood of Jesus prevail over our homes, our children, our families. Oh God, the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus, the blood of Jesus prevail, lord, in the name of Jesus. Oh God, god, we ask that not only do you disrupt the plans of the enemy, god, we're asking that she'll destroy those plans, oh God, that she'll destroy that yoke, oh God, that she'll destroy it in such a way that the enemy can't put it back together to salvage it.
Speaker 1Oh God, this, it in the name of Jesus, oh, yes, god, oh, yes God, oh God, we thank you today. We thank you that you fight the battle and that you win the battle, oh God. We thank you, lord, oh God. We thank you, oh God, for victory over every stronghold. Oh God, we thank you for victory, oh God, even coming out of situations that we've been living through for years. Oh God, breaking the bond of the enemy, destroying the yoke of the oppressor. Oh God, destroying the yoke of oppression. In the name of Jesus, oh Lord, I thank you for your people being secure in you, oh God, secure in our place in you. Secure, oh God. Secure, god, to know that you love us just for who we are, god, oh God, knowing that you love us, oh God, and that you don't prefer anybody else over us. Oh God, help us to be secure in the name of Jesus, oh God, help us to lay safely in your arms, oh God, because you so love us. You love us so, oh God, we thank you today. We thank you and we honor your presence. We honor your presence, god.
Closing Prayer and Devotional Reflection
Speaker 1My prayer this morning, god, is that your people will be delivered and set free. My prayer this morning, god, is that your people will be healed. My prayer this morning, god, is that your people will receive increase, god. My prayer this morning, lord, is that they receive double for their trouble. Oh God, my prayer this morning, god, hallelujah, is that you open up doors and windows that no man can shut. Oh God, my prayer this morning, god, is that you'll quiet anxiety and fear. In the name of Jesus, oh God, my prayer this morning is that your people walk boldly. Oh God, my prayer this morning is that your people will know the truth and that the truth will set them free. Oh God, my prayer this morning, lord, is that the love of God, the love of God, would shine from your people.
Speaker 1In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you.
Speaker 1I thank you. I thank you, god, for keeping us, for keeping us, god, for keeping us, god. I thank you, lord, that you send your angels and give them charge over us to keep us in all of our ways. God, thank you for those guardian angels, oh God, thank you for those angels that are fighting, oh God, that are fighting in the heavenlies, that are fighting for us. God, oh God, we thank you, we thank you, god. Oh Lord, you're so good, you're so good, you're so good and you're so great, oh God.
Speaker 1I'm asking, lord hallelujah, that you'll bless these, your people, one by one and name by name. Lord, I pray that you'll attend to every need on our prayer list, god, whatever it may be. If it be jobs, oh God. If it be food, if it be, oh God, bills needing to be paid, debts needing to be paid off, oh God. If it be prayer for loneliness. God, lord, whatever it may be. I thank you, lord, that we can come to you and that we can find refuge in you. We can come to you, god, and you are the solver and the fixer of every problem. Oh God, we bless you and we praise you. Oh God, we bless you and we praise you In Jesus' mighty name. Thank God and amen. Hallelujah, thank God and amen. We thank the Lord for this time that God has allowed us to pray. Amen.
Speaker 1And as I mentioned before, our prayer today and what we're focusing on today is speaking the truth in love. Hallelujah. Instead seeking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him, who is the head that is Christ. From Him, the whole body, joined and held together in every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work. Hallelujah. Speak the truth in love, not to tear down but to build up. We must speak like Jesus. We grow I'm sorry. When we speak like Jesus, we grow like Jesus, amen. When we speak like Jesus, we grow like Jesus, amen. When we speak like Jesus, we grow like Jesus, Amen. And so we're asking the Lord, we're asking the Lord, we're walking with the Lord and thanking him for giving us the grace to speak the truth, but to speak the truth lovingly, amen. But to speak the truth lovingly, amen.
Final Blessings and Announcements
Speaker 1All right, we thank the Lord for the devotional. It could be found on our social media platforms, on our Instagram and Facebook page, at Healing Word C-O-G-I-C. Amen. And at this time, I'm thanking God for each of you that has joined in for prayer this morning. Thank you for the prayer warriors, thank you for those that come together and pray. I thank God for you, and I know that God has a special reward, a special reward for those that will pray, those that will seek his face. He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him. Thank God for you. Thank God for those that download the podcast and listen in. We thank God for you. May the blessing of the Lord be upon you, and I thank God for Pastor Mark Bayman Jr and the Healing Word family, amen. We're preparing to leave this morning and we'll be back tomorrow if the Lord delay his coming. God bless you and have a good day.