19 Days Praying Over Covid-19
Covid-19— my first experience with pandemic. Before only the fodder of sci-fi or historical stories about the Plague, the effects of pandemic now rule our lives.
My life has changed. Yours too? I miss my normal. I long to sit in a coffee shop. Go to my library. Buy toilet paper whenever I need it.
My responses have swung like a pendulum from my introvert-self enjoying the quiet to my fearful self imagining the worst possible outcomes.
Regardless how I feel about all this, there’s a reality that the Lord has allowed me to live through a historic event upon which normal will pivot and move in a new direction. I want to follow Jesus wherever He goes with this.
On my better days, my response is not an emotion, but an action. I respond with prayer. Below are 19 days worth of prayer for Covid-19. If you’re needing a mental reset, I invite you to use these. There’s no magic formula. You can pray them all in one day, or do one day at a time.
But I’m convinced, the BEST activity for these “shelter in place” days is PRAYER!
19 Days of Prayer
Keep praying!
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him… 2 Chronicles 16:9
Day 1
Binding the disease.
Day 2
The stop of the spread of the virus.
Day 3
The healing of the sick.
Day 4
Wisdom for the government
Day 5
Wisdom instead of fear
Day 6
Strength for nurses and doctors
Day 7
Peace for my city
Day 8
Trusting the Lord
Day 9
Protection for first responders
Day 10
Restoration of joy
Day 11
Development of medicine
Day 12
Strength for the weak
Day 13
Churches responding with the love of Jesus
Day 14
Fear driven out
Day 15
Needs would be provided for
Day 16
Conviction and repentance
Day 17
For each family that’s lost someone
Day 18
Church would find ways to comfort others
Day 19
Peace would replace Corona!