In His Hands: Prayers for Your Child or Baby in a Medical Crisis
Book Description:
When your child or unborn baby is facing serious medical problems, it can be hard to know what to pray. The shock, uncertainty, and fear can mean that even though you want to cry out to God in prayer, your words just dry up.
That’s where this book can help, with prayers that use Scripture to help you communicate with the Lord. Whether you need to cry out honestly to the Lord in grief, to pray boldly for healing and help, or simply to process what is happening, you'll find words to help you talk with the God who loves you and weeps with you—the God who can do all things.
Authors Eric Schumacher and Jessika Sanders both know what it’s like to face a family medical crisis, and they are passionate about helping others in the most difficult situations. Eric is the author of Ours: Biblical Comfort for Men Grieving Miscarriage. Jessika is the Executive Director of Praying Through Ministries, which provides support for parents whose children have been hospitalized and families who have experienced child loss.
This easy-to-navigate book includes prayers for a clear diagnosis; prayers for healing; prayers for comfort and relief from pain; prayers for peace, courage, perseverance, and wisdom to cope well; prayers for unity; for the extended family; for the medical team; for practical needs; for times of spiritual darkness and doubt; and much more.
This book is designed to help both parents and the wider family turn to God for help when a child is facing a medical crisis.
Contents
Introduction
Section 1: For Uncertain and Fearful Times
Section 2: For Healing
Section 3: For Our Child
Section 4: For Our Family
Section 5: For the Medical Team
Section 6: For the Things We Need
Section 7: For Times of Spiritual Darkness and Doubt
Section 8: For Lifting Our Eyes in Praise
Section 9: For Occasions
Section 10: For Giving Thanks After Healing
Section 11: For Loss
Authors:
Jessika Sanders is a wife and mother of three, and the Executive Director of Praying Through Ministries. She writes at jessikasanderswriter.com and has contributed to publications including So God Made a Mother (edited by Leslie Means) and Hope When Your Heart is Heavy (from Proverbs 31 Ministries). Jessika is passionate about equipping others with biblical truth, especially in suffering.
Eric M. Schumacher is a husband, father, and songwriter who works in full-time ministry serving pastors. He is the author of Ours: Biblical Comfort for Men Grieving Miscarriage, and co-authored Worthy and Jesus & Gender with Elyse Fitzpatrick. Eric received his MDiv from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Iowa with his wife and five children. Find him online at emschumacher.com.
Endorsements:
As a mother of multiple children with serious health conditions, there are times when I don’t know how or what to pray. Eric and Jessika’s heartfelt, Scripture-based prayers put words to thoughts and feelings that can be hard to express, while also helping parents like me to look to God and hope in him.
--Katie Faris
What a gift Schumacher and Sanders offer the hurting with In His Hands, a beautiful, poignant collection of prayers for those touched by child illness and loss. Nuanced with the wisdom of personal experience and saturated with Scripture, this book will offer a voice to the suffering when words fail, and point them to the one, true Word who has borne their sorrows and is acquainted with grief.
--Kathryn Butler, Author, Between Life and Death
When our child faces a medical crisis, fears can paralyze, emotions can disorient, and we often lack the words to express the whirlpool of thoughts and feelings within. I was deeply impacted by these beautifully real prayers, which in many ways speak into countless circumstances. When you lack the words to pray, open the pages of this book and you will find the words your heart longs to cry out to your Heavenly Father.
--Sarah Walton, Author, Hope When It Hurts
In His Hands is a precious resource for families who are clinging to God during the heartache and confusion of medical crises. These prayers are steeped in Scripture; they are full of humble wisdom, honest lament, and godly hope. When circumstances are so overwhelming that you don’t even know what to say, these prayers will draw you close to God and help you find your voice.
--Scott James, Pediatric Doctor, Children's Author, and Elder at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL
This beautiful book is deeply moving—the prayers are affective, touching the heart in a way that child, sibling, parents, and family will identify with. It is deeply pastoral—the prayers are comprehensive, covering all possible scenarios that child, sibling, parents, and family may experience. And it is deeply needed—the prayers are instructive, giving child, sibling, parents, and family words to pray when they know not how to pray. What a beautiful blessing this book will be to many!
--Jonathan Gibson
This book is a gift. It’s not just a gift because you can (and should) gift it to suffering parents. It’s a gift because it is written by people who have learned, through deep pain, how to suffer in faith. Rather than offering superficial platitudes, this little book will draw your heart deep into the heart of the Suffering Servant who knows and loves. I highly recommend it.
--Elyse Fitzpatrick, Author and Speaker
Additional Information:
Cover: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 207
Publisher: The Good Book Company
Publication Date: 2024