On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.” The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water? Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing (Luk 13:10-17).

I pray in the name of Jesus for the sick to be made whole and that the chain of sickness and bondage is broken from the lives of Your people. Father in heaven, I pray, wash the sick and infirmed in the blood of the spotless Lamb. I pray, as Christ himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live unto righteousness; “by his stripes we are healed” (1Peter 2:24). Father, I declare healing not from sin only but from the sickness that it brought into the world. In Jesus’ name. Amen.