Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH, prays for the nation during the coronavirus pandemic: ‘Help us … to be free’
During an episode of Focus on the Family’s broadcast, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, offered expert knowledge about the coronavirus pandemic and then concluded with a prayer for the nation:
Dear God, we are at a time in our country of considerable stress and concern and a threat is very much all around us with this unexpected infection. And we have in our own strength not enough resources to know exactly what to do and yet we do have understanding enough that there are things that we collectively can do to try to reduce the amount of pain and suffering and death that may otherwise happen.
Please fill our minds with the kind of wisdom and insight that we need cause we’re often lacking in that in our own works. Please help us though to be free of a sense of paralyzing fear but rather to be energized and empowered and to be strong and courageous and to seek out a path forward here so that we cannot just feel like the clouds have closed in but also see a break in those clouds—a time in the future where we can come through this with a sense that we have done what we were called to and that you have been right beside us all the time.
That part we know. We give you thanks for that. Bless our nation. Bless all those who put themselves in harm’s way to try to care for the sick and help us to be brought together somehow by this whole thing cause goodness knows this country needs more of that too.
In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.
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