Of course, when a child is sick, parents are ready to do anything to help him, ease suffering, improve well-being. Believers are accustomed to relying on the power of prayer in any worldly sorrows or hardships. Children's illnesses are no exception. Prayer for a child's temperature perfectly complements medicines and traditional medicine designed to relieve fever.
Of course, a plea for help addressed to higher powers should not replace a visit to the doctor and treatment of the disease. And, of course, the prayer should be read with sincere and unconditional faith in the power of the Lord, without a shadow of doubt in your heart or thoughts.
Who should I pray to?
Traditionally in Russia, a prayer at a high temperature in a child is read to the Mother of God, Nicholas the Wonderworker, and, of course, many people turn to the Lord himself for help.
Of course, pray for help and deliverance fromthe heat of the child can be any saint saint. Often prayers are addressed to the Matrona of Moscow, Xenia of St. Petersburg, to St. Luke, to Sergius of Radonezh. They ask for relief from illness and a guardian angel.
How to pray to Our Lady?
Prayer for a temperature in a child, regardless of who it is addressed to, must be filled with sincerity and faith. Calls must come from a pure heart, otherwise there will be no power in them. You can pray both in your own words and using ready-made texts.
You can pray to the Mother of God for the recovery of the child and for getting rid of his temperature as follows:
“Mother of God, Queen of Heaven, in all our needs and aspirations before the Lord, intercessor and petitioner. Do not leave me, a slave (proper name), without help and comfort, grant me pure thoughts, strong faith, fill my heart with hope and humility.
Send relief to my child (child's name), take away his heat, wipe off perspiration, grant sound sleep and return he alth upon awakening. Deprive my child of suffering, do not let him be tormented, help and heal, Blessed Mother of God.”
How to pray to Nicholas the Wonderworker and Matronushka of Moscow?
You can pray to Nicholas the Wonderworker for delivering the child from the disease like this:
Nikolai Ugodnik, father! In need and trouble does not leave, in earthly affairs and worldly cares an assistant! I beg you not for myself, but for my child, languishing from the fierce heat. Do not leave, Nikolai Ugodnik, father, my child (name of the child) without help, help him, healevil ailment, take away the fierce heat. Send my child good he alth, protect me from ailments, both large and small”
You can pray to the Matronushka of Moscow like this:
“Holy intercessor, Matronushka-mother! Help me, a servant of God, cure the child, relieve the heat, wipe off the perspiration. Do not leave, holy Matronushka, intercede for my child (name of the child) before the Lord, pray for him good he alth, protection from all diseases. Do not leave me in grief, Holy Matronushka, help me heal my child!”
However, praying for the he alth of your baby, we must not forget that requests to higher powers are not an alternative to treatment, but only complement it.
