Worry and anxiety normally fill the heart of anyone who is being wheeled into the operation room. Worrying about the outcome of the operation will make remembering the promises of God almost impossible. At such points, one needs another who will lift prayers to God on one’s behalf. A friend in need, they say, is a friend indeed. You are here today because you care so much for your dear friend, and you know that praying on behalf of your friend having surgery now will do so much good. I’m persuaded the Lord will step into this situation for your friend because of your prayers.
It is not an easy experience to see that a loved one’s life is hanging on the balance and needs surgery to get back to living normally. You must know that what the Lord needs to take over from the devil most times is just someone willing to stand in the gap. No matter how you feel now, you have to put your feelings aside and do the best thing any good friend is expected to do- pray! Your sick friend needs you so much more than ever before. Use the most trusted weapon; prayers established on faith.
Pray for your friend who is waiting to be operated on for grace to be able to go through this storm in peace. You can also send prayers into the operation room as the surgery is ongoing to support the medical practitioners doing their jobs well. You must also pray for your friend to recover well after all the treatment.
These prayers for my friend having surgery below can guide you to pray the most appropriate prayers for your friend before, during and after surgery. Go through them with faith in your heart, and you will receive answers from the Lord.
Prayers for My Friend Before Surgery
Great God, I thank you for sparing my friend’s life; but surgery is still needed for my friend to get well. I stand in the gap and say these Prayers for My Friend Having Surgery today. I ask that every procedure in the process of this surgery, whether major or minor, will turn out with great success in Jesus name, amen.
1. Prayer for Peace and Calmness for My Friend before Surgery
I pray for my dear friend is who is being wheeled into the theatre for peace and calmness. My friend’s heart is a lot of trouble, but your word says in Psalm 34:4, “I sought the Lord, and he answered, and delivered me from all my fears. Please help my friend to seek you at this time in the name of Jesus. Lord, deliver my friend from all thoughts that breed fear in the heart in the name of Jesus.
Lord, help my dear friend to cast all her fears, anxieties, troubles upon you. Help my friend to awake to your caring heart in the name of Jesus. Help my friend to put his/her trust in you and be not consumed with fear and panic in the name of Jesus.
Although I can not enter the theatre with my beloved friend, my prayers can help her. Father, send your words of comfort and peace in the name of Jesus. I fill my friend’s mind with words of grace and strength in the name of Jesus.
I speak life into the soul and mind of my friend, and the power of worry and anxiety is broken in the name of Jesus. May my friend’s heart be guided with the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Thanksgiving Prayer for The Surgeons for Successful Surgery for My Friend
Father in heaven, I lift your name overall. Thank you for your love and mercy over all the surgeons and nurses that will be treating my friend today. Thank you for keeping their hearts and mind in your perfect peace. Thank you for blessing them with a good night rest that they will wake up this morning to the joy of a new day.
Thank you for blessing them with the soundness of mind and great faith to treat and restore my friend to health. I am grateful because they see possibilities in all impossibilities through this operation process for my friend in the name of Jesus.
Thank you, Lord, because as these surgeons and nurses are going into the operation room, their inner ears are opened to the voice of your spirit. Thank you, for you will stay their minds on you. They will trust you to save my friend’s life today.
Thank you for blessing them with quick understanding and enlightenment to treat my friend. Thank you, Lord, for all of them because no matter how prolonged the operation Process ends up to be, these noble men and women will not be weary or tired until they have saved my friend’s life in the name of Jesus.
3. Prayer for Preservation of Life for My Friend before Surgery
Lord, my lovely friend, is about to go into surgery. I am so worried about the success of the operation process. I ask that you will preserve the life of my dear friend by your abundant mercies. Let the life of my friend be precious in your sight Lord. Let the surgery process go as planned in the name of Jesus.
Matthew 7:7a reads, “Ask, and it shall be given you”; so, I ask Almighty Father, save my friend’s life today. Make the operation process to be a success in the name of Jesus. Keep the cold hands of death far away from my friend in the name of Jesus.
I declare my friend will not die but live even on this earth and declare the goodness of God in the land of the living. Any power that says my friend will not live through this operation is broken into pieces in the name of Jesus.
Lord, by Your mercy, protect and preserve my friend. Keep my friend alive to be able to give the testimony of your goodness and love. Keep the hands of the enemies far from my friend in the name of Jesus. Let the will of the enemies never prevail over my friend in the name of Jesus.
Prayers for My Friend in the Surgery Room
4. Prayers against Complications during My Friend’s Surgery
We are not ignorant of the enemy’s devices; he is always looking for ways to destroy any work that God is doing. But the Lord is more powerful than you, Satan. In the name of Jesus, I command you to stop all your evil work as this operation is going on.
The scripture says Christ was manifested to destroy all the work of the devil; I decree, and I declare that all your works and plans to cause problems and complications during this operation are thwarted and destroyed by the power in the name of Jesus.
I stand on the promises of God on behalf of my friend that when the enemy comes as a flood against us, his Holy Spirit will raise a standard against him. The hand of the Lord is against you, and this operation will go God’s way; it will be successful in the name of Jesus.
I say No to complications during or after this operation process in the name of Jesus. All the procedures will obey the law of life in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Heavenly Father; I bring praises and honour to your holy name.
5. Prayers for Family Members of My Friend in the Waiting Room During the Operation
Lord, my friend’s family are all waiting frantically in the waiting room to hear that they still have their loved one with them to hold and love. I pray their expectations will not be cut short in the name of Jesus.
I pray you will calm all their fears; soothe all their pains. Let your healing power sweep over their soul. Help them to turn all their anxieties to prayer points and all their cries of helplessness to seek the mercies of the Lord for my friend in the name of Jesus.
The hospital environment can be a bit stressful, especially emotionally; I pray that your mercy will guide their heart and mind in perfect peace in the name of Jesus. Let your love melt every ice of disbelief and despair in the name of Jesus.
Plant faith instead of fear in their heart. I plant joy instead of sorrow. I pray grace instead of despair. They are not broken and perplexed like the unbelievers who have not to hope in the name of Jesus.
I pray that you will open their eyes to see the victories you are working out for the sake of my dear friend in the name of Jesus.
6. Prayer for The Surgeons Operating on My Friend during Surgery
No surgery is mild because any mistake, consciously or unconsciously, can cost a whole life or mar someone’s life forever. So dear Lord, I ask you that your hand direct and work through the hands of the surgeons and nurses operating on my friend. Take the preeminence over everything that will take place in the theatre in the name of Jesus.
I ask that your wisdom will be upon them to know the right thing to do at the right time in the name of Jesus. May all their years of learning and experience be put to good use in my friend’s body in the name of Jesus.
Jesus, you are the great physician. Work through them to bring perfect health to my friend in the name of Jesus. I declare that there will be no mistake or error in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayers; I receive my friend back in good health in the name of Jesus.
Prayers for My Friend After Surgery
7. Prayer against Trauma of the Mind for My Friend after Surgery
Research has it that many patients find it difficult to overcome the trauma of this kind of surgery. The Lord himself will help you, my friend, to recover totally in Jesus name. Your mind and heart will receive great comfort in the name of Jesus.
Your soul will not be disquieted within you in the name of Jesus. As the power of the Lord Jesus preserved your life in the operating room, that same power will work in your mind and heal you in the name of Jesus.
The Spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead quickens the mind of my friend with mercy and love. Let all the care and love around my friend help her mind recover well in the name of Jesus.
8. Prayers for Total Healing for My Friend after Surgery
All powers belong to you, Lord and Master Jesus Christ. I pray that the good work you have begun in my friend’s life will be brought to perfection in the name of Jesus. Adonai, you are the Balm of Gilead; cause my friend to come into the estate of health in the name of Jesus.
I declare that my friend’s health flourishes in the name of Jesus. Shield my friend from contracting any infection even after all the antibiotics has worn out in the name of Jesus.
I decree that over you, my friend, your health will spring forth as the morning. Doctors and nurses will be amazed at the rate of your fast recovery in the name of Jesus. People will use you as a point of contact for quick recovery in the name of Jesus.
All your organs will work in favour of your entire well-being. None of them will fail because they will be powered and sustained by the power of divine life in the name of Jesus.