A Prayer about Receiving the Help Others Offer

Will you receive the help others offer?

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!” Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Gracious Father,

We know we can cry out to you in times of distress, 

and you will answer us (Psalm 107:19). 

But never let us forget 

that your provision for our needs 

often comes through people 

you send to help us. 

Give us the humility and the faith we need 

to receive others’ help. 

When our loved one is hospitalized 

and people offer to bring meals, 

help us to say “yes.” 

When our baby is sick 

and someone offers to pick up our older child from school, 

help us to say “yes.” 

When our aging mother needs care 

and a co-worker offers to help with a work project, 

help us to say “yes.” 

And as we say “yes,” 

help us to see the beauty of the many people 

you send to us as messengers of your grace, 

people who “encourage one another” (Hebrews 10:24-25) 

through acts of service, 

people who “bear one another’s burdens” 

because they love you. 

What kindness you have given us in community! 

May we never reject your help in our time of need!

In gratitude for your grace we pray. Amen. 

Read Ecclesiastes 4:9-10; Hebrews 10:24-25; Philippians 4:14-16; Psalm 107.