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In His Hands
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In His Hands
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In His Hands

In His Hands

Prayers for Your Child or Baby in a Medical Crisis

By Jessika Sanders & Eric M. Schumacher, foreword by Emily Jensen & Brad Jensen
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About this book

When your child or unborn baby is facing serious medical problems, it can be hard to know what to pray. The shock, uncertainty and fear can mean that even though you want to cry out to God in prayer, your words just dry up. 

That’s where this book can help, with prayers that use Scripture to help you communicate with the Lord. Whether you need to cry out honestly to the Lord in grief, to pray boldly for healing and help or simply to process what is happening, you'll find words to help you talk with the God who loves you and weeps with you—the God who can do all things.

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Specifications

Contributors:
Jessika Sanders, Eric M. Schumacher, Emily Jensen, Brad Jensen
ISBN:
9781784989781
Format:
Hardback
First published:
July 2024
Dimensions:
135mm x 190mm x 21mm
Weight:
0.36 kg
Print size:
11.0pt
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Publisher:
The Good Book Company

Contents

Introduction

Section 1: For Uncertain and Fearful Times

Section 2: For Healing

Section 3: For Our Child

Section 4: For Our Family

Section 5: For the Medical Team

Section 6: For the Things We Need

Section 7: For Times of Spiritual Darkness and Doubt

Section 8: For Lifting Our Eyes in Praise

Section 9: For Occasions

Section 10: For Giving Thanks After Healing

Section 11: For Loss

Section 12: For Life After Loss

Endorsements

What a gift Schumacher and Sanders offer the hurting with In His Hands, a beautiful, poignant collection of prayers for those touched by child illness and loss. Nuanced with the wisdom of personal experience and saturated with Scripture, this book will offer a voice to the suffering when words fail, and point them to the one, true Word who has borne their sorrows and is acquainted with grief.


Kathryn Butler MD Author, Between Life and Death

In His Hands is a precious resource for families who are clinging to God during the heartache and confusion of medical crises. These prayers are steeped in Scripture; they are full of humble wisdom, honest lament, and godly hope. When circumstances are so overwhelming that you don’t even know what to say, these prayers will draw you close to God and help you find your voice.


Scott James Pediatric Doctor, Children's Author, and Elder at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL

As a mother of multiple children with serious health conditions, there are times when I don’t know how or what to pray. Eric and Jessika’s heartfelt, Scripture-based prayers put words to thoughts and feelings that can be hard to express, while also helping parents like me to look to God and hope in him.


Katie Faris Author, Every Hour I Need You: 30 Meditations for Moms on the Character of God

This beautiful book is deeply moving—the prayers are affective, touching the heart in a way that child, sibling, parents, and family will identify with. It is deeply pastoral—the prayers are comprehensive, covering all possible scenarios that child, sibling, parents, and family may experience. And it is deeply needed—the prayers are instructive, giving child, sibling, parents, and family words to pray when they know not how to pray. What a beautiful blessing this book will be to many!


Jonathan Gibson Associate Professor, Westminster Theological Seminary; Author, The Moon Is Always Round

This is a book for the moments when you don’t have the words to pray. Eric and Jessika remind parents of the hope of the gospel with every prayer.


Kristin Schmucker Founder, The Daily Grace Co.

When our child faces a medical crisis, fears can paralyze, emotions can disorient, and we often lack the words to express the whirlpool of thoughts and feelings within. I was deeply impacted by these beautifully real prayers, which in many ways speak into countless circumstances. When you lack the words to pray, open the pages of this book and you will find the words your heart longs to cry out to your Heavenly Father.


Sarah Walton Author, Hope When It Hurts

This book is a gift. It’s not just a gift because you can (and should) gift it to suffering parents. It’s a gift because it is written by people who have learned, through deep pain, how to suffer in faith. Rather than offering superficial platitudes, this little book will draw your heart deep into the heart of the Suffering Servant who knows and loves. I highly recommend it.


Elyse Fitzpatrick Author and Speaker
As someone who has walked through multiple miscarriages, I can personally attest to the experience of deeply longing to cry out to the Lord yet having no words to do so. Eric and Jessika have given me those words. In His Hands gives simple yet profound examples of how and what to pray amidst loss, fear, or grief during a child’s medical crisis, as well as the myriad of circumstances that come with it. This book is a gift to those who are walking through this season as well as those who are walking with them. Highly recommended!


Kristin L. Kellen Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
By masterfully integrating the words of Scripture to help parents and children give voice to their laments, hopes, pleas and praises, this book helps us all to see how God meets us wherever we are in the pediatric medical crisis journey. Schumacher and Sanders offer these prayers as parents intimately familiar with crisis, and intimately familiar with the Lord who carries us through both healing and loss. This book is a much-needed resource for families walking through the indescrib- able tension between grief and hope, and for those looking to support loved ones in medical crisis with truthful, gritty, platitude-free faith.


Hui-wen (Alina) Sato Pediatric ICU Nurse
Using Scripture and compassion, In His Hands provides words and prayers for not only families facing difficult diagnoses but also those praying for them and their medical team. Today, I learned of a friend’s cancer diagnosis and found comfort in this new resource. I plan to use it with our center staff and give it as a gift to families we support.


Michelle Nietert Clinical Director, HopeHelps.me

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5.00 stars In His Hands: Prayers for Your Child or Baby in a Medical Crisis

 

This is the spiritual, significant and practical book that gives guidance, hope and courage during the time of crisis which many parents and guardians go through during parenting of babies and children. May God use it extensively in this world of troubles and open eyes and hearts of many parents and guardians in anticipation of the world without calamities our Lord Jesus is preparing for those who believe in Him.

5.00 stars A Real Pastoral Heart

 

(Review written for 'In His Hands (ebook)')

Having read Eric Schumacher's book "Ours" about miscarriage, I was excited to read this book about praying for our children when they go through medical crises. This book is strongly pastoral and caring, giving the hope needed alongside some time to lament too as we draw closer to God. One for the bookshelf of all pastors so that they can respond when tough times come round

5.00 stars Faithful, heartfelt prayers for the afflicted and those walking alongside them.

 

When a child/unborn baby is facing serious medical problems, the fear and uncertainty these families experience can be so huge that words can be lost in the sea of grief and overwhelm. This is a beautiful and precious resource for those in suffering and need words they don't have.

Eric and Jessika have written a book full of faithful and heartfelt prayers inspired by Scripture to help us talk with our loving and compassionate God. They have even included simple ...

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