Prayer is one of the most important elements in a believer’s life. It is where we receive the grace to live the Christian life, despite all that goes on around us.
This is why it is always helpful to depend on the power of prayer and affirmations, especially in the face of challenges like an ailment. Whether for ourselves, a loved one, or a friend, we can always depend on God for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.
This article shares some of the best prayers for healing, as well as tips to guide you in bringing any sickness that ails you or those around you to God.
How To Pray For Healing
Here are a few tips to help you as you say your get-well prayer:
Understand that God wants to heal you.
The Bible tells us in Matthew 8:17 that God bears our weaknesses and our diseases. It means He delights in our good health.
The whole of Scripture constantly reminds us of God’s love for us. God is willing to heal us whenever we ask Him, and even when we don’t. He cherishes so much and holds us in high regard.
Grow your faith with scriptures for healing.
In times of sickness, it’s common to lose heart, especially when the illness is a chronic one or has lasted for a while.
Meditating on Scriptures about healing always helps you get your faith up. As long as we have faith even as little as a mustard seed, anything, and everything is possible.
Talk to God honestly about how you feel
It’s important to say our healing prayer with sincerity. Even when you feel like you’re losing faith, don’t be ashamed to talk to God about it.
Ask Him to help you to keep trusting Him. Remember He loves you even through your doubts.
Be thankful
For every new day we get to see, it’s important to thank God for it and show gratitude. Instead of focusing on the illness or other things we may feel are going wrong in our lives, being grateful helps you focus on your blessings and thank God for them.
This also helps us to stay hopeful and positive no matter the situation.
Sow good seeds into the lives of others
The Bible says give and it shall be given unto you. There’s a deep connection between giving and answers to prayers.
Giving provokes God’s attention, because it is an outward expression of love and everything that He stands for.
Sow good seeds and good gifts into people’s lives. It could be Christmas gifts for your town folks, food and welfare packages for people who are doing without, or even as thoughtful as daily prayer.
Do good out of the abundance of the faith and love that God has poured into you, and see how you’ll reap that same goodness in the dimension of your health and wellness.
A Prayer for Personal Healing
Dear God,
Heal me. Please send your miraculous power.
May I feel your health-giving presence in every cell of my body.
I wait expectantly as you begin your mysterious healing work that is beyond human power and understanding.
Marshall all forces available to overcome my condition, including medical interventions, drugs, and the natural healing powers you created within my own body. Heal me with the supernatural aid of the prayers offered by my family, friends, and people I may not even know.
Plant hope in my heart during my hour of pain. Grant me patience and trust when your healing comes slowly but surely. Give me the wisdom to hear your voice and to do my part in the healing process. Show me a new vision for my life when I am well.
Teach me to thank and praise you for every small milestone and improvement. Enable me to learn how to accept help graciously. Be tangibly present during difficult treatments. Shield me from despair. Keep me praying in the darkness. Bring an end to my pain.
Plant your strong healing Word in my heart. Restore me to productivity and help me to once again walk with joy and confidence in the company of the healthy. I pray that you, Oh God heal me as I place myself in your strong healing hands.
Amen.
A Prayer for Healing For Sick Family Members
Jesus Christ,
I come before you today with a prayer for healing for my sick family members. I give You thanks for Your unending love for [name of the person who needs healing]. I know You are aware of their illness and what it is doing to them. I pray that you may have compassion and heal them from their ailments.
Jesus our Lord, we all know that we are not worthy to receive You but only say a word and all our sickness shall be healed. Lord, forgive us and cleanse us from our sins. Your Holy Word says that when You healed those who were sick, You did that by forgiving them of their sins.
The Holy Bible tells us that whatever we shall ask in Your Name shall be given. The blind man, Bartimaeus called out Your name and begged to see again, and You restored his sight. Jesus, today I come to You in prayer shouting in faith to you that You restore [names of sick family members] health.
Teach me and them gratitude so that after they receive the healing, I and they may come back to You in prayer to thank you for healing my sick family members. In Jesus’ name Amen.
A Prayer to Heal from Depression
Heavenly Father, You alone are my secret keeper and know the darkest places within my heart. Lord, I am in the pit of depression. I feel tired, overwhelmed, and unworthy of Your love. Help me to truly surrender the things that keep me imprisoned inside my heart. Replace my struggle with Your joy. I want my joy back. I want to stand beside You and celebrate this life that You have paid so dearly to give me.
Help me when I feel the cloud of depression settling down, to keep my focus on You. May I draw nearer to You each day as I spend time in prayer and Your Word. Please strengthen me as only You can.
Thank you, Lord. You truly are the greatest gift of all. Consume me in Your joy, for I believe that the Joy of You Father, is where my strength is found. Thank You, Lord.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
A Prayer of Healing for A Friend
O God of hope,
I come to You at this difficult time with confidence. I ask for the grace of healing for my friend. You are a healing force, so I entrust to You someone very important to my heart.
My God, You are glorious in Your miraculous works, so don’t turn Your face away. And You are living water, so I in my prayer bring my sick friend to You as a source of living water, that You may give him to drink Your grace, and that Your divine love will heal him.
Also, bless the work of the doctors so that they can help their patients successfully with Your help. Lord, hear my prayers for healing for a friend. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
A Prayer For Health and Healing
Almighty God,
You are the only source of health and healing. In You there is calm, and the only true peace in the universe. Grant to each one of us Your children awareness of Your presence, and give us perfect confidence in You.
In all pain and weariness and anxiety
teach us to yield ourselves to Your never-failing care. Knowing that Your love and power surround us, trusting in Your wisdom and providence to give us health and strength, and peace when Your time is best. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer for Healing a Loved One
God of all hope,
I look to you in times of need. You are the healing God, please bring healing to my loved one. You are the saving God, please save those who I care about so deeply.
You are worthy of all praise, help us not to turn our back on You but to approach You with thanksgiving. Help us find life in all its fullness in You. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer to Ease Pain
Righteous God, I call to You in times of trouble. Right now, I am in trouble, the pain that I feel is unbearable. This pain that I feel has kept me bound for too long. But I know that You will save me, You will relieve me of my pain.
I thank You for hearing my voice and for answering my prayer! Thank You for easing my pain and for filling me with peace, Amen.
Conclusion
Sometimes while offering up a prayer for healing, some may not get immediate answers. For some healings come later than others.
So people continue to pray. Trust God for the patience to wait on Him.
No matter what pain you suffer, ask God to help you not to give into anger, resentment, unforgiveness, or bitterness and become captive to sin.
Beloved, remember that God is beside you every step of the way. Through sickness, and in health, He is constantly causing things to work together for your good.
