Have you tried using scriptures to pray for healing in your life or someone else’s life?
Waiting on God is never easy. Isaiah 53:5 tells us that we are healed by Christ’s sacrifice for us; however, there are times when we have to wait to see God’s healing manifested in our lives.
During these times of waiting, we can find peace and power by using Scripture to guide our prayers. The Bible offers a great deal of encouragement about God’s desire to heal his children and restore our bodies, mind, and lives.
God is a good Father, and he wants to give us good gifts. His healing is one of his good gifts. Let’s talk about the importance of pressing into his Word as we wait for his healing to manifest itself in our lives.
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Why Use Scripture to Pray for Healing
Our emotions can feel consuming when we are desperate to see God’s healing hand in our lives or the lives of our loved ones. Using Scripture to guide our prayers for healing helps us stand on God’s promises instead of standing on our feelings.
By using scripture to guide our prayers, we wield the sword of the Spirit as the enemy attacks us with fearful and discouraging thoughts. Instead of letting our faltering emotions guide our prayers, standing on God’s Word aligns our hearts with God’s heart.
Even when we don’t see God’s healing manifested in our lives, praying God’s Word helps us overcome the enemy’s attacks against our minds. God’s Word begins healing our worried minds before we see his healing touch on our bodies.
Scriptures to Pray for Healing
The Bible shows us that God wants to heal his children. He heals our minds by renewing them with his Word. He heals our bodies through miraculous interventions as well as modern medicine. He heals our hearts by revealing himself to us.
Let’s look at 42 powerful Scriptures to pray for healing. We can use these Scriptures to guide our prayers by thanking God for the truth we find within each verse and also claiming these truths over our lives.
- “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” (Exodus 15:26, ESV)
- If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
- Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. (Psalm 6:2)
- O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me. (Psalm 30:2)
- The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health. (Psalm 41:3)
- Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy. (Psalm 103:2-4)
- He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. (Psalm 107:20)
- He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalm 147:3)
- My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. (Proverbs 4:20-22)
- A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
- Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5)
- Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. (Isaiah 58:8)
- Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise. (Jeremiah 17:14)
- For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’ (Jeremiah 30:17)
- Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security. (Jeremiah 33:6)
- I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. (Hosea 14:4)
- But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. (Malachi 4:2)
- And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. (Matthew 4:23)
- “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7)
- And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment. (Matthew 8:13)
- That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.” (Matthew 8:16-17)
- And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. (Matthew 9:35)
- And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. (Matthew 10:1)
- Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay. (Matthew 10:8)
- Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. (Matthew 18:19)
- And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” (Mark 2:17)
- And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” (Mark 5:34)
- And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” (Mark 9:23)
- Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27)
- And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way. (Mark 10:52)
- And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:17-18)
- “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” (Luke 4:18)
- And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.” (Luke 8:48)
- The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. (John 10:10)
- “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. (John 14:12)
- How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. (Acts 10:38)
- He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
- Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (James 5:14)
- And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (James 5:15)
- Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. (James 5:16)
- If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” (Revelation 21:4)
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Tap Into the Healing Power of Scripture
God is waiting to make himself known to us. He is always waiting to reveal himself through the Bible. He also wants to reveal his character as our healer by bringing restoration to our lives.
As you wait to see God’s healing come to fruition, thank him that he has already appropriated his healing. Instead of repeatedly approaching him as if you never asked for his healing touch, make it a habit to talk to him as you would talk to a good Father.
Begin by thanking him that he has heard your past prayers for healing. Then, thank him for the promises listed above. Tell him you are excited to see his healing come to fruition and bring him glory.
Meanwhile, refuse to succumb to fearful, worried, and doubtful thoughts. The enemy wants to use these thoughts to lead you away from God. Instead of meditating on these negative thoughts, meditate on God’s Word.
You will overcome the enemy and develop a deeper trust in God while you wait to experience his healing power.
