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Best Prayers for Healing - Pray for Health, Love and Faith

Best Prayers for Healing - Pray for Health, Love and Faith

In prayers for healing, we can find relief in the most difficult of times. Use these prayers, and keep them in your heart so they can remind you of God’s love and grace.

Discover our Prayers for Healing below along with Bible verses about healing to help in trying times of illness and pain. Use these powerful prayers for healing to call upon God for strength and faith to overcome sickness, depression, and grief.

Prayers for Healing: Be Encouraged and Trust in God

prayer for healing health

Prayer for Healing and Health

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 an 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.

Source: The Nazarene, Vols. 7-9, 1922

Prayer for Healing while Hospitalized

Gracious Father, all health and healing are gifts from your hand. We pray for {Name}, give his/her doctors and nurses the wisdom and skill as they work for his/her healing. While he/she waits and faces many unknowns, calm all doubts and fears with the Word of your promise that nothing can separate us from your love that is ours in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:39). Speed {Name}’s healing if it is your will, and give him/her an extra measure of patience as he/she waits for you to work all these things for his/her good (Romans 8:28); through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.

Source: Paul C. Stratman

Prayer for Healed Wounds

You have healed our wounds, O Lord, by the wounds of your only Son. What then should we do since we have been bought at so great a price? How shall we serve such a Lord, who has promised such liberty and has offered such an inheritance to us? Work in us, O Lord, what pleases you. Possess us so that we may possess you. We will not perish, you will let us live, and we will call upon your name.

Source: Mozarabic Rite

Source of this version: Freely modified from Ancient Collects, and Other Prayers, ed. William Bright, 1902, p. 72 #3

prayer for healing and love

Prayer for God's Healing

O God, by the grace of the Holy Spirit you poured the gift of love into the hearts of your faithful people. Give your servants {names} health of body and soul that they may love you with all their strength, and moved by love, do what pleases you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Source: Gregorian Sacramentary

Source of this version: Freely modified from Prayers of the Middle Ages, edited by J. Manning Potts, 1954

Prayer of Healing

Lord of Heaven, I rest underneath your mighty wings of love. I dwell within your gentle heart. I know there is healing in your touch. Through the sufferings of Christ I can ask for restoration And trust in your goodness. You are my Lord, my Saviour, My healer and my friend. I dwell within your gentle embrace. Amen.

Source: Holyland

Divine Healing

Dear God,
In this quiet moment, I feel divine healing energy moving throughout my body and mind. Your energy, your healing power flows within every atom, cell, and organ of my body temple. There is no condition greater than your power to heal, dear God, and there is no reason for me to doubt that healing is coming forth right now. I trust you, dear God. I feel stronger and healthier and filled with the peace of knowing that healing is taking place within me right now. True healing is mine through your Spirit. I surrender to you, God, in total faith and total peace. I trust you, God. I rest in an awareness of you, knowing that I am being renewed, restored, and revitalized.
In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.

Source: Holyland

prayer for cancer and sickness healing

A Prayer for Healing Cancer

Heavenly Father, I come before you with a solemn heart and in need of your intercession. I pray that the cancer that has come into my life soon fades into a quick remission. I believe in your capacity for miracles, and ask for this on my behalf. As we grow older, I know we become closer to the day you accept us back into your kingdom. I ask that you delay that holy union if it be your will.
In your name, I pray, Amen.

Source - PrayWithMe.com

Miracle Healing

Lord Jesus, I come before Thee, just as I am, I am sorry for my sins, I repent of my sins, please forgive me. In Thy Name, I forgive all others for what they have done against me. I renounce Satan, the evil spirits and all their works. I give Thee my entire self, Lord Jesus, I accept Thee as my Lord God and Savior.

Heal me, change me, strengthen me in body, soul, and spirit. Come Lord Jesus, cover me with Thy Precious Blood, and fill me with Thy Holy Spirit, I love Thee Lord Jesus, I praise Thee Lord Jesus, I thank Thee Jesus, I shall follow Thee every day of my life. Amen. Mary, My Mother, Queen of Peace, St. Peregrine, the cancer saint, all the Angels and Saints, please help me. Amen.

Source - PrayWithMe.com

A Prayer in Need: Lord, Have Mercy

Lord, have mercy.
In all our needs…
In all our hurts…
In all our anxiety

Lord, have mercy.
With all our questions…
With all we know…
With all we don’t know…

Lord, have mercy.
For healing…
For peace…
For a stronger trust in Your Word and promise…

Lord, have mercy.
To calm our doubts…
To soothe our fears…
To bear our griefs and carry our sorrows…

Lord, have mercy.
Help, save, comfort, forgive, strengthen and heal us by your grace.
Amen.

Source: Free prayer, reproduced from memory. © 2017 Paul C. Stratman. Some influence from the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

prayer for healing depression

A Prayer for Healing Depression

God bless all who are battling those inner demons of depression, loneliness, unworthiness, and hopelessness. Shine Your warm Heavenly Light down upon all of us, Lord, who are looking for our soul mates. Guide us to find peace, happiness, and contentment in our lives and within ourselves. Amen. 

Prayer for Renewal

Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. In Your Name, Amen.

Prayer to Renew My Strength

Dear Lord, I look to you in patient expectation. Renew my strength like the wings of eagles. Help me and uplift me by the power of Your Might. Then I shall go forth in strength and wholeness. I shall run and not be weary. I shall walk and not faint.

Source - PrayWithMe.com

bible verses for healing

Bible Verses on Healing

Jeremiah 33:6 - Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Isaiah 53:5 - But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

Psalm 103:2-4 - 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,

James 5:15 - 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.

Jeremiah 17:14 - Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Isaiah 41:10 - Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Peter 2:24 - 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.