Can We Really Pray for Healing?

The Bible says yes, we can pray for healing. We have a God who cares about our physical well-being, and he wants us to ask him for physical healing.

A good example of this is the story of the blind man who was healed by Jesus in Mark 8:22-26 when Jesus spit on the man’s eyes and told him to wash his face. The man who had been blind since birth could see again! And when they could not get near him because of the crowd did not heal everyone who asked him for healing, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t ready to heal them or that they didn’t have faith. We don’t know why people were sometimes healed and others weren’t, but we know that God is always ready to hear our prayers and help us in any way he can.

The Bible tells us that God can heal us of our sicknesses, but it doesn’t stop there. Jesus tells us to pray earnestly and specifically. He doesn’t give us a recipe-style list of instructions, but he does tell us that we should be bold in our prayers.

Healing is available to you, and it’s available to your loved ones who are sick. All you have to do is ask!

We’ve all seen people praying over people to be healed in movies, TV shows or at church services. But what does it mean when someone asks you if they can pray for your healing? It means they’re asking God on your behalf because they love you so much that they’re willing to ask him anything—even something as simple as asking him to heal your body from an illness or injury!

The Bible is full of instances of miraculous healing through prayer. Mark 2:11-12 says,

“And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.'”

When we pray for healing for people who are sick and in need of physical, spiritual, or emotional healing, we are serving them in the way that God intended.

However, there is an important caveat here: we can’t just pray for healing without taking action. James 2:14-17 says:

“What good is it, my brothers and sisters if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself if it is not accompanied by action is dead.”

We also have to remember that God’s plans are not always our plans. He sees the entire story and the entire journey, but we only see what’s right in front of us. We don’t know how the story ends. There are a lot of people who have prayed for healing for someone who ended up dying anyway. But when we look back at their life? We can see that their death was a part of God’s plan—they had already inspired so many people in their lifetime. They were a blessing to everyone around them. So yes, pray for healing—but also pray that God’s will be done.