# Prayers for healing Four short prayers for healing, for yourself or someone you love. Each names the passages it rests on, from the Psalms, James and the Gospels. Source: https://www.lumin.faith/prayers/healing. Scripture quotations are from the Lumin Translation. These prayers are not Scripture; each names the passages it draws on. ## Prayers ### For someone sick For a friend or family member. Say their name. > Lord Jesus, you touched the sick and made them well. I bring [name] to you now. Heal their body. Ease their pain. Give their doctors wisdom and their family rest. Let them know they are not alone tonight. Amen. Draws on [Matthew 4:23](https://www.lumin.faith/read/matthew/4#23) and [James 5:14-15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/james/5#14-15). ### For me When you are the one who is sick. > Lord, heal me, and I will be healed. You know this body better than I do. I ask you to restore it. While I wait, give me patience and help me rest in you. I trust you with what I cannot control. Amen. Draws on [Jeremiah 17:14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/17#14) and [Psalm 41:3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/41#3). ### Before surgery Before an operation, a scan, or a hard appointment. > God, I am afraid, and I give that fear to you. Guide the hands of the surgeons and the nurses. Keep me safe while I sleep. When I wake, let the first thing I know be that you were with me the whole time. Amen. Draws on [Psalm 23:4](https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/23#4) and [Isaiah 41:10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/41#10). ### When healing is slow When the answer has not come yet. > Father, I have asked, and I am still waiting. Your grace is enough for me, even here. Hold me up in the long days. Give me hope that does not depend on the next test result. Heal what is broken, in body and in heart, in your time. Amen. Draws on [2 Corinthians 12:9](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-corinthians/12#9) and [Psalm 147:3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/147#3). ## Bible verses for healing - **[Jeremiah 17:14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/jeremiah/17#14)**: “Heal me, Yahweh, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.” Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed. - **[James 5:14-15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/james/5#14-15)**: “Is anyone among you sick? They should call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.” Call the elders. The prayer of faith will save the sick. - **[Psalm 147:3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/147#3)**: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. - **[Psalm 41:3](https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/41#3)**: “Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed; in his illness you will restore him from where he lies.” The Lord sustains the sick on their bed. - **[2 Corinthians 12:9](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-corinthians/12#9)**: “But he has said to me, “My grace is enough for you, for power is made complete in weakness.” So I will be all the more glad to boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may settle on me.” Paul asked for healing three times. God’s grace was enough. More: [What the Bible says about healing](https://www.lumin.faith/what-the-bible-says-about/healing). ## Questions ### What if I pray for healing and the person is not healed? Christians have always asked this. Paul asked three times for his own illness to be taken away, and God answered that his grace was enough (2 Corinthians 12:7-9). Scripture never says that a lack of healing means a lack of faith. Keep praying, and ask for comfort and strength alongside healing. ### Can I change the words of these prayers for healing? Yes. They are a place to start, not a formula. Use your own words, add names, or pray just one line. God hears the prayer, not the wording. ### Who wrote these prayers? Lumin wrote them from the passages named under each prayer. They are not Scripture. Every reference is checked against the Bible text each time the site is built. The verses are quoted from the Lumin Translation, so you can open each one and read it in context.