Scripture Prayers for Healing
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that have even heard that it was God’s will for them to be healed. So we have centuries and
generations of unbelief to overcome, and serious mind-renewal needs to take place.
But we can get to that place, and so can our children. Many of our children now are speaking
scriptures all the time. If the Lord tarries His coming, these children can be so solid in this that to
them praying for a healing is just like taking someone down to the altar and confessing Jesus,
and the results are just the same. It’s not that it’s so hard for someone to be healed or that it’s
hard for God, but it’s that faith has been so low and so weak in these areas. In the area of healing
and in the area of prosperity, it is just now being restored to many parts of the body across the
earth.
There are millions of people who are Christians who still don’t believe this. They don’t believe
it’s God’s will for them to be healed. They don’t believe it’s God’s will for them to be
prosperous. Their faith is not just weak, it’s not there in that area for them. They have no faith for
this, and that’s the problem. That’s why we have to keep talking about it, and we have to keep
feeding on it, and we have to keep telling each other and encouraging each other.
We are righteous, healed, and rich in Christ Jesus. These are redemptive realities.
He said, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” (James 5:16)
Look at James 5:14. It says, “Is any sick among you? 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 not just
praying, but, “the prayer of faith shall save the sick.”
But what if it’s not His will? He told us to pray one for another that we might be healed. Well, if
it’s not always His will, how do we know who to pray for and when and how? If it’s not always
His will, we’re going to need an individual personal revelation before we pray for anyone. We
don’t need a personal revelation before we lead someone to the Lord to be born again because
we know it’s His will for everyone to be born again. And we don’t need a personal revelation for
every person before we pray for their healing because it’s the same Bible, it’s the same
redemption: He forgives all my iniquities, He heals all my diseases. (Also, 2 Chronicles 7:14)
It’s the same verse and the same thing. “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” (James 5:15) He
shall be raised up, and he shall be forgiven.
Let’s not be like so many who are only preaching one benefit: the forgiveness of sin. Thank God
for that benefit, and that’s number one. But, that’s not all of the benefits we have. Forget not all
His benefits. In other words, remember all of them. Remember all His benefits. He daily loadeth
us with benefits, the Psalmist said. (Psalm 68:19)
Say this out loud:
“I’m loaded. I’m loaded with benefits.”
Thank God for the benefit of being forgiven, but that’s just one. There are more than one, and
number two is right behind number one: He forgives all my iniquities, all of them, and He heals
