Scripture Prayers for Healing
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We ought to be willing to be changed and corrected by the Word, even if we have believed
something for a long time. We just know in part, and when we see light from the Word, we ought
to be willing to immediately say, “That’s right. The Word is right. I don’t care how long we’ve
been believing this way. The Word is Truth.” Conform to it and yield to it. That’s when things
begin to change, and we begin to get miracles that we didn’t get before. If we want to get results
that we haven’t had before, then we have to do something that we haven’t done before. When
you keep doing the same old thing, you’re going to keep getting the same old thing. There have
got to be changes.
What did he say? “Hurry up. Hurry up.”
Psalm 39:13 says, “O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.”
There are no ‘if it be Thy wills’ in any of these prayers.
Psalm 41:4 says, “L
ORD
, be merciful unto me: heal my soul.” “Raise me up,” verse 10 says.
In the New Testament in Acts 4:29-30, we see the same kind of thing. They prayed it in unison,
“Lord, stretch forth Your hand to heal.” Are these people praying about healing? Did any of
them use an ‘if it be Thy will?” What if it’s not His will? They’re not even taking that into
consideration. They’re just praying, “Heal! Heal now! Hurry up!” They’re praying like they
know it’s His will. They are praying with confidence like they’re sure it’s always His will,
because it is!
Now, I mentioned this, and I want to clarify: there’s a difference between the Old Testament and
New Testament. In the Old Testament, people were looking forward to the coming of the
Messiah and Him paying the price. In the New Testament, He has already come, and He has
already done the work. You have to watch about getting into this, “Heal me God!” The truth is,
He already has. It’s right to pray concerning healing, but it needs to be—as we read in James
five—the prayer of faith, not a prayer of begging. Otherwise you get into praying like you don’t
know His will.
He said in James 5:14, “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,” shall, “and the Lord shall
raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”
You will notice that Jeremiah 17 brings back what we’ve seen repeatedly, this connection, this
unison. In verse 5, the Lord said, “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man.” In verse 7, he said,
“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the L
ORD
.” Verse 8 says, “For he shall be as a tree planted by
the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but
her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from
yielding fruit.” Skip to verse 13, which says, “O L
ORD
, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee
shall be ashamed, and they that depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the L
ORD
, the fountain of living waters.” He is the fountain of living waters. What are
the very next two words? “Heal me.”
