Praying God's Words On Healing

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:3-5

There is a lot of sickness running rampant and amuck today right in our midst and with our love ones and we want to pray healing and restoration this morning.

When we understand peace, we realize that it encompasses more than just peace of mind.  God gives us His peace.  But peace is also discussed in the word of God as the absence of conflict.  It is also the cause of unity; all things working together for a common cause.  So when God commands us to:

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  Mark 16:30

 - there can be no disagreement or discord between those 4 components if we are to fulfill the first commandment.  When illness ravishes our body or zaps our strength, we cannot serve God to our fullest capacity or in agreement with our mind, body and soul.

We can’t serve the Lord the way He wants us to when we are sick in our bodies. He wants us whole: spirit, soul, and body.  We must trust His Word and allow the Lord to show us the way. We should always keep our eyes on Jesus and not on men nor focused on our concerns and issues. 

When Jesus shed His blood on the cross for our salvation from sin, He also bore the stripes on His body for our healing from sickness.   Jesus was beaten by lashes that literally tore pieces of flesh from His back. They were the stripes by which Isaiah and Peter say we were healed.

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).

When we desire healing, we must remember to seek Jesus for who He is, and not just for what He can do for us. We need to seek Jesus the Healer, not the Healer, Jesus. Healing is the bread for God’s children and we receive that bread as we follow Him.

God has so much to say in His word regarding the healing of our physical bodies. He has already pronounced healing. All we have to do is have faith in Him and accept His word as truth. In my prayer for healing, I speak the words that God has already spoken.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Lord we thank You for this day; this day that You have made and Your sovereignty in creating it.  We know that without You that nothing is possible.  You are the creator of the heavens and the earth and all that is there within.  Lord we magnify Your name for You are great and You are greatly to be praised.  It is with humbleness and appreciation that we come before You; that we are afforded this great and wonderful opportunity to seek your face and call upon Your name!  Lord I ask that You not only hear our prayer but that You answer. 

Lord we acknowledge that Your steadfast love never ceases; Your mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; so great is Your faithfulness.  Lamentations 3:22-23

God we thank you for your ever loving-kindness.

Lord we want to do as Your statutes say:  and not be wise in our own eyes; help us to have reverence for You Lord, and turn away from evil. Your word tells us that when we do this, it will be healing to our flesh and refreshment to our bones.  Proverbs 3:7-8

We will bless You Lord even as You help us to remember all of Your benefits. We acknowledge that it is You Lord, who forgives all our iniquity, who heals all our diseases, who redeems our life from the pit, who crowns us with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies us with good so that our youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalm 103:2-5

Uphold us Lord according to Your promise, that we may live, and let us not be put to shame in our hope! Hold us up, that we may be safe and have regard for Your statutes continually! Psalm 119:116-117

Lord we ask that You sustain those that are on their sickbed; and in their illness, restore them to full health in accordance to your will.   Psalm 41:3  

That your way may be known upon earth, your saving health everywhere.   Psalms 67:2

We thank You for the Savior, Jesus Christ who was wounded for our transgressions; who was crushed for our iniquities; and Your word lets us know that with Jesus stripes we are healed.  Isaiah 53:5

We thank you for name of Jesus; the name that we can call on to heal and deliver us; not only for sickness of body but deliver us from sin, calm our nerves, lift us from depression, that name that every knee will bow to; You tell us in your word 

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.   Acts 4:12

We come to you just as your prophet Jeremiah, saying, Heal us, O Lord, and we shall be healed; save us, and we shall be saved, for You are our praise.  Jeremiah 17:14

Lord we thank You for You tell us in your word:  Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.  Jeremiah 33:6

You tell us in your word about the gross darkness of this world, a world filled with sin, shame and degradation, but you have placed and graced your chosen in the earth to be glory carriers, light barers to shed the gospel of Jesus around the world so that the lost can find their way to You.  Help us Lord to do that which you have commissioned us to do!  We need you Lord like never before.  Help us Lord to receive you in our hearts and minds that our actions may be a reflection of  You. 

In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;  In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.  And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.  For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.  

Colossians 2:2-5

Be blessed today and encouraged in God.

Elder C. L. Henry

09/05/13