Prayer about Praying for Miracles of Healing
Prayer about Praying for Miracles of Healing
And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, ‘If you will, you can make me clean.’ Mark 1:40
Life-Changing God,
Thank you for inviting us
to bring all of our prayer requests before you,
especially regarding healing.
Throughout Scripture, we see you reversing the course of nature,
healing supernaturally,
as you did when the leper asked you to make him clean.
Because you healed many people,
we are invited to pray for healing.
And yet, may we remember,
we should never treat you as a magician,
asking you to wave a wand
and reverse the course of nature.
When our loved one is suffering and dying,
eaten up with disease,
may we pray to accept the reality of death
in your timing and in your way
as an answer to our prayer.
May we continue to lament the horror of death
until the day Jesus returns to raise us all to new life
in the new heavens and new earth.
May we never forget
your most miraculous healing work—
the raising of the spiritually dead
to new life and eternal life.
Lord, give us wisdom when we pray for healing,
and give us acceptance of your every answer to prayer.
In Jesus’ healing name. Amen.
Luke 2:29-31; James 1:4-5; Mark 1:40-44.
![When’s the last time you highlighted your weakness?
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor. 12:10
All-Powerful God,
We confess,
we in Western culture
crave power, control, and independence.
The last thing we want
is to seem weak.
And yet, weakness is the way of Christ,
so it must be our way as well.
The apostle Paul understood that,
so in the face of accusations
that he wasn’t an apostle,
he countered the boasting of the “super-apostles”
with some boasting of his own:
“If I must boast,
I will boast of the things
that show my weakness” (2 Cor. 11:30).
And then he mentions how he was lowered in a basket through the window of a wall in Damascus, of all places,
a place he went to persecute Jews only to be knocked down on the road,
struck blind, by his Lord and Savior himself.
Paul shares many other weaknesses in 2 Corinthians,
a book that’s all about weakness as the way
of followers of Christ.
He asked that you would relieve him from a “thorn in the flesh,”
but you did not.
Instead, you said,
“My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in your weakness” (2 Cor. 12:9).
Lord, we know we really are weak —
[for each of these areas, name any weaknesses you have]
weak in our bodies,
weak in our work,
weak in our wills,
weak in our faith,
weak in our hope,
weak in our love.
We believe
that you your power is made perfect
in and through our weakness.
Help our unbelief.
In Jesus’s name. Amen.
Read 2 Corinthians 11:30-12:10.
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