SCRIPTURAL PRAYER FOR HEALING
“... be attentive to my words ... they are ... healing ...”
Proverbs 4:20–22 (ESV)
FATHER, YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Proverbs 4:20–22 (ESV) “My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to My sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.” So I am choosing now to be attentive to Your words and to incline my ear to Your sayings. I will not let them escape from my sight, and I will keep them within my heart. For Your words are life to me because I have found them, and they are healing to all my flesh.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Proverbs 18:21 and 12:18 (NIV84) “The tongue has the power of life and death...” and “... the tongue of the wise brings healing.” So I choose to use the power of my tongue to speak life and not death. I choose to speak Your words and healing to my body.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Exodus 15:26 (ESV) saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your Healer.” Though I am saved by grace and not by the works of the law, I choose to diligently listen to Your voice and do what is right in Your eyes. It is my joy to obey Your commandments. And I thank You, my Father, that You will not put the dis- eases on me, for You are the Lord, my Healer.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Exodus 23:25 (NKJV) “... He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.” Thank you, Lord, that You bless my bread and my water—all of my food—and that You take all sickness away from the midst of me.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Deuteronomy 7:15 (NKJV) “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt...” So, Lord, I give You thanks and praise that You take away from me ALL sickness, and that You will not afflict me with ANY diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 34:19 (ESV) “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Therefore, afflictions do not dis- qualify me from being the righteousness of God in Christ. And I declare that no matter what afflictions may come, You promise to deliver me out of them ALL!
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Psalm 103:2–3 (NKJV), “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.” So I choose to bless You from the depths of my soul, and I will not forget all Your benefits. You forgive all of my iniquities, and You heal all of my diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 107:20 (NKJV) “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” So I thank You, Lord, that because of Your love and willingness to heal, You sent Your word to me with healing promises. And Your word is so powerful that it both heals me and delivers me.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 118:17 (NIV84) “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done.” So therefore I declare: I will not die but live! And I will not only live, but I will loudly and repeatedly proclaim what the Lord has done.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Jeremiah 30:17 (NIV84) “... I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord...” So I thank You, Lord, that You restore me to complete health, and that You heal every wound and symptom.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Malachi 4:2 (ESV) “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings...” So I declare that I fear and revere Your name, and that Jesus came to this earth with healing in His wings.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Matthew 8:2–3 (NLT) “... a man with leprosy... said, ‘if You are willing, You can heal me and make me clean.’ Jesus reached out and touched him. ‘I am willing,’ He said. ‘Be healed!’
And instantly the leprosy disappeared,” and also in John 14:9 (ESV) “Jesus said... ‘Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father...’ ” So I thank You, Lord Jesus, that seeing and hear- ing You minister to people is the same as seeing and hearing the Father do so. And therefore I know how You and Father God respond to the question of Your willingness to heal. Your answer is the same to me today, “I am willing. Be healed.” Thank you, O God, that You are both willing and able to heal me.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Matthew 9:35 (NIV84) “Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.” So I thank You, Lord, that Your healing power is not limited to certain diseases and sicknesses, but You heal every disease and You heal every sickness.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Matthew 8:16–17 (NLT) “... He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and He healed all the sick. This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, ‘He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.’ ” So I thank You, Lord Jesus, that You fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy (53:4) by taking our sicknesses and removing our diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV), “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” So I thank You, Father, that Jesus was wounded to pay for my transgressions. He was bruised to pay for my iniquities. He endured severe punishment to pay for my peace. And be- cause He paid for my healing by willingly being scourged, I declare that BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED!
“... be attentive to my words ... they are ... healing ...”
Proverbs 4:20–22 (ESV)
FATHER, YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Proverbs 4:20–22 (ESV) “My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to My sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.” So I am choosing now to be attentive to Your words and to incline my ear to Your sayings. I will not let them escape from my sight, and I will keep them within my heart. For Your words are life to me because I have found them, and they are healing to all my flesh.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Proverbs 18:21 and 12:18 (NIV84) “The tongue has the power of life and death...” and “... the tongue of the wise brings healing.” So I choose to use the power of my tongue to speak life and not death. I choose to speak Your words and healing to my body.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Exodus 15:26 (ESV) saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in His eyes, and give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your Healer.” Though I am saved by grace and not by the works of the law, I choose to diligently listen to Your voice and do what is right in Your eyes. It is my joy to obey Your commandments. And I thank You, my Father, that You will not put the dis- eases on me, for You are the Lord, my Healer.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Exodus 23:25 (NKJV) “... He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.” Thank you, Lord, that You bless my bread and my water—all of my food—and that You take all sickness away from the midst of me.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Deuteronomy 7:15 (NKJV) “And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt...” So, Lord, I give You thanks and praise that You take away from me ALL sickness, and that You will not afflict me with ANY diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 34:19 (ESV) “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Therefore, afflictions do not dis- qualify me from being the righteousness of God in Christ. And I declare that no matter what afflictions may come, You promise to deliver me out of them ALL!
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Psalm 103:2–3 (NKJV), “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases.” So I choose to bless You from the depths of my soul, and I will not forget all Your benefits. You forgive all of my iniquities, and You heal all of my diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 107:20 (NKJV) “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” So I thank You, Lord, that because of Your love and willingness to heal, You sent Your word to me with healing promises. And Your word is so powerful that it both heals me and delivers me.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Psalm 118:17 (NIV84) “I will not die but live, and will proclaim what the Lord has done.” So therefore I declare: I will not die but live! And I will not only live, but I will loudly and repeatedly proclaim what the Lord has done.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Jeremiah 30:17 (NIV84) “... I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord...” So I thank You, Lord, that You restore me to complete health, and that You heal every wound and symptom.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Malachi 4:2 (ESV) “But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings...” So I declare that I fear and revere Your name, and that Jesus came to this earth with healing in His wings.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Matthew 8:2–3 (NLT) “... a man with leprosy... said, ‘if You are willing, You can heal me and make me clean.’ Jesus reached out and touched him. ‘I am willing,’ He said. ‘Be healed!’
And instantly the leprosy disappeared,” and also in John 14:9 (ESV) “Jesus said... ‘Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father...’ ” So I thank You, Lord Jesus, that seeing and hear- ing You minister to people is the same as seeing and hearing the Father do so. And therefore I know how You and Father God respond to the question of Your willingness to heal. Your answer is the same to me today, “I am willing. Be healed.” Thank you, O God, that You are both willing and able to heal me.
YOUR WORD ALSO SAYS...
... in Matthew 9:35 (NIV84) “Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.” So I thank You, Lord, that Your healing power is not limited to certain diseases and sicknesses, but You heal every disease and You heal every sickness.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Matthew 8:16–17 (NLT) “... He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command, and He healed all the sick. This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said, ‘He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.’ ” So I thank You, Lord Jesus, that You fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy (53:4) by taking our sicknesses and removing our diseases.
AND YOUR WORD SAYS...
... in Isaiah 53:5 (NKJV), “But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.” So I thank You, Father, that Jesus was wounded to pay for my transgressions. He was bruised to pay for my iniquities. He endured severe punishment to pay for my peace. And be- cause He paid for my healing by willingly being scourged, I declare that BY HIS STRIPES I AM HEALED!