Healing - Check out Matthew 12:15

Do you need physical, emotional, relational, mental or spiritual healing today? Come to Christ and receive the total peace you so long for! His healing hands are ready to work for you. Ponder the promise of Matthew 12:15.

A huge part of Jesus’ earthly ministry was devoted to healing. He healed people physically, emotionally, relationally, mentally, and physically. This is what happens when we encounter God. When we come to God, we all inevitably come to him broken in some way. We are marred by our sin, enslaved to our shortcomings, shattered and incomplete. But Jesus is a healer. And when we encounter him, we become whole. We will not always experience wholeness in every circumstance here on earth, but when we know Jesus, we have access to the one who is able to bring it about. And in his kindness, he offers us glimpses of the full healing that is to come.

So why are we hesitant to pray for healing?

I’m sure the answer differs from person to person, but I’ll share with you my honest thoughts. For me, it’s often because I don’t know if God is actually going to do anything or not. And if he doesn’t, then I look like I don’t know what I’m talking about. And maybe even worse—I might have to reevaluate what I put my trust in. To take a step of faith to pray for healing is to risk that prayer not being answered the way I want it to. It often feels safer to me to just pray a surface level “safety prayer” that requires no faith than to actually pray in a way that has stakes. I don’t want to be disappointed by God, so I don’t pray a risky prayer. And I don’t want to stake my own reputation and God’s reputation on whether someone is healed.

What is the solution?

I am finding that the solution is not to haphazardly pray for healing, but rather to get so close with God that I can ask him what he wants to do and hear from him. Risky prayers are not risky if you have heard from God. Yes, we have our own shortcomings, and we may not always hear God correctly, but we have to be willing to err on the side of being foolishly faithful if we want to develop faith that has hard spiritual data to back it up.