A Prayer for Healing
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When you are walking through a season of physical illness or deep exhaustion, even small tasks can feel monumental. Energy runs low, and finding the right words to express your needs can be difficult. This page is here to provide a quiet, reassuring place to turn when your body and spirit need rest.
On this page, you will find a short prayer written to ask for strength and comfort during difficult days. You will also find ten real public-domain Bible verses presented in both the King James Version and the World English Bible. This resource is completely free, runs with no ads, and requires no account or signup.
The prayer
Lord, my body feels weary and my strength is fading today. Please grant me comfort, patience, and gentle peace as I rest. Fill my heart with quiet courage for the hours ahead and surround me with your steady care. I look to you for renewal and lean upon your unfailing love. Thank you for watching over me in every season. Amen.
If you would rather sit quietly than read a whole page, the prayer room lights a candle, shows one verse at a time, and lets you release a private prayer that never leaves your browser. For more verses on this theme, see our bible verses about healing.
Scriptures to pray with
These verses come verbatim from the public-domain King James Version and World English Bible — switch between the two translations below.
- Psalms 147:3
He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
- Isaiah 53:5
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.
- James 5:16
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
- 1 Peter 2:24
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.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
- Psalms 103:2
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
- Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
- Psalms 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
- Lamentations 3:22
It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
- Isaiah 58:11
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
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