Need prayers for the healing of a friend? Discover the best and most effective healing prayers you can make to God on behalf of your loved ones.
It’s safe to say that a good friendship is one of the most beautiful things God can bless you with while you’re here on earth. To have someone who cares about you and stays rooted with you through the highs and lows, is truly a blessing that is worthy of appreciation.
However, there are times when these strong pillars are weak and downcast. Their souls are weary and need to be encouraged. Their bones are tired and need to be strengthened. It might be the cause of a broken heart, or worse an ailment that has eaten deep into their physical abilities.
To be a source of help in such times, how can you come through for these special ones? By applying a principle that never fails. You come through for them by offering them up to God in prayer.
A prayer for healing for a friend can remind them of how special and important they are to you. It also reinforces the power of love and heartfelt prayers to God. Because He hears you and will surely answer.
Healing is sent by biblically accurate angels to the earth in response to the heartfelt prayers for the sick in our midst. God wants to heal your friends and your loved ones, and He expresses this through Psalm 109:20.
Showering your friends in prayers for healing and strength, can make the ultimate difference in them becoming whole again. God is the sovereign healer and wants nothing more than to make your loved ones new again.
To help you get started, below are 12 carefully sourced biblical prayers for healing.
Table of Contents
1. Prayer for the Strength of a Friend
Dear Father,
I treasure the friends you have given to me so much. Thank you for their presence in my life.
I ask that you watch over them and strengthen them from their insides. I pray that you lead them into the full hope and promises of your blessings set out for them. I trust that you will protect and hold them when life is hard. Lord, help me to be a good friend to them. Give them unusual strength to push through this hard phase, and cause them to come out at the end of the tunnel, joyful and whole to give you praise.
Thank you Lord, for I know you hear me.
Amen.
2. Healing Prayer For The Sick
Think, O God, of our friend who is ill, whom we now hand over to Your compassionate and loving arms. Comfort her on her sickbed, and ease her pain. We ask for your deliverance, Lord, and we know that there is no healing that is too hard for the Lord, if it be His will.
We pray that You bless our friend with Your loving care, that renew her strength in leaps and bounds, and that you heal her from whatever ailment that troubles her, we pray in Your loving name.
Thank You, Lord.
Amen.
3. Healing Prayers For a Loved One
As the Lord remembered Hannah and opened her womb, the Lord will remember you, my friend for good. He will cause His face to shine upon you. He will quickly arise for your help and all your past pains will be forgotten in Jesus’ mighty name.
Amen.
4. Family Prayer For Healing
Dear Lord,
Thank you for my family that is present here and thank you for just how far you have brought them.
In your word, you said you want nothing more than to send your healing to cleanse us of diseases and deliver us from destruction.
Standing on your word today, Lord, I pray for my family and I commit them into your warm embrace. I ask that you heal them and deliver them from every disease that ails. Let your healing power come so strong and wash over them, that they may be made whole to the glory of Your name.
I ask all this in Jesus’ name. Thank you for answered prayers, Lord.
Amen.
5. Prayers For The Sick
Dear Loving Father,
I am here with an ail friend, and I thank you for his life. Thank you for the privilege to call upon your name and have you answer.
Lord, I offer my friend up to you in prayer. I know that your plans for him are good and not evil, and that you will bring him to an expected end. I also know through your word that you have promised to heal and cleanse us.
Father, I ask that you heal my friend. I ask that your healing power envelopes him from the top of his head to the sole of his feet. I pray that you make him new and that you restore his organs to perfection.
Thank you, Jesus, for your perfect healing. In your powerful name, I have prayed.
Amen.
6. Prayers For Healing And Strength
Dearest Father,
I honour your name, for you are the sole source of strength in the entire universe. All power comes from you and will return to you.
I uphold my friend to you in heartfelt prayer today, Lord. You said in your word that you will strengthen us from our inner man, and that you will heal us.
Lord, I ask that you fill up my friend with your strength and healing. Let your healing hands wrap over her, Lord. Just as you have healed many, I ask that you touch her with your healing hands and make her whole. Baptise her in your newness and may your word go forth and heal her disease.
Thank you God, for I know you care. In Jesus’ name I have prayed.
Amen.
7. A Prayer For Friendship
Sweet God,
I give thanks for my friends, for connection and laughter, for comfort and strength, for encouragement and unity, for forgiveness and grace, for celebration and joy. They are so many things to me, such a rich tapestry of blessings, woven through my life by you.
I thank you today for bringing them into my life and I thank you for your goodness towards them. Let your name continually shine through our lives and never cease to give your glory.
I pray that they grow to the greatest heights your heart wants for them and that you satisfy the deep longings for their heart.
Thank you Lord.
Amen.
8. A Prayer For Hard Times
My prayer for you dear friend is that the Lord will turn your weeping into dancing. He will give you deep joy and you will be lifted from your sorrows. He will give you a reason to not just smile but laugh again. The Lord will see you through this difficult situation and comfort you on all sides.
You will testify of His goodness and the sweetness of the life he has given to you. May God bless your heart.
Amen.
9. A Prayer For A Friend Hurting
Lord, today I come to you hurting. This wound from a friend is almost more than I can bear. I feel broken-hearted, and I want justice. Lord, I know that justice is not mine to give, so I come to you open handed. Here is the friendship that has wounded me so much, Lord- take this hurt from me, help me feel your peace and your love toward me now.
I don’t want to extend grace. But I know you have been so gracious toward me- all my life you have lavished grace on me as I’ve sinned against you. Help me be humble. Help me see my part to play. Help me give grace and love toward my friend.
Soften my friend’s heart toward me now- let them return grace to me too.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
10. Prayer For Healing For Friends
Gracious Lord,
Your Word speaks promises of healing and restoration and I thank you for the miracles you still perform today. Today I claim those promises over my friend.
I believe in the healing power of faith and prayer and I ask you to begin your mighty work in the life of my friend. Please reach down and surround my friend with supernatural peace and strength and give her the faith to believe that all things are possible for you.
Protect her from Satan’s lies and discouragement and let her miraculous healing begin.
Amen.
11. A Prayer For Healing For Friends And Family
Lord Jesus,
Thank you that you love [name of the person who needs healing]. I know that you hate what their illness is doing to them/me. I ask that you would heal this disease, that you would have compassion and bring healing from all sickness.
Your word says in Psalm 107:19-20 that when we call out to you the Eternal one you will give the order, heal and rescue us from certain death. In the Bible, I have read of miraculous healing and I believe that you still heal the same way today. I believe that there is no illness you cannot heal after all the bible tells of you raising people from the dead so I ask for your healing in this situation.
I also know from my experience of life on earth that not everyone is healed. If that happens here then keep my heart soft towards you, help me to understand your plan, and help me to be excited about heaven.
God, I thank you that [name of the person who needs healing] belongs to you and that you are in control of everything that happens from our first breath to our last sigh.
Amen.
12. Short Prayer For Health And Healing
Almighty God of Heaven,
You are the only source of health and healing. In You, there is calm and the only true peace in the universe. Grant to each of us an awareness of your presence, and give us perfect confidence in you.
In all pain and weariness and anxiety, teach us to yield ourselves to your never-failing care, knowing that your love and power surround us, trusting in your wisdom and providence to give us health and strength and peace when your time is best; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
Conclusion
It is so important to love your friends and offer up prayers for them in your secret place. This shows how high up they are on your list of priorities, and this strengthens the bond you have with them.
You can incorporate these prayers for healing in your personal time with God, or even at church during services.
Make sure to pray them once or twice a day or on a weekly basis. The goal is to be consistent and to couple your prayers with powerful faith. This brings tremendous results, and it reflects even in your personal relationship with your friends.
God desires for your loved ones to be whole and happy, so partner with Him and pray for them today.
