Prayers for Healing

In my recent years of struggling with physical ailments, I have seldom prayed for them to just go away.

hat does not mean I have not prayed for healing, but healing in the form of maximum wellness, optimal wholeness, strength, and eventual complete healing with one stipulation: I have not wanted anything to just go away until it had achieved its maximum benefit for me, for others, and mostly, for the glory and Kingdom of God.

This is not a brag or a statement of personal holiness. in fact, it is quite selfish on my part. It is an assessment of the question: What do I really want out of life? What is going to bring the greatest pay-off? What is best?

Here, below, is a man who did not suffer because of sin (Heavens knows I have suffered because of sin more often than I wish to tell), but for glory.

The greatest glory was achieved through his healing in this case.

And there was great rejoicing and awe.

John 9:1-12,35-38

As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes, saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him." He kept saying, "I am the man." But they kept asking him, "Then how were your eyes opened?" He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' Then I went and washed and received my sight." They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know." Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him." Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he." He said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshiped him.