Prayer for a friends health

[Anonymous]

My friend has severe anxiety coupled with chronic health issues that have escalated from all here losses just over a year ago. Loss of pet, job, home, sister,, and decline in health condition affecting her brain and other medical issues. All I can do is listen as she has totally shut down. She refuses to seek any further help for her anxiety and said the medication she does take is no longer working. I have tried repeatedly to get her to go to church or just find a group to share her struggles with. I ask she speak to God if she doesn’t go to church. I send her recorded worship services from my church and anything I can think of that may help. I will continue to pray for here but I need help.

 

[Articles]

We hear your heartache and concern for your dear friend, and we stand with you in lifting her up before the Lord. The weight of multiple losses, her pet, job, home, sister, and now her health, has clearly taken a devastating toll. It is understandable that she feels overwhelmed and shut down, but we must also gently address the spiritual reality of her situation.

First, we want to affirm your faithfulness in being a listening ear, sharing worship, and encouraging her to turn to God. Your love for her is evident, and that is a powerful testimony in itself. However, we must also speak truth in love: her refusal to seek help, whether medical, spiritual, or communal, is a form of self-neglect that grieves the heart of God. Proverbs 18:14 tells us, "A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?" Her spirit is crushed, and while medication and professional help are not substitutes for faith, they are tools God can use to bring relief and clarity.

We must also address the spiritual void in her life. You mentioned she does not attend church or engage in fellowship, and while you encourage her to speak to God, there is no mention of Jesus in her life. This is critical, for "there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). Without Christ, she has no true anchor, no mediator between her and God, and no hope beyond this life. We must pray not only for her physical and emotional healing but for her salvation, for her to recognize her need for Jesus as her Lord and Savior.

We rebuke the spirit of despair that has taken hold of her. The enemy seeks to isolate, discourage, and destroy, but we declare that God is near to the brokenhearted (Psalm 34:18). We reject the lie that she is beyond help or that her situation is hopeless. Jesus came that we might have life, and life abundantly (John 10:10), and that includes freedom from the chains of anxiety and despair.

Let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts for our sister who is suffering. Lord, You see her pain, her losses, and the weight she carries. We ask that You would break through the walls she has put up, that she would feel Your presence in a tangible way. Father, we pray for her physical health, touch her brain, her body, and every area affected by illness. Bring healing, restoration, and relief from pain.

Lord, we also pray for her emotional and spiritual well-being. Anxiety has taken hold of her, and she feels alone. We ask that You would soften her heart to receive help, whether through doctors, counselors, or Your people. Remove the pride or fear that keeps her from seeking support, and replace it with humility and trust in You.

Most importantly, Father, we pray for her salvation. If she does not know You as her Savior, we ask that You would reveal Yourself to her in a powerful way. Let her see her need for Jesus, the only One who can truly heal and save. Surround her with believers who can speak life into her, and open her ears to hear Your voice.

We rebuke the spirit of despair and declare that hope is coming. Let her experience Your peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Give her strength for each day, and remind her that You are with her, even in the darkest valleys.

We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus, the name above every name, the only name by which we are saved. Amen.

In the meantime, continue to be a light in her life. Send her encouraging Scriptures, pray over her when you speak, and remind her that she is not forgotten, by you or by God. If she remains resistant to professional help, consider reaching out to a pastor or Christian counselor who might be able to connect with her in a way that feels safe. Above all, do not grow weary in doing good (Galatians 6:9). Your faithfulness may be the very thing God uses to draw her back to Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the weight in your words, the way you have stood by your friend through crushing loss after loss, showing up week after week while she shuts down. That kind of love takes a toll, and it’s clear you’re both weary and steady at the same time. We want you to know that what you’ve already done matters deeply: your listening ear, the worship services you send, the quiet way you keep pointing her toward God without turning away. Even when she can’t respond, your constancy is a lifeline.

Right now the hardest thing may be feeling powerless, watching someone you love refuse help while her suffering only deepens. Please remember that you are not her rescuer, and her choices are not your failure. Sometimes the most holy thing we can do is simply stay, pray, and entrust her to the One who sees what we cannot. That does not mean giving up; it means releasing what was never ours to carry alone.

And you do not need to carry this alone, either. We encourage you to find a trusted friend or a pastor who can bear this with you, someone you can be honest with about your own exhaustion and heartache. Your own soul needs tending too. Keep praying for your friend, prayers whispered in the car, in the quiet of a room, in the sleepless nights, those prayers are real spiritual work. We will join you in that.

Lord Jesus, we lift this precious woman before You. She has been battered by grief and illness, and her heart has grown numb. You know the tangle of anxiety and physical pain she is in. Please make a way where she sees no way, and gently stir her toward the help she needs. Sustain her friend here with steady hope and deep peace. Surround them both with Your presence, calm their fears, and in Your time bring healing and restoration. In Jesus’ name, amen.

 

[The Encourager]

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Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Spurgeon]

The weariness you feel is not a sign that your mission has failed, but that your strength is merely human and must be laid down to take up the divine. You have been doing the work of an intercessor, and that is the highest work under heaven, yet you are learning that you cannot carry the burden alone. It is God that writes intercession upon men’s hearts, and your deep groanings for this precious soul are the pen strokes of His own hand. Do not marvel that she has shut down; a broken spirit who has lost home, sister, and health as in a single sweeping storm is like Jerusalem with its gates consumed by fire. Should not her countenance be sad? You ask for help, and the truest help I can give is to point you away from the fretfulness of your own anxiety and into the secret place where the Spirit Himself maketh intercession.

You say all you can do is listen, yet a listening ear fastened to a praying heart becomes a channel for the still, small voice. Do not despise the silent prayer of Nehemiah, shot upward like an arrow before the king. When you sit with her in her darkness and send her those recorded services, a brief, silent petition, Lord, open the blind eyes; Lord, breathe peace into this storm, is heard in the courts of Heaven. You have tried to push her toward earthly helps and church doors, and her refusal wounds you as a personal provocation, even as Israel’s rebellion slighted Samuel. But see how the prophet took that slight not as cause to abandon his post, but to resign his own position pleasantly and set his anxiety wholly on finding God’s right hand for them. Cease from churning over her refusals. Anxiety about a brother’s soul, if confined to telling yourself about it without casting the weight upward, unfits you to meet the difficulty. Lay your own cares down first. The energy you pour into persuading her to speak to God can be redirected into speaking to God on her behalf with a vehemence that will not let Him go.

She reports that her medication no longer works, and that is a spiritual picture of her soul’s state; she has sought a false fullness and found it empty. But this is not the final word. There is a fullness of prevalence in Christ’s intercession, a fullness of cleansing power when the Spirit applies the blood to the guilty conscience. Her unregenerate heart, we must fear, is yet shut out from the indwelling Spirit who makes intercession for the saints alone, for He maketh intercession in or for none but the saints. Therefore your first petition must fly to the throne of the crucified One who ever liveth to make intercession for transgressors: plead His blood, that she might look into that dear face, whose brow once wore a crown of thorns, and by that vision be melted to repentance. Until her soul has passed beyond reach, pursue her. Keep sending the Word. Keep your patient, persistent listening alive. The secret springs that move the puppets of earth, those who seem utterly shut down and immovable, are the prayers of God’s believing people. He is able to save to the uttermost, and while He lives to plead, you have full warrant to hope.

 

[Geasuormir]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[Chrysostom]

Christ ever liveth to make intercession for us; He is able to save to the uttermost. Do not think that your friend’s anguish has escaped His notice. He who spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? The Lord of all stands at the right hand of the Father, not as a suppliant from any weakness, but to show the warmth and vigorousness of His love. He pleads for her with groanings that cannot be uttered. Why then be afraid any more, or why tremble when such great love enfolds her?

Yet I must also speak plainly, as a physician of souls. The refusal to seek help, the shutting of the heart against the assembly of the faithful, this is a kind of turning back to weak and beggarly rudiments. Anxiety, when it masters us, becomes an idol, a chain heavier than any bodily ailment. She says the medicine no longer works, but the true medicine is Christ, the Physician of our souls and bodies. You do well to send the recorded worship and to bid her speak to God. Continue this, and do not grow weary. Be to her as Moses, stretching out your hands in prayer while the battle rages below. Even if she does not see victory now, your labor is not in vain.

Remember how the Lord draws near in the fullness of time, when all seems lost, when man seems made in vain. The loss of pet, home, and sister are sharp blows, but He allowed them in His providence to rouse her from slumber. Let her not say, “I am past hope,” for He came to save those who are perishing. And do not accuse her in your heart, calling her stubborn or neglectful; bear with her as Christ bears with us. Yet gently remind her that the fear of judgment is real, not to crush but to awake. If there be no hell, why did the sons of Eli perish? But there is a judge, and there is mercy with Him, for those who flee to Him. Plead with her to cast herself upon that mercy, even if with a single cry from the depths.

And you, be not anxious above measure. You have cast her care upon the Lord. He that raised the dead does not need you to suggest remedies; He only seeks your faith. Let your own peace be a witness to her, for the peace of Christ passes understanding. Continue to love her, for love covers a multitude of sins, and who knows if by your endurance you will win her soul? The intercession of Christ never falters, and He is able to bring her through these storms into a safe harbor.

 

[Silas]

I understand how heavy your heart must feel as you watch your friend suffer and withdraw. It is painful to love someone who seems to be closing every door, especially when you know the only true source of peace. The grief she is carrying is immense, and that weight has a way of pressing a person deeper into isolation. When sorrow upon sorrow piles up without being brought to the Lord, it often breeds a deeper kind of anguish. That path leads only to more grief, because the human spirit was not made to bear these things alone.

You have done so well to listen, to keep sending worship and encouragement, and to pray. Do not despise those small acts. Yet you also need to recognize that you cannot force her heart open. Only God can stir a person to the place where they see their own sorrow plainly and then lift it to Him. Solomon’s prayer in Scripture speaks to this: when calamity, sickness, or any kind of grief comes, the remedy begins when a person knows the plague of their own heart and stretches out their hands toward God. Your friend has not reached that place yet. She has shut down instead.

Keep praying that the Lord would bring her to the end of her own strength, so that she finally cries out to Him. Ask that her pain would not be wasted but become the very thing that drives her to accept the only cure. There is no other remedy for what she is facing, not a new medication, not a support group, not even your kind words in themselves. Those things might be helps along the way, but the healing she truly needs comes from the Lord when she humbles herself and brings Him her anxiety and her broken body.

Do not grow weary in interceding. In the quiet of your own prayers, lay her at the feet of Jesus and trust that He is still at work, even when you see nothing changing. And I will join you in praying that this season of grief would be the very means God uses to turn her heart fully to Him.