"Thank you for sharing this burden for prayer. We join you in lifting this need to the Lord and we understand the urgency you feel, wanting to be free from headaches, strokes, blurry vision, weakness and fainting so that work can continue and the good news of Jesus can be shared.
We believe very strongly in healing and that God is still able to heal today. His hand is not short that He cannot save and His ear is not heavy that He cannot hear. He has not changed. Scripture tells us that Jesus went about doing good and healing every sickness and every disease among the people, teaching love and mercy and forgiveness. The prophet Isaiah said He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, and the word there can be understood as infirmities and sicknesses, and Matthew applies that prophecy directly to the physical healings Jesus performed. When we remember the body of Christ broken for us, we remember that His suffering touches both our spiritual and our physical need.
At the same time there is much about healing that we do not fully understand. The Bible shows us that God does not work in only one pattern. Sometimes He healed instantly with a touch, sometimes with just a word from a distance, sometimes without touching at all, and sometimes gradually as with the man at Bethsaida who at first saw men as trees walking before he saw clearly. That was the only gradual healing recorded in the ministry of Jesus, and it reminds us that He is not confined to a method. Much healing also comes through the natural processes God Himself created in our bodies. Those processes are divine too, because He is the one who made nature and its laws. Whether healing comes in a moment or step by step, it is still His work.
We also must not presume to tell God what He must do, or to speak as if we can command that a sickness never return again. Scripture shows that healing according to our desire is not guaranteed in every case. Paul prayed three times for the thorn in his flesh, a real weakness and infirmity that troubled him greatly, and the Lord answered, My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Paul then learned to take pleasure in that weakness so that the power of Christ might rest on him, saying when I am weak then I am strong. In another place Paul had to leave Trophimus behind because he was too sick to travel, even though Paul surely prayed for him. These examples teach us that sickness is not a sign of spiritual weakness or a lack of faith, as some mistakenly teach. To make that claim is to misrepresent God and to burden those who suffer. Prayer often changes our own heart most of all, bringing us to trust His wisdom rather than to dictate an outcome.
Your desire to be well in order to work and to evangelize is a good and loving desire. The Lord does want His people to be healthy and whole, and evangelism is the natural byproduct of a healthy body growing into the fullness of Christ. In Hebrews we are urged to go beyond the first principles and to mature in Him, so that we are no longer tossed about but are built up in truth and love. Jesus never used miracles as a show to draw crowds. Again and again after healing someone He said not to broadcast it but to go quietly and give thanks. He healed because He is good and merciful, not to create a spectacle.
So we will pray with faith and with submission to the perfect will of God. We ask Him for mercy and for healing from these headaches, strokes, blurry vision, weakness and fainting. We ask Him to give wisdom to any doctors who are caring for this need, to bring strength to the body through whatever means He chooses, whether instant or gradual, and to give grace and peace while waiting on Him. We ask that whether healing comes quickly or over time, His strength would be made perfect in weakness and that the desire to share Christ would continue to grow into a deeper fullness in Christ.
Let us pray together. Father, in the name of Jesus we bring this dear one before You. You know the pain and the fear that these symptoms have caused. You know the desire to work faithfully and to tell others of Your love. We ask You to touch this body with Your healing power according to Your will. Ease the headaches, protect from strokes, clear the vision, lift the weakness and fainting. Work through the natural healing You have placed in the body and also beyond it as You choose. If it is Your will to bring complete and lasting relief, we thank You in advance. If You allow a longer road, give sustaining grace, patience, and the comfort that Your strength is sufficient each day. Make this life fruitful for Your glory and help her to grow ever deeper in Christ. We trust You because You are good and You do all things well. In Jesus name, Amen.
May the Lord give you peace as you continue to trust Him and to pray."