God is a healer, but He doesn’t always lead us along the path of healing. These Bible verses for protection from a disease will help us to understand His will and keep us (and our loved ones) safe.
He sometimes allows us to endure suffering, illness, and hardship as part of His divine plan for our lives. He can use pain to teach us lessons that we would never be able to learn through reading a book, attending a seminar, or living comfortably.
If you are struggling, you could offer the Lord a prayer for God’s help, or if it’s someone else in your life, you could offer a prayer for healing a friend on their behalf.
Prayers
What Does the Bible Say About Protection From Disease?
James 5:14
Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
The power of God in the midst of hardships is responsible for some of the greatest gifts in our world.
Through hardship, God shapes, fortifies and strengthens us. Nothing compares to the sense of being consoled by God alone in that difficult time.
The important thing is to keep in mind that God’s plans are superior to ours.
When we are afflicted with a disease, illness, or accident, we frequently just think about our own pain.
It is challenging to concentrate on what good God could bring about as a consequence when going through trials.
Exodus 23:25
Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you.
The Bible teaches us that God can make good come from any circumstance.
Many people view their period of illness as a time when they deepened their relationship with God, increased their confidence in Him, or discovered how to genuinely cherish life.
This is God’s viewpoint since He is sovereign and knows the end result.
The mistaken doctrine that God always desires to cure everyone has caused a tremendous deal of harm to people.
Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
For people who are suffering, this idea can lead to shame and despair.
Christians may believe that they are sinful or that they didn’t trust in God strongly enough as a result of this.
This false doctrine has caused Christians to lose faith.
We must accept that sometimes God just has other plans for us that do not involve immediate healing or problem-solving.
God still cares for us. He still has a plan. And He still has a deep purpose for that suffering that may end up rewarding us in ways we could never have dreamed of.
Mark 3:10
for He had healed many, with the result that all those who had afflictions pressed around Him in order to touch Him.
God often decides to heal.
But occasionally, when we travel the dark mile of pain, He teaches us more and brings us nearer.
It is crucial that we turn to God in the middle of the storm rather than away from Him to enjoy such blessings.
God doesn’t always cause disease, and He doesn’t do it to impart a moral lesson to us. Sickness, disease, and death will always be a part of life in a world stained by sin.
Psalm 41:3
The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed In his illness, You restore him to health.
We are fallen beings with bodily structures prone to sickness and disease. Some illnesses are only the outcome of the world’s natural processes.
Illness can also be caused by a demonic attack. The Bible shows several occasions where Satan and his demons brought about physical suffering.
Some illnesses are caused by Satan rather than God. However, God is still in charge even in these situations.
God’s gentle punishment can sometimes take the form of illness.
Deuteronomy 7:15
The Lord will remove from you all sickness and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.
We find it difficult to understand why God would work in this way. But if one believes in God’s omnipotence, there is no other possibility baut that pain is something God permits or produces.
Consider suffering from God’s point of view. God afflicts some individuals because of their faith.
People learn about God’s commands as a result of suffering and begin to follow His Word.
Dealing with illness and suffering is never simple. We shouldn’t let illness make us question God’s existence.
Matthew 25:36
naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.
Even while we are hurting, God is still good. Death, the greatest kind of pain, is a manifestation of God’s goodness.
Whatever happens in life, we are only accountable for how we respond. Whether the Lord gives us the bad or the good, we must be mindful to glorify Him in both cases.
There is no doubt that the same God who created everything also maintains everything in line with his purposes and plans. Let us trust in God with all of our hearts.
Luke 6:19
And the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.
Even though we experience suffering in this life, God can and will utilize it to further his purposes and bring glory to himself.
Jesus himself serves as our model in this regard since He cried out to God in anguish before He was crucified. He prayed to be relieved of suffering, but only if it was God’s will and purpose.
Remember that one day, we shall all be cured.
Acts 19:12
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
Although we will all pass away at some point, when we do so as Christians we shall all undergo such magnificent, eternal healing that we will forget our sorrow on earth.
There is no reason to be worried.
For a disciple of Christ, terror has no place in our worldview. We will not live in this world forever.
Our hope is in Jesus Christ since He has not only conquered sin, death, the grave, and hell but is also alive and listening to our prayers right now.
Psalm 116:8
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Psalm 21:4
He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.
John 3:8
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me.
Matthew 9:35
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
Luke 9:2
And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.
Deuteronomy 28:22
The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
Samuel 28:20
Then Saul immediately fell full length upon the ground and was very afraid because of the words of Samuel also there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day and all night.
Psalm 30:2
Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.
Psalm 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.
Psalm 103:2
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
Acts 28:9
After this had happened, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases were coming to him and getting cured.
Samuel 1:7
It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her so she wept and would not eat.
John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.
Psalm 102:4
My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
Luke 16:20
And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,
Psalm 38:2
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me, And Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
Isaiah 38:17
Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction; you have put all my sins behind your back.
John 9:1
As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Matthew 10:8
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Luke 14:2
And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
Mark 5:34
He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’
Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhorred all kinds of food, And they drew near to the gates of death.
Chronicles 16:12
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.
Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
Genesis 20:17
Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children.
Chronicles 7:14
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Psalms 146:8
The Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous.
Mark 5:26
And who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored?
Job 2:7
Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Acts 28:8
And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.
Psalms 107:20
He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
Luke 9:1
And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,
Exodus 9:9
It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 17:14
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
John 5:3
In these lay a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, and withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters
Kings 20:5
The is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you.’
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the Lord.
Psalm 147:3
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 103:3
Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,
Matthew 10:1
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
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