What happens if I’m not healed after I have received prayer for healing?

When people receive prayer for physical or emotional healing and do not see any improvement or complete healing, they can experience disappointment and discouragement. This can be especially difficult when they are receiving prayer at an event at which others are testifying to healings taking place. If someone isn’t healed at an event, we typically offer the following list of encouraging words. First, we have seen people experience progressive healings, in which they experience the full manifestation of a healing long after, sometimes hours, days, and weeks after the healing. (See the example below). Second, a lack of desired healing breakthrough can be God's invitation for us to persevere in prayer. Jesus teaches frequently in the gospels about the importance of persistence in prayer (Lk 11:5-8, Lk 18:1-8). Further, the paralytic that Jesus healed at the pool at Bethesda (Jn 5) had been persevering in search for healing for 38 years. Moreover, even Jesus didn’t heal everyone in Jerusalem as evidenced by the man born blind healed by Peter and John in Acts 3. Instead, Jesus willed to heal him through other people at a later time. Third, giving thanks to God for those who have experienced healing and celebrating what God is doing in others is a powerful antidote to the experience of sadness that sometimes comes when the Lord doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we want. Last and perhaps most important, your suffering is never meaningless. We must never forget so we can offer up all suffering to Jesus as intercession (Col 1:24) and we can have great faith that He will bring a greater good out of our suffering. 

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