Ask to Be Healed

A Meditation on asking God for Healing

By: Joan Guntzelman

"He said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.'" (Mark 5:34)

How many of us live in “dis-ease,” a state of feeling uneasy, uncomfortable, distressed, or just “not right”? Sometimes we don’t know why we feel this way, but at other times it may be because we’re living with an ongoing low level of stress that we don’t know how to release. Are we open to believing that this dis-ease we live with doesn’t have to be? If we do as the woman in the Scripture with the hemorrhage and tell God the “whole story,” believing that we can be healed, perhaps we can surrender ourselves to healing. Ask and believe!

“Dear God, our great physician, I know that you can heal me, but I struggle with whether I really want to be healed. It’s so easy to get used to stress and living in ways that aren’t helpful to…