This Prayer in Matthew DESTROYS Every Sickness (Pray This Daily)
This powerful healing prayer based on Matthew 8:16-17 will transform your faith and activate the healing promises of God over your body.
Whether you are battling cancer, diabetes, chronic pain, heart disease, or any other affliction, this guided healing prayer declares the authority of Jesus Christ over every sickness.
Jesus himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses, and this prayer will help you stand on that covenant promise with unshakeable faith.
Here, we explore the incredible evening in Capernaum when Jesus healed all that were sick, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah 53:4.
You will discover the deep meaning behind the words "took" and "bare," understand why healing is God's revealed will for your body, and learn the pattern of authoritative prayer that Jesus himself established.
This is not passive listening. This is an encounter with the Living Word of God.
If you are in need of physical healing, emotional restoration, or freedom from pain, this prayer is for you.
Place your hand on your body, speak these declarations out loud, and receive what Jesus Christ has already purchased for you at the cross.
Come back to this post daily and let your faith grow stronger with every viewing.
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What if I told you there is a prayer hidden in the book of Matthew that has the power to defeat every disease attacking your body right now?
Not some diseases, not a few conditions, but every single one.
Most people read through Matthew chapter 8 without ever pausing to realize what they just passed over.
They see it as another healing story, another miracle from 2,000 years ago. and they simply turn the page.
But today, something is going to shift inside you.
You are going to discover why two specific verses in this chapter carry more healing authority than most believers have ever understood.
And before this message ends, you will pray a prayer rooted in this very scripture.
A prayer that speaks directly to whatever is afflicting your body right now.
So please do not click away.
Do not scroll past this.
What you are about to hear could be the turning point you have been waiting for.
The verse I am talking about is found in Matthew 8 16-17.
It says, "When the evening was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils. and he cast out the spirits with his Word and healed all that were sick that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.
Now I want you to listen to that again carefully.
He healed all that were sick.
And the reason he did it was to fulfill a prophecy that said he himself would take our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.
This is not a footnote in scripture.
This is one of the most powerful declarations about healing in the entire Bible.
And it is time you understood exactly why.
Let me take you back to that evening in Capernaum.
Picture the scene.
The sun is going down over the Sea of Galilee, casting long golden shadows across the dusty streets.
The day has already been extraordinary.
Earlier, Jesus Christ had healed a man with leprosy, touching him when no one else would dare come near.
He had spoken a single Word and healed the centurion's servant from a great distance.
He had walked into Peter's house and touched Peter's mother-in-law. And the fever left her instantly, so completely that she rose and began serving them.
But the day was far from over.
Word had spread through the streets, through the homes, through every corner of the region.
And as evening fell, the people began coming.
They came carrying the sick on stretchers.
They came leading the blind by the hand.
They came with those tormented by evil spirits. Those crippled bv pain. Those wasting away from diseases that no physician could cure.
Imagine being there. The sounds of weeping, the groaning of those in agony, the desperate prayers of mothers holding sick children, the streets of Capernaum became a river of human suffering flowing toward one man.
And what did Jesus do?
He did not turn a single person away.
He did not say, "It is late. Come back tomorrow."
He did not pick and choose the easy cases and send the difficult ones home.
He did not look at someone and say, "Your condition is too far gone."
The scripture says he healed all that were sick.
Every single one.
I need you to stop and let that Word sink deep into your spirit.
All, not most, not many, not some, all.
That word is not there by accident.
The Holy Spirit inspired Matthew to record that specific Word because God wants you to know beyond any shadow of doubt that no disease is excluded from the healing power of Jesus Christ.
If you are battling cancer right now, you are included in that word all.
If you are fighting diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, chronic pain that never seems to let up no matter what you try, you are included in that all.
If a doctor has sat you down and told you there is nothing more they can do.
If medical science has reached the end of its ability, this verse speaks a different word over your life.
It says he healed all that were sick.
And the Jesus Christ who healed every person in Capernaum that evening has not retired.
He has not lost his power.
He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Just as Hebrews 13:8 declares, if you believe that his power has not changed, I want you to type in the comments right now, he heals all.
Go ahead and declare it as an act of faith over your own life.
Now look carefully at how Jesus operated in that moment.
The scripture says he cast out the spirits with his Word.
Think about that.
He did not perform elaborate rituals or ancient ceremonies.
He did not mix potions or use special instruments of healing.
He did not pray for hours on end, begging God to intervene on behalf of these suffering people.
He spoke.
His Word was enough.
His Word carried the full authority of heaven itself.
When he spoke, demons screamed and fled.
When he spoke, tumors dissolved.
When he spoke, blind eyes opened.
When he spoke, deaf ears unstopped.
When he spoke, bodies that had been broken and useless for years were restored in an instant.
And here is what makes this directly relevant to your life right now, today, in this very moment.
That same Word is alive.
The book of Hebrews 6:29 says, "For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing aunderder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
Did you catch that?
It pierces to the joints and marrow.
It reaches into the deepest parts of your physical body.
The Word Jesus spoke in Capernium that evening is the same living Word you hold in your hands when you open your Bible.
It has not lost a single ounce of its power.
It has not expired.
It has not grown weak with the passing of centuries.
But here is where this passage goes much deeper than most people have ever realized.
Matthew did not simply record a miracle.
He explained the divine reason behind it.
He said that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet.
And the prophecy Matthew was quoting comes from Isaiah 53:4.
In the original Hebrew text, that verse says, "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows."
But Matthew writing under the direct inspiration of the Holy Spirit translated and applied it with specific clarity.
He wrote, "Himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses."
This is absolutely critical to understand.
Matthew guided by God's own Spirit interpreted Isaiah's ancient prophecy and applied it directly to physical healing.
Not merely emotional comfort, not only spiritual restoration, but also physical, tangible, bodily healing of real diseases in real people.
The evening in Capernaum was the fulfillment of a prophecy written approximately 700 years before Jesus Christ was even born.
This means that long before your sickness ever entered your body, God had already planned and provided for your healing.
He wrote the prescription centuries in advance.
Now, let me show you something extraordinary that is hidden in just two words from this verse.
The scripture says, "He took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses."
There are two different words here, took and bear.
And each one reveals something powerful about what Jesus Christ accomplished for you on the cross and in his earthly ministry.
The Word took does not mean he merely noticed your sickness from a distance.
It does not mean he sympathized with your condition or felt sorry for your suffering.
The Word means to actively seize, to grab hold of, and to remove completely.
It is the picture of someone reaching into your body with divine hands and pulling the sickness out of you by force.
He took it, he seized it, he snatched it away from you.
He removed it from your body by an act of divine authority that no disease can resist.
And then the Word bear means to carry, to bear a heavy burden upon oneself.
It is a substitutionary word, a word of exchange.
It means he carried the full weight of your sickness upon his own body so that you would never have to carry it again.
When you put those two words together, you see the complete picture of what Jesus did.
He reached in and removed your sickness from you.
Then he placed it upon himself and bore its full weight.
It is a complete transfer.
Your disease was lifted off of you and laid upon him.
This is not abstract theology to debate in a classroom.
This is a covenant promise you are meant to stand upon when the storms of sickness rage against your body.
Now, some teachers and theologians have tried to reduce this passage to something purely spiritual.
They say Matthew 8, verses 16 and 17 refer only to spiritual sickness, to the infirmity of the soul and not to physical disease.
But I want you to see through that right now with the clarity of scripture itself.
Look at the context of Matthew 8.
It is unmistakable and undeniable.
Real people came to Jesus with real physical conditions that could be seen with the human eye.
A leper had real sores covering his body.
The centurion's servant was lying at home physically paralyzed, unable to move, grievously tormented.
Peter's mother-in-law had a real fever burning through her body that left the moment Jesus touched her hand.
And when evening came, the crowds brought those who were genuinely visibly physically sick with every manner of disease. and he healed them all.
Every last one.
This was not a metaphor.
These were not symbols of spiritual conditions.
These were flesh and blood human beings with bodies racked by disease.
And they walked away completely whole.
The prophecy it fulfilled was about physical healing because physical healing is exactly what took place.
So if you are sitting there right now or lying in a bed or standing in a room and there is a condition in your physical body, do not let anyone convince you that God's healing promise applies only to your soul.
It is for your body too.
If you need physical healing in your body today, say it out right now, I receive my healing now.
Let your faith speak before you even see the change.
So if this promise is real, and it most certainly is, then why do so many sincere, faithful believers continue to suffer with disease in their bodies?
I believe one of the greatest reasons is simply this, a lack of knowledge.
The prophet Hosea in chapter 4, verse 6 recorded the Lord saying, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
Hosea 4:6 states that God's people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, as they have rejected knowledge and forgotten His law. As a consequence, God will also forget their children and reject them as priests.
I want you to notice something about that verse. God did not say his enemies are destroyed.
He did not say the wicked or the unbelievers perish.
He said my people, his own people, believers who love him, who serve him, who go to church, who read their Bibles, yet who are being destroyed because they do not fully know and understand what already belongs to them through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Many Christians pray for healing the way a beggar on the street asks a stranger for spare change.
They come before God with heads hung low, uncertainty in their hearts, and they whisper, "Lord, if it be your will, please heal me, maybe if you want to."
But here is the truth that has the power to set you free forever.
You do not need to wonder whether healing is God's will.
You do not need to guess or hope or wish.
He has already revealed his will concerning your healing.
He wrote it down in black and white for all the world to see.
Matthew 8 , verses 16 and 17 is God's will in writing.
Isaiah 53:4 is God's will in writing.
1 Peter 2 24 is God's will in writing.
He took your infirmities.
He bore your sicknesses.
By his stripes, you were healed.
That is not a maybe.
That is not a suggestion.
That is a divine declaration backed by the blood of the Son of God.
Let me show you the pattern Jesus Christ himself established for how to pray over sickness and disease.
When Jesus encountered sickness, he did not beg.
He did not plead or negotiate.
He did not go on fasting and weep for days hoping that something might eventually happen.
He spoke to the condition directly and with absolute authority.
When he addressed the leper, he said simply, "Be thou clean." And immediately the leprosy departed from the man's body.
When he spoke concerning the centurion's servant who lay paralyzed miles away, the servant was healed that very same hour without Jesus Christ ever stepping foot in the house.
When he rebuked the fever burning through Peter's mother-in-law, it left her so completely that she got up and began preparing dinner for them all.
Jesus Christ operated from a position of authority, not from a place of desperation.
He knew exactly who he was.
He knew the power and the commission he carried from his Father.
And he spoke accordingly with confidence, with certainty, with the unshakable assurance that every Word he uttered would accomplish exactly what he intended.
Now, here is the part that should make your spirit leap within you.
He gave that same authority to you and to every believer who calls on his name.
In the Gospel of Luke 10 19, Jesus declared, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
In the Gospel of Mark 16: verses 17-18, he proclaimed, "And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils. They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
You are not powerless in the face of disease.
You have been given authority in the name of Jesus Christ to speak the Word to sickness and commanded to leave your body.
That authority is not reserved for pastors and evangelists alone.
It belongs to every single believer.
But here is something vital you must understand.
Authority without faith is like a soldier armed with the most powerful weapon ever made who simply refuses to pull the trigger.
Faith is what activates the finished work of Jesus Christ in your everyday life.
And I want to make sure you understand exactly what biblical faith is.
Faith is not merely hoping that God might do something good for you someday.
Faith is the rock solid knowing that he already has.
The Apostle Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2: 24 who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes you were healed.
Did you catch the tense of that final phrase?
It does not say you will be healed at some future date.
It does not say you might be healed if you are lucky or if you are good enough.
It says you were healed. Past tense, a completed action, a finished work, an accomplished reality.
The healing you need was purchased and paid for at the cross of Jesus Christ at Calvary, 2,000 years ago.
The blood was shed. The stripes were endured. The price was paid in full.
Your role today is not to make healing happen through religious effort.
Your role is to believe what has already been done and to receive it by faith.
Think of it this way.
Faith is the hand that reaches into the spiritual realm where your healing already exists as a finished reality and pulls it into the physical world where your body desperately needs it.
Just say it, "I received my healing now, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ."
Throughout the centuries, countless believers from every nation and every walk of life have stood on this very promise from Matthew chapter 8 and have received miraculous, undeniable healing.
Men and women who were told by their doctors that they had only weeks or months to live opened their Bibles, turned to this passage, placed their hand upon the page, and declared with everything in them.
He took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, and I will not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.
People who had suffered for 10, 20, 30 years with chronic conditions that no medicine could touch and no surgery could fix took God at his Word.
Refused to let go of the promise and their bodies were completely restored.
These are not fairy tales or wishful thinking.
These are documented testimonies, real people with real medical records showing the disease. and then showing the unexplainable disappearance of that disease.
And the same Living God who healed them is the very same Living God who is listening to your voice and reading your heart right now at this very moment.
He does not play favorites.
He is not selective with his mercy.
What he did for them, he absolutely will do for you.
Because the Word of God declares in Acts 10:34 that God is no respector of persons.
If God has ever healed you or if you have witnessed his healing power touch someone you love, l encourage you to share your testimony in the comments below.
Your story might be the very spark that ignites the faith of someone who is on the verge of giving up.
Now I want to prepare you for the prayer we are about to pray together.
This is not just another prayer you listen to passively while your mind wanders elsewhere.
This is a prayer of authority and faith based on the eternal Word of God.
When you pray this prayer, do not pray it half-heartedly.
Do not mumble the words as if they are nothing more than religious phrases that carry no weight.
Pray with expectation, genuine full-blooded expectation that something is going to happen in your body because the God you are speaking to is alive. Here and now.
He is present and his Word does not return to him void.
Isaiah 55 :11 promises us that.
Speak the scripture out loud.
There is genuine power in your voice when it carries the Word of God.
Romans 10:1 17 says, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God."
When you speak the Word out loud, your own ears hear it, and faith rises within your heart like a fire that cannot be extinguished.
Personalize the scripture.
Do not say he took our infirmities in a distant detached theological way as if it applies to everyone except you.
Say he took my infirmities. He bore my sicknesses, my cancer, my diabetes, my chronic pain, my heart condition, my depression, my anxiety, my sleepless nights, my diagnosis that the doctors said was permanent.
Put your name in the promise.
Put your specific condition in the prayer.
Make it deeply and unavoidably personal because that is exactly how God intended it.
He knows your name.
He knows every cell in your body and he has already made full provision for your complete healing.
And I want to give you a warning before we pray.
The very moment you begin to pray this prayer with genuine faith, the enemy of your soul will try to interfere.
He will whisper in your ear, "What if it does not work?"
He will remind you of how many years you have been sick. He will replay the doctor's words in your mind. He will point to the medical scans and the lab results and the prescriptions and say, "See, this is your reality, not some ancient verse from a dusty old book." He will try to flood your mind with doubt and fear and unbelief.
But listen to me very carefully.
Doubt is not a fact.
Doubt is not the truth.
Doubt is a weapon, a strategy the enemy deploys to keep you from receiving what God has already purchased for you with the precious blood of his Son.
When those thoughts come, and make no mistake, they will come. You do not entertain them. You do not argue with them.
You respond with the Word of God.
You open your mouth and you declare, "It is written, Jesus Christ Himself took my infirmities and bear my sicknesses." It is written, "By his stripes I was healed." It is written, "He healed all that were sick, and I am included in that all."
The sword of the spirit is the Word of God, and it is the one weapon the enemy has no defense against.
Use it, swing it, declare it boldly. The devil cannot stand his ground when a believer speaks the Word of God in faith, fully persuaded and fully convinced of its truth.
If you are ready to stand firm in faith and refuse to let doubt steal your healing, say it right now, "I will not doubt."
Now it is time to pray.
I want you to place your hand wherever you feel pain or sickness in your body right now. If it is an internal condition that you cannot physically touch, place your hand over your heart as a point of contact for your faith. Look up. Take a slow deep breath. Release every worry, every fear, every anxious thought.
And let us go before the throne of Almighty God together.
Pray 🙏🏽:
Heavenly Father, I come before you right now in the mighty and matchless name of your son Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
I thank you that you are the God who changes not. I thank you that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
I thank you that your Word is true, that it is alive with power, and that it is actively working in my body even as I speak these words out loud.
Father, your Word declares in Matthew 8: verses 16-17 that when evening came, they brought to Jesus Christ many who were oppressed by demons and many who were sick with all manner of disease. And he cast out the spirits with his Word. And he healed all that were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, Jesus Christ himself took our infirmities and bear our sicknesses.
I stand on this Word right now. I do not stand on my feelings which change from hour to hour. I do not stand on medical reports which are limited by human understanding. I do not stand on what my body is telling me in this moment.
I stand on what you, the Almighty, unchanging, all-knowing God of the universe have declared. And you have declared that Jesus Christ took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses. Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for what you endured for my healing. You were beaten. You were scourged. You bore stripes upon your back so that I could be made whole. By your stripes, I was healed. Not I will be healed. Not I might be healed someday if everything works out. I was healed. The work is completely and eternally finished. The price has been paid in full. And I receive the fullness of that healing right now in this very moment by faith in your unfailing Word.
I speak now to every disease, every sickness, every affliction that has taken residence in my body. I speak to cancer in every form and in every location. I say to you, you are a trespasser in this body. This body belongs to God. It is a temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ took this infirmity upon himself and you have no legal right to remain. I command you to shrivel. I command you to die. I command you to leave my body completely in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
I speak to diabetes, to high blood sugar, to every malfunction of the pancreas and the metabolic system. Your hold is broken by the blood of Jesus Christ. I command my body to regulate itself the way God designed it to function perfectly, completely, and without defect. Leave now in Jesus' name.
I speak to heart disease, to clogged arteries, to irregular heartbeat, to high blood pressure, to every condition that threatens the heart that God himself formed within me. I declare that my heart is strong. My heart is healthy. My blood flows freely. My cardiovascular system operates in divine order by the healing power of Jesus Christ.
I speak to chronic pain, to arthritis, to fibromyalgia, to inflammation, to nerve damage, to every condition that has lingered in my body and refused to leave despite every treatment and every medication. You are not stronger than the name that is above every name. Jesus Christ bore this pain. Jesus Christ carried this suffering. I refuse to carry what he has already carried for me. I release it now. I let it go. And I command every source of pain to cease now in the powerful name of Jesus Christ.
I speak to kidney disease, to liver conditions, to lung disease, to conditions of the bones and the joints, to autoimmune disorders where my own body has turned against itself. I command confusion to leave my immune system. I command order to be restored. I declare that every organ, every tissue, every cell in my body comes into alignment with the Word of God and functions exactly as the Creator intended.
I speak to depression, to anxiety, to fear, to insomnia, to every mental and emotional affliction that has stolen my peace and my joy. The Word of God says he took my infirmities and that includes every infirmity of my mind and my emotions. I declare the peace of God that passes all understanding over my thoughts right now. I declare clarity where there has been confusion. I declare joy where there has been sorrow. I declare hope where there has been despair. I declare strength where there has been weakness and exhaustion. My mind is sound. My mind is whole. My mind is protected by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Father, I thank you that your Word does not return to you void. I thank you that what you have spoken over my life will surely come to pass. I do not need to see the healing with my physical eyes before I believe it. I believe it right now in this moment because you said it and your Word is more than enough. Your Word is the final authority.
I refuse to doubt your goodness. I refuse to waver in my faith. I refuse to allow fear or discouragement or the lies of the enemy to dictate what I believe about my health and my future.
Your Word and your Word alone is the final authority over my body, over my health, over every cell and system and organ, and over my entire life.
I declare right now with every ounce of faith within me , all that's within me, that I am healed by the stripes of Jesus Christ. I declare that no weapon formed against my body shall prosper. I declare that the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead dwells in me. And that Spirit is quickening, reviving, and restoring my mortal body right now, even as I speak. I declare that I shall not die, but I shall live, and I shall declare the wonderful work of the Lord for many years to come.
Thank you Father God, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, precious Holy Spirit in me. I receive this healing with a grateful, trusting, and joyful heart. I m praise you before I see the healing manifest in my body because I know by faith that it is already done in the spirit. And what is accomplished in the spirit must and will manifest in the flesh. I seal this prayer with the blood of Jesus Christ. I seal it in his mighty, matchless, all powerful and eternally victorious name. Amen. And amen.
Respected reader,
If you prayed this prayer from the depths of your heart, I want you to say amen. Do not keep your faith hidden in silence. Let it be heard. Let it be spoken. Let it be declared for all to see. And I want you to do something important after this message ends. Do not pray this prayer just once and then move on with your day as if nothing happened.
Come back to this prayer. Pray 🙏🏽 it again tomorrow. Pray 🙏🏽 it every day this week. Pray this prayer again and again. Let the Word of God soak into every fiber of your mind and your spirit until your faith becomes an unshakable, immovable fortress that no disease and no devil can penetrate.
Remember what the Word of God says. He healed all that were sick. And you, my friend, you are included in that all.
God bless you. I am standing in faith alongside you, believing with you right now for your complete and total healing and restoration in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Speak the Word : "I received my healing now, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ took my infirmities and bore my sicknesses, and I will not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord. "
