Why hasn’t God healed me? 

(Post updated February 4, 2026)

Waiting for physical healing can be extremely frustrating. It's easy to ask, Why hasn't God healed me? It can feel like you've done all you can. And yet you're still waiting and wondering why you're not healed.

Why hasn't God healed me?

It was 1:30am, and I finally went downstairs to the couch. The pain and numbness in my hip was too much. No position was comfortable enough for me to fall back asleep.

"Ok," I thought, "since I'm up, I might as well see what I can do to heal this."

Mentally, I went into my toolkit and decided to just write and see what would come up. I love free writing as a way to process and find understanding. If you're stuck on something, just start to write. You'll be amazed at what comes forth from your subconscious that can help you figure things out.

 I love free writing as a way to process and find understanding. If you are stuck on something, try writing.

If writing isn't your thing or you feel resistance to that idea, pick up your phone and record yourself speaking. What's important is that you're either writing or you're speaking out loud. Thinking it in your head doesn't work. You will be amazed at what comes forth that can help you figure things out.

Additional healing resources

There are four other methods that I've used a lot with myself and my clients that are extremely helpful.

1) Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

Louise grew up in a household where she experienced physical and sexual abuse, obviously emotional as well. Because of that, she developed cancer. She was able to completely cure herself from that disease without any of the traditional ways that it is normally treated.

She focused on changing her thoughts. Thinking new things, believing new things, and practicing a lot of forgiveness.

One of the things I love about her book is that she has a list of diseases with the potential cause and then affirmations or statements you can use to replace your current thoughts that are creating the state of dis-ease.

2) Karol K. Truman, Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

I like this book a little bit better than Louise Hayes. It's very similar with the list of diseases and then possible causes for them. However, I find her possible causes to be a bit more accurate.

The whole idea here with Karol Truman is that we are taking our feelings, our thoughts, our beliefs that are out of alignment with God's truth, and realigning our truth with his truth and understanding. The way that she does that is she has a script. The script takes you through releasing whatever you're currently experiencing, accepting God's truth and recreating your life to be and feel and think according to God's truth.

With all of these things, with all of this healing, the whole idea is that whatever we are experiencing where we have dis-ease, we have some sort of energy that is stuck or is not flowing. We are meant to flow. We're meant to express, not to suppress, not to hold onto things. These are all different methods to help you express and to get things moving.

3) Donna Eden, Energy Medicine

Donna was born with the ability to see energies and energetic patterns. She sees the chakras, the acupuncture meridians, and other energetic systems. She explains how you can change them to process trauma or emotions. She also offers classes and courses.

4) Dr. Bradley Nelson, The Emotion Code

He also has an advanced training called The Body Code. This is the energy work that I've been certified in. The Emotion Code is amazing because it teaches you how to identify the trapped emotions that you have and to clear them for yourself so you can learn how to do this for yourself at home. It's not complicated. It might take some time and some practice, but it's not a complicated thing to learn.

If you want some help with it, you can sign up for a session with me. I do all of my work intuitively. I have found that that works extremely well for the people that I'm here to help and for the usefulness of my gifts.

I've used these techniques, and done physical therapy. Have you ever had the experience trying to solve something like this? I felt frustrated and upset. I'd been dealing with these symptoms for months. And some related symptoms for years. Why wasn't I healed yet? What else did I need to do or know or understand for God to bring healing?

When healing is slow to come

Let's just get this out first...this topic of why God hasn't healed you is big enough for an entire book. This post isn't going to answer every aspect of this question. It's a biggie.

We live in a fallen world

We are in a fallen world, and there will always be pain and suffering and disease. We're here and we're learning, we're not perfected. So it's going to take time. It's not realistic to think that we're going to be free from all disease or that all things will be healed while we're here.

That doesn't mean that we don't try to create as much health and vitality as we can for ourselves and for others. Ultimately, through Christ's Atonement, we will be resurrected with perfect bodies that will be free of all this pain.

That being said, I also have gotten some more recent revelation from the Lord that I had never considered before, and I'm excited to share that with you as well.

Normally, when we ask, Why hasn't God healed me? we get answers like:

• we lack faith to be healed
• it's not His will
• it's not the right time
• we're not ready to accept the healing
  
• there's some purpose yet in our illness or pains
  

We won't get into whether these ideas are correct or not...but the area of healing is quite a big one. I will say that I don't believe that God wants for us to suffer. I think it's more our lack of understanding about this world that keeps us in pain.

God's creations are lawful and orderly. Therefore, if we understood the laws, we could create better things that involve less pain and suffering.

That takes us into agency, and the fact that sometimes our pains are the result of the actions of others. Yet, we always have a choice ourselves. 

The way we can find the most relief is to make the decision to take responsibility for our healing. When we make the decision to pursue health and to believe in health, it's only a matter of time.

And yet, we've all had times when it feels like God just isn't there. Why doesn't He answer our prayers? Why hasn't God healed me? How long must we suffer?

Healing Always Comes

Healing may not come when we want it, but it does come. That's the understanding God gave to me in the early morning hours this day...As I continued to write and ponder, sitting on my couch feeling upset, hurt, frustrated, dismayed, God and I had a chat, poetry style. 

I've put His words like this (bold and italic) so you can distinguish them from mine.

By the way, have you ever felt God's words to you weren't completely clear? Me too. You'll notice I felt that way in this conversation. 

The one thing that most people don't want - patience! It's such a wonderful virtue though, right? Patience and faith and belief.

God is there in all of our pains and hurts. He's always with you, and the answers we seek are coming because we're promised that over and over again as we ask, seek and knock, he will give us the answers and the healing we seek for.

Maybe you don't need healing

Since I have received this poem, I've learned some more that was completely new to my thought process, and that came because I have had the joy of experiencing night sweats for years now to varying degrees.

I've done energy clearing and I even did hormone replacement therapy for a while. One day I was working on it with help from some friends. What came to my mind was not the idea of releasing something that was trapped or stuck or even healing something, but to restore.

I'd never considered that the idea of, instead of healing something, restoring to a state of being. Recently, this is what God shared with me about this:

There is nothing to heal. You are not dis-eased. Your body is perfectly balanced for the life you are currently living the way through to higher living and to healthier you is through expression express what sits in your heart and all will be well.

I never considered that. It makes sense to me though, if you think about the progression from living in a lot of darkness to coming up to more and more light. Think about people who live in much darkness and the things that they experience, and then the people that live with more and more light and what they experience.

It's a completely different level of life and living and experiencing. And so perhaps in the same way for you, there is nothing to heal. Maybe that there is something that needs to be restored through expressing what is in your heart. Anytime we suppress, we end up with dis-ease. It's only a matter of time.

Everything is meant to be expressed. The things on your heart as you are seeking after Christ will become more and more pure and more good and more light. But anything that is light is from him. So what is on your heart that you can express that maybe you've been suppressing or holding back? Do that and see what changes in your body and in your life.

I hope this brings you peace. As you're waiting for your own healing. May you know that you're not alone in your struggles. I am here with you. And even more importantly, God is always with you and he hears your prayers.