When someone you love is in a coma, you talk to a person who does not answer. You sit beside a bed, you watch a monitor you have learned to read, and you keep saying their name because you refuse to believe they cannot hear it. You are not talking into nothing, because the God who is listening never needed the machines to tell Him what is happening in that room.
Jesus stood over a girl everyone had already given up on and said she was only sleeping, and the room laughed at Him. Then He took her by the hand and she got up. Mark 5:39-42 is the passage to stand on when the doctors have used the word “unlikely” in front of you.
These 40 anointed prayer points for someone in a coma come with Bible verses attached, so you are standing on the Word and not on your own confidence. Pray them at the bedside, pray them in the corridor, pray them at midnight when you cannot sleep in your own house.
Bible Verses For Someone In A Coma
Read these out loud in the room. Hearing is often the last sense to go and the first to return, and the Word does its work whether or not anyone can respond to it yet.
Mark 5:41 · “And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.”
Psalm 118:17 · “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.”
Ezekiel 37:5 · “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.”
John 11:11 · “Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.”
Psalm 139:7-8 · “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?”
Isaiah 41:10 · “Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God.”
Prayer Points For Them To Wake Up
1. Talitha cumi. Father, You spoke two words over a girl the mourners had written off and she stood up. Speak those same words over my loved one now, in Jesus’ name. Mark 5:41
2. Call them back. Father, You called Lazarus by name out of a deeper sleep than this one. Call my loved one by name and let them come back to us. John 11:43
3. Consciousness restored. Father, restore consciousness fully and completely. Let the eyes open, let the hand squeeze, and let the first sign come soon. Psalm 13:3
4. Breath of God. Father, You said You would cause breath to enter and they shall live. Breathe on my loved one and let life return to every system. Ezekiel 37:5
5. Not death but life. Father, I declare over this bed that they shall not die but live and declare Your works. I refuse the report of death. Psalm 118:17
6. Against the spirit of death. Father, every spirit of death assigned to this room, I command it to leave by the blood of Jesus. Let life alone remain here. 1 Corinthians 15:26
7. Awakening in Your timing. Father, You are not slow. Bring the waking sooner than the doctors expect and let it be complete and not partial. 2 Peter 3:9
8. A sign today. Father, give us something today. A flicker, a movement, a change on the chart, anything that lets this family keep believing. Psalm 86:17
Prayer Points For The Brain And The Body
9. Brain healing. Father, heal every injured part of the brain. Restore the tissue, restore the pathways, and let nothing be permanently lost. Jeremiah 30:17
10. Swelling down. Father, bring down every swelling and every pressure inside the skull. Let the scans show improvement and not decline. Psalm 107:20
11. Oxygen and blood flow. Father, let oxygen and blood reach every part of the brain that needs it. Let no cell starve while we wait. Leviticus 17:11
12. Stable vitals. Father, hold the heart rate, the blood pressure and the temperature steady. Let there be no crash and no emergency in the night. Psalm 121:4
13. Off the ventilator. Father, strengthen the lungs to breathe without help. Let my loved one be weaned off the machine safely and soon. Genesis 2:7
14. No infection. Father, protect this body from pneumonia, from sepsis and from every infection that preys on a person who cannot move. Psalm 91:10
15. Muscles and joints. Father, preserve the muscles and the joints while they lie still. Let the body they wake up to be a body they can use. Ezekiel 37:6
16. No further damage. Father, let nothing worsen from this hour. Draw a line here and let every report from now on be a better one. Job 38:11
Prayer Points For The Family At The Bedside
17. Strength for the vigil. Father, we are living in a hospital corridor. Give this family the strength to keep showing up day after day without breaking. Isaiah 40:29
18. Sleep for the watchers. Father, we cannot sleep and we cannot stop thinking. Give Your beloved sleep tonight and let us wake up able to function. Psalm 127:2
19. Unity in the family. Father, hard decisions divide families. Keep us one, keep us kind, and let no argument break what is left of us. Psalm 133:1
20. Against hopelessness. Father, hope is thinning in this room. Renew it every morning and do not let despair take the place You should be holding. Lamentations 3:22-23
21. Words at the bedside. Father, put the right words in our mouths when we speak to them. Let this room hear faith and love and not funeral talk. Proverbs 18:21
22. Children who are frightened. Father, the children in this family do not understand what is happening. Comfort them and protect their little hearts from fear. Matthew 19:14
23. Provision while we wait. Father, bills do not stop for a coma. Supply every cost of care, every day of missed work and every mile we drive. Philippians 4:19
24. Grace for hard decisions. Father, if we are asked to make decisions no family should face, give us Your mind and not our panic. James 1:5
Prayer Points For The Doctors And The Hospital
25. Wisdom for the team. Father, give the neurologists and the intensive care team wisdom beyond their training. Let them see what the scans do not show. James 1:5
26. Accurate assessment. Father, let every assessment of brain activity be accurate. Let no response be missed and no recovery be written off too early. Luke 8:17
27. Right treatment. Father, guide every decision about medication, pressure and support. Let the right choice be made at the right hour. Proverbs 3:5-6
28. Attentive nurses. Father, assign attentive and gentle nurses to this bed. Let my loved one be cared for as if they were the nurse’s own family. Colossians 3:23
29. Against error. Father, let no wrong dose, no wrong chart and no missed alarm happen in this unit. Guard the details we cannot watch. Psalm 121:7
30. Favor with the hospital. Father, give us favor with administration, with insurance and with everyone who controls access to this room. Nehemiah 1:11
31. Believing staff. Father, send at least one person on this ward who believes in miracles. Let us not be surrounded only by statistics. Mark 9:23
32. A change of prognosis. Father, overturn the prognosis. Let the same doctors who gave us bad news be the ones who tell us they cannot explain this. Isaiah 55:8
Prayer Points For Recovery And What Comes After
33. Memory restored. Father, when they wake, let their memory be intact. Let them know our faces and our names and their own story. Psalm 103:2
34. Speech restored. Father, loose the tongue. Let words come back, let conversation come back, and let us hear their voice again. Mark 7:35
35. Movement restored. Father, restore movement to every limb. Let them walk again, feed themselves again and live without depending on us for everything. Acts 3:8
36. Rehabilitation. Father, go before us into therapy. Give patience for the slow work and let every small gain be a real gain. Galatians 6:9
37. Their mind and emotions. Father, waking up to lost time is its own trauma. Guard their mind and give them peace as they understand what happened. Philippians 4:7
38. Their faith. Father, let them come back knowing You were with them in the dark. Give them a testimony from the place they cannot remember. Psalm 23:4
39. Our thanksgiving. Father, thank You for every hour they are still here and every mercy we have not counted. You have not abandoned this family. Psalm 107:1
40. Full restoration. Father, I am asking for all of it. Not a fraction of them returned to us, but the whole person restored, in Jesus’ name. Joel 2:25
How To Pray These Prayer Points
Pray them out loud at the bedside. Say your loved one’s name into the room instead of “them”, because the prayer is for a specific person and the person may well be hearing you. Keep the tone the same one you would use if they were sitting up and talking to you.
Take them in sets. Eight points during a morning visit, eight in the evening, and the rest at home when you cannot sleep. Read the verse attached to a point before you pray it. On the nights when you have nothing left to say, read the scriptures alone and let them be the prayer. If you are far away and cannot get to the hospital, pray these at midnight and let distance be no obstacle to God.
Read also: 50 Supernatural Prayers For A Loved One In The ICU
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a good prayer for someone in a coma?
A good prayer for someone in a coma calls the person by name, asks God specifically for consciousness and brain healing, and refuses to pray a funeral prayer over a living body. Try this at the bedside. “Father, I bring [name] to You. You called Lazarus out of a deeper sleep than this. Restore consciousness, heal every injured part of the brain, and let them wake. I declare they shall not die but live and declare Your works.” Pray it every visit, and pray it in the same voice you would use to talk to them.
What are some comforting things to say to someone in a coma?
Talk to them normally. Say who you are and what day it is. Tell them ordinary news from home, who called, what the weather is doing, what happened at church. Tell them you love them and that you are not leaving. Read scripture out loud, and play the songs they have always loved. Avoid discussing their prognosis in the room, because there is no way to know what is being heard. Many people who recover report remembering voices, so speak as if every word is landing.
What Bible verses can offer comfort to someone in a coma?
Psalm 23 is the one most families return to, because it names the valley without pretending it is not a valley. Psalm 139:7-12 is worth reading over the bed, because it says darkness is not dark to God and there is nowhere a person can go where He is not already present. Add Isaiah 41:10 for fear, Psalm 118:17 for life, and Mark 5:41 for the waking. Read them aloud and read them often.
What are the 5 key prayer points?
For a coma, the five that matter most are these: that consciousness would be restored, that the brain would be healed with no lasting damage, that the body would be protected from infection and decline while it waits, that the family would be given strength and unity through the vigil, and that the medical team would be given wisdom and accuracy. Everything else on this page sits underneath those five.
Keep praying past the point where visiting the hospital feels routine. Families who see the turnaround are usually the ones still praying in week six with the same fire they had on night one. If your loved one is on a ventilator or in intensive care, pray also through the ICU, and keep the psalms for healing open beside the bed. When the news turns urgent, reach for an urgent prayer for healing, and let the healing words of Jesus be the last thing spoken in that room each night. If dialysis or kidney failure is part of the picture, add these prayer points for kidney healing to your list. He is still the God who takes people by the hand and tells them to arise.