Overview: What are stories of God's healing?
In the Bible, the subject of God's healing is incredibly important because it takes into account BOTH our human brokenness and God's loving power to put us back together.
Old Testament prophecies promise God's healing (Isaiah 35:5-7, Ezekiel 34:11-16), summaries of Jesus' ministry often focus on God's healing (Matt. 4:23-25), and the eternal new heavens and new earth will not only free from tears and death and mourning and crying and pain (Revelation 21:4), but also will have leaves from the tree of life that are for "the healing of the nations" (Revelation 22:2).
In Mark 2:16-17, we hear more of Jesus' perspective on healing: And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 17 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
With this simple illustration about a doctor, Jesus explains his whole ministry as a work of healing in a sick and broken world. Jesus brings about God's healing whenever he casts out a demon, heals a disease, mends a physical ailment, enacts forgiveness, and prompts reconciliation. Of course, salvation is the ultimate and eternal demonstration of God's healing.