If you're looking for ways to ask for healing or send messages of hope, prayers for friends going through hard times from a variety of religious texts, spiritual leaders, and authors, and they're the most moving. Hopefully, they will bring joy to your loved ones as well. Being present with a friend in their time of need and praying with them are both acts of great love. If we pray God's words over their lives, his powerful, hopeful words, we ask that his truth and light will shine through the darkness and into their lives.