Praying for Healing

Repost: Why have I always asked my wonderful Christian friends not to make praying for my healing a priority?
I am very grateful for their prayers, and for the love and sympathy they express. However, I just don't believe that my healing is a priority. I base this on Romans 8:18: "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." (NASB) If present pain is not worthy of comparison with future glory, then relief from pain is not a priority, preparing for glory is.
It would be presumptuous to compare my pain and weakness with Paul's suffering (see 2 Cor 11:23-25) or to claim that my "suffering" is the result of persecution as his was; it is not! However, the context of Rom 8:18 applies to all Christians. The suffering Paul speaks of is a consequence of living in a fallen world. It is our share in a world subjected to futility, groaning for its final liberation, Rom 8:19-25.
Even the foretaste of the future, granted to us by the indwelling Holy Spirit, aggravates our pain. It causes a deeper dissatisfaction with things as they are now and a much greater longing for the resurrection of the body.
Paul's reference to the sufferings of this present time also refer back to his previous paragraph, too (vv. 9-17). Verse 18 is a hinge between the two paragraphs. There is genuine pain associated with "putting to death the deeds of the body" even though we follow the leading of the Spirit when we do it.
So, when Paul speaks of the "sufferings of this present time" he is talking about the pains, weaknesses, yearnings, anxieties all we Christians share. We will continue to experience them until the coming glory, the future, is fully here.
Praying for holiness is a much higher priority than healing.