Re: prayer and healing

I would also affirm my belief that healing does sometimes occur and even
cases where it is impossible to argue that the cause is mental or
psychosomatic Sometimes it may well be that we just don't understand
the science yet but at times it seems impossible to deny that God
intervened. A few years ago my mother fell down the basement stairs and
hit her head. She was airlifted by chopper to Toronto and a surgeon
operated in an effort to relieve the pressure on the brain. When I
arrived the next day it was very obvious that there was a huge split in
opinion among the doctors. In his office later that week the surgeon
spoke about it and he said that of course many of the doctors never see
any recovery in such cases since they never even try and just let their
patients die when the cat scans look like my mothers. However, he
agreed with us that after a week of no improvement that it was time to
let nature take it's course and we agreed and she died ten weeks later.
I think the same is true of prayer, many people simply have so little
faith or have misplaced faith, they do not even try. But sometimes
(often?) God says my grace is sufficient...

The reality of the spirit world and interactions with humans, also
seems, in some cases, inescapable to me. Not in the way that some
people do when they write off all sin in their lives to a spirit of
anger and so on, I think that is simply good old fashioned depravity
acting, at least it is in my life.

Dave Wallace

Bill Hamilton wrote:
> I can echo what Jack says. In our EPC church we elders have anointed folks a
> number of times, with varying results, including some remarkable healings (and
> we have had some remarkable healings when we simply prayed for an individual).
> As Jack says, we always felt we had done the right thing regardless of the
> outcome.
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> --- Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net> wrote:
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Received on Sun Apr 2 09:57:54 2006