Re: prayer and healing

 
 
I have a great deal of experience and observation on this topic. I have
several very common results of healing prayer in red below. Some reasons for no
effect are: 1). Unbelief, 2). Not the Lords will to answer the prayer, 3).
Demonic interference, 4). Unconfessed sin.
 
Causes are not necessarily in this order. Prayer on why and why not prayer
works, these broad classifications usually cover all results. Most who are
deeply into prayer could care less about any 'test' or 'study' to see if it is
real. They know it is real.
    
In a message dated 3/31/2006 9:09:16 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
haas.john@comcast.net writes:

Greetings:

The elders of our (Presbyterian) church have often laid on hands....
according to the Biblical Injunction. In some cases people have seen
remarkable improvement in their health. Others have had told us that
they have been encouraged in their battles. Others showed no
discernible change. We always felt that we had done the right thing
regardless of the outcome.
Jack Haas

In a message dated 4/1/2006 3:58:13 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
igd.strachan@gmail.com writes:

... She said "Just look at her hands! Can you pray for her?". I looked, and
her fingers were stiff and immobile, and she was in considerable pain. She
said it was chronic arthritis. I was frankly horrified at the prospect of
being required to "perform a miracle" (of course, it's God who performs the
healing, not us), but I was definitely fazed by it! I'll never forget the
childlike look of faith on the woman's face as she asked me to pray, and I
suspect her faith was more trusting than mine. So I did as she asked - laid hands
on her hands, and prayed something. Her hands relaxed immediately and she
could move them again. I was actually too spooked out to take in what had
happened, but the other woman saw it clearly. Then after the service, I saw the
woman who had been thus healed again in the car park. She raised her hand
up and waved at me, by flexing her fingers, to show that she could move them.
It was then that it dawned on me that it had really happened, and that she
hadn't been able to do that before.

 
In a message dated 4/1/2006 11:17:54 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
deborahjmann@insightbb.com writes:

...Prayer with believing and obedience works.

Regards,

Jack Jackson
Received on Tue Apr 4 00:35:57 2006