Lifting up
prayers for your healing as well as strength to persevere through these various changes in your diet.
Not exact matches
One more point, according to the epistle of James, the
prayer of the righteous are effective, therefore
as the monks
heal their souls, their
prayers for the world will also become more effective (less about them, more about the salvation of the world).
Washington (CNN)-- Employing faith, whether calling
for nationwide
prayer or
healing the nation by quoting scripture, is a presidential tradition
as old
as the office itself.
Many Christians use 2 Chronicles 7:14
as encouragement to pray
for their country since it covers a lot of ground (humility,
prayer, repentance, forgiveness,
healing).
Practices such
as prayers for the sick and the laying on of hands remind the patient of the
healing forces of God that are available to him.
The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering
prayer ministry
for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such
as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such
as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.
I also see God proved when I pray
for people and they are
healed or in
prayers answered just
as was asked
for.
Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in
healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts
as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work
as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits
for us to open.
God's power to
heal bodies shatters our prejudice that
healing prayer is only
for the more emotional, less intelligent folks; that the Bible stories of
healing are merely «symbolic» and «not really true» and that the way the world is (comfortable
as it is
for us) is God's will.
The absence of
healing prayer weakens our faith, and thereby weakens our conviction
as we Christians work
for peace and social justice.
And rightly so,
for healing prayer has the same radical potential
for upsetting our lives
as science has upset their lives.
Intercessory
prayer can best be understood
as God's release of his Spirit and
healing, creative forces within a law - abiding world, such release being dependent in part upon our willingness to work with him
for the furtherance of other persons» good.
As we entered into
prayer for this young man, everyone in the room felt pressure to try to make ourselves certain that this man was in fact going to be
healed.
Dossey has published numerous articles and is the author of eleven books that have been translated into many languages,
as follows: Space, Time and Medicine (1982), Beyond Illness (1984), Recovering the Soul (1989), Meaning and Medicine (1991),
Healing Words, (1993, New York Times bestseller),
Prayer is Good Medicine (1996), Be Careful What You Pray
For, Reinventing Medicine (1999),
Healing Beyond the Body (2001), The Power of Premonitions (2009), and The One Mind (2012).
We pull from all reliable sources including medical knowledge of how the brain functions
as well
as Biblical - based guidance, faith, and
prayer to create a plan of treatment
for healing and growth in Christ.
These Saturdays dedicated to
prayer are offered
for St. Michael's parishioners
as well
as the wider community,
as an outreach, sharing the
healing power of God's love poured out through Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer and meditation may often be encouraged
as a way
for families to work through some of their struggles if it has been a meaningful way
for them to achieve
healing in the past.