Prayer and Healing

Promotional TalkTaoyuan International SDA Fellowship

Saturday, June 15th 2013

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• Randolph C. Byrd, M.D. “Positive Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population,” Southern Medical Journal (July 1988), pages 826-829.

• 393 patients admitted to the coronary care unit at San Francisco General Hospital– 201 patient control group– 192 patients prayed for daily by five to

seven people in home prayer groups

Neither patients, nurses, nor doctors knew which group the patients were in.

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• Results• Those prayed for were five times less to

require antibiotics• They were three times likely to develop

pulmonary edema, a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid

• None of those prayed for required the insertion of an artificial airway in the throat, compared with 12 in the control group who required the treatment

• Those prayed for experienced fewer cases of pneumonia and cardiopulmonary arrests

• Fewer patients in the prayed for group died

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Prayer for the sick is effective

“As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer.”

Alexis Carrel, winner of the 1912 Nobel prize for medicine.

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Faith Factor for Health and Healing

• Focus on God• Focus on Scripture• Focus on Jesus• Focus on the

Emotional• Focus on Prayer

Partners

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Focus on God

• Those who place their complete focus on God and trust Him wholeheartedly learn that God can be counted on to help.

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Focus on Scripture

• Read, recite, and review some of the many scriptures affirming that God’s intent for us is to be healthy and whole.– Exodus 15:26– Jeremiah 30:17– Psalm 147:3

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• Place your focus on Jesus and invite Him to bring you healing.

• “Dear Jesus, I know You ministered to all who came to You in earlier times. Today I ask You to look with compassion upon me. Heal me and restore me to complete health. Just as those in times past turned to You for Help and healing, I turn to You asking You to bring me health and wholeness.”

Focus on Jesus

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Focus on the Emotional

• Before praying directly for a physical healing, do an internal audit to determine if there are past emotional issues that manifest themselves in physical ways.

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Focus on Prayer Partners

• When you are in need of healing, don’t hesitate to ask others to include you in their prayers.

• James 5:13 - 15

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Foundations of Biblical Healing

• God is love, 1 John 4:16• God loves us• God wants to heal us

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God Bless You