do healing prayers work ?

Answer 1

Manifesting in any manner is powerful and brings anything you desire in proper purpose.

Answer 2

From personal experience - yes. As far as the "study" on heart patients that was reported - you can't do a "form" prayer and expect results. Prayer is not effective unless it is true communication with God from the heart and based in His Word and His Will. Without those elements it is just hot air. Prayer in of itself does not heal, the person saying the prayer does not heal - it is GOD who heals. The Word says that the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Healing was part of the atonement - by His stripes (on Jesus back when scourged) we are healed. I have been healed, members of my family have experienced healing directly from God and so have many, many others. It is not about making healing prayers "work," it is about getting into line with the will of God. The Bible says Brethren I wish above all things that you may prosper and BE IN HEALTH even as your SOUL prospers. I know healing is for today, healing prayer works and God wants to heal. It is based on FAITH, relationship and the Word. God Bless.

Answer 3

"A new scientific study shows that prayer didn't seem to help patients who underwent bypass surgery. In fact, some of the people who were prayed for did worse. The results of the study of more than 1,800 patients were published in the American Heart Journal. From Reuters:

The patients in the study at six U.S. hospitals included 604 who were actually prayed for after being told they might or might not be; another 597 patients who were not prayed for after being told they might or might not be; and a group of 601 who were prayed for and told they would be the subject of such prayer.

The praying was done by members of three Christian groups in monasteries and elsewhere -- two Catholic and one Protestant -- who were given written prayers and the first name and initial of the last name of the prayer subjects. The prayers started on the eve of or day of surgery and lasted for two weeks.

Among the first group -- who were prayed for but only told they might be -- 52 percent had post-surgical complications compared to 51 percent in the second group, the ones who were not prayed for though told they might be. In the third group, who knew they were being prayed for, 59 percent had complications.

After 30 days, however, the death rates and incidence of major complications was about the same across all three groups, said the study...

Answer 4

There is no "statically significant" results. But you can see prayer as a form of placebo. If the person knows he's being prayed (or praying him/herself) for the psychological boost which in turn gives a physical boost. This is enough to account for the anomaly that occurs in studies where ppl are prayed for.

AND IF you say prayer works cut and paste the link to the "PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL" where you got your statistical data.

Why doesn't God grow back severed limbs?

Answer 5

They will work if its Gods will for them to work. The person may be part of a bigger plan than they can fathom. When I have healing prayers done for me I always recover fine. However, it may be time for that person to go home to Jesus. God has the plan, and humans will follow eventually. God bless you, and his will be done for you.

Answer 6

to the scientist above me:
Perhaps when honest, God fearing people - who aren't part of some scientific experiment on the effects of their influence over GOD (who, by the way, knows when he is being tested) - pray from their hearts in private over the issues of another it may be answered, subject to God's will for that person. So yes they do work...contrary to the lab results.

Answer 7

Yes prayer is a miracle.

Answer 8

If God wants them to for that situation. Otherwise it wont.We should pray for the persons soul which is eternal and death is sure no matter who the person. We may pray to delay someones death but they will eventually die. We all will. Pray they realize their true spiritual identity, that is real prayer.

Answer 9

Yes when you have a strong faith in god,and it is most clear when the disease has no cure.

021.083 And (remember) Job, when He cried to his Lord, "Truly distress has seized me, but Thou art the Most Merciful of those that are merciful."

021.084 So We listened to him: We removed the distress that was on him, and We restored his people to him, and doubled their number,- as a Grace from Ourselves, and a thing for commemoration, for all who serve Us. (QURAN)

Answer 10

Studies have been done that suggest that someone heals faster when being prayed for.