The Power Of Healing Prayer
Do you believe that prayer has the power to heal? More importantly do you want to believe in the power of prayer to heal? If you answered yes to either of the above questions you are already on your way to understanding the power of healing prayer. The first step to being healed by prayer or offering prayers that will help to heal a loved one is to believe in your prayer. This article will outline the definition of healing prayer, whether or not you can be healed by prayer and how to pray for healing.
What is Healing Prayer?
Healing prayer is prayer that is offered up for the purpose of seeking healing of either a physical or emotional nature. It is believe that through prayer physical and emotional pain can be eliminated. Healing prayer may include prayer spoken aloud, prayer held within the heart or visits to religious shrines or other places of worship.
Healing prayer does not involve monetary donations. Although offering contributions to houses of worship is certainly worthwhile there is no amount of money that can guarantee a cure to a physical or emotional pain. Some unscrupulous individuals may offer stories of healing and divine intervention and offer you the opportunity for healing for a fee. These individuals should be avoided. True healing prayer is pure and heartfelt.
Can You Be Healed By Prayer?
Although scientific evidence may not be overly supportive of healing prayer, Christians know the answer to this question. They know that prayer does have the power to heal when the prayer is offered with sincerity, humility and compassion. The form of healing that you or the recipient of your prayer receives may come in a variety of different levels. The healing may be a full curing of the medical or physical ailment or it may come in the form of easing the pain and bringing peace to the patient before they pass.
Healing prayer should be used in conjunction with standard medical treatments for the physical ailment. Undergoing medical treatments is not a lack of faith but rather a determination to be healed. For example it may be God's plan that you are to be healed through a new form of treatment that could help many others who do not share your faith and spirituality.
How Do You Pray for Healing?
There is no simple formula for healing prayer. Although some would like to believe that there are special prayers that guarantee healing but, unfortunately, this is not the case. The words of a healing prayer pale in comparison to the emotion and passion behind the words. The simplest prayer can often be the most powerful because it invokes the most heartfelt emotion of the individual offering the prayer. Whether you are praying for your own healing, for the healing of a loved one or the healing of a stranger it is important that as you pray, you know in your heart that God has the power to heal and He will answer your prayer according to His plan. It has been said many times that no prayer goes unanswered but the answer to these prayers isn't always, "Yes."
Michael Heindel, PrayerRequestBox.com is a Christian based prayer website. Feel free to submit a prayer request or stop by and pray for others.
Struggle
This is one word that will not go away in my experience. It is a word that I hear all the time, from those that have not reached their goals, and from those that have.
It's just a word-but it expresses a deeply held thought about what it is we are experiencing. It can easily be changed to any other word such as fun, excitement, adventure or something else.
The word itself is meaningless-it is the thought that chooses the word, because we think something is a struggle-we choose to use the word to express our feelings about a thing. What makes it a struggle-what causes us to say "I am struggling to survive" instead of I am working to survive? Even when we are walking the path that we have chosen, and are aware of any difficulties that will come up-we consider it a struggle if we are not moving forward. At the time we may have considered it a challenge, but when we relate the experience to others we often choose the word struggle to imply a difficult process.
Struggle is really just another name for challenge-the difference is that a challenge can be overcome-a struggle goes on indefinitely. If life is a challenge-it is something that can be overcome-does life have to be overcome? If it is a struggle-it is something to be endured.
Let's say for weeks we have been planning a trip into the country with friends-we are all hyped up about the experience, and are ready for it no matter what comes our way. There are five of us-now heading into the country in an old van that has a tendency to break down on occasion and requires a little push to get it started again. Because we are on an adventure-it is fun pushing the van a short distance, and getting the thing running. We are continuously moving forward to our destination, and we have the image of the next week hanging like a carrot in front of us-each one urging the other on. This is fun, exciting, and adventurous-it could never be considered a struggle.
On the other hand when we are knee deep in alligators, and we see no way out-we consider it a struggle to stay alive. Even when we have achieved our goals in the physical life-most of us will look back and wonder why-if we do not see the whole experience or adventure as moving forward. So the difference in the thought process that leads us to believe that life is a struggle, may be that we see no future, and that life must be endured. For those of us that can see beyond life-the experiences are just that-experiences.
We can call a disabled person-challenged, but if he feels handicapped-that is what he will be. It's not in the name-but in the feelings that we have about what we do or who we are. So then it's not really about going anywhere or having a future or destination-it is about how we are feeling in the moment.
I am semi retired. I work at a day job for four or fives hours a day. I have few expenses, and most of the things that I desire. My needs are always taken care off, and I have managed to save a small amount. It hasn't always been this way, and I have struggled to get here. I have studied spiritualism for years, and I am confident about my new awareness, and where it is leading. I can clearly see that my life has been a series of steps that has brought me to this place that I am now enjoying-still I struggle.
I struggled to start this article, and it is continuous throughout its creation. I have never started an article that I could not finish-so I have a 100% finishing rate. I have a very good record, so why am I struggling, what kind of fear am I living-I know I will finish.
It is the weekend, and I am living in the anticipation of going out for breakfast after I finish this article. The article is a step towards the one thing that I enjoy the most on weekends. Because I am living in the future, what I am doing now has become a struggle, an effort, and an obligation. My future looks bright, enjoyable, and deserving-I am not focused on the purpose of this writing-the very reason why I chose to do it-I am not in the moment. When I have finished writing, I will feel relieved, accomplished, gratified and happy that the struggle is over. I will have set myself up for a really great, relaxing, and well deserved breakfast at my favourite restaurant.
I will have also set myself up for disaster. Because I have lived in the future during my struggle to get there-I may find many disappointments, and circumstances that do not fit into the image I have been savouring. Not only have I struggled to get here, I will struggle to maintain the image I have of the breakfast experience.
So, struggle comes when I do not live in the moment, and choose to enjoy or accept the experience as something that is positive and timeless. If I understand that this is the only moment that counts, and it has the most meaning-then it should not be a struggle, but an all encompassing experience.
Struggle comes when I do not live in the eternal moment of now-when I am focused in the future. Every moment is the last moment, and it is always a choice. Every choice has its own experience, and if one accepts responsibility for that choice-it can never be a struggle but an opportunity that leads nowhere. Life is experienced in the moment-it is an eternal moment that lasts forever-there is no other moment. So, life is a series of moments-a series of lifetimes added together. The struggle is experienced when you try to put them all together from a position of being outside the experience.
Roy E. Klienwachter is a resident of British Columbia, Canada. A student of NLP, ordained minister, New Age Light Worker, Teacher and Phenomenologist. Roy has written and published many ebooks on New Age wisdom. Roy's books and articles are thought provoking, and designed to empower you to take responsibility for your life, and what you create.
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When God Talks
My best friend has the spiritual gift of prophecy. I may need to explain that a bit: Christian prophecy doesn't have much to do with foretelling the future, although God can grant that if He wishes. It has much more to do with seeing the power of God at work in the world, envisioning the spiritual battles that rage all around us, and with communicating the miraculous power and message of God to His people.
One of the lessons that I teach around Christian goal setting centers around Psalm 37:4: "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." I believe that our desires are our deepest values, the holy touchstones that God created in each one of us. One person's values and deepest desires may be service, compassion, family; another's may be beauty, leadership, security; still another's may be freedom, growth, meaning. We all have them, although in our sin we can try to live them out badly! But God created the values within each individual, and He firmly tied the fulfillment of our values to our relationship with Him. (You can read more about this in my article on "The Deep Desires of Your Heart.")
My friend's spiritual gift and my teaching were brought together the other day. I was having lunch with my friend and she mentioned that she had been given a word from God. It had to do with hope in a financial situation, but it didn't seem to apply to her. Maybe it was for me? She told me the message: "Be obedient and I will give you the desires of your heart
The miraculous part? I had never mentioned my teaching on desires of the heart to her before, and she didn't know the verse from Psalms. She did not know the term in her own wisdom.
God did.