Doctors Have Faith in Faith<\/b><\/p>\n
A survey conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians shows that ninety-nine percent of doctors believe a relationship exists between faith and physical healing. Recently, more than one thousand health-care professionals met at Harvard Medical School to examine the connection between spirituality and healing.<\/p>\n
Doctors\u2019 faith in faith was bolstered by a California study of the effect of prayer on recovery from heart problems. About two hundred heart patients were assigned to Christians who prayed for them, while an equal number, a control group, received no known prayers. Neither group knew about the prayers, yet those who received prayer developed half the complications that were experienced by those in the control group.<\/p>\n
A similar study by the Dartmouth Medical School examined the effect of prayer on healing when the patients prayed for themselves. The death rate six months after bypass surgery was 9 percent for the general population but 5 percent for those who prayed for their own healing. And none of the deeply religious patients died during the period of the study.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press, quoted in \u201cReligion in the News,\u201d Signs of the Times, March 1997, p. 4<\/p>\n
Jehovah-Rophi <\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI am the Lord that healeth thee\u201d (Ex. 15:26)<\/p>\n
Heal us, Emmanuel! here we are, Waiting to feel Thy touch: Deep-wounded souls to Thee repair, And, Saviour, we are such.<\/p>\n
Our faith is feeble, we confess, We faintly trust Thy word; But wilt Thou pity us the less? Be that far from Thee, Lord!<\/p>\n
Remember him who once applied, With trembling, for relief; \u201cLord, I believe,\u201d with tears he cried, \u201cOh, help my unbelief!\u201d<\/p>\n
She too, who touch\u2019d Thee in the press, And healing virtue stole, Was answer\u2019d, \u201cDaughter, go in peace, Thy faith hath made thee whole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Conceal\u2019d amid the gathering throng, She would have shunn\u2019d Thy view; And if her faith was firm and strong, Had strong misgivings too.<\/p>\n
Like her, with hopes and fears we come, To touch Thee, if we may; Oh! send us not despairing home! Send none unheal\u2019d away!<\/p>\n
Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper\u2019s Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York<\/p>\n
Resources<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Charismatic Chaos, J. MacArthur, Jr., Zondervan, 1992, pp. 194ff<\/p>\n
\u2022 The healing record in the Gospels: Divine Healing Today, Richard Mayhue, Moody Press, pp. 31ff.<\/p>\n
New Age Movement<\/b><\/p>\n
About half of the Americans who are familiar with the New Age movement don\u2019t take its teachings seriously, and a third of them say New Age thought runs counter to Judeo-Christian teaching, says a new poll by the Princeton Religious Research Center.<\/p>\n
The poll also shows that the general population\u2019s awareness of the New Age is low, but the number of Americans who adhere to New Age practices is alarmingly high, even among professing Christians. \u201cMany who consider themselves good Christians nonetheless have engaged in practices that seemingly are counter to the teaching of their church,\u201d the pollsters said. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Roughly half of all Americans say they believe in extrasensory perception. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Thirty percent of Roman Catholics and 22 percent of Protestants say they believe in clairvoyance, while 48 percent of Roman Catholics and 44 percent of Protestants say they believe in psychic healing, the poll shows. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The poll indicates that 25 percent of both groups believe the movement of the stars may help govern the affairs of men and women. <\/p>\n
Christianity Today, February 10, 1992<\/p>\n
Paul\u2019s Healing Ministry<\/b><\/p>\n
Paul\u2019s frequency of healing declined with the passing of time: <\/p>\n
Galatians 4:13\u201315 <\/p>\n
Paul was ill<\/p>\n
2 Corinthians 12:7\u201310 <\/p>\n
Paul was afflicted<\/p>\n
Philippians 2:25\u201330 <\/p>\n
Epaphroditus was ill (A.D. 60)<\/p>\n
1 Timothy 5:23 <\/p>\n
Timothy was ill (A.D. 62-3)<\/p>\n
2 Timothy 4:20 <\/p>\n
Trophimus was ill (A.D. 64) <\/p>\n
Healing and the Atonement, Divine Healing Today, Richard Mayhue, Moody Press, p. 43<\/p>\n
Kathryn Kuhlman<\/b><\/p>\n
Even back then I was searching for hard evidence of God as an alternative to faith. And one day I found it\u2014on television, of all places. While randomly flipping a dial, I came across a mass healing service being conducted by Kathryn Kuhlman. I watched for a few minutes as she brought various people up on the stage and interviewed them. Each one told an amazing story of supernatural healing. Cancer, heart conditions, paralysis\u2014it was like a medical encyclopedia up there. As I watched Kuhlman\u2019s program, my doubts gradually melted away. At last I had found something real and tangible. Kuhlman asked a musician to sing her favorite song, \u201cHe Touched Me.\u201d That\u2019s what I needed, I thought; a touch, a personal touch from God. She held out that promise, and I lunged for it. <\/p>\n
Three weeks later when Kathryn Kuhlman came to a neighboring state, I skipped classes and traveled half a day to attend one of her meetings. The atmosphere was unbelievably charged\u2014soft organ music in the background; the murmuring sound of people praying aloud, some in strange tongues; and every few minutes a happy interruption when someone would stand and claim, \u201cI\u2019m healed!\u201d One person especially make an impression, a man from Milwaukee who had been carried into the meeting on a stretcher. When he walked\u2014yes, walked\u2014onstage, we all cheered wildly. He told us he was a physician, and I was even more impressed. He had incurable lung cancer, he said, and was told he had six months to live. But now, tonight, he believed God had healed him. He was walking for the first time in months. He felt great. Praise God! I wrote down the man\u2019s name and practically floated out of that meeting. <\/p>\n
I had never known such certainty of faith before. My search was over; I had seen proof of a living God in those people on the stage. If he could work tangible miracles in them, then surely he had something wonderful in store for me. I wanted contact with the man of faith I had seen at the meeting, so much so that exactly one week later I phoned Directory Assistance in Milwaukee and got the physician\u2019s number. When I dialed it, a woman answered the phone. \u201cMay I please speak to Dr. S_____,\u201d I said. Long silence. \u201cWho are you?\u201d she said at last. I figured she was just screening calls from patients or something. I gave my name and told her I admired Dr. S_____ and had wanted to talk to him ever since the Kathryn Kuhlman meeting. I had been very moved by his story, I said. Another long silence. Then she spoke in a flat voice, pronouncing each word slowly. \u201cMy\u2026husband\u2026is\u2026dead.\u201d <\/p>\n
Just that one sentence, nothing more, and she hung up. I can\u2019t tell you how that devastated me. I was wasted. I half-staggered into the next room, where my sister was sitting. \u201cRichard, what\u2019s wrong?\u201d she asked. \u201cAre you all right?\u201d No, I was not all right. But I couldn\u2019t talk about it. I was crying. My mother and sister tried to pry some explanation out of me. But what could I tell them? For me, the certainty I had staked my life on had died with that phone call. A flame had flared bright for one fine, shining week and then gone dark, like a dying star. <\/p>\n
Disappointment With God, PhilipYancey, Zondervan, pp. 38-40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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