Can Prayer Heal?

Can Prayer Heal?

Have you ever been so sick that you just closed your eyes and started to pray? If so, you’re not alone. According to a University of Rochester study, as many as 85 percent of people pray in addition to receiving treatment. It’s not uncommon to see priests visiting hospitals or congregations laying hands on the sick, but can prayer really restore your good health?

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Dr Bob Paeglow

The Healing Power of Prayer

Dr. Bob Paeglow

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I would like to weight in on the controversy regarding whether or not prayer heals.

As a board certified family physician, I complete about 5,000 patient visits per year. I ask each patient if they’d like me to pray with them before we finish a visit. In the past seven years, I can only recall three patients who have refused my offer. That’s how long I’ve been incorporating prayer into my healing regimen. In that time, I have witnesses several extraordinary medical recoveries that can only be defined as miracles. In each case, I can only attribute the healing miracle to the power of prayer. How else to explain a complete turnaround from grave illness to a clean bill of health without any known scientific rationale or empirical evidence? My answer: prayer heals.

I won’t argue with anyone who calls my belief in the healing power of prayer irrational, as opposed to rational scientific thought. It is clearly not a provable mathematical formula such as: 2+2=4. Irrational beliefs cannot be proven with a science experiment, but must be accepted through that process we call faith. There’s the rub! We can’t download or text message or e-mail a miracle with our latest technology or cutting edge gadgets.

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