A couple of weeks ago, I tuned into the Today Show where the hosts were excitedly reporting that a recent study had shown that corporate prayer had not affected the healing of heart patients. As I flipped from channel to channel, the lead story was the same, almost trumpeting the study’s findings. I marveled at how much air time this was getting and in fact was somewhat surprised that, with all that is going in the world, this was their continued focus. An article on the study was also in the Washington Post. I find it interesting that these researchers would decide to try and put the creator of the universe in a box and expect him to respond as they see fit, within the confines of their study. The Holy Bible tells us in
Matthew 8: 1-13 that Jesus heals a man with leprosy, a Centurion’s servant, and Matthew 8: 14-16 tells us Jesus healed many who were sick. Matthew 9: 1-8
states Jesus heals a paralytic and in Matthew 9: 18-34
he healed the sick, the mute, the blind & raised the dead. The Biblical list of Jesus’ miracles is long and I’m sure were too numerous to record all. The Pharisees had seen Jesus work many miracles, and in Matthew 12: 38-42 they are saying show us more miracles and we will believe. History definitely repeats itself. For those who may have been disheartened with this study, I would encourage you to look beyond the news reports to the promising words of the Bible. A simple word search on Christ’s healing miracles at the website http://www.biblegateway.com will provide you with the knowledge of His miraculous healing powers and your prayers, rather corporate or personal can be answered.
