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Apr. 6, 2006 Something about some new medical study or scientific study about how much prayer helps people with heart disease managed a headline recently because the study showed negative results. Prayer is not something to play with or to study. Prayer is from the heart and a deep relationship with God. Prayer has to mean something. To put prayer in some sort of clinical test and expect a certain result is certainly a strange way to approach God. I believe the test had people who were not the sick praying for the sick. What was the motivation of those praying? Did they know those who were sick? Was there any relationship at all between those praying in intercession and those for whom the prayer was directed? I recall a centurion who approached Jesus asking Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus said he would be happy to go and help and the centurion. Knowing Jesus would be breaking a major Jewish rule by entering his house explained to Jesus that he knew he needed only to speak the word and it would be done. These are the types of faith and relationships that are apparent when prayer is answered. To “select” groups of people to pray seems wrong to me. Prayer is from the heart for the heart of the other. The motive must be pure and the relationship with God secure. How can God possibly answer the prayers of those who hold no special bond with Jesus? Where is the possibility of intercession? This too is in keeping with all those methods which demand God grant a “sign” to men. Well, we’ve had our signs and we have the written word. The individual, who prays in faith, believing, shall receive. Who is to suggest that those who participated in this latest “test” of God even know how to pray properly? Jesus taught men to approach God as “Father”. How many of these people who were praying claim God as Father and Jesus as Lord? Did the study include “religious” people or were all those who put themselves to prayer in a true relationship with the true God of Heaven? This is another case of the wisdom of men showing it to be foolishness before God. Why men insist on putting God to the test is based in vanity and pride. Medicine has all the answers. Science has all the answers. It is faith that is vain. Who is to say that prayer doesn’t help hearts? I would suggest that it was the many prayers of many true believers that prodded medicine to develop things like the artificial heart, heart transplants and heart bypass surgery. All those technical procedures may indeed be the answers to the prayers of those who prayed in true faith, believing in the skills of doctors and the intelligence of scientists. Science and Medicine prefer to think all these great technological developments belong to them when God has never left healing and life solely in the hands of men. Jesus dealt with many healings in his personal ministry. He believed and taught health to the body and to the soul. Has he changed his attitude at all toward men concerning their physical health? I don’t believe so. What is salvation? It is the bringing of a soul out of death into life. God deals in life. The scientists and doctors who attempted this latest test of God have probably concluded that prayer isn’t all it is cracked up to be. That’s okay. Jesus said that the Pharisees (who thought they knew how to pray) prayed openly to impress men. Their motivation for prayer was vanity. I see little difference in the Parasitical approach in prayer and the approach established in the recent “study”. ------------ Email Skip: skiptoomaloo@hotmail.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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