EXPERT WRITES OF CONSTANT HEALINGS WHEN FAITHFUL USE BIBLE, FOLLOW DIRECTIVE OF JESUS
We tend to treat spiritual healings as rare miracles -- something like a bolt from the blue; very unusual. Meanwhile, often (too often) we hear of diagnoses that seem insurmountable.
Cancer. Diabetes. Heart problems. Arthritis.
Indeed, modern scourges!
Yet according to nationally-known Catholic healing expert Dr. Francis MacNutt -- who was once a prime speaker on the charismatic circuit (drawing thousands to stadiums) -- wondrous cures in fact occur on a constant basis and need to be focused upon by our clergy as well as the faithful. Not everyone gets better. And most often -- with spiritual healing -- it's a gradual or partial process (more improvement than total reversal, despite the histrionics we sometimes see on TV).
But there are many, many total cures and -- as MacNutt points out -- if ten percent of cancer patients were cured by a new drug, people would flock to get it, even travel to somewhere like Mexico.
Yet that's probably the percentage with spiritual healing or thereabouts -- total reversals of misfortune, meaning we should flock here also! MacNutt recounts in a new, highly readable, useful new book (endorsed by his bishop) called The Practice of Healing Prayer the case of one woman who had a leg that was six inches shorter than the other but that witnesses (including a bishop) actually observed to grow several inches over the course of a couple days. (The bishop, Uribe Jaramillo, of Colombia, later became a leader of the Charismatic Renewal in Latin America).
Dr. MacNutt, who runs Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, Florida, was involved in one study of forty arthritic patients with the results that the average number of tender joints in those participating went from nearly 17 to less than six, while swollen joints declined to a third of what they had been. Four of the patients were totally healed through prayer.
Our point: there is always hope. Prayer works. We should rely upon it as much as anything else. We should even bless our medications (to make them more effective or to prevent side effects). Everyone has a role.
There is nothing that cannot be cured (if the situation is right, if the prayers are right, if the heart is right, and when God wills). Now let's get to the actual mechanics of healing:
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