> > SOrry it took me so long to get back to you. I only have limited
> > access to the internet.
> >
> > anyway here is the study....
> >
> > http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/medicalbag/4897/prayer_power.html
> >
> > there are others....
> >
> >
> > also now to answer the questions you asked me....
> >
> > >>Why didn't prayer stop the extermination of millions of Jewish people? I
> guarantee
> > you they were all praying for God to intervene.
> >
> > I assume your talking about WWII, that is explained in the bible. God explains
> > that due to their disbelief in Christ that they would suffer for it. That by
> > denying him (God) that basically there would be a time he would deny them.
> >
> > >>Why hasn't prayer ended poverty, or starvation, or the exploitation and slavery
> of
> > >>children across the world?
> >
> > >>Does God only help in hospitals, and kids who didn't study for their math test?
> >
> > This again is answered in the Bible, The first book Genesis. God gave domionin of
> > the
> > earth to man. The earth belongs to man to put what ever powers he see's fit in
> charge
> > so to speak, be it greed, power, envy, war, etc. If you rent a home from me I have
> no
> >
> > right nor power to come into that home and tell you how to live your life. I may
> see
> > the choices your making are hurting or harming you and I may plead with you but
> it's
> > your choice, your right to decide the path of your own life. God makes it clear he
> > will not visit were he is not wanted. Christ told the entire flock "if you go into
> a
> > man's house in my name and he will not listen then leave and to even wipe the dust
> of
> > that house hold of your shoes"
> >
> > Listen I can't explain why God does one thing and not another, but I do know that
> > there are many and Im sure you can say yes to this too, that have been in a
> situation
> > and reached out and prayed and made promises then when that prayer was answered
> > suddenly
> > sometimes days even just hours later those people make excuses why it happened,
> seen
> > it happen many many times. Be honest if you were God and someone prays to you
> asking
> > for
> > help and you reach out and answer that prayer only to have them make excuses or
> even
> > deny your help would you be so willing to step in and help again? heck we can see
> > that
> > every day in the way people treat people. Friends asking for help after not seeing
> > them
> > for months or even yrs and then after helping mysteriously the dissappear again....
> >
> > Does prayer work? yes it does, I have 2 miracles in healing in my life, 1 my ex
> > father
> > in law, blew he heart out and od'd on meth. flat lined 4 times to hospital, once on
> > the
> > operating table and again on his way to his room. Life support system and no brain
> > activity
> > doctors said he was dead, my ex wife and I went to see him, she sat and talked to
> him
> > for
> > 20 minutes and nothing. she prayed for him before we left and I watched his
> heartbeat
> > go
> > up 4 beats a minute and breathing up 3, we walked out and I told her not to give
> up.
> > doctors met us and asked to turn off machines we said no. Family got mad. we did
> this
> > for two weeks, and each time she prayed his vitals went up. anyway after two weeks
> we
> > told the family and doc's what was happening, they laughed, family went behind our
> > backs
> > and got an injuction to have my exwife removed as his guardian and the machines
> > turned off.
> >
> > this was to happen on thursday morning at 8 am, at 6 am that moring he woke up with
> > no
> > side effects, no problems, and no compications, funny thing is no one said a word
> to
> > us
> > about prayers, about miracles etc. only "huh he is lucky".
> >
> > 2 one was my own son, by age 3 he had spent as much time in the hospital as out,
> his
> >
> > lungs were failing and he would have breathing fits. after 3 yrs, numerous drugs,
> > treatments, shots, etc. I had enough, I took him home with the doctors threatning
> to
> > have
> > me charged with child endangerment and abuse. Once home I laid him in the floor and
> > me
> > and my ex prayed over him for over 30 minutes. He has never had another breathing
> > problem
> > since that night, not even a cold and he is 10 now. Doctors said he would never be
> > able
> > to run and play, play any sport etc his entire life... He now plays in a tackle
> > football
> > league consisting of 7 different towns and has since 2nd grade, he is well known
> for
> > his abilities and is well known in the region as "dynamite" smallest kid in his
> class
> > but one of the toughest to hit the feild in his league. 194 yrds rushing in just
> one
> > game,
> > wining all conference player last yr, not to bad for a kid doctors had given up
> on...
> >
> > Why were these prayers answered ? because I beleived and I EXPECTED. and I knew
> > there
> > was no where else for me to go to help either but God...
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