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I'm humbly asking for prayers from the FReeper community for my father-in-law. We learned today he was diagnosed with a "very aggressive strain" of melanoma. He is scheduled for surgery next Friday. There will also be a CAT scan to determine if lymph nodes are involved. If you could spare "Bud" a moment in your prayers, and my husband as well because he's quite worried (and doing his best to pretend otherwise). Thank you all so much.

Please pray for a 13 year old who went in for major surgery this morning. He went into the OR at 8:45 and we just received word he is still in surgery. Can't imagine what's going on, but please Lord...

All the healing you need is in the word of God. And you can by faith draw that healing power out of the word. Just like the women with the issue of blood, God already established that the "Sun of righteousness" would arise with healing in his wings (referring to his garment). So, when she heard of Jesus she knew her healing was in his garment. The healing power she needed was in his garment. And God has established that your healing is in the word. The healing power you need is in the word. Notice the word of God...

Louis and Zelie Martin On May 21st the tribunal in Valencia completed a pivotal stage in the process of canonization for Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin. This couple, the parents of the “greatest Saint of modern times” Therese of Lisieux,[Therese of Lisieux link] needs one more miracle to confirm their union with their daughter in the company of canonized Saints. That miracle appears to have already taken place. A baby girl, doomed to die on account of numerous maladies, was miraculously healed through their intercession in 2008 in Valencia. Inspired and assisted by local Carmelite nuns, the parents of little...

God is a healing God, even though some people may think He is not. But the scriptures says that He is, He is The Lord that healeth thee. If you want to know how the Father is just look at Jesus. Everything about Jesus speaks of his will to heal you. He anointed Jesus with healing power, and with that power he healed all that came to him for healing. His very garment had healing power in it. Just as God established when He said, The Sun of Righteousness would arise with healing in his wings(the border of his garment)....

One of the main things to understand about healing is that God has already made the provision of healing available for everyone. God is not choosing who gets healed and who doesn't. Just like God is not choosing who gets saved and who doesn't. Salvation and healing are part of the same package (1Peter 2:24). If someone died and went to hell you can't say God didn't save him. God has made the provision of salvation for everyone, but the difference is some receive the provision and others don't. You can't say God didn't do it just because someone didn't...

There has been some misunderstandings about God and healing that needs to be cleared up. Some people think that God puts sickness on people to teach them something, that is not true. The scripture says that Jesus came to undo the works of the devil (1John 3:8). What is one work of the devil, let's look at Acts 10:38, How God anointed Jesus of Nazereth with the Holy Ghost and power: who went about doing good, and healing all that was oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. So, sickness is not of God it is from the...

Mother Theresia Bonzel, who founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Germany, in 1863, is scheduled for beatification in November — a step toward sainthood — as a result of boy's miraculous recovery. The wheels of canonization grind slowly, but a German nun who lived 100 years ago could be named a saint because the Vatican believes a Colorado Springs boy experienced a miracle in 1999.Two Colorado Spring nuns prayed to Bonzel on behalf of 4-year-old Luke Burgie, and the events that followed — over the next 14 years — have been closely scrutinized and investigated...

Joe Landolina may have invented a cure for bleeding. He claims that his creation, a substance called Veti-Gel, jump-starts the clotting and healing process so quickly that even wounds to internal organs or major arteries are able to close up instantaneously. And Joe has accomplished all this by his third year of college at NYU.

Self-Healing Circuits for Deep Space by Paul Gilster on March 18, 2013 Computer failures can happen any time, but it’s been so long since I’ve had a hard disk failure that I rarely worry about such problems. Part of my relaxed stance has to do with backups, which I always keep in triplicate, so when I discovered Friday afternoon that one of my hard disks had failed — quickly and catastrophically — it was more of a nuisance than anything else. It meant taking out the old disk, going out to buy a new one and installing same, and then...

God has given you a prescription for your healing. In Proverbs 4:20-22 God says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." That word health is translated as medicine, remedy, and cure. So, God has already made a way for you out of that sickness. But, you have your part to play in receiving your healing. In the natural if you went to a doctor for...

One of the biggest misconceptions about healing is that because I have a pain or sickness I need God to heal me. But, let me give you an example or parable-let's say a person is hungry so they go to a resturant, the waitress takes their order, goes back and gets the food, and brings it to him and puts it on the table. Now, once she provides him with his order he is considered served. Now, the food is right there in front of him, he can see it, he can smell it, he can feel the heat coming...

One of the most important things people overlook in dealing with sickness is what they speak out of their mouth. You can't just speak anything because your words have an effect on your body. In the book of James he says, if you offend not in word, you are able to bridle your whole body. He also goes on to say your tongue is like the rudder of a ship, so if you want to go from sickness to healing then you are going to have to set your tongue to healing and not sickness. In 1Peter 3:10 he says,...

Pharmacy student Michael Crowe, 23, went to an Omaha hospital in August suffering from toxic blood poisoning, which led to acute myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle. But after setbacks in his quest to get a heart transplant, his failing heart suddenly mended itself. Ryan Soderlin/Omaha World-Herald Michael Crowe, a second-year UNMC pharmacy student, talks about his recovery at the Nebraska Medical Center on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2012. Crowe was admitted to the hospital about three weeks ago suffering from a virus, which then led to heart failure. Take our Poll Medicine and faith Do you believe that prayer...

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him (Acts 10:38). So first of all healing is good. And second sickness is of the devil not God. God anointed Jesus for the purpose of healing (Luke 4:18). Notice Jesus was teaching one day and it says, "The power of the Lord was present to heal them" (Luke 5:17). So God uses his power to heal not to make sick. And notice people sought to touch him, people...

My brother-in-law celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday. It was a poignant occasion because, but for the grace of God, he wouldn’t have lived to share the milestone with family and friends. That’s because he suffered a stroke two years ago that left him blind and without full use of his motor skills. His loved ones feared that he would be one of the 140,000 Americans who succumb each year to stroke, the third-leading cause of death in this country. But a miraculous thing happened: My brother-in-law regained his sight. Then he recovered his motor skills. Within the next year, his...

Healing and salvation are part of the same package. The same blood that brought salvation also brought healing. God does not have to do another thing for anyone to be saved it's up to them to receive Jesus as their Lord and saviour just as it's up to you to receive healing. You have to see healing as a finished work of the cross. When Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished", he was not just referring to salvation(redeeming of your spirit), but healing also (1Peter 2:24). Every person who is not saved has salvation waiting on them to...

It's time we make the connection concerning our mouth and our body. Because the Bible has a lot to say about the effects our words have on our body. Especially when our words are in line with God's words. In Proverbs 4:20-22 it says "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." That word health in hebrew is translated medicine, remedy, cure, deliverance so your mouth...

A collagen-binding peptide with applications in wound healing has been developed by scientists in the US. The peptide is able to invade the strands of collagen, forming a strong and stable non-covalent bond at room temperature. Pendant drug molecules could be attached to the peptide and anchored at the wound site to aid wound healing. Representation of a collagen mimetic peptide (CMP) annealing to damaged collagen to anchor a molecule (X) in a wound bed Collagen is the most abundant protein in the body and makes up three quarters of the dry weight of skin. It is formed from three...

My 95 year old mother and I are into the 19th day of dealing with a difficult case of the flu. Although we had flu shots as we do every year, the variety of flu we contracted must have not been protected by the vaccination. The fevers have been gone for over a week, but the cough just is not lifting. It's much less but the coughing just won't come to an end. My mother progressed to the beginning of pneumonia but that seems to be gone after treatment with antibiotics. My mother has been to the doctor 3 times,...