Take it from me, prayer does work.
Three years ago I had quintuple bypass surgery.
The first thing I did when I found out I was dying from congestive heart failure was to call my sister so her prayer group could include me in their prayers.
I reached out to all my friends to pray for me.
Well, come the operation results, no one was more surprised than me when I awoke from the surgery. Prayer does make you feel better, prayer does make you believe that you can live, prayer does work.
I'm the living proof!
Some years ago, I was diagnosed with colon cancer. There was what the surgeon described as the largest tumor he had ever seen in that type of cancer, and he was the chief abdominal surgeon at a substantial hospital.
I asked my family and friends at my church, who are all trained, empowered and experienced prayer warriors, to pray for me.
After the first night, the only pain I had was when I laughed or coughed. The surgeon said that he had never before removed so much of a rectum without performing a colostomy. He was very proud of his work.
During the radiation and drug therapies over the next nine months, there were very few side affects. Numerous possible side effects disappeared only a few days after they began.
Other, younger people who were diagosed with the same condition I was at about the same time, with the same oncologist and surgeon, complained about a lot of pain, and had very severe side effects from the treatment. One even died.
I realize that different people have different reactions to radical treatments, but how many people are thanked by their doctors for providing an interesting case?
Yes, prayer does work.
In 1995 I was hospitalized for 51 days with pneumonia and various resultant infections.
Through my parents and friends, I was placed on the 'sick lists' of three churches, and a dear priest blessed me with holy water from Lourdes (although I'm not Catholic).
The doctors are still amazed at my recovery. But I am not. Prayer works.