Prayer can heal you. It's not just hype or hope or a spiritual cliché.There is actual scientific evidence to support this. Recent medical and psychological studies claim that prayer can relieve stress, improve attitudes, and mend bodies. Prayer generates peace, power, and health-a triple preventative that guards against anxiety and disease. It's a simple act that heals. According to Chet Tolson and Harold Koenig prayer helps people function at their best when life serves them the worst. Even on good days, it enhances the mind-body-soul connection. In The Healing Power of Prayer, these authors explain the nature of prayer, what happens when we pray, the restorative benefits of prayer, how to organize prayer, and much more. Their facts and insights will encourage believers to increase, the fainthearted to revive, and skeptics to begin a life of prayer.

Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.

Why do we pray the way we pray? Our temperament and the way we perceive God radically affect our spiritual life and our prayer life. As Jean Maalouf affirms, when we invite God into our lives through prayer, things are bound to happen. Love heals. And God's love is the greatest healer.

Rooted in Christian tradition and Scripture, Bridget Meehan examines approaches to inner healing that will lead you to experience the healing love of God in your life. More than just another book about pray-ing, this book will teach you how to pray by praying.

A simple prayer can be an act of physical, spiritual, and emotional healing for everyone involved. Healing Prayer on Holy Ground conveys a message of hope in the presence of a loving God who longs to hear from us. Readers will be encouraged as you read Dr. Sheehan's transformative story and the experiences of his patients, including example after example of the powerful presence of God inside the rooms of dying patients. This is a hopeful, helpful resource for doctors and patients seeking a biblical interpretation of experiences with the afterlife and for those desiring to better understand the balance between medical and spiritual healing.

Illness comes in many forms and too often we're told to ignore it, hide it, or simply run away from it. With decades of service in the healing ministry as both a teacher and one called upon to pray for healing, Father Richard McAlear has a different approach that recognizes - even embraces - the complex nature of illness. A cluster of emotions anger, anxiety, fear, hate, negative self-image, resentment, and self-pity affect our health. Therefore, a healing ministry must be handled in such a way that emotions and psychological factors are addressed with care and sensitivity. It must also embrace the vast beauty and power and depth of our Catholic Faith, keeping it: Christ-centered deeply rooted in the person and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scriptural utilizing the insights offered by Scripture to delve into the Holy Spirit's role in the work of healing. Holistic exploring the interplay and connections between the mental, spiritual, and physical dimensions relating to healing and health. Explore the healing power of faith as it mends your whole self -- mind, body, and spirit -- regardless of your pain, background, or personal baggage. The Power of Healing Prayer is also an effective guide for those you minister to.

God is still in the healing business today. Healing was a trademark of Jesus earthly ministry, and nowhere does Scripture teach that divine healing ended with the New Testament church. Best-selling authors of numerous books, Quin Sherrer And Ruthanne Garlock challenge those who are sick and their friends, family, and caregivers to embrace the message in Lord, I Need Your Healing Power. This book is packed with contemporary testimonies of hearing miracles and practical and scriptural principles that connect health and faith. About the Author Quin Sherrer is the author of twenty-six books, fifteen of which she coauthored with Ruthanne Garlock. These include the best-selling How to Pray for Your Children and A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Warfare. Ruthanne Garlock has coauthored seventeen books on prayer and related subjects, and two mission biographies. God Be With Us: A Daily Guide for Praying for Our Nation, which she wrote with Quin Sherrer, was nominated for a 2002 Gold Medallion Award in the devotional category.

The million-copy bestselling introduction to the healing ministry, re-issued with a beautiful new cover. Does healing happen today? Why is there prejudice against the healing ministry? Why are some people not healed? These topical and vital questions are just some of the issues addressed by Francis MacNutt in Healing. A wideranging and broad-based overview, it is essential reading for all involved in the healing ministry. 'Prayer for healing is so central to the gospel, ' writes MacNutt, 'that it should be an integral part of the life of every community of believers. My heart cries out to see it restored to the place it had in the early Christian church.

The bestselling author of Meetings with Mary, Angel Power and Praying with Mary presents an inspiring guide to bringing about personal and universal change through the power of prayer.