How Does prayer Affect The Sick?

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How Does Prayer Affect The Sick?
As a die heart Christian of age 30, Ann Marie Davis experience her life flash before her eyes. She succeeded in a career as a Unity minister in Clinton, Iowa. Through out her lifetime, she faced four devastating cancers that put her faith to the test. But at the age of 30, doctors began running out of hope. Davis was diagnosed with cancer and Legionnaires’ disease that put her life on the line. With the countless amounts of medicine she continued to take, nothing seemed to be strong enough. Doctors told her family to prepare for the goodbyes and tears, for she was expected to not make it through one more night. Over night, Davis prayed with all the strength she had remaining to hold off leaving this earth. With the sun arising the next morning, Davis’ cancer has been announced cleared and prepared to leave the hospital with her family. Despite what the doctor’s had to say, Ann Davis is one of the many Christians who never doubt the healing hand of their spiritual savior. Many scientists have tried to find the truth behind these types of miracles, and tried to find out how they got answered. Disregarding, what doctors will try say, or what scientist will try to prove with newer medical treatments, there will always be the power of prayer that cures all the above.
Patients from hospitals were receiving little help with no signs of positive results. As patients and families put their faith on trial, their medical healings were overcome with a little dose of hope. With the similar experiences of Ann Davis, Maurice Williams, and Guy Riggs; Kai Kermani overcame retinitis pigmentosa, an “incurable” blindness. Kai was from England who took time out of her life to pray patiently for her to see the light i...

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