Prayer List
I read a study the other daying that prayer does not help a sick person. Apparently they did this huge blind test in which some people received prayers and others did not. The results showed that those who received prayers did not have a better survival rate or faster recovery time than those who did not.
I’m a skeptic. I think a lot of factors in such a study cannot be controlled. What if the people in the “no prayer” group where praying for themselves? Can’t God listen to one individual prayer well as well as he can listen to an entire congregation?
In any case, prayer can’t hurt, right?
So, in that spirit, I’m starting a prayer list on here. Once or twice a week, my post will be devoted to you out there who want our prayers and to your friends and family members who may need them as well.
And if you feel as though you don’t need any specific prayers at the moment, please take a second and say a prayer for those who ARE on the list.
I’ll start. Leave me a few comments and the list will grow each week. You can use names, initials, whatever. God knows who you mean.
-please pray for my friend who is having money problems
-please pray for all the Etown college students having trouble with midterms this week
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October 25th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
The real interesting studies are those that delve in to the effects of religion on life span. As in the fact that a “true believer” lives longer than an atheist, etc.
It is because their stress level is significantly lower, which over the span of an entire lifetime works wonders on the body.
The effect on prayer helping someone is far too complicated a thing to do a study on. And it all depends on your point of view in religous sense. If it is time for someone to go… they have to go, etc.