New Scientific Case Study Reveals Role of PRAYER in Patient's Miraculous Healing
Tré Goins-Phillips : Mar 29, 2019
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Bottom line: Prayer really does work.
[Faithwire.com] A new report from a peer-reviewed medical journal has put an end to the age-old debate: prayer really does work. (Image: Pixabay)
At just one week old, a baby boy was rushed to the hospital. He was vomiting forcefully and struggling to properly digest formula. Before long, doctors diagnosed him with gastroparesis, a rare disease in which the stomach cannot correctly empty itself of its contents.
The young male—whose name has not been disclosed—underwent a series of procedures, all designed to treat his symptoms and maintain the status quo, according to a case report from Complementary Therapies in Medicine.
Surgeons performed on the baby both a pyloromyotomy, which loosens tightened muscles causing a blockage between the stomach and small intestine, and a jejunostomy, the creation of an opening through the skin at the front of the abdomen for a feeding tube.
He went on to live a relatively normal life, even playing sports.
The boy grew up in a Christian home; he had an active prayer life and participated in church activities every single week. He had safely assumed, though, his disease would just be part of his life—forever.
Things changed when he attended a prayer service
On Nov. 6, 2011, when he was 16 years old, the patient and his family attended a prayer service at a Pentecostal church led by a preacher the case study referred to as a "healing evangelist."
The evangelist recounted his own miraculous healing after having his intestines severed in a serious accident when a massive truck fell on his abdomen... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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