This document summarizes a study on the effects of intercessory prayer on patients in a coronary care unit. The study found that patients who were prayed for by home prayer groups: - Were five times less likely to require antibiotics - Were three times less likely to develop pulmonary edema - Required artificial airways less frequently than the control group - Experienced fewer cases of pneumonia and cardiopulmonary arrests - Were less likely to die The document goes on to discuss faith factors for health and healing, focusing on trusting God, reading healing scriptures, praying to Jesus for healing, addressing emotional issues, and asking others for prayer.

1. Prayer and Healing
Promotional Talk
Taoyuan International SDA Fellowship
Saturday, June 15th 2013

2. • Randolph C. Byrd, M.D. “Positive Therapeutic
Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary
Care Unit Population,” Southern Medical Journal
(July 1988), pages 826-829.
• 393 patients admitted to the coronary care unit at
San Francisco General Hospital
– 201 patient control group
– 192 patients prayed for daily by five to seven people in
home prayer groups
Neither patients, nurses, nor doctors knew which group
the patients were in.
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3. • Results
• Those prayed for were five times less to require
antibiotics
• They were three times likely to develop pulmonary
edema, a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid
• None of those prayed for required the insertion of
an artificial airway in the throat, compared with 12
in the control group who required the treatment
• Those prayed for experienced fewer cases of
pneumonia and cardiopulmonary arrests
• Fewer patients in the prayed for group died
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4. Prayer for the sick is effective
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“As a physician, I have seen men, after all
other therapy had failed, lifted out of
disease and melancholy by the serene
effort of prayer.”
Alexis Carrel, winner of the 1912 Nobel prize for medicine.

5. Faith Factor for Health and Healing
• Focus on God
• Focus on Scripture
• Focus on Jesus
• Focus on the Emotional
• Focus on Prayer Partners
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6. Focus on God
• Those who place their complete
focus on God and trust Him
wholeheartedly learn that God can
be counted on to help.
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7. Focus on Scripture
• Read, recite, and review some of
the many scriptures affirming that
God’s intent for us is to be healthy
and whole.
– Exodus 15:26
– Jeremiah 30:17
– Psalm 147:3
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8. • Place your focus on Jesus and invite Him to bring
you healing.
• “Dear Jesus, I know You ministered to all who came to
You in earlier times. Today I ask You to look with
compassion upon me. Heal me and restore me to
complete health. Just as those in times past turned to
You for Help and healing, I turn to You asking You to
bring me health and wholeness.”
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Focus on Jesus

9. Focus on the Emotional
• Before praying directly for a
physical healing, do an internal
audit to determine if there are
past emotional issues that
manifest themselves in physical
ways.
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10. Focus on Prayer Partners
• When you are in need of healing,
don’t hesitate to ask others to
include you in their prayers.
• James 5:13 - 15
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11. Foundations of Biblical Healing
• God is love, 1 John 4:16
• God loves us
• God wants to heal us
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12. God Bless You
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