Can prayer heal disease?

                This is a very common question that many people have. Can praying really help to cure disease? In my personal opinion, I believe that prayer works to a certain extent.

                If prayer worked all the time, there would be no more disease ever! Many people ask God to heal someone of a certain disease but obviously that doesn’t always happen. I believe that when God chooses to heal someone of a disease, its called a miracle. I believe that God has a plan for every single one of us and sometimes that includes dying when you have the whole world praying for you. God has his reasoning for why he takes people, and why he heals others. It’s all in his plan. I believe that prayer influences his plan to an extent.

                In the bible, it talks about many miracles that happen including Jesus tending to the sick and healing them, making the blind see, etc. The people often prayed for healing and it was given to them. God tells us to pray when we are in need. If he tells us this, shouldn’t that mean there is reasoning behind what we are praying for? A real life example of why I believe that prayer works is a personal story of a friend who was terminally ill. She had breast cancer and was told that she only had a certain amount of time left to live. After this time period was up, she was still alive. Throughout this time, she had many people that were praying for her so that she would be healed through the power of prayer. Upon another visit to the hospital she was told that the cancer was not progressing like they had originally thought it would. How could this be? She went from having a terminally ill disease to now saying that she may not die? What caused this abrupt disruption of the spread of the cancer? She is still alive to this day. I believe that Gods plan for her was not to die, but to live and to live our her purpose on earth. I also believe that the power of prayer from her friends and family aided in her recovery. Because of this personal experience, It sways me to believe that the power of prayer is real and that it influences the outcome of certain situations.