Hello Notch,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

My friend, you speak with such presumed authority about scenarios you've never witnessed.

I'm well aware of the power of positive thinking, as well. I've studied that, as well as hypnosis. Why? Because I want to compare them to what I'm witnessing in prayer.

And these answers to prayer aren't positive thinking or hypnosis.

Why?

Because often what these people hear from God is the last thing they expect.

Often, they have no expectation of hearing from God at all. I've taken people through this who did not believe God existed and had zero expectation of anything happening. Yet God still healed them.

I'm not talking about "feeling better."

I mean the pain is entirely gone, so much so that you can't bring it back.

You can revisit the memories of the trauma, and you can remember every detail -- but the pain isn't there. Instead, there is peace, and the profound, overpowering sense of God's presence.

I make sure not to bias people as to what to expect. I don't want to put thoughts in their mind. I want a blank slate so God can fill it with whatever He desires.

And do you know what I've seen?

In a decade of doing this over thousands of sessions, I've never once heard God say anything contrary to the Scriptures -- even when the person receiving had never read them.

The God who shows up in these sessions bears exactly the qualities and characteristics of the Jesus you read about in the Gospels. The same love, the same compassion, the same ability to heal -- and the same sharp Scripture-teaching, not letting one word fall to the wayside.

This is nothing so quaint as "positive mental improvement."

This is healing. True, genuine healing that lasts a lifetime. It happens in minutes. It only happens when we invite Jesus to work. He speaks, He heals, and everything heard and witnessed is fully consistent with the Scriptures, whether or not the person receiving prayer is even a Christian.

I don't mean to limit this to mental or emotional healing, either.

People are physically healed, as well -- physical problems that have lasted for years and that they've tried everything to heal, but haven't been able to. Yet Jesus can.

My friend, your bias against God is incredibly strong.

But right now, you're discussing something you've never witnessed.

You can witness it, if you want to. God opens this to all.

But if you insist that this can't be what it is, and must be something lesser, you're only blinding yourself.