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Chapter 4: The Heart
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own
understanding.” 86
Having considered some of the mental health issues, it is time to also
to consider ‘cardiac’ issues, more commonly known as matters of the heart.
Strangely enough, when the heart of man is so closely related to his spirit and
his soul, and all the medical evidence that Jesus heals today has been weighed,
the one area of research that stands out is that of heart patients. Why does this
research stand out? It is because the evidence that we have has shown that heart
patients actually worsen with prayer. 87 In the study those who knew they were
being prayed for fared less well than those who were not aware of being prayed
for. “Being aware of the strangers' prayers also may have caused some of the
patients a kind of performance anxiety” 88 said one the authors of the study. One
would think that prayers are prayed with good intent, asking God for help. The
last news Christians would want to hear is that Jesus does not heal but he
actually makes you sick.
Indeed, God can make you sick 89 but for now let us concentrate on a
more proper cardiac examination. The physician’s cardiac examination
includes auscultation. Auscultation is listening to the sounds of the beating
heart. The physician listens to the beat and rhythm but also searches for
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